Get Disciplined!

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So, this website (getdisciplined.ca, also a subfolder on the NoC website) featured this dude named Les as he attempted to prevent himself from playing video games by.. uh.. exercising? He referred to it as "training", such as doing a handstand to "train" for Mario vs. Donkey Kong or swinging a golf club (and.. accidentally chucking it in the cameraman's face) to prep for Mario Golf: Advance Tour. This site was up in the early '00s, and featured 55 total diary entries over the course of 55 days (in addition to video footage to go with some of the aforementioned days).

Nintendo of Japan is known to leave up their stuff, but most English Nintendo sites (and non-English European ones, actually) take down their stuff after a short period.

The thing with Get Disciplined! is...
It's still up.

It takes five million years to load, but the site can still be accessed without even touching a web archive. The URL is http://www.nintendo.ca/getdisciplined/, and it works exactly as it did in the '00s.

There's two reasons that I'm making this thread. The first is that I think it's hysterical that this 22-year-old website is still functional, and the second is that Les posted a WarioWare video. This video was not captured by the Wayback Machine, though it is still presumably available on the live site. However, I cannot find it for the life of me. The other videos auto-download (at least, they do in the archive), but the WarioWare page - if and when it loads - doesn't. Does anybody know how to dig a MOV out of an HTML? I tried CTRL+F-ing the .HTML file, but I couldn't figure the heck out where it was.
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Also, here's Les.
 
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wow this website certainly looks to be from the early 2000's too
 
Looks like most of the links go to Nintendo.ca which looks to be Nintendo of Canada. Most of them however redirect to Nintendo.com

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But the "Go NOW" is linked to a working page. It goes to: http://www.nintendo.ca/2002/english/register.shtml
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The site isn't usable at all and all the links seem to go to pages that don't exist any more. But for some reason this one's still up.

Very interesting.
 
Curious.

Small update: seems that the WarioWare video was hosted at http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/bd784892-3d1d-4594-9377-e743738f8620.mov. The video.js file on the page's archive reads as follows:
var games = new Array();
games[1] = {
name: 'WARIO WARE, Inc.: Mega Party Game$',
linkEn: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...display_info.cgi?id=2318024&lang=en&pageNum=5',
linkFr: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...display_info.cgi?id=2318024&lang=fr&pageNum=5',
hiEn: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...iles/bd784892-3d1d-4594-9377-e743738f8620.mov',
lowEn: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...iles/e112c3c4-cb75-41db-8d87-f12a38c359f9.mov',
hiFr: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...iles/bd784892-3d1d-4594-9377-e743738f8620.mov',
lowFr: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...iles/e112c3c4-cb75-41db-8d87-f12a38c359f9.mov',
gameFootage: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2026031...iles/e112c3c4-cb75-41db-8d87-f12a38c359f9.mov'
};

This links to each .MOV file, but the archives unfortunately don't appear to download for some reason. And, of course, this is what happens if one attempts to visit the .URL directly.WWIMPG.png
Visiting the web archives of this URL bring up a very odd error message, this being "AccessDeniedAccess DeniedAEE533F3899154972i3W3Wos1B4cDXq4h2XYP+9jP1nCUrf4K4BWChvLB627DMTlWqOkWAsiXghthXPO3F29j1/OSlw=". Oddly, this appears to be the only video that was loaded off-site, as all of the other videos were stored on the site via a /mov subfolder.
 
Reimu Hakurei said:
how did people find this
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I randomly came across it at one point by digging through old Nintendo of Canada URLs. The Wayback Machine's got a whole lot of stuff, but it's not all easily accessible.
 
is this official or fanmade? is it stuck on day 55?
Nelsonic said:
I randomly came across it at one point by digging through old Nintendo of Canada URLs. The Wayback Machine's got a whole lot of stuff, but it's not all easily accessible.
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Reimu Hakurei said:
is this official or fanmade? is it stuck on day 55?
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Official. And yes, it's been stuck on day 55 since 2004. It later tied into the Too Much Fun marketing campaign.
 
Reimu Hakurei said:
dang, usually thought websites in the north American region took subwebsites down.
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Yeah, I've got no clue why this is still up. iQue, Nintendo of Korea, OCCASIONALLY Nintendo of Taiwan (depending on the site, they sometimes take portions down) and Nintendo of Japan typically do this sort of thing, but not usually others. As you get a "not secure" notice when visiting the site, I wonder if they simply forgot about it.
 
Nelsonic said:
Yeah, I've got no clue why this is still up. iQue, Nintendo of Korea, OCCASIONALLY Nintendo of Taiwan (depending on the site, they sometimes take portions down) and Nintendo of Japan typically do this sort of thing, but not usually others. As you get a "not secure" notice when visiting the site, I wonder if they simply forgot about it.
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like how did NoC forgot to take this DOWN??
 
Reimu Hakurei said:
like how did NoC forgot to take this DOWN??
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I have absolutely no clue. As said above, it links to, like, one other page from the early-to-mid-'00s that hasn't been taken down and that's about it. There were multiple other websites made by Nintendo (toomuchfun.ca, which appears to have since been purchased by someone else as it redirects to a blank blue lander, and nintendorecoverycentre.ca, which was a Flash-based site where you navigate a literal Nintendo rehab center ["I lost it all on Donkey Kong."]), but those have both since been taken down, leaving this ONE SITE as the sole survivor.
 
Nelsonic said:
I have absolutely no clue. As said above, it links to, like, one other page from the early-to-mid-'00s that hasn't been taken down and that's about it. There were multiple other websites made by Nintendo (toomuchfun.ca, which appears to have since been purchased by someone else as it redirects to a blank blue lander, and nintendorecoverycentre.ca, which was a Flash-based site where you navigate a literal Nintendo rehab center ["I lost it all on Donkey Kong."]), but those have both since been taken down, leaving this ONE SITE as the sole survivor.
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checked toomuchfun.ca, it's not bought?? it redirects to godaddy.com for me
 
Reimu Hakurei said:
checked toomuchfun.ca, it's not bought?? it redirects to godaddy.com for me
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Huh. Interesting. Must be Ghost Archive not being able to handle the redirect (I had to save it there to even view it because my computer was slow-as-all-get-out trying to load the thing). I just checked, and yeah, it redirected to GoDaddy for me as well. Seems somebody did but the domain, but GoDaddy says that they can get a domain broker for $99 to potentially let someone buy it. Not sure who owns it, as NoC definitely wouldn't let an old page redirect to GoDaddy; it'd be a main-page redirect if they still had it.
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Nelsonic said:
Cool! I guess NoC missed a few when purging their old directories. I'm wonder if there's a tool that could pull the still-functioning URLs from a specific folder (such as nintendo.ca/2002)...
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so there's MULTIPLE sites that are still up
 
Reimu Hakurei said:
so there's MULTIPLE sites that are still up
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Interesting.
I searched for toomuchfun.ca, and it seems that it was bought by this person as of 2023. Maybe that's the reason that the web archive redirected to toomuchfun.ca/lander, yet the site itself redirects to GoDaddy now?
Seems the Nintendo Recovery Centre website had a bit to do with the Game Boy Micro (or, at least, one room did, per a forum post I came across), as the site appears to have had a "maze" section (if I remember correctly from the last time I checked the archives), which ties directly into this Nintendo of Canada GBM ad with rats in a maze. I'll keep looking, as there's bound to be some other stuff they forgot to scrub.

Just to ensure that this thread doesn't go too off-topic, I'll make a separate thread for the general NoC stuff.
 
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While looking for Nintendo of Canada's remaining sites, I found a French version of the Get Disciplined! website. I'll add in the foreign names tomorrow, but this does make me wanna check if the WarioWare video works HERE...
 
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