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

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Yes, Adobe makes Flash Projector:

• Windows: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3...

• Mac: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3...

• Linux: 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-Proj... All other links come from 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.

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.

I know SWFs can be decompiled -- can they be modified? Can the sitelock code be disabled or altered?

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.

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.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Flashpoint is an archival project

You might take a look at Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

As well as the underlying Flash Projector:

https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht...

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Wor...

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Extracting_Flash_G...

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