Try Firefox and see if that does the trick. If not come back here again.

Last time I tried it on that browser and worked for me.

He hadn't made any intentional updates recently but was wondering if he had some changes that hadn't been published until more recently, not sure if a fix will happen before the big update they've been trying to wrap up.

as mentioned on my first response,

i also tried on an old account on a virtual machine

the virtual machine (linux) only had firefox downloaded, and i didn't get the medal on there either, on a friday night

just tested again now with my current account, and i didn't get the game starting medal

according to what tom fulp said, i think it's not just an issue on my end, it seems like it's been occuring to other people as well for a couple weeks now, and perhaps it's some kinda recently published minor update/changes that screwed with the medal system? i'm not sure

Removed medals for my game because i realized it never wants to wotk by now : https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/923539

Checked the medals by tapping the walnut 100 times - neither "100 Points!" nor "100 Taps!" were awarded.

Judging by the reviews, medals have been non-functional for a while:

Did not earn "Knowledge Creeper" medal, despite having visited the Codex more than ten times.

Seems something odd might be going on with The Interview Codex's score system - starting the flash once after deleting my scores gave me a score of 7, which went up to 14 after refreshing.

UPDATE: Refreshed again and saw my "Who visits the most?" score go up to 21 - seems its definitely going up in increments of seven, for whatever reason.

UPDATE 2: Checked on Brave - seems only Firefox is having this issue.

Ended up dicking about a bit further on Brave and found out it has that issue as well - got credited with multiple visits every time I refreshed the page (3 the first time, 4 the second time, 5 the third time, etcetera)

Checked Newgrounds Player afterwards - didn't have the issue, so I think its probably an issue with Ruffle.

Went back, deleted my scores again and tried repeatedly opening The Interview Codex in NG Player - didn't earn "Knowledge Creeper" despite eleven visits.

Seems this medal's definitely broken.

Found out a couple of Rob1221's games are suffering from broken medals.

First's Polarity Switch, which didn't award me "12 Levels" despite having finished every level up to Level 14:

Second is Dark Light Swap, which didn't award a medal after I'd finished level 4:

I did earn a couple medals on Polarity Switch back in early 2023, which narrows the search for any breaking updates somewhat.

There probably are more games of Rob's which suffer medals not being awarded, but these are just the two I noticed.

Portal Defenders: Tower Defense game medal "Curious" does not work. To get this medal, you click on "Meet the Team" at the title screen, it opens the website in a new tab as expected, but then ruffle crashes and you don't get your medal.

FireFox 124.0.2 (64-bit)

OS Name   Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

Version   10.0.22000 Build 22000

Ruffle error:

# Error Info
Error name: Error
Error message: panicked at /rustc/25ef9e3d85d934b27d9dada2f9dd52b1dc63bb04/library/std/src/sys/pal/wasm/../unsupported/locks/mutex.rs:20:9:
assertion `left == right` failed: cannot recursively acquire mutex
  left: true
 right: false
Error stack:
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```

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Surface samples: 4
Surface size: (550, 400, 1)

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That's odd, I had this medal unlocked awhile ago.

There's a chance Firefox got an update and it did something but uncertain. You could attempt to get it on other browsers if doable.

I recall Ruffle having an issue with opening links before, but it worked for me just now on the latest version of Firefox, so not sure. You can try using a different browser, but a more reliable way might be to change your settings to use Newgrounds Player instead.

If the option is available that is... The saddest part if you wanna get most of the achievements out of a single game.

You'd have to mess around a lot with browsers, something with secure tracking (one specific flash had such issue) and using different methods from going from Ruffle only to NG Player.

I wish it was easier to confront such nuisance but it is a hassle to work with it.

As a protip too: if there are even new released games that have medals they will have issues due to small inconsistency.

So not everything is perfect.

And btw, https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512407

Madness Accelerant achievements have either long delay to function or work fine but it's a 50-50 gamble. You have to sit through a very poor performance play until you hopefully get everything.

Tequilla Zombies 3: "Sweet Dreams" and "Rest in Peace" even though I earned them in game.

Poltergifts: "Hell Time" is impossible to get due to constant freezes.

People have earned these as recently as two days ago. Did you earn them after 30-60 minutes of playing? Some games lose connection to the NG API after a while. If you reload the game and go back to the badges page (sometimes clicking on the specific one will do it), do they resubmit?

I did, I even earned another medal while at it. The 2 in question still do not appear.

And what about the one of Poltergifts? Is there anything I can do about it or is it a lost cause?