#SWF File Player

[a-tools]

SWF Player is a free online player for SWF (Shockwave Flash) files, it can quickly open SWF files and read metadata tags from the file header, can automatically resize the window to fit SWF content and show it.

[dullahandyke]

Guyssss I have files now. I can see my files now!!!!! I CAN PLAY JACKSMITH AGAIN

[burntstrawberry]

there's way more natsumi step lore out there what........gonna see if anything has been translated cuz I swear I wanted to dig deeper forever

[papierboa]

gifs and other things from the old sky high game hosted on the nat geo kids website! i retrieved a swf file from the wayback machine (link to that) and used jpexs flash decompiler to view all the internal bin files and stuff. im sure someone more familiar with flash would be able to do more with this than i could but heres some things i got out of it

you can actually play the game from the file using adobe flash player which is super cool, to my knowledge youll need to find some kind of old download to it for it to work though. if you just want to play it in your browser theres an archive of it on the wayback machine

[randomsporefacts]

(thanks to A-xesey for linking portfolios i hadnt seen before in the spore discord!)

some of the achievement art from John Cimino's site

theyre flat-colored, and higher resolution than in the game itself (but instead are jpeg compressed)

of particular note is this pollinator achievement, which was not tied to any stage in specific judging by the colors

its files arent found in the game anymore, but its description is still present in Text.package/locale~/achievements.locale

# alg-pollinator - achievementdescription 0x06529c6e One of your creations has appeared in 20 other players' universes #alg-pollinator - achievementtitle 0x06529c46 Pollinator

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side note John Cimino also made these spore animations. the second one is known from a swf from the old spore site, but the audio here is actually much higher quality than in the swf

and is responsible for all of this creature 2d art found all over spores prototypes (some of these here are recognizeable from the space prototype more or less!)

i never realised it at the time but of COURSE the achievement images were made by the same person who made these 2d creatures!

also according to A Brief History of Spore by Chaim Gingold, John Cimino's art influenced what the creatures would look like in the final game

The decision to incorporate the character design aesthetic of an animator marked a turning point in the visual sensibility of the project. The genetic building blocks of Spore’s life forms, the creature parts, adopted the appeal and personality of John Cimino’s creature designs. And, imagining how Pixar might visually treat a film about bacteria, we put eyes on our single celled organisms. Our planets transformed into expansive landscapes, but retained a toy like sensibility. We made the galaxy more colorful. The entire team became vigilant, seeking opportunities to inject charm and wit into the project, producing the dry goofball humor that characterizes Maxis games.

this article really good read in general, a lot of really interesting insights about spore's development. and check out John Cimino's concept art too!

[timkasherssecrettmblraccount]

i have uploaded the media from the saddle creek 50 enhanced cd, linked here.

in the "converted movies" folder is where you can watch all the videos in mp4 format, as the originals were in swf (i embedded the titles into the properties, but i'm not sure if that shows on google drive). in the "saddlecreek50" folder are the raw files straight from the disc, including the super cute flash player! don't mind me. fighting lost media like a boss.

@ug1y0rgan

[arcanetrivia]

I'm Guybrush Threepwood by kra on DeviantArt

Lip sync project using the first 35 seconds of audio from a file of unused dialogue (link is an MP3) Dominic Armato did for The International House of Mojo's 2002 April Fool's Day prank.

The file you can download on DeviantArt is Shockwave Flash. How do you play that since Adobe end-of-lifed Flash in 2020, you ask? You can get Adobe's old standalone Flash Player Projector on archive.org, or upload a .swf file to the Ruffle Player demo page. Ruffle is a Flash player emulator that also offers a web browser add-on, so if you encounter Flash elements on old websites (such as on the Wayback Machine) you can still interact with them. I used Newgrounds' Swivel to convert the .swf file to .mp4 to be able to post here.

[dandelionsprout42]

Found a deemed-lost Disney Fairies official Flash game

I learned less than 24 hours ago that a full version of Hopeful's Quest had been saved, recovered, and made available 3-4 years ago. So I gave myself a challenge: Could I recover the 2nd of the two significant Ring of Belief-era Discover Pixie Hollow, which had been considered lost to this day?

Answer: For the most part yes.

I figured out how to get both Ruffle and the Adobe Flash Player "Projector Content Debugger" version to play the game from the only currently known online raw hosting of it, which is the somewhat awkwardly looking link to it at VseigruNET, by pasting the URL into either of the Flash player tools.

As the game has 3 SWF files that depend on each other in order to run correctly, downloading the SWF game locally, let alone compile it for re-hosting on e.g. Flash Museum, is easier said than done, or as is said in Norway (and which I've added to Wiktionary under some doubt from their moderators), it isn't only only.

[aq2003]

we're so back (i found out the library at my university lets me also borrow a dvd player) it's so over (the featurettes on the hamlet (2009) dvd don't include the documentaries i just barely couldn't snag before getting booted out of the site bc i wasn't a british student) we're so back (because i borrowed the dvd anyway and i have the day basically free i can rewatch this movie for the 5th time) it's so over (i can't adjust the tv settings so the movie is weirdly stretched out the whole time) we're so back (i still enjoyed watching it anyway because i love the movie. also in other news i discovered that the "making of" page on the bbc site isn't entirely gone and the clips that i most wanted to see again from the documentaries might still exist, and also there's more content that wasn't even included in them) it's so over (you need FUCKING flash player to play the videos) we're so back (discovered that you can use ruffle to play videos that needed flash player from before it got shut down. the internet archive also uses this) it's so over (internet archive, ruffle as a browser extension, and inspecting the page for the .swf file do not work, even though you can still see the video thumbnails with the 2nd method so surely the bbc has not deleted this content off their servers) we're so back (i gave up on this venture but then found a 20 page essay on gregory doran's use of metatheater so that's what i'm going to consume my time doing rn)

[eblu3]

they should make ruffle but for shockwave player. enough talk about SWF files I want some DCR action. I will not sleep until I can play On The Run in a modern web browser

[loveletterworm]

Link to the movie section? Can't seem to get anywhere but the blog

I missed this ask before but assuming this is about the mysteriously-still-live sonic 06 flash website it's a flash microsite (the whole page is one .swf file) so it's not physically possible to link to a specific page on it you just kind of have to have Ruffle (so that it runs in the first place) and click the movie section (and back out to a different page and back in if it doesn't load anything, for some reason)

Also a correction since I made that post, technically not all the videos still work, the last 2 open popups for some reason and these specifically seem to be the literally only part of the website that isn't still live. Which is strange, considering everything.

I've also discovered that it's not just 06's website that's still up, it seems like sega of japan just kind of doesn't take down their promotional sites for 15+ year old games. I was able to find the Sonic World Adventure (Unleashed) site but it's for some reason not convinced that Ruffle counts as Flash Player...

I also found the url to the site for sonic colors but it just shows a little loading bar and then goes blank for some reason. (Maybe since this was a later game some actionscript in it might not be supported by ruffle yet?? it seems weird for the sonic colors website to be doing something difficult though...)

All of these are on Flashpoint already so there's still a way to see the ones that don't work but it's kind of just way funnier to see them in their intended environment...I can't wait to buy Sonic 06 for the Xbox 360 !!!!!! In Japanese also

[spinstadium]

Hey there. https://mcoap.toonarific.com/album_main.html so I found this website with archived ctoons and stuff but I'm not sure if they work.

They are labeled as swf files. But what program do you use to get them working?

Adobe Flash Player! Ruffle works since Flash is no longer supported. From the ones I've viewed, they do work. Most are static on purpose, but not all the ones that were supposed to have multiple frames/move were archived as such. Some have sound.

If you want to extract frames, sounds, or anything like that, use a Flash decompiler program.

[dullahandyke]

I heart flipline studios the games are so fun. When they invent a jacksmith port for the 3ds I will die happy

[libunliberated]

you can play puzzlestuck on a steam deck btw. i got the standalone swf file and an swf player off the flatpak store. it's a little stretched and using the touchscreen as a mouse is more finnicky than a mobile game would be. but it's totally playable. also, behold: the shittiest team that ever was.

[nampisutti]

Hello, recently I´ve been doing an investigation on Pucca lore and lostmedia and found your channel SnowPecola097, it was the exploration of the old puccaclub website of vooz on 2005-2008, while I appreciate so much that you recorded a lot of the things there and even saved the old layout on the web archive sadly you forgot to record Garu´s house and the turtle martial hall on the page, do you by any chance have screenshots or anything of them? was there a reason you couldn´t save the new page?

Hello there.

From what I remember, there were the URL pages for Garu's House and Turtle Martial Hall saved on the Wayback Machine, it's that the image files of them are missing and that's why I didn't record that part because of the missing files.

I recorded through the older layouts of the Pucca Club website (on the Wayback Machine site) because the website used to have Flash SWF files there and the video I recorded was before Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player at the time. And also because I remember the 2005-2008 layout part when I was a kid.

Nowadays you can view the Flash .SWF files again by using the Ruffle extension.

Sadly I didn't have any screenshots of Garu's House and Turtle Martial Hall since the URL pages of both of them are web archived there.

Here are URL pages to proof:

The main village map: http://web.archive.org/web/20070717002454/http://puccaclub.com/eng/html/puccais/sooga_01.html

Garu's House page: http://web.archive.org/web/20070717015650/http://puccaclub.com/eng/html/puccais/sooga_03.html

Turtle Martial Hall: http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005239/http://puccaclub.com/eng/html/puccais/sooga_06.html

[smieska]

Because flash players got phased out, a lot of .SWF files I saved from the 2000s no longer work properly, or some old files are just corrupted, it FUCKING SUCKS. None of this permanent and the only way to preserve any of it is to have physical media, and even then it's not 100% guarantee

smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud