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Fireboy & Watergirl in The Forest Temple (Adobe Flash)

A co-op puzzle-platformer game that ruled every school computer.

Test Level#

Test level containing a ball, a seesaw and a ramp in the corner, with Fireboy and Watergirl starting in the air. The level is placed under its own level category, appropriately named "test".

Offscreen Objects#

Randomly placed gems and a lime button that does nothing found to the left of the level select, it includes an unused yellow and blue gem variants.

Unused millisecond counter found above the time display. It's displayed in a different font.

Trace Messages#

They can be seen in command line when running in ruffle.

GOOD

Gets printed when on title screen.

0
DADAAAA

Get printed when viewing highscores. (The first one changes based on how many levels you beated and how well)

 0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1

It, or a variant of gets traced when on the level select and whenever hilighting a level. The text represents the level states in the save file, -1 being locked, 0 being not beaten and 1, 2 and ,3 being C, B and A.

1 1

The ID of the level, with the first digid being the mode (Adventure, Puzzle or Speed) and the second one being just a number.

29 39

When going to a speed level.

COOL

After a level loads.

RED DIAMONDO
BLUE DIAMONDO
SILVER DIAMONDO

When collecting a diamond of that color.

NOPOE

Unknown. Can get printed whenever both Fireboy and Watergirl jump at a wall.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

When getting to the door.

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALAMAR

After beating a level for the first time.

WAXXAA80

the number at the end being the lowest time without getting a lower rank.

a
b

When getting back to the level select. First one before and the second one after.

Revisions#

To do:
Check for more version and do the same for the rest of the games.

Note: As all of them have leftover AddictingGames screen (suggesting they were build of it), they will be compared to that version.

Armor Games#

  • A box gets added to the loading screen when running it outside of the site.

Addicting Games

Armor Games

  • Adds a "More Games" button to the title screen.
  • The logo was changed to more appropriate one.

Fog.com#

This version's based on the Armor Games version as the code for the view score references the site.

Addicting Games

Fog.com

  • Only includes the "Play" and "Instructions" button.
  • Removes the logo entirely.

Miniclip#

  • Skips the loading screen, going straight to the title screen.

Addicting Games

Miniclip

  • The play button originaly was in style with the other buttons, a boarder was added to the button for Miniclip.
  • "Submit Hiscore" is now "View Hiscore".
  • A box was added on the title screen to display ads in.
  • The copyright in the corner was moved to the credits box.
  • The logo was changed to more appropriate one.

Armor Games

Miniclip

  • Miniclip logo was added to the level select.
  • Removes the FPS count in the corner while in-game.

References#


  1. https://armorgames.com/play/4900/the-forest-temple↩︎