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Is there a standalone player for old flash content? If people wanted to still view old things created in it.

• lemcoe9 6y ago
  You might take a look at Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
  • pzmarzly 6y ago
    As well as the underlying Flash Projector: https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht... https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Works https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Wor... https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Extracting_Flash_Games https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Extracting_Flash_G...
• RinTohsaka 6y ago
  https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ Flashpoint is an archival project
• Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  Yes, Adobe makes Flash Projector: • Windows: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/32/flashplayer_32_sa.exe https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3... • Mac: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/32/flashplayer_32_sa.dmg https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3... • Linux: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/32/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3... You can just open the swf file you want and run it directly. It's great. Linux users might alternately want to use the community-packaged Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.adobe.Flash-Player-Projector https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.adobe.Flash-Player-Proj... All other links come from https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht... Kind of stupid that these will also presumably be removed from Adobe's official download page, since this is exactly how Flash content ought to be run going forwards: as individual legacy files you've downloaded and inspected. I would advise downloading and backing up a copy now.
  • josephcsible 6y ago
    This won't work in practice for most Flash games. They're almost all "site-locked", so they refuse to execute anywhere except in a browser on the domain where they came from.
    • andai 6y ago
      I know SWFs can be decompiled -- can they be modified? Can the sitelock code be disabled or altered?
      • josephcsible 6y ago
        Yes, but I don't think it's something that would easily be automated, so every game would have to have its protection reverse engineered by hand.
    • Wowfunhappy 6y ago
      Well, most of the ones I've tried have worked. There was one swf that had to be put in a folder with the name of the domain it came from.