{"id":10263,"date":"2017-11-03T05:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/news-4036\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T05:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:45:16","slug":"news-4036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/news-4036\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo\u2019s Old Flash Games Are Being Rescued from the Bowels of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59fa3db359200c2c307c9eeb\/lede\/1509572244913-image2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jason Johnson| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A modder and Nintendo fan by the name of Skelux has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/origami64.net\/flash.php\" target=\"_blank\">a campaign to preserve Nintendo&#8217;s forgotten Flash game output<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Nintendo once made flash games. Back when the internet was younger, nicer place, the game company frequently gave away charming little Flash games to tease major releases. Major releases like <i> Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime<\/i>, and<i> Luigi&#8217;s Mansion<\/i> were all accompanied by browser-based counterparts hosted on Nintendo&#8217;s website. <\/p>\n<p>These were good times, but they didn&#8217;t last. Given the ephemeral nature of Flash software, these small diversions completely vanished from public view as Nintendo inevitably closed the sites. Nintendo isn&#8217;t alone. From <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrf.net\/Disney%27s_Toontown_Online\" target=\"_blank\"><i> Disney&#8217;s Toontown<\/i><\/a> to numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrf.net\/SpongeBob_SquarePants:_Where%27s_Gary%3F\" target=\"_blank\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a> titles, many games have fallen victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j5qzz3\/flash-will-never-die\" target=\"_blank\">the soon-to-be obsolete format<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"9hVrvlJ\" data-embedded-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QdR0wrV4jiY?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But all is not lost. On his website, Skelux has collected 48 online companion pieces, spanning more than ten years of Nintendo&#8217;s history, including games for six consoles between 1999 and 2010. <\/p>\n<p>The best of the bunch are full-fledged mini-games, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/origami64.net\/flash\/metroidprime\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Flash companion for <i> Metroid Prime<\/i><\/a>, which places players inside Samus&#8217;s visor for a &#8220;find the hidden object&#8221; hunt. The worst are little more than interactive web designs, although <a href=\"http:\/\/origami64.net\/flash\/nintendogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Puppy Quiz in the <i> Nintendogs Challenge<\/i><\/a> is hard to hate on. <\/p>\n<p>According to a YouTube post, Skelux retrieved the games piecemeal, using the Wayback Machine to comb the Internet Archive for missing files, then compiling them into working games for his game archive. <\/p>\n<p>As it stands, around half of the games are incomplete. Some of them, such as <i> Mario &#038; Luigi: Partners in Time<\/i>&#8216;s Flash game, are missing files that prevent them from functioning completely. <\/p>\n<p>The search is ongoing, with Skelux offering a $50 dollar bounty to anyone who can provide the files\u2014a small price to pay for a Nintendo-themed romp through web pages of yore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/pa33ky\/nintendos-old-flash-games-are-being-rescued-from-the-bowels-of-the-internet\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59fa3db359200c2c307c9eeb\/lede\/1509572244913-image2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jason Johnson| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These web games were abandoned by Nintendo. A modder is bringing them back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[11739,1445,4961,4357],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-flash","tag-gaming","tag-history","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}