Not fully loading for me on mobile. I get the epilepsy warning, the background shows up, and I can open the menu and the link for volume control displays, but that’s about it.
Not really "lost." My dad, a Stones fan, has a DVD I burned for him, which I got from a private torrent tracker way back in high school (Cinemageddon, I think). It's been widely bootlegged for years.
...it's weird replying to a topic with a name like this...
Last Edit: Oct 7, 2023 3:24:20 GMT by teridaxxd001
For some reason, the game is still up by my standards. I’m from the UK, so it might be gone in America.
Still up here. There’s always the chance that it will remain up long past the promotion’s expiration if you still have the URL (notice that it starts with “pk,” which is often used for Pokémon), but I’d rather not sit idly by and take that chance. I’ll check the Flashpoint Discord when I get home to see if any progress was made, but they have threads for previous Happy Meal games this year with no progress, so don’t count on it.
What we could really use is some sort of media catcher software that works on an OS compatible with the game. Since I can’t play it on my computer and I have an iPhone (which also can’t run it properly for some reason), I can’t really help in that respect.
Edit: No, no updated on Flashpoint.
Last Edit: Oct 5, 2023 4:06:21 GMT by teridaxxd001
The whole series has been on MySpleen since 2013. That torrent is recorded from PAL TV so it's slightly fast and has all the quality issues any TV rip has, but as I recall (it's been a few years since I watched it) it's pretty good. They also have HD Amazon rips for all but two episodes, but they apparently have bad de-interlacing/upscaling issues.
The Flashpoint Archive Discord is also has a thread on this, though no progress has apparently been made.
I can't play this on my phone for some reason, either, and when I tried BlueStacks, a lot of the graphics don't load and the screen squishes the interface to make it basically unplayable.
Last Edit: Oct 2, 2023 20:10:33 GMT by teridaxxd001
Well that's dumb. It seems to have anti-piracy for some reason. Do they WANT their game to be lost? I don't know what we can do about this, unless I under-archived. At the very least, it's archiving the wrong thing.
Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that I already tried that. I also tried going to the site using my computer, loading the mobile version, then saving the complete web page, but only got a basic page with the backgrounds and such. My mobile view extension is probably really outdated, so that might be part of it, but I kind of doubt it.
It might not be “anti-piracy” per se, but that it only loads game assets as they’re needed or something like that. It also requires access to a camera to scan cards to access the full game, so it maynot be possible to do this at all on desktop anyway. Anyone have a rooted Android tablet they can give this a shot on?
And yes, they probably DO want this to become lost. It’s for a limited time promotion between two normally unaffiliated companies, and while they do often have cross promotions, the next time they have one they’ll want to do something else. Also note that TPCI has already let several of its browser games become lost (see the wiki article for Pokémon.com online games).
Last Edit: Oct 2, 2023 20:07:04 GMT by teridaxxd001
Photo of the Cookie Monster shirt. It's in black and white, probably because it was from the inside story of the newspaper, which back then were often not printed in color:
This was found a few years back. I actually used that upload to get it added to Behind the Voice Actors. The Spanish dub was found first, and I thought this particular video is the footage from the already-found Spanish version synced to a poorer-quality recording of the English audio, though I could be wrong. It is also missing the first few seconds if narration, as I recall.
Edit: I guess you mentioned most of this in your post and I didn’t read it.
I had my own thread on it back then, and as I mentioned there, I was actually in contact with the producer, Bruce Royer, who told me he planned to upload it himself, presumably in high quality, though he never did.
Last Edit: Aug 17, 2023 2:18:44 GMT by teridaxxd001
I remember seeing these on either Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network (probably both) but the only one I really remember is the one with "THE RUNAWAY MILL WHEEL," which, or course, you linked to.
This is another case of unfortunate timing, which I've run into many, many times with my own personal commercial searches. It's from 2006, a year by which many people had ditched VCRs, but DVRs were still prohibitively expensive to a lot of people, so a lot didn't get recorded. What did get recorded was usually done by groups in the piracy scene (Cartoon World, Cartoon Palace, etc.) and they usually removed the commercials from their releases, and their encodes are getting very, very hard to come by these days anyway.
What's really sad is that I recorded a fair amount of Cartoon Network (mostly On Demand, though) myself using a DVD recorder, but I lost all of it.
Last Edit: Jul 27, 2023 5:20:11 GMT by teridaxxd001
With, like, six new streaming platforms popping up per year, I fully expect this to happen sooner or later. Like the dot-com bubble and subsequent crash of 2000, the streaming bubble is stretching thin. Seriously, every movie studio and most TV channels have their own streaming platform now. Some have already shut down (CNN+) and others have been heavily rebranded (HBO Max, now just Max). And 3/4 of them are just named "<insert company here>+," which I'm sure confuses less-than-intelligent people. Plus (ugh) the plus sign is typically either ignored by search engines or assigned a special function. (like "must also include"), so they have to make sure you don't just get results about the company in general when you search for their platform.