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+10 internet for all you guise that are being genius’.
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> *Originally posted by **[askon](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=1#posts-6379956):***
> > *Originally posted by **[Lebossle](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=1#posts-6378971):***
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> > I’m working on all levels, you can get my progress on [my Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/14e8zsabawhlroo/yRJudc2S2g/Sola%20Rola)
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> It’s not a bad idea for each level to get done twice by different people, then they can be compared to make sure there are no errors. And that page is quite colorful.
Very clean and organized, I like it.
I will keep yours separate for now, so it’ll be easy to run a diff (comparison) later.
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Can anyone find a video of the start of the game with the text? It would be awesome to completely recreate it.
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Do you mean the main menu Askon? If so, I couldn’t find a video, but I did find a couple of images.
[Main Menu](http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQstDYVHVmpbOv249J8V3mwLi3IibW-_SVUQ1OwgtUOyH8gH5Vd&t=1)
Clockwise: Play, Sola Rola – About, Credits, More Games.
I also found a larger version of [the logo](http://cz.static.geewa.net/r/sola-rola-the-gravity-maze/res/splash.png).
Unfortunately, the images are pretty small and I wasn’t able to find any images larger than these.
EDIT:
[Here’s a quick re-creation of the menu](http://i.imgur.com/VBj0K.png).
It isn’t complete, of course, and not entirely accurate.
I could re-create the menu again, and more accurately, as well as attempt to remake some of the background if we need to.
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I’m curious as to what the game needs graphically. Since I’m assuming that no one here is affiliated with the developer (Offtherist) or sponsor, Gimme5Games, that would mean that all of the graphics need to be redone unless they are somehow accessible elsewhere.
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So would the admins be able to intergrate this into kongregate?
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I sent levels 40 through 44. Level 40 kind of exceeds your editor, because it has two of each color exit, so I added the extras into the text file manually.
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> *Originally posted by **[snipahar](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6380677):***
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> Do you mean the main menu Askon? If so, I couldn’t find a video, but I did find a couple of images.
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> Here’s a quick re-creation of the menu (obviously, not interact-able, but it shouldn’t take too much code to get it to work):
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I think askon means the text in the opening animation (see [my video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLnHBgnPVs) for the location). There are 24 lines of dialogue, and it’s pretty cute/humourous. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a video anywhere. I did go through the videos for the 4 or 5 levels in the game that have dialogue, and added that in. (It is incomplete though, because the walkthrough finishes the levels too quickly to record it all).
Don’t worry about the graphics, they are all still there in the game. Thanks though!
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> *Originally posted by **[zAlbee](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6381136):***
> > *Originally posted by **[snipahar](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6380677):***
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> I think askon means the text in the opening animation (see [my video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLnHBgnPVs) for the location). There are 24 lines of dialogue, and it’s pretty cute/humourous. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a video anywhere. I did go through the videos for the 4 or 5 levels in the game that have dialogue, and added that in. (It is incomplete though, because the walkthrough finishes the levels too quickly to record it all).
Yah, the opening text, it’s a story of how they ended up there or something, I don’t remember it exactly.
Which levels do you still need the text for?
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> *Originally posted by **[bjjdude](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6380759):***
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> So would the admins be able to intergrate this into kongregate?
The initial way will be to edit your hosts file to redirect [www.gimme5games.com](http://www.gimme5games.com). I’m hoping kongregate will at least host the xml files for us, and then we would redirect to the IP of a kongregate server.
Ideally the .swf file would be modified to directly point to the new location, and then kongregate would put the new file in. But I’m not familiar with the format of swf files, so I don’t know if that’s practical.
[www.gimme5games.com](http://www.gimme5games.com) and [www.kongregate.com](http://www.kongregate.com) differ in length by one letter, so maybe kongregate can host it on cdn1.kongregate.com
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The real question is would they do it. That would mean they’d have to edit someone’s game in a way that the developer may not have intended.
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> *Originally posted by **[UnknownGuardian](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6381266):***
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> The real question is would they do it. That would mean they’d have to edit someone’s game in a way that the developer may not have intended.
1) The developer obviously doesn’t care about his/her game anymore.
2) If Kong wasn’t willing to help fix this game then they should have removed the badges when they took the Battalion ones down.
Edit: If it was up to me zAlbee and Askon should replace Offthewrist as the developers of the game.
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Well if Kong admins say they wouldn’t mind doing it, I may be able edit the swf to point it to a different domain without decompiling it.
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I tried to use swfcombine to decompress the swf file (in order to edit it), but the resulting file didn’t work.
If anyone wants to try, the url for the game is: `chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0000/4130/live/solaRolaGravityMaze.swf`
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Actually, I just shot the the developer (or who I think is, after much investigation) a PM on another site that he is active on. I’ll see if I can get him to upload the files back to his site.
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I decompiled the game (with Sothink), and put it on my dropbox folder. The way Sothink splits the resources is very useful on this case. I think it should help a lot.
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> *Originally posted by **[UnknownGuardian](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6381350):***
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> Actually, I just shot the the developer (or who I think is, after much investigation) a PM on another site that he is active on. I’ll see if I can get him to upload the files back to his site.
I found him (via resume) and emailed him directly with no response.
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Well, if the guy you found is named Adam, then we are talking about the same guy. I’m a mid-level user on a site he is co-founder of (meaning I’ve made him some monies by selling games) so maybe he might be more likely to respond back than from a message he has no clue who sent. :D
Still, good attempt.
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> *Originally posted by **[UnknownGuardian](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6381421):***
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> Well, if the guy you found is named Adam, then we are talking about the same guy.
Yes, Adam Schroeder from [http://www.evilfree.com/](http://www.evilfree.com/)
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So far, I was able to directly compare 15 levels created against Lebossle’s levels.
Of these, levels 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20 had non-trivial differences, either differences in start position, gate colour, or wall type. So I am definitely glad we had two copies to check against.
Thanks again everyone who submitted! We now only need ~~10~~ 3 more levels recreated.
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[http://pastebin.com/embed\_js.php?i=j0aX2BNT](http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=j0aX2BNT)
Level 33
[http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Mp8DCXcT](http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Mp8DCXcT)
Level 34
[http://pastebin.com/embed\_js.php?i=0JBJuNqt](http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=0JBJuNqt)
Level 35
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Wow, we got all levels! :D
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:D Got a response asking if he was the dev from my PM. I replied asking if he could rehost the files if he had them still.
**EDIT** Updates: He will try to see if he can find the xml files and get em uploaded it looks like.
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Very nice, UnknownGuardian. That seems like the only way to get all dialogue back. If not, I will post up a way for people to modify their hosts file to get the game running later this week.
Thanks JimmyCarlos, that makes 48. :) Do you have screenshots? Last night, I tested 25 levels, and noticed a few more errors. They’re really hard to notice unless you compare side-by-side with the original (green walls especially look gray sometimes). See [here](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/isewjv14iprmkry/aIC2Hca0JC/verification#/) for some examples.
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> *Originally posted by **[UnknownGuardian](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6382736):***
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> :D Got a response asking if he was the dev from my PM. I replied asking if he could rehost the files if he had them still.
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> **EDIT** Updates: He will try to see if he can find the xml files and get em uploaded it looks like.
I will be surprised if he was able to rehost them, since it was gimme5games that took them down, and he would have to work with them (and it doesn’t seem like he wants to work that hard).
If he can’t do that, ask him to at least send them to us. (Although, we’re kinda getting them on our own anyway……)
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> *Originally posted by **[zAlbee](/forums/1/topics/261015?page=2#posts-6383245):***
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> Very nice, UnknownGuardian. That seems like the only way to get all dialogue back. If not, I will post up a way for people to modify their hosts file to get the game running later this week.
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> Thanks JimmyCarlos, that makes 48. :) Do you have screenshots? Last night, I tested 25 levels, and noticed a few more errors. They’re really hard to notice unless you compare side-by-side with the original (green walls especially look gray sometimes). See [here](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/isewjv14iprmkry/aIC2Hca0JC/verification#/) for some examples.
[http://imageshack.us/a/img10/1984/73539375.jpg](http://imageshack.us/a/img10/1984/73539375.jpg)
[http://imageshack.us/a/img571/7741/95606123.jpg](http://imageshack.us/a/img571/7741/95606123.jpg)
[http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8779/82847138.jpg](http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8779/82847138.jpg)
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