![]() ![]() I have recently been going on something of a nostalgia trip and going back to the old Big Fish account I shared with my mom when I was a child. So I sent the following Support request to Last Day at Work: I would hate for some of these games to be lost to history. I plan to send a customer support request to Last Day of Work on their website but my hopes are low as from what I can tell that site hasn't been updated since around 2015.ĮDIT: I submitted a support request to their website including a link to this discussion and all the relevant files. I'm reluctant to contact Big Fish about it because they may simply remove the game instead of asking Last Day of Work for an update but at this rate I'm worried there may be legal repercussions to selling a game that shouldn't ever work in it's current state and with no indication that flash is needed. Something else I noticed is that despite needing flash to run, the game is still on Big Fishes store with no indication that flash is necessary. You would have to be the developer and contact Big Fish to release a new update that removes the SWF from the game. Presumably this is so that you can't edit things like the demo length or accidentally render the game non-functional. Upon installing the game it checks if everything is intact and restores the xml and SWF to their former state. Unfortunately you cannot simply delete the SWF file and erase feature_flash from both of the xml files. The SWF file is largely unnecessary to the game itself as well! I ran it with a flash emulator and it only showed a trailer for the game. Cross referencing them with similar files for games I have that don't require flash reveals that other games that don't require flash simply don't have the feature_flash section. From what I can tell, these two files show information the Big Fish games launcher "knows" about the game such as whether it's a demo or the full version or which files if any require flash. That last part of both of them, feature_flash is the relevant part and is how I discovered the SWF file in the first place. basebfgstate contains the following:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Virtual Villagers - The Tree of Life\vkttltv.exeĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Virtual Villagers - The Tree of Life\pics\60x40.jpgĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Virtual Villagers - The Tree of Life\pics\80x80.jpgĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Virtual Villagers - The Tree of Life\pics\feature.jpg In the games directory there are also two relevant xml files, basebfgstate and bfgstate with similar content. Under pics there is an SWF file titled 175x150. I actually dug through the files this morning and despite not being a programmer, after some experimentation I figured out the flash requiring file that may be the root of the issue. ![]() I'm pretty sure it's just an error of some sort related to flash rather than me playing a demo without realising it. Unfortunately it won't show up under the recent activity tab no matter what I do.
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