At 5/17/24 08:15 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/846386
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.
Surfin’ on the Flash Portal.
At 5/17/24 09:58 AM, RealRazorkiller wrote:At 5/17/24 08:15 AM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/846386
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:
The medals in this game don't work for some reason (well, at least for me).
ANDREY20
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
At 3/14/24 10:19 AM, JazzLAN wrote:At 3/13/24 07:26 PM, RealRazorkiller wrote:chrome, adblocker disabled on all of newgrounds too
(i get medals on the other games just fine, it's just fnf i'm having issues with)
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.
as mentioned on my first response,
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
At 8/28/24 08:36 PM, Kgcxhxdydh wrote: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
jim lame oh
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???
ANDREY20
At 10/25/24 10:43 AM, Andrey20 wrote: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.
At 10/25/24 12:07 PM, TomFulp wrote:Can you link to some specific examples? I could see if it's something that can get fixed.
Here are a couple of examples: Balls Brothers, OFFS3T game, The Sequence, Color Balls... These are not all games that don't load.
ANDREY20
At 10/25/24 12:16 PM, Andrey20 wrote:At 10/25/24 12:07 PM, TomFulp wrote:Can you link to some specific examples? I could see if it's something that can get fixed.Here are a couple of examples: Balls Brothers, OFFS3T game, The Sequence, Color Balls... These are not all games that don't load.
These are working for me via Ruffle, are you loading them with NG Pjayer?
These are working for me via Ruffle, are you loading them with NG Pjayer?At 10/25/24 12:07 PM, TomFulp wrote:
Yes, I run them through Newgrounds Player.
ANDREY20
Survival Horror - Newgrounds Rumble
I have done the requirements and I have proof of completion but it won't unlock on the website.
This game loads the intro and then freezes at a grey screen. Tried both NG player and Ruffle with the same result.
At 10/25/24 12:16 PM, Andrey20 wrote:At 10/25/24 12:07 PM, TomFulp wrote:Can you link to some specific examples? I could see if it's something that can get fixed.Here are a couple of examples: Balls Brothers, OFFS3T game, The Sequence, Color Balls... These are not all games that don't load.
incidentally, i've also been going through gamezhero games lately, and have been stuck on this one specifically:
seems like when launched via newgrounds player, it's constantly stuck on loading.
meanwhile when launched via ruffle, it loads, but after pressing play the game's stuck on a black screen.
there's options in the top right corner which allow to "pause" the screen, and the pause menu works fine, meaning it's not like the game isn't working; but either the game itself has broken, or there's a second non-visible loading screen that takes way too much to load? idk
At 11/6/24 04:10 PM, qwerty741 wrote:incidentally, i've also been going through gamezhero games lately, and have been stuck on this one specifically:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/582382
seems like when launched via newgrounds player, it's constantly stuck on loading.
meanwhile when launched via ruffle, it loads, but after pressing play the game's stuck on a black screen.
there's options in the top right corner which allow to "pause" the screen, and the pause menu works fine, meaning it's not like the game isn't working; but either the game itself has broken, or there's a second non-visible loading screen that takes way too much to load? idk
Do medals work in ruffle???
ANDREY20
Do medals work in ruffle???
i haven't tried any of the games you've listed, and the other gameszhero games i played so far have worked just fine with newgrounds player.
but when they don't, trying to use ruffle should work.
unless it's a specific case, medals should work with it as well, in general
I have a couple of broken medals to report, both in the game "Epic Battle Fantasy 2."
The first medal is one you earn by finishing the game on the "hard" setting, which I did, yet I never unlocked the medal.
The second medal is one you earn by getting 5000 or more points in one of the mini-games available in the menu, which I also did but never got the medal for.
I took a screenshot of the issue with the second medal to showcase the error:
(I have no reliable screenshot regarding the problem with the first medal. I didn't take a screenshot of me beating the game on hard difficulty as I didn't think to do so until I returned back to the menu of the game and then realize I didn't actually get the medal for whatever reason, the only screenshot I could take about the first medal is one showing my last save on the "hard" setting, which is 66% through the game)
Anyway, I would love to have these issues fixed, if it is possible. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what the problem is, so help will be appreciated!
At 11/5/24 03:25 PM, Optimos wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/609518
This game loads the intro and then freezes at a grey screen. Tried both NG player and Ruffle with the same result.
Update: this game works fine if launched with NG Player using Opera browser. On Chrome and Firefox it freezes at the intro as I said, only Opera works. Medals work fine as well.
Also, I tried playing Orange Roulette but medals don't seem to work on any browser, at least for me. Pop-ups appear in game but the medals don't unlock. However there are still few people unlocking medals as of today, I wonder if they work using a specific browser? Also I don't really understand why the game is considered "insecure" and needs to be played on another tab. I've seen several medal games in that state, and all of them tend to have issues with medals.
At 12/28/24 09:23 PM, Optimos wrote:At 11/5/24 03:25 PM, Optimos wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/609518
This game loads the intro and then freezes at a grey screen. Tried both NG player and Ruffle with the same result.
Update: this game works fine if launched with NG Player using Opera browser. On Chrome and Firefox it freezes at the intro as I said, only Opera works. Medals work fine as well.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/609518
Also, I tried playing Orange Roulette but medals don't seem to work on any browser, at least for me. Pop-ups appear in game but the medals don't unlock. However there are still few people unlocking medals as of today, I wonder if they work using a specific browser? Also I don't really understand why the game is considered "insecure" and needs to be played on another tab. I've seen several medal games in that state, and all of them tend to have issues with medals.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596354
Update 2: Orange Roulette medals can be unlocked by adding "/format/flash" at the end of the URL, which makes the game launchable via NG Player. However, this method does not work for other games that too are "insecure" and forced to be played on another tab, like Antumbra or You Are Slime.
Immortal
This medal is pretty easy to get, and it works just fine on ruffle it seems. However I was unable to get the Immortal medal while playing on the newgrounds player.
All other medals seem to work just fine. It's unrelated but ruffle lags a bit for me for some reason.
HeroPapaya~
At 1/28/25 07:16 AM, HeroPapaya wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/546057
Immortal
This medal is pretty easy to get, and it works just fine on ruffle it seems. However I was unable to get the Immortal medal while playing on the newgrounds player.
All other medals seem to work just fine. It's unrelated but ruffle lags a bit for me for some reason.
I just played the entire game in a quick rush. Although no problems on my end.
NG Player worked fine, and all medals obtained just fine.
Surfin’ on the Flash Portal.
At 1/28/25 07:51 AM, RealRazorkiller wrote:At 1/28/25 07:16 AM, HeroPapaya wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/546057
Immortal
This medal is pretty easy to get, and it works just fine on ruffle it seems. However I was unable to get the Immortal medal while playing on the newgrounds player.
All other medals seem to work just fine. It's unrelated but ruffle lags a bit for me for some reason.
I just played the entire game in a quick rush. Although no problems on my end.
NG Player worked fine, and all medals obtained just fine.
curious.. one explanation I can think of is that I didn't attempt to get that medal during my first playthrough. If it matters that it's not in the first playthrough that could be the reason. That would be a quite specific circumstance though, I'm not sure if a fix would be "warranted".. anyhow, for one reason or another, I did not get the medal while playing with the newgrounds player.
HeroPapaya~
Hello! Recently I decided to retake the Pico's school for the sake of medals, but they are not awarded either according to the profile or according to the notification.
At 2/13/25 07:46 AM, skitlss wrote:Hello! Recently I decided to retake the Pico's school for the sake of medals, but they are not awarded either according to the profile or according to the notification.
I'm sorry. Medals were not issued due to some extensions for my browser
i haven't tried any of the games you've listed, and the other gameszhero games i played so far have worked just fine with newgrounds player.
but when they don't, trying to use ruffle should work.
unless it's a specific case, medals should work with it as well, in general
picking this back up because it's related, although i'm not sure if it counts as a "broken medal" or as the game itself being broken.
continuing playing gamezhero games every now and then. can confirm that 99% of them don't work in NG player because it never gets past the loading screen, but they seem to work fine with ruffle, and medals are also awarded just fine.
a handful of them have extra issues where the games don't work even after loading, but i'd rather play through all of them and make a comprehensive list rather than dropping only a few titles at a time; though this is a separate case.
i've been trying their most recent submission (of the ones with medals): https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/607279
the game runs fine, except there seems to be an issue with the game's physics, where items that are supposed to "overlap" one another are treated as individual entities.
i've confirmed that's the case after looking up a walkthrough of the game after finding myself stuck on a level, and seeing it's behaving completely differently than expected.
in particular, there's levels where you encounter seesaws that you need to cross over; except in my case, the plank you're supposed to walk over is completely underneath its fulcrum (a solid object).
for some reason these sections also seem to have a lowered ceiling, so it ends up effectively becoming an impassable wall.
you can use other rats to push most of them over the obstacle, but the remaining one can't jump over it because of the lowered ceiling, and landing on top of the fulcrum makes you slide back down to the side you started on, before you're able to act again.
expected behavior (from walkthrough):
actual behavior:
as this seems to be an isolated case (i haven't seen anyone else anywhere mentioning this problem), i'm not sure if it's a me issue, or if there's a solution for it. i also have no clue what caused the game to behave differently in the first place.
however, as there's no feature to skip levels or something to a similar effect, these levels are virtually impossible to clear.
TL;DR game physics broke, somehow. cause unclear, but the game is unclearable in its current state; thus, the medal for beating the game is effectively broken (even though it probably unlocks just fine)
At 2/19/25 03:00 AM, qwerty741 wrote:i haven't tried any of the games you've listed, and the other gameszhero games i played so far have worked just fine with newgrounds player.
but when they don't, trying to use ruffle should work.
unless it's a specific case, medals should work with it as well, in general
picking this back up because it's related, although i'm not sure if it counts as a "broken medal" or as the game itself being broken.
continuing playing gamezhero games every now and then. can confirm that 99% of them don't work in NG player because it never gets past the loading screen, but they seem to work fine with ruffle, and medals are also awarded just fine.
a handful of them have extra issues where the games don't work even after loading, but i'd rather play through all of them and make a comprehensive list rather than dropping only a few titles at a time; though this is a separate case.
i've been trying their most recent submission (of the ones with medals): https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/607279
the game runs fine, except there seems to be an issue with the game's physics, where items that are supposed to "overlap" one another are treated as individual entities.
i've confirmed that's the case after looking up a walkthrough of the game after finding myself stuck on a level, and seeing it's behaving completely differently than expected.
in particular, there's levels where you encounter seesaws that you need to cross over; except in my case, the plank you're supposed to walk over is completely underneath its fulcrum (a solid object).
for some reason these sections also seem to have a lowered ceiling, so it ends up effectively becoming an impassable wall.
you can use other rats to push most of them over the obstacle, but the remaining one can't jump over it because of the lowered ceiling, and landing on top of the fulcrum makes you slide back down to the side you started on, before you're able to act again.
expected behavior (from walkthrough):
actual behavior:
as this seems to be an isolated case (i haven't seen anyone else anywhere mentioning this problem), i'm not sure if it's a me issue, or if there's a solution for it. i also have no clue what caused the game to behave differently in the first place.
however, as there's no feature to skip levels or something to a similar effect, these levels are virtually impossible to clear.
TL;DR game physics broke, somehow. cause unclear, but the game is unclearable in its current state; thus, the medal for beating the game is effectively broken (even though it probably unlocks just fine)
The strange thing is that when I played this game it worked fine.
ANDREY20
The strange thing is that when I played this game it worked fine.
that's why i mentioned it may be just a me problem; except i have no idea why that's the case.
i've seen the most recent unlocks from last year, so at least up until then it worked fine. i'm not sure what's going on tbh
after several months i've finally gone through every single gamezhero game with medals, so i'm here with the final report.
none of them work with newgrounds flashplayer (games are stuck on the pre-loader screen); the only way to make them work (that i've found) is through ruffle.
however, that's not the case for all of them; so here's the full list of gamezhero games with medals that cannot be obtained due to the games themselves being broken, sorted by varying degrees of "unplayable".
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- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/582382
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586564
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586888
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/606429
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/641533
honorable mentions: these don't leave you on a black screen, but they might as well;
these 2 get past the black screen, then freeze on the author's credits introduction. does not make it to the menu:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/618347
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/651028
after the black screen, there's a loading screen with a curtain, but it freezes on said screen. does not make it to the menu:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/635133
this one gets up to what i think is supposed to be the menu; except there is no UI (there's no buttons). thus the game is unplayable:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/619166
this one finally makes it to the main menu, however pressing play still leaves you on the menu. there are no playable levels, nor any kind of level select screen:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603929
for this one you can get up to the main manu and press play, which will load an intro cutscene. however, the game freezes on the transition after the cutscene ends, and never makes it to a playable level:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/626095
last one, same as before; you can actually get into the first level, however none of the controls (keyboard or mouse) respond, so the only difference from the previous entry is that you can at least see what the level itself looks like. it's still unplayable though:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/622211
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for this one you can get to the menu, however pressing play freezes the screen for a while, then leaves you on the main screen after you get control back.
while the game itself is unplayable, it still thinks you managed to get in a level after pressing play, so you can still get the 2 timed medals for "surviving unscathed for 3 minutes" and "playing for 30 minutes" by just standing on the menu after pressing play.
however, there is no game to be played thus everything else is unachievable: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/653267
this is a sokoban game. the first level loads up fine, and you can even play up to the second level;
however at this point you realize that none of the boxes can be moved left (also applies to the first level, it just doesn't come into play) which makes the level unsolvable. additionally the boxes sometimes seem to clip out of the grid, and your character 2 out of 3 times starts bugging out when walking next to a box that has just moved, softlocking you: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/650707
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all 6 of the "buy upgrades" medals are broken due to upgrades being tied to endless mode, and endless mode not working. when you try to open it, it softlocks on the loading screen for it: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657736
already mentioned this one in a previous post; due to physics objects not being joined together as intended, some of the intended puzzles solutions cannot be reproduced.
specifically, level 11 has a "seesaw" that doesn't work and instead turns into a solid obstacle that can't be overcome.
all medals work, except for "completing the game" due to the seesaw mechanic not working: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/607279
this game works fine, however the medal "sushi queen" cannot be obtained since not every level can be cleared with 3 stars, due to collectibles being impossible to get because of physics.
specifically, in level 10 your character doesn't gain enough speed to overcome a ramp, making the last collectible unreachable.
in level 16, you can only get a collectible when hitting a bomb at a certain angle (which will send you straight up). due to not gaining enough momentum, you're blasted upward towards an angled platform which sends you off the level instead, making the collectible impossible to obtain;
all the other medals work: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/660115
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the "perfectionist" medal seems to be broken. i've cleared the game 3 times with all collectibles just fine, and i've also followed reviews saying i had to make sure i had them all before clearing the last level to unlock it.
it still didn't unlock, and the game itself is extremely tedious to go through from scratch so 3 is the maximum number of attempts i had the patience to test. i would like to mention that it's unlikely to be a conflict with the pacifist requirement (as in, it may be possible to only get one of the two to trigger on game clear) because some areas with collectibles cannot be escaped without defeating enemies without dying in the process: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/672954
the "jackpot" medal for getting 500 crystals from the wheel of fortune doesn't work.
for starters, there is no "500 crystals space" on the wheel itself. i'm mentioning this because there's a second achievement for landing on 0 on the wheel, which works just fine because there's actually a 0 space you can land on.
it's also unrelated to gaining 500 total crystals from the wheel alone, because i've amassed well over 6k crystals while grinding everything else and still didn't get it.
i've also somehow managed to win a spin while ending up owning exactly 500 crystals after the win, and even that didn't work. if the medal isn't broken, i have absolutely no idea of what the supposed requirement to make it work is: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/680369
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the only exception to this list is Meowra: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/635546
the medals themselves seem to mostly be working fine, however the game itself has an extremely gamebreaking bug where after a certain (non-specific) number of turns has elapsed, either you or your opponent are unable to make moves.
this makes levels impossible to win or lose at random, making playing the game itself extremely inconsistent.
going by reviews, one of the medals basically requires you to purposely stall to rack up more points, however due to the levels breaking after a while, i'm speculating it may not be possible to get in its current state.
i want to say i've only made it up to the third? boss, i think?
i couldn't clear the stage due to the levels going for too long and breaking, or me not doing enough damage before i'm killed (since i'm delaying upgrading my attack planning for the stall tactic).
i've personally obtained most of the other medals despite the bug, but i can't vouch for "nerd", "lucky", "game completed" and "upgrade completed", due to me being unable to clear levels consistently because they randomly stop working.
