I hate to say it but unless someone was recording off the phone in like '92, we have no way of finding this one.
The phone number was owned by an out of business fly-by-night company, who was sold to another shady fly-by-night company. I doubt they have any recordings.
Seeing how many people potentially called this number back in the day, someone would have possibly recorded it.
I didn't find the links to the videos through the website itself. Instead, I let a video load, and then I managed to find where it was downloading it from by looking in Firefox's cache.
These are all of the archived files from the original .AU domain. Unfortunately it looks like none of the flash elements were archived except for base.swf.
Same deal as above, however there is a file called nDogs_cards.swf that has also been archived.
There's images, pdfs, etc. that you can find from the above links though, if you're interested in that.
Well, there's also three other domains, one for Germany, (https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nintendogs.de) and another for the Czech Republic, (https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nintendogs.cz/) but it appears those had Robots.txt active to block archival for some reason. The final domain, the French domain (https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nintendogs.fr/) just goes into a refresh loop when opened. You can find these domains through archive.org's search when simply looking up "nintendogs" under archived sites, but I've included links here, too. One other domain is the Brazilian domain, but I believe it wasn't fully archived.
I didn't find the links to the videos through the website itself. Instead, I let a video load, and then I managed to find where it was downloading it from by looking in Firefox's cache.
These are all of the archived files from the original .AU domain. Unfortunately it looks like none of the flash elements were archived except for base.swf.
Same deal as above, however there is a file called nDogs_cards.swf that has also been archived.
There's images, pdfs, etc. that you can find from the above links though, if you're interested in that.
So basically the website has been found but not the video with some different elements on other versions of the site. Is there a way to backup a website that doesnt involve waybackmachine? Some type of file format such as a PDF or something that will also allow the clicking of tabs and the swfs to play?
Also based on one of the links you both posted I was able to find that there was a German (what I assume to be german based on the information) Press kit CD for Nintendogs here
The only archive that appears to load so far is the nintendogs archive buried under the main nintendo australia domain, and not the US .com address or the original nintendogs AU address. I don't get why they wouldn't have been archived.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Oct 23, 2019 5:40:23 GMT
archive.org/details/Nintendogs_Offical_Trailer_1 This trailer for Nintendogs appears to have the DS recorded in the same format, and possibly even on the same table as the videos on the website, but uses a German Shepherd instead of the golden retriever.
Some updates; trying it on multiple browsers, Chrome still seems to work as one of the best, and firefox worked as well. Nothing can load the video. I've even tried to download the SWF, but the download seems partial and doesn't contain much.
The training clips tend to be super short about 20-25 seconds of in game play sometimes with a voice over. I tried as well and had the same issue. So odd that the website is literally 99% complete except for that one video. How were you able to pull the SWF? My usual method of page media on firefox doesn’t work on the videos for some reason
I located the only seemingly useful SWF on the page, which highlights the flash element when selected. "Base.swf". I assumed this would be the SWF that plays on the page that contains all the videos, but attempts to view it do nothing. The reason that selecting the videos would not work is because they are all in the SWF, not separate.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Oct 20, 2019 7:55:46 GMT
Some updates; trying it on multiple browsers, Chrome still seems to work as one of the best, and firefox worked as well. Nothing can load the video. I've even tried to download the SWF, but the download seems partial and doesn't contain much.
Something I just discovered while making a complete video archive of the site. Every single flash element and video plays except for "Shiny coat" video in the "Your new puppy" tab -----> Puppy Pampering ----> Shiny Coat -------> Bottom right play video. Stays stuck at 0% loading. Not a huge loss but dang everything else worked. You did a perfect job my friend
That's a shame. Going to see if another archived page makes it work or if it's a browser issue. Pale Moon can't seem to load the site at all, while Chrome does.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Oct 17, 2019 7:09:16 GMT
The video diaries still load on the webpage! They're imbedded in the flash element. As far as I can tell, they are all watchable. Your description of how the videos would look is spot on, except I don't see a "Brandi" named anywhere, likely your memory combined "Brielle" and "Valerie" that are present in two of the video diary series.
The entire website as you remember it is seemingly archived here. Didn't realise the whole thing would be one flash element.
Edit: As per the description, this footage was recorded "a long time ago" though I don't know the specifics, but it wasn't up as far forward as 2016, I'd imagine it might have been recorded before 2011 since that's when the site began to redirect to nintendogs + cats. Not sure why the AU domain loads so readily when the .com refuses.
Edit 2: Upon further investigation, they did indeed keep the site up further than 2011. Didn't realise the archive I posted was from 2013. Everything was archived as far as September 10th, 2015, which is pretty odd. The first working archive dates to January 25th, 2009.