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'''''Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure''''' was a Flash game developed by Smashing Ideas and released on [[Postopia (partially found online games; 2001-2011)|Postopia]] in 2004.
'''''Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure''''' was a Flash game developed by Smashing Ideas and released on [[Postopia (partially found online games; 2001-2011)|Postopia]] in 2004.


All searches appear to lead to ''Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure'', the sequel, which has shrouded the game it was based off of. There are people who have asked on Yahoo or other sites for help finding this game, but only the Jungle one seems to be available.
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==
==Availability==
The game files were partially found [https://web.archive.org/web/*/postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* on archive.org] by [[User:Adam|Adam]]
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.


It was available for many years but has been lost due to time. The possible reason why this game was not mirrored by any other website, in contrast to, for instance, ''Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure'' is because ''Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure'' consists of the large number of files, and perhaps other websites did not bother trying to get all of them given the large availability of other good-quality Flash games.
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.  


Fortunately, even if some files would not be found, these files can possibly be derived from their counterparts used in ''Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure''.
On February 28th, 2021, LMW user LoganTheHammer discovered that the game was found and fully playable on 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, 2021.</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, 2021.</ref>, and the game is now fully playable.
 
A Smashing Ideas employee named Brian Burke has been contacted at LinkedIn for the game and he said the client was Kraft and they would have had the final files for that and Smashing Ideas no longer have any of the files for that game dating that far back. He said it might live on another site somewhere, but he is not sure.
 
On Feburary 28th, 2021, LMW user LoganTheHammer discovered that the game was found and fully playable on Flashpoint, a software that archived thousands of Flash animations and games with the goal of preserving them after Flash was discontinued in early 2021. Although the game is fully playable, it is unknown if all files of the game are stored in Flashpoint's archives, and there is no apparent way so far to try to find the game files through the software.
==Files==
==Files==
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|<span style="font-size:80%">File</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">File</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Availability</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Availability</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Contributors</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Links</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Links</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Extra notes</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Extra notes</span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/game.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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%"></span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/gateway.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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%"></span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./swf/intro.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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%"></span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./waffleboy.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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%"></span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./vr_loader/vr_base.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</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%">[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%">Base for vr_loader</span>
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|<span style="font-size:80%">./vr_loader/vr_loader.swf</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%"><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[http://lostmediawiki.com/User:Adam Adam]</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%">[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%">Postoken reward check</span>
|-
|-
|<span style="font-size:80%">./wbmountadv/shell.xml</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">./wbmountadv/shell.xml</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Recreated'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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</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%">./vr_info.xml</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"><span style="color:green;">'''Recreated'''</span></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%"></span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://postopia.com/games/wbmountadv/* archive.org]</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</span>
|<span style="font-size:80%">Postoken reward info, dummy file</span>
|}
|}
==Screenshots==
==Screenshots==
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==References==
==References==
*[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List The list of games playable on Flashpoint, including Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure] Retrieved 28 Feb, 2021
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obPCmLfNU4 Gameplay of the game, with the uploader s9x9 replying to a comment, saying to use Flashpoint to play the game] Retrieved 28 Feb, 2021
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiW4wgakHc Gameplay of the game, with the uploader s9x9 replying to a comment, saying to use Flashpoint to play the game]
 


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Revision as of 17:17, 26 April 2021

103510156.jpg

Screenshot of the game.

Status: Found

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.

On February 28th, 2021, LMW user LoganTheHammer discovered that the game was found and fully playable on 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. While several of the files were lost to time, they were recreated[2], and the game is now fully playable.

Files

File Availability Links Extra notes
./swf/game.swf Found archive.org
./swf/gateway.swf Found archive.org
./swf/intro.swf Found archive.org
./waffleboy.swf Found archive.org
./vr_loader/vr_base.swf Found archive.org Base for vr_loader
./vr_loader/vr_loader.swf Found archive.org Postoken reward check
./wbmountadv/shell.xml Recreated archive.org File list, referred to as "waffleboy.xml" in the game's code.
./vr_info.xml Recreated archive.org Postoken reward info, dummy file

Screenshots

References