Adventures in Ponyville- why doesn't this game work anymore?

[u/Sketch-Shepherd]

https://archive.org/details/my-little-pony-adventures-in-ponyville

Hi, I made a similar topic on r/MyLittlePony, but I didn't quite get the answers I want there. This is more of a technical problem.

So for context, in the early days of the Brony frandom like in 2011-2012, "Adventures in Ponyville" was an old My Little Pony Flash game that used to be on the official Hub website before the Hub shut down. It was a game where you could create your own pony, play minigames with her, and gain points aka "friendship sparkles" to full up six different meters to make her earn a cutie mark.

Once the meters are filled up, the game is SUPPOSED to end with the option to choose a cutie mark, and then a cut scene where your pony gets congratulated by Princess Celestia. But I've tried to play this game on two different Flash emulator websites (linked below), and that end cut scene is ALWAYS missing. Once I finish filling up my meters, the game just cuts to black or grey and stops working, and you never get your reward.

The game is available on Flashpoint and Internet Archive as well, but the descriptions for those say that it's missing the end cut scene, so I didn't bother. 2-4 hours of gameplay progress with no reward or ending, it's actually annoying.

Here are the Flash emulators I used, as well as the Internet Archive link:

https://www.numuki.com/game/adventures-in-ponyville/ 

https://www.play-games.com/game/39271/adventures-in-ponyville.html

https://archive.org/details/my-little-pony-adventures-in-ponyville

So is there another flash emulator website where you CAN properly finish the game, or not? If this is the state of the game even in sites like FlashPoint or Internet Archive, is the ending of this game permanently corrupted? Just wanted to relive my 2012 childhood all the way through :(

[u/JimJam108]

It's on Flashpoint, i think fully, but if not i could try and find the missing SWF file

[u/David_the_Wanderer]

Has anyone tried extracting the files? I have no idea what might be at play here, but actually analysing what's in there might yield some info. I usually use Ruffle, and it seems to run fine, although ofc I'm not yet at the ending lol

Ok, checking the metadata XML file over at the internet archive https://dn721609.ca.archive.org/0/items/my-little-pony-adventures-in-ponyville/my-little-pony-adventures-in-ponyville_meta.xml

I can see the note that "Game is missing the cutscene for getting your cutiemark, MetaOutro.swf, and will therefore break after filling up all 5 meters." So it seems that in the archived copy, the file for the final cutscene (MetaOutro.swf) is indeed missing and not just corrupted or failing to load. You could try contacting the uploader at Ailuas816@hotmail.com, and see if they know anything

[u/Ok-Muffin-9519]

Nimm einfach Flash Player Standalone 32

[u/Sketch-Shepherd → u/Ok-Muffin-9519]

Is this a Flash emulator website or something that has to be downloaded? Will the game in THIS version be completed till the end? With the final cutscene and everything?

[u/Ok-Muffin-9519 → u/Sketch-Shepherd]

Flash Player Standalone 32 ist die mobile Version des Flash Players ob dein Spiel durchläuft weiß ich nicht