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A Smashing Ideas employee named Brian Burke was contacted at LinkedIn for the game, and he said that the client (Kraft) would have had the final files for the game, and Smashing Ideas no longer had any of the files for the game that dated that far back.  
A Smashing Ideas employee named Brian Burke was contacted at LinkedIn for the game, and he said that the client (Kraft) would have had the final files for the game, and Smashing Ideas no longer had any of the files for the game that dated that far back.  


In 2019, mordax hacked the game into a partially playable state and curated it to Flashpoint,<ref>[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List The list of games playable on Flashpoint, including Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure]. Retrieved 28 Feb '21</ref> a software that archived thousands of Flash animations and games with the goal of preserving them after Flash was discontinued in early 2021. While several of the files were lost to time, they were recreated,<ref>[https://mordax.io/en/posts/resurrecting_wbmountadv/ Link to the source code of the recreated files]. Retrieved 26 Apr '21</ref> and the game is now partially playable with missing cutscenes, minigames between levels, and a broken lives counter.
In 2019, LMW user Mordax modified/recreated the game into a partially playable state and curated it to Flashpoint,<ref>[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List The list of games playable on Flashpoint, including Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure]. Retrieved 28 Feb '21</ref> a software that archived thousands of Flash animations and games with the goal of preserving them after Flash was discontinued in early 2021.  


On February 28th, 2021, LMW user LoganTheHammer reported the game as fully found, but he was mistaken. The game is still only partially found.
<ref>[https://mordax.io/en/posts/resurrecting_wbmountadv/ Link to the source code of the recreated files]. Retrieved 26 Apr '21</ref> In a unique scenario, while a portion of the original files remain lost, the game retains partially functionality due in part to the efforts of Mordax, Flashpoint and Lost Media Community.  


==Files==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;horizontal-align:center;"
|<span style="font-size:80%">File</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Availability</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Links</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Extra notes</span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/game.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/gateway.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/intro.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./waffleboy.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./vr_loader/vr_base.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/vr_loader* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Base for vr_loader</span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./vr_loader/vr_loader.swf</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/vr_loader* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Postoken reward check</span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./wbmountadv/shell.xml</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Recreated'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">File list, referred to as "waffleboy.xml" in the game's code.</span>
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./vr_info.xml</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Recreated'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Postoken reward info, dummy file</span>
|}
==Screenshots==
==Screenshots==
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<gallery mode=packed heights=175px>

Revision as of 15:05, 22 May 2021

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Screenshot of the game.

Status: Partially Found

Date found: 28 Feb 2021

Found by: Flashpoint

Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure was a Flash game developed by Smashing Ideas and released on Postopia in 2004.

All searches for the game lead to its sequel, Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure, which has shrouded its predecessor. For a while, only the Jungle one was available to the general public.

Availability

While the game was available for many years, it has been lost due to time. The reason why this game was not mirrored by any other website (in contrast to its sequel, Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure) is likely because Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure contained a large number of files, and other websites probably didn't want to spend time getting all of them when there were many other smaller and more easily accessible Flash games available.

A Smashing Ideas employee named Brian Burke was contacted at LinkedIn for the game, and he said that the client (Kraft) would have had the final files for the game, and Smashing Ideas no longer had any of the files for the game that dated that far back.

In 2019, LMW user Mordax modified/recreated the game into a partially playable state and curated it to Flashpoint,[1] a software that archived thousands of Flash animations and games with the goal of preserving them after Flash was discontinued in early 2021.

[2] In a unique scenario, while a portion of the original files remain lost, the game retains partially functionality due in part to the efforts of Mordax, Flashpoint and Lost Media Community.

Screenshots

  • Mountain Adventure Lost.png
  • Gateway.png
  • Crystal1.png
  • River1.png
  • Crystal2.png
  • Mountain1.png

References

  1. ↑ The list of games playable on Flashpoint, including Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure. Retrieved 28 Feb '21
  2. ↑ Link to the source code of the recreated files. Retrieved 26 Apr '21
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