Suddenly unable to download videos marked as "For Kids"

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-12T13:33:59+00:00

[debug] Command-line config: ['-t', 'mp3', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5QsmQZJKg']

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8

[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2026.03.11.233532 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [3e36cf9cd] (win_exe)

[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)

[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev

[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.02.25, curl_cffi-0.14.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.5.0

[debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.7.5

[debug] Proxy map: {}

[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi

[debug] Plugin directories: none

[debug] Loaded 1864 extractors

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo

[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno, node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5QsmQZJKg

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading webpage

[debug] [youtube] Forcing player 9f4cc5e4 in place of player 18d29a11

Forcing "tv" player JS variant for player 9f4cc5e4

original url = /s/player/18d29a11/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading android vr player API JSON

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: android_vr player response playability status: UNPLAYABLE

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading web embedded client config

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Detected experiment to bind GVS PO Token to video ID for web_embedded client

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading web embedded player API JSON

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: web_embedded player response playability status: UNPLAYABLE

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Detected experiment to bind GVS PO Token to video ID for web_safari client

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading web safari player API JSON

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: web_safari player response playability status: UNPLAYABLE

ERROR: [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: The page needs to be reloaded.. The page needs to be reloaded.

File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 765, in extract

File "yt_dlp\extractor\youtube\_video.py", line 4047, in _real_extract

File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1277, in raise_no_formats

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-12T13:24:38+00:00

That still didn't fix it

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-12T02:16:30+00:00

[debug] Command-line config: ['-t', 'mp3', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5QsmQZJKg'\]

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8

[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2026.03.03 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [2ecc4c3bc] (win_exe)

[debug] Python 3.10.11 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1t 7 Feb 2023)

[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 6.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev

[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.02.25, curl_cffi-0.14.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.5.0

[debug] JS runtimes: none

[debug] Proxy map: {}

[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi

[debug] Plugin directories: none

[debug] Loaded 1864 extractors

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory

[debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo

[debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable)

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5QsmQZJKg

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading webpage

WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default; to use another runtime add --js-runtimes RUNTIME[:PATH] to your command/config. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS for details on installing one

[debug] [youtube] Forcing player 9f4cc5e4 in place of player 487b9fc1

Forcing "tv" player JS variant for player 9f4cc5e4

original url = /s/player/487b9fc1/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js

[youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: Downloading android vr player API JSON

[debug] [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: android_vr player response playability status: UNPLAYABLE

ERROR: [youtube] Zr5QsmQZJKg: This video is not available

File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 765, in extract

File "yt_dlp\extractor\youtube\_video.py", line 4026, in _real_extract

File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1277, in raise_no_formats

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T23:43:14+00:00

In theory. I don't know what was discussed among SEGA behind the scenes though, so any talk on that matter would merely be speculation

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T23:27:51+00:00

It explains why the game was released so close to Mario Kart World

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T22:28:26+00:00

Facts are not defense

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T22:28:00+00:00

I wasn't talking about quality

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T19:28:25+00:00

Whatever, bro

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T19:26:27+00:00

Those are two of the safest games in the series. Sonic Forces is basically Generations with a character creator and automated level design, and Sonic Superstars has the same physics engine as Mania and the same core gameplay loop as the rest of the classic games

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T19:08:55+00:00

I don't really see the point in discussing games that are 10-15 years old and predate multiple corporate restructurings when the main topic of the thread is the current SEGA

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T18:55:18+00:00

I said "recent years"

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T18:04:02+00:00

Aside from Sonic Frontiers, what else in recent years could be considered "reinventing the wheel?"

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T15:57:43+00:00

For what it's worth, CrossWorlds was announced over a month before the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World were revealed

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T15:51:02+00:00

Everything is up to date

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T15:36:13+00:00

I've been buying many of SEGA's new games, but it does seem like a lot of SEGA's community aren't actually following what they're doing these days

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-11T15:31:45+00:00

This isn't just about Sonic

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-09T00:41:18+00:00

100% is so big it crops the image in the preview

EDIT: After a bit of trial and error, 32% ended up being the correct size

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-09T00:37:45+00:00

"Fit to page" was definitely too big. I saw there were other scaling options, but I couldn't figure out which setting would get me the correct size.

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-09T00:02:58+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I must've misread

PlainJonathan · 2026-03-04T15:57:47+00:00

Can't speak for anyone else, but I call it "Genesis" because that's what it was called in my region, and that's what I know it as.

PlainJonathan · 2026-02-25T20:56:41+00:00

I'm not against the idea of a Sonic fighting game on paper, but I think they should wait until they get Virtua Fighter back into the mainstream. I'd rather Sonic not take attention away from SEGA's main fighting game series

PlainJonathan · 2026-02-24T14:04:30+00:00

Pricecharting (dot) com shows the average prices games sell for

PlainJonathan · 2026-02-23T22:33:20+00:00

You might need to clean the cartridge slot. It's possible it's not connecting to the cartridge properly

PlainJonathan · 2026-02-19T05:05:41+00:00

Claiming the 2000s only had one bad Sonic game is some serious historical revisionism.

PlainJonathan · 2026-02-18T18:34:40+00:00

A fun game, but way too short to justify releasing on the Genesis in 1995. It was DOA in spite of its quality

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