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.

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.

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

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.

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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• "there is no game" (as in, completely broken): you can get past the preloader with ruffle, however after pressing play and after the gamezhero splash screen, you're met with a full on black screen. nothing to do here:

- 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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• "there was an attempt" (you can actually "play" the game, but not really): these are not much different than the previous ones but i still decided to separate them because of their outlier behavior.

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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• "broken physics": every single medal for the previous entries is unachievable (with the exception of the 3 timed ones); from now on, games are in a playable state, but some of the medals are still unobtainable due to the game itself somehow becoming broken over time? mostly due to game physics not working as intended.

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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• "actually broken medals?": these games have no issues, however some medals seem still unobtainable despite not having a clear reason why. thus the only assumption i have is that they may actually not work.

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.

I would like to bring to your attention this game:

It's identical to the "alpha" version where, after lots of trials and errors I managed to get all medals, including the hellish 100 points medal. I gave a constructive critique on the alpha version especially when it came to controls. So when I saw the game in "beta" I tried it and I was happy to see keyboard controls work fine even if they don't match with the description (you move your character with W and S keys not Up and Down), but I've noticed another annoying problem that makes the last medal impossible to get (only a user managed to get it and I wonder how since I'm trying everything I can to find a solution). First the camera and then controls; they tend to bug out when I move the character and this wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for another bug/coding error that get triggered every time you move and shoot after a while. The game ends suddenly after a while, preventing me from reaching the task of the secret medal and even the description that appears in the ending titles doesn't really help the player what went wrong to cause this (I know the author is Japanese and so not mastering English plays a role in explaining things).

If I stay still the game doesn't end, but if I shoot robots a sufficient number of times, then the game ends suddenly leaving only frustration in not knowing what I had to do to prevent this.

I tried to hit one single robot six times and after the sixth time, all the robot highlighted in red and the game ended...

uptade: all the medals for meowra also work, it's just extremely luck-based, on top of having to fight against the bug that won't let you play the game.

sometimes it will work in your favor and the enemy will be the one unable to act, so as long as you can keep your hp up you can reach the required highscore for the "nerd" medal.

i guess this one falls in the category of "the medals work, but you have to exploit the game being broken to get them".

everything else mentioned about the other broken games still applies though.

unless someone can test the ones that have "physics issues" and confirm it's a problem on my side, somehow