Hi guys !
I tried my best to rebuild the old Windows Live Messenger on browser. For now, there’s a lot of bugs, missing features and no reel chat (You can only chat with IA).
(You can log in with Discord or just enter a random email and password)
I’m posting this topic because I would like to know if someone knows where I can get the original winks 
It would be perfect if I could implement it.
A feedback would be very welcome 
I’ve just tried it and wow, it is awesome man!
Keep going, I appreciate you! 
Thank you so much 
I’ll do my best 
Agreed, this is really well done and very clever . This is far superior to Microsoft’s original version of web messenger (which was in Hotmail/Outlook.com). The nudge effect is quite excellent too.
The winks are easy to get from the ObjectStore directory after extracting from the .dt2 files, but I archived them to save you a minute.
winks.rar (513.3 KB)
A while ago, I did an experiment using Ruffle to play winks on a web page, if I remember correctly, it worked well.
(The UFO wink is my personal favourite.)
If you know your PE resources, they’re also stored in msgslang.dll (in the WINK resource tree, with PKCS#7 signatures in the WINKSTAMP resource tree, I believe ending in a certificate with the SHA1 hash of the cabinet? Probably should look into this.) I believe OC14 WLM2009 instead uses a file called winks.mct, which is a standard Cabinet archive.
Wow thank you ! I found them too yesterday while searching in the WLM 2009 Escargot version folder. After opening winks.mct I got the swf files but unfortunately I can’t use them on a web app since flash animation are no longer supported, unless you install chrome extension… So this could be a solution but it would be better if I could have them as a video (like .mp4).
I tried to convert it with online file converters but nothing works and I don’t know why… I always got no image and like 1 sec of the sound… 
I was tasked with converting them to a video before. IIRC, you can open the swf in Flash and export it to a video from there. I might be missing some steps though, but regardless, it’s not that great of a solution.
Luckily you can use Ruffle (I assume the extension you were referring to) on a web page, without needing to install it.
I made a quick codepen to demo:
Nice, thank you
I’ll try to add it as soon as I got more time. I’ll keep you informed of any updates 
I was able to do it quickly during the day, it is deployed so everyone can test it.
Thanks for telling me about ruffle, I didn’t know about it !
