Capture the Newbies (Lost Nicktoons Online Game?)

Buddy,I think you made a mistake,the link to the JAR file is just a link to this thread.

Alright,I know a bit of Java,and I took a look at the JAR file. The first thing that I determined is that it is not an executable JAR file. I determined this by looking at the MANIFEST.MF file in the META-INF folder. There is no main attribute in the MANIFEST.MF file,which is the line that tells Java which class contains the main method. This means that you can't run the JAR file normally through Java,instead you have to tell Java which class contains the main method first so that it knows where to start. So,then I had to try and find out which class contained the main method,which was a pain in the ass. Whoever programmed this didn't bother to name the classes intuitively,they just literally named them by the letters of the alphabet. -_- *facepalm* This is a very bad practice,you're supposed to name them according to what they do so that people looking at it can tell what each one does without having to open them up and pour through the code. Like,for example if you've got one that handles some part of the graphics you'd name it graphics.class and ect.,and of course the one which contains the main method should be named main.class.

So then,because they didn't name it properly,I had to decompile the .class files into .java files in order to read the code and try to find the main method. I used javadecompilers.com to do this. I looked through all the files and could not find a main method. The main method always starts with the line "public static void main(String [ ] args)",and I looked for it by plugging this into the search function for every single file,and it wasn't found. A Java program cannot run without a main method,it's impossible,so I'd say this JAR file is a dead end. Why the main method is missing,I really can't tell you,it's quite strange. The only thing I can think of is that maybe Wayback Machine somehow didn't save the JAR file properly,the file is corrupted and the class which contains the main method is gone.

So yeah,my diagnosis is that it is impossible to run this JAR file,unfortunately. If anybody thinks that I did something wrong or missed something,please let me know.

Thank you so much!

I'll start thinking about e-mailing Interactive Pulp. They have a small website that's still up, with links to the e-mail of probably the creator, David Brackeen. Interestingly, on David Brackeen's website, there is a downloadable Java Applet game called Scared, which looks suspiciously similar to Capture the Newbies. Perhaps it was just a reskin of Scared?

After some tinkering, it worked! I can't thank you enough!

Who knows? Maybe we're the first ones to play this game in years!

Done : )

I attempted to run the applet on my own, but when I downloaded the files it said that Access was denied. Any thoughts? I'm not experienced at all with running java applets so any advice at all would be helpful.

I can use the wayback also, 01011001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01010111 01101001 01101011 01101001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110110 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 00101110 it's binary.