So I've been recently trying to semi-legit some avatars and high scores for flash and shockwave games, and happening upon Dice Escape, I realized the opportunity to just build a key-pusher script.
I used Jellyneo's Dice Escape guide ((you need an account to see links)) and wrote three different scripts that all play the game at slightly different speeds based on the pauses between simulated key presses.
All that you have to do is install AutoHotKey to your computer, and download this glorified txt file (it is labeled .AHK to be runnable by AutoHotKey). Once you launch the hotkey script, login to your neopets account in the browser you use to play shockwave games in (not just flash, as Dice Escape is one of the few games that specifically requires an older version of shockwave), and open the dice escape game. Once you are on the main menu screen, as soon as you hit "Start Game", press "Alt+J" on your keyboard to activate the AutoHotKey script trigger. As soon as you hit this key combo, the script will begin putting in a sequence of arrow key presses and space bar presses to advance to the next level. The one hitch that I have run into is with level 2: Occasionally (Read as 1 in 20-ish times) the teleporter is flopped to the opposite side from usual and this throws off my hardcoded script. If this occurs, kill AutoHotKey from your task bar, end the game to get back to the main menu, relaunch the hotkey script, and try again.
It seemed to be pretty reliable from my testing last night and I easily could have replaced any of the current high scores posted (especially considering how few people are actually playing the shockwave games).
When I wrote two subsequent alterations of the script to speed it up slightly, the final and fastest script occasionally had some hitches where the game would lag for a moment but the script would continue running, causing certain keystrokes to be missed as inputs by the game. In those cases, I just restarted the game and then tried again.
I've attached the three scripts that I ended up with. Hopefully these will help someone who has shockwave running but needs a little help with the actual playing of the game. I know many people are just AoB'ing these games, but this was just a fun way for me to try and set up a semi-legit way to get this particular game's avatar and trophy.
Rename them from .txt to .ahk and Have fun!
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