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Its buggy as hell right now in browser and I need to figure out how to do it better but it can be done! The standalone player loads saved swfs perfectly.

Dont let anyone say its impossible. Flash can live and it can be better than ever. In the future we can have it on mobile devices and with better security. The only reason it died instead of improved is because big teck declared it so.

Tell flash sites about waflash, cheerpx, and ruffle.rs. With it they can live on and once the kinks are smoothed out be better than ever.

For those wanting to play their saved swf files find a standalone swf player aka flash player. There are even ones for mobile devices but getting a good one that plays games can be hard. Different players act differently. If one doesnt work try another.

There is also a browser called Puffin that mobile users might want to look into.

Its buggy as hell right now in browser and I need to figure out how to do it better but it can be done! The standalone player loads saved swfs perfectly. Dont let anyone say its impossible. Flash can live and it can be better than ever. In the future we can have it on mobile devices and with better security. The only reason it died instead of improved is because big teck declared it so. Tell flash sites about waflash, cheerpx, and ruffle.rs. With it they can live on and once the kinks are smoothed out be better than ever. For those wanting to play their saved swf files find a standalone swf player aka flash player. There are even ones for mobile devices but getting a good one that plays games can be hard. Different players act differently. If one doesnt work try another. There is also a browser called Puffin that mobile users might want to look into.

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BlueMaxima Flashpoint is a project to preserve web content created, not just in flash, but in many other obscure formats. It claims to be secure, using a local Apache webserver to deliver content to a Secureplayer. The minimal download expands to 2 Gigabytes, allowing you to download on demand, but the full archive is 532 Gigabytes. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

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Yeah I knew about it. Thanks though. Internet archive is also doing a thing.

Sadly thats just a drop in the bucket of what flash is. Go have fun on dagobah.net and swfchan.com.

So many flash sites out there but search engines hide them unless you are very specific. About the only way to find them these days is searching the title of a file. Might even need to put the something like the word game next to it. It would be great if someone made a search engine just for legacy media and older sites.

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OK. Why do you?

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For media that isnt, wont be, cant be found outside of flash. Also I dont care to let big teck make my choices for me. If you know of a flawless way to transform flash files into a different format let me know. Gotta preserve that history.

Aside from videos being converted into a much lower quality and without any of their extras preserved ive not seen any real options to take the media created for flash into the future.

Well aside from perhaps the substitute flash player for websites that are being worked on that is.

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So convert it. Why would leave that leaking bloody security vagina hole on your system?

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The things being worked on that I mentioned are taking care of that problem. They run flash in webassembly or html5. As for converting it look into what I just mentioned.

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Flash can live and it can be better than ever.

LOL! Why? Flash was a scourge on the internet. The next thing we need to do is get rid of Javascript.

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Whatever youre talking about with flash is something ive never seen outside of those who try to build their websites in it. Ive gone through thousands and thousands of swf files since I first learned of them and ive not seen a single thing worth flipping the table and abandoning it all.

But yeah fuck javascript.

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There is little use for it outside of really shitty web design paradigms and maybe a few shitty games.

If you make a shitty game, you might as well use a non-proprietary language, like C or Python.

If you want to use it for web design, well, it's the wrong direction, the same wrong direction JavaScript points to.

The way web design SHOULD work is that the backend (controller / model) provides a datastructure and nothing else. And the frontend (view) determines how that datastructure is displayed without regard to any other input from the host.

In this way the user is respected because the user is in control of the user experience. Flash is antithetical to this philosophy. It couples backend and frontend together.

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My concern isnt the preservation of Adobes Flash Player. Its concern for preserving the past creations. I could care less about the nuance provided the media is properly preserved and avaliable to the public. So far ive not seen a proper preservation method beyond keeping the flash files and giving them a more secure and modern way to be played.