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by song 1566 days ago
I tried downloading Flash Player standalone and run it but all I get is a grey screen. There's a lot of great flash games out there, not sure if there's a good solution (opensource or otherwise) to run them
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I recently had a reason to play a couple of old flash games. One of them I found a player that would run it. The other, I could not find any player that would run it. I can understand Adobe discontinuing Flash - that's normal. I really hate that Flash has been, like, forensically erased from history though. I'm surprised there's not more open-source effort than there is to preserve it.
There is https://ruffle.rs/ , which I think has pretty good compatibility these days.
I had the same issue, turns out you have to clone the whole repo first, swf won't work by itself.