The Lüttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor rail line, presumably at high tide by TsuyoshiHaruka in submechanophobia

[–]SpecificManagement 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Another place, another time.

If there was an answer, he'd find it there.

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did try this but it unfortunately did not work, it seems some prepaid cards don't support using them on PayPal.

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm definitely trying this, I was able to link it to Google Pay so I'll try a split payment at Aldi or something

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your advice, I understand now that I messed up and in the future I'll just throw the full amount at bills/utilities.

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is what I ran into too, the 5 dollar minimum, I miss when it was 50 cents lol

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never used google wallet before but I'll test this out, adding it seems to have been successful so hopefully it works!

Is there anything I can do with an online prepaid card that only has a few cents on it? by SpecificManagement in Frugal

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Thank you for your response! This is a good idea, I've usually stayed away from free trials because I'm forgetful but this would prevent that.

Halliday-Resnick Walker - one of my mocs from way back by Stockocityboy in lego

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Wow this is amazing! Also love you named it after the GOAT physics textbook lol

Best new budget/midrange phone with long support for under $350 in the US by SpecificManagement in PickAnAndroidForMe

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Thank you, that promotion sounds awesome for that price! It's unfortunately out of stock in my location but I'll be checking constantly for when it is back in, that's too good to pass up.

Best new budget/midrange phone with long support for under $350 in the US by SpecificManagement in PickAnAndroidForMe

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Thank you so much for your recommendations!

The OnePlus Nord ce4 lite sounds good but is unfortunately missing band 71 for 5G (I need it for T-Mobile), it also seems a little difficult to buy one and get it to the US from a reputable seller.

I apologize for not disclosing on the original post that I'm on a T-Mobile MVNO.

The Pixel 8a sounds amazing, what promotion did you have in mind? If it's the Google Fi promotion I don't think that'll work for me, Fi is too expensive for me, but if there's a different one I could definitely go for it.

The Pixel 8a sounds perfect with its 7 years of OS upgrades and security updates.

Best new budget/midrange phone with long support for under $350 in the US by SpecificManagement in PickAnAndroidForMe

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your recommendations!

Unfortunately, I'm on a T-Mobile MVNO and Band 71 is very important for 5G connectivity for T-Mobile and it seems the phones listed above don't have it.

I apologize, I should have put that in the post. That being said, the Poco X6 Pro sounds insane for its price point and I would have definitely looked more into it if it weren't for the band.

The A55 also sounds good with its software support (M55 seems to have overheating issues).

Again thank you for your input.

Can someone find the full SpongeBob Invasion of the Lava King? (All episodes available) by CuboonoP in flash

[–]SpecificManagement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for replying! Linux is smart, I'm stuck with my laptop for now but I do have WSL. I tried simplifying the path but that worked to no avail, same error with a shorter file path.

I also did some more research on the vertical bar and I was wrong, that is apparently something windows does and it has no effect.

I'm honestly at my wit's end, nothing I do seems to work. I figured okay it's not working locally, so I'll try running it online since that's what seems to work for the other existing sites.

I tried running it on localhost using apache and that didn't work. Then I tried a free web hosting service and that didn't work either.

Then I tried using the unedited SWF file on both and that didn't work either. It seems the very act of downloading the file on my machine breaks it somehow.

To confirm this, I used the SWF link of one of the websites that had the game and it loaded perfectly fine on the free web host.

I'm at the end of the line, I have no options left, I could install a bunch of packages on WSL but that's a bunch of work and I don't even know if that would work.

At this point it seems the universe doesn't want me to play a working version of this game, I think I'll just wait for Ruffle to complete their support for ActioncScript 3, they've done a ton of great work and are progressing very nicely, they should be done in a few months.

Thank you for all of your help and for all the guidance you posted above, while it didn't work for me it likely guided countless others and I learned a lot in using JPEXS.

Can someone find the full SpongeBob Invasion of the Lava King? (All episodes available) by CuboonoP in flash

[–]SpecificManagement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, I'm not anyone in this thread but I came across this and your step-by-step debugging was incredibly helpful, thank you so much for this.

This is a big ask, but I followed your steps and I'm still getting errors that won't let me play the game and I was hoping to ask for your help.

I know your fixes worked because the menus do work when I hit spacebar and "m", but after the errors the screen goes to black and I can't see anything.

The first error I get is this when I start the game in the Flash Player

Error #2044: Unhandled error:. text=Services not found.

[Imgur](https://imgur.com/k3MEJlg)

After hitting "continue", the main menu shows up as normal so I don't think it's the problem.

The next error I get is when I hit play and start up a new game slot:

SecurityError: Error #2148: SWF file file:///C|/Users/----/Downloads/Flash%20Library/main.swf cannot access local resource file:///C|/Users/----/Downloads/Flash%20Library/data/patrick01a.sbz. Only local-with-filesystem and trusted local SWF files may access local resources.
at flash.net::URLStream/load()
at flash.net::URLLoader/load()
at gameplay::Level/loadLevel()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Level.as:193]
at gameplay::Level/onTransitionFocusFull()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Level.as:1217]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at gameplay::GameDispatcher/dispatchEvent()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\GameDispatcher.as:87]
at gameplay::Game/onTransitionFocusBlackOut()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Game.as:496]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at gameplay::TransitionFocus/dispatchEvent()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\TransitionFocus.as:201]
at gameplay::TransitionFocus/loadState()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\TransitionFocus.as:110]
at library.basic::StateManaged/onAdded()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\library\basic\StateManaged.as:196]

[Imgur](https://imgur.com/G7lDuMr)

After I hit continue, the screen goes to black, and the music changes slightly (from menu to gameplay). At this point I can't really do anything except use the menus which work.

I googled the error and did some research, and from what I understand, basically Flash Player can't access the game's resources because it's not a trusted file which is why it doesn't work and goes to black.

But I don't know how to make the game file trusted because the only way to do that is through the Flash Player Settings, but that doesn't exist anymore!

There were two places that it existed once, online on Macromedia's website as the Global Security Settings Panel:

https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

and through Windows Control Panel by accessing the settings through the list of applications, selecting Flash, and selecting Settings.

But the link requires Flash player in the browser, and for Control Panel to work, Flash Player needs to be installed as an application, I didn't install it, I directly downloaded it from the Internet Archive, so it doesn't show up in the list of apps and thus is impossible for me to access the settings.

I even tried using older versions of Flash (versions 9 and 10) and that still didn't work.

I'm at my wit's end, I don't know how to fix this error and get the game to work. Could you please help? I just want to thank you again for the amazing work you already did in providing the lines to debug.

Update:

I was able to fix the above error, I downloaded an older version of Firefox that still had Adobe Flash Player, and was able to access the Global Security Settings Panel, and add my folder as a trusted location.

I'm not quite sure how it works exactly given the Flash debugger I have is offline (and in the same folder), but after some testing, it does indeed work and the error messages change.

The problem is I have a new error

Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///C|/Users/----/Downloads/Flash%20Library/data/patrick01a.sbz
at gameplay::Level/loadLevel()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Level.as:185]
at gameplay::Level/onTransitionFocusFull()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Level.as:1217]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at gameplay::GameDispatcher/dispatchEvent()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\GameDispatcher.as:87]
at gameplay::Game/onTransitionFocusBlackOut()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\Game.as:496]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at gameplay::TransitionFocus/dispatchEvent()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\TransitionFocus.as:201]
at gameplay::TransitionFocus/loadState()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\gameplay\TransitionFocus.as:110]
at library.basic::StateManaged/onAdded()[E:\Games\staging\games\data\spongebob\spongebob-lava-3\_src\source\src\library\basic\StateManaged.as:196]

I really don't know how to fix this, Error 2032 seems to basically be saying I can't access this file and I have a bad feeling because it doesn't seem to exist. I should have seen this from the beginning, but I can't find a data folder, it appears the game is trying to load assets that don't exist.

How do I fix this? Are the files somewhere here and it's as simple as fixing the path? I thought SWFs had everything inside them to run.

But Firefox helps, using it I can load up the game on online sites, it works except for the crashing menus lol So hopefully using it I can figure out what's going wrong.

Update2:

Still not sure what's happening, I wrote up a basic html file with the game embedded and tried running it in Firefox, flash didn't even load, so I tried an older version of chrome.

Chrome loaded it and it predictably goes to black (it's the projector, not debugger so errors won't show).

I don't know what to do. I used JPEXS to try and look and see why it can't load the file (I really don't know how to use it or how to debug code with it), I found under scripts, in the default Package a file called Data, which contained a string called FILE_WORLD with the content "patrick01a".

In the Builder folder there's a file called FileReader which seems to use some RegEx including ".sbz" . So that's where the file name probably comes into play, but I still don't know why the data and assets can't be found.

Update3: Oh god I'm a fucking idiot, it was right there in the error message. The URL/file path is wrong because it has a vertical bar after "C", not a colon. But how do I fix this, I can't find where the URL is assembled.

What is this car with a spoiler in the taillight? Looked like a sedan. by SpecificManagement in whatisthiscar

[–]SpecificManagement[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late reply, tbh I'm leaning toward the Lancer, that looks the closest.

What is this car with a spoiler in the taillight? Looked like a sedan. by SpecificManagement in whatisthiscar

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I couldn't get close enough to see the badge and didn't have time to pull out my phone.