Try Firefox and see if that does the trick. If not come back here again.

Last time I tried it on that browser and worked for me.

He hadn't made any intentional updates recently but was wondering if he had some changes that hadn't been published until more recently, not sure if a fix will happen before the big update they've been trying to wrap up.

as mentioned on my first response,

i also tried on an old account on a virtual machine

the virtual machine (linux) only had firefox downloaded, and i didn't get the medal on there either, on a friday night

just tested again now with my current account, and i didn't get the game starting medal

according to what tom fulp said, i think it's not just an issue on my end, it seems like it's been occuring to other people as well for a couple weeks now, and perhaps it's some kinda recently published minor update/changes that screwed with the medal system? i'm not sure

Removed medals for my game because i realized it never wants to wotk by now : https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/923539

Checked the medals by tapping the walnut 100 times - neither "100 Points!" nor "100 Taps!" were awarded.

Judging by the reviews, medals have been non-functional for a while:

Did not earn "Knowledge Creeper" medal, despite having visited the Codex more than ten times.

Seems something odd might be going on with The Interview Codex's score system - starting the flash once after deleting my scores gave me a score of 7, which went up to 14 after refreshing.

UPDATE: Refreshed again and saw my "Who visits the most?" score go up to 21 - seems its definitely going up in increments of seven, for whatever reason.

UPDATE 2: Checked on Brave - seems only Firefox is having this issue.

Ended up dicking about a bit further on Brave and found out it has that issue as well - got credited with multiple visits every time I refreshed the page (3 the first time, 4 the second time, 5 the third time, etcetera)

Checked Newgrounds Player afterwards - didn't have the issue, so I think its probably an issue with Ruffle.

Went back, deleted my scores again and tried repeatedly opening The Interview Codex in NG Player - didn't earn "Knowledge Creeper" despite eleven visits.

Seems this medal's definitely broken.

Found out a couple of Rob1221's games are suffering from broken medals.

First's Polarity Switch, which didn't award me "12 Levels" despite having finished every level up to Level 14:

Second is Dark Light Swap, which didn't award a medal after I'd finished level 4:

I did earn a couple medals on Polarity Switch back in early 2023, which narrows the search for any breaking updates somewhat.

There probably are more games of Rob's which suffer medals not being awarded, but these are just the two I noticed.

That's odd, I had this medal unlocked awhile ago.

There's a chance Firefox got an update and it did something but uncertain. You could attempt to get it on other browsers if doable.

I recall Ruffle having an issue with opening links before, but it worked for me just now on the latest version of Firefox, so not sure. You can try using a different browser, but a more reliable way might be to change your settings to use Newgrounds Player instead.

If the option is available that is... The saddest part if you wanna get most of the achievements out of a single game.

You'd have to mess around a lot with browsers, something with secure tracking (one specific flash had such issue) and using different methods from going from Ruffle only to NG Player.

I wish it was easier to confront such nuisance but it is a hassle to work with it.

As a protip too: if there are even new released games that have medals they will have issues due to small inconsistency.

So not everything is perfect.

And btw, https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512407

Madness Accelerant achievements have either long delay to function or work fine but it's a 50-50 gamble. You have to sit through a very poor performance play until you hopefully get everything.

Tequilla Zombies 3: "Sweet Dreams" and "Rest in Peace" even though I earned them in game.

Poltergifts: "Hell Time" is impossible to get due to constant freezes.

People have earned these as recently as two days ago. Did you earn them after 30-60 minutes of playing? Some games lose connection to the NG API after a while. If you reload the game and go back to the badges page (sometimes clicking on the specific one will do it), do they resubmit?

I did, I even earned another medal while at it. The 2 in question still do not appear.

And what about the one of Poltergifts? Is there anything I can do about it or is it a lost cause?

Followed Magnus727's walkthrough for "Oh, there's more?", but didn't earn the medal.

Tested on Ruffle (on Firefox) and NG Player.

Alula Falling #1's Golden Astronaut (screenshotted below) is outright unobtainable - whilst it is visible on screen, it cannot be clicked on (either by using the mouse or by using Tab):

Checking the Astronaut's Medal Details shows the last people to got it earned it on 8th December 2016, indicating JackAstral introduced the bug around that time.

Judging by Magnus727's medal guide, the textbox is the root cause of this issue - his screenshots for the other games (#2, #3, #4, #5) show their Astronauts to be partially or completely above the textbox.

Downloading the SWF and opening it in JPEXS also shows the Astronaut (given the name "goldenToken") has a lower depth value than the textbox (given the name "dialogueBox_mc")

With that in mind, there's two potential fixes for this; either moving the Astronaut upwards so it is no longer covered by the textbox, or increasing its depth above 33.

(NB: I have known about this issue since May 1st - apologies for not reporting it here sooner)

did you try clicking on both the Grinch and this?

the last user that got the first level achievement was June 28th, 2020. These achievements are completely broken. If you read the comments between July 2021 and and April 2023, you can see that they're complaining about the achievements not working as attended.

Despite finishing Vicious Volcano without taking any damage, I didn't earn the medal "Vicious Volcano - PERFECT":

You might wanna restart your browser or page. Usually takes few tries until the servers / site itself registers medals.

It can usually be just synchronization stuttering.

I've tried repeatedly restarting the page and finishing VicIous Volcano normally, but the medal still hasn't popped.

I think someone's gonna have to award me it manually - I think I've broken this medal somehow.

No medal was awarded, and no high score was posted, upon finishing the game.

Testing confirms this issue occurs on both Ruffle (Chrome/Firefox) and NG Player.

Medal Details indicate the issue has been occurring since September 2023:

Everyday Platformer

The medals in this game don't work for some reason (well, at least for me).

The game won't reward you medals anymore, I used to collect 5/7 medals from that game around March of 2016, sadly, the game will instead open up a pop-up to the game, and when you either collect the coins, trophies or the old record, the medals won't be transferred to your account, so now all the medals are broken.

The medals that I didn't receive are all from the FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN' game.
I did exactly the conditions the game asked for and I didn't receive any.

The game's link: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/770371

Me too, i didn't get the badges from Friday Night Funkin', i don't know if its broken or not

can vouch on this too, been trying to get the medals for about a year and messed around with adblocker + different browsers just in case without any luck, did everything the game had to offer too

i did see there were some still able to get the medals so at first i didn't know if i missed something or what

Hello everyone, for some reason the games from gamezhero do not start, an endless loading screen appears:

No matter how long I wait, the game doesn't load.

Who knows how to solve this problem???

Can you link to some specific examples? I could see if it's something that can get fixed.