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Is there any easy to use, safe flash game preservation project? I remember some project that seems to require you to download the entire 1 TB torrent and/or so
by tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
Is there any easy to use, safe flash game preservation project?
I remember some project that seems to require you to download the entire 1 TB torrent and/or some sort of custom launcher, but nothing that focuses on trying to translate games into JavaScript (or WASM, or something else that lets you go to a web site and start playing right away), or just provide ZIP files that you can drop into a VM with an old browser.
Edit: The project I know of is https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ and seems the most promising so far that I've seen. It's windows-only, the sandboxing seems sketchy (seems to explicitly make changes on the host then try to revert them), and the launcher is almost 2 GB, but I suspect it's the best we have right now.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoYou may be interested in Ruffle, which is a Flash emulator written in Rust that can be cross compiled to run in a browser on WASM. http://ruffle-rs.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/builds/web-demo/ http://ruffle-rs.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/builds/w...
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoThe problem with this is finding/getting the SWFs and compatibility, but newgrounds.com seems to be using this to make old games available, e.g. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/81219 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/81219 Unfortunately not all games are compatible yet. (Edit: actually, I could only get two games to run - the above-mentioned Fishy and Divine Intervention https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/136337; https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/136337; everything else fails)