Haha I can't believe this worked, reminds me of scamming Fable on Xbox by changing the date so rent would happen all at once. Good times"everyone there's a solution you're on not seeing here"............... CHANGE THE DATE/TIME BACK TO 2020!!!!!!!
Aaaaaaaaand I figured out the javascript animations. The older animations work smoother on standard IE with the date trick, but the javascript ones should be opened by right-click and selecting Edge instead. The javascript is running on HTML5 and standard IE doesn't seem to work with that.
Too bad we'll likely never get stuff like this remastered, especially those swf's being so damn small. The animations still hold up after all these years.