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Official Broken Medals Thread

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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2024-12-03 13:51:12


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:

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(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.


Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2024-12-31 03:19:45


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.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2025-01-28 07:16:45


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~

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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.


Grab a popcorn and favorite drink to enjoy some Flash Portal if you will?

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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.


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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.iu_1351978_25168107.webp

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2025-02-13 08:29:42


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):

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actual behavior:

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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)

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2025-02-19 04:16:10


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

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2025-02-19 04:24:02


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