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Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it

Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great! That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator. I'm glad these people are out there, getting these things working again. There's so many great animations and games that didn't deserve to disappear because Adobe decided it was a prudent business move to just drop all Flash support. Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there. EDIT: Just realized Proximity is 20 years old this year. Huh. Probably needs a 20 year anniversary edition. [1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024 https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024

ninjamuffin99 3y ago
That “someone” who made the fix for Proximity is Mike Welsh, who created Ruffle! He has done a lot of work for flash preservation and truly cares about Newgrounds and it’s community. Back in 2013 (when he was actually an employee of Newgrounds) he was the sole programmer on Swivel, probably the best swf-to-mp4 converting tools ever. Every animator I know that uses flash STILL use Swivel to get an MP4 export.
- charred_patina 3y ago
  Oh man I loved the podcast you did with Mike for Newgrounds. I had never stopped to think about the fact that Mike had to actually write an entire flash emulator to get Castle Crashers to run on the xbox. It's so clever and genius, shipping users an emulator like that. To anyone who isn't familiar, here's a link to the podcast: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/935322 https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/935322
  - ninjamuffin99 3y ago
    haha thanks! Yeah Mike is a real programming wiz and he’s super inspiring! I’ve gone to him for programming help many times but he always tries to get me to learn it on my own than handholding me… lol. He’s one of the nicest people I know :)
- cableshaft 3y ago
  That's really awesome. I don't follow these things often enough anymore, so the name didn't look familiar to me. But I'm glad he's put so much effort into Flash preservation.

ninjamuffin99 3y ago

That “someone” who made the fix for Proximity is Mike Welsh, who created Ruffle! He has done a lot of work for flash preservation and truly cares about Newgrounds and it’s community. Back in 2013 (when he was actually an employee of Newgrounds) he was the sole programmer on Swivel, probably the best swf-to-mp4 converting tools ever. Every animator I know that uses flash STILL use Swivel to get an MP4 export.

charred_patina 3y ago
Oh man I loved the podcast you did with Mike for Newgrounds. I had never stopped to think about the fact that Mike had to actually write an entire flash emulator to get Castle Crashers to run on the xbox. It's so clever and genius, shipping users an emulator like that. To anyone who isn't familiar, here's a link to the podcast: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/935322 https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/935322
- ninjamuffin99 3y ago
  haha thanks! Yeah Mike is a real programming wiz and he’s super inspiring! I’ve gone to him for programming help many times but he always tries to get me to learn it on my own than handholding me… lol. He’s one of the nicest people I know :)
cableshaft 3y ago
That's really awesome. I don't follow these things often enough anymore, so the name didn't look familiar to me. But I'm glad he's put so much effort into Flash preservation.