Playing Flash files after December 2020?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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I have around 1850 Flash animations / games that I want to keep. They date from the early 2000s to the mid 2010s. I play them in Firefox or Media Player Classic via the Adobe plug-in. I'm now getting prompts from Adobe asking me to uninstall it, and that it will forcedly uninstall itself at the end of December.

I just wondered what my options are? I know it's been insecure after Adobe took over Macromedia, but I could always stream them from my older laptop. A few animations will be on YouTube e.g. Weebls Stuff, Something Awful, Rathergood.com etc, although I don't entertain the idea of looking up 1850 files on YouTube! Some won't be on there anyway because they're games / interactive.

I'm also slowly working my way through around 500 Flash files that contain music and I'm trying to Shazam (identify) what the pieces of music are, and I won't have enough time to go through all 500 in the next 6 weeks.
 
Put it on a hard drive, together with the swf files NOT connected to the internet - for personal use! Adobe cannot find them then.
 
Thanks guys!

I've also trawled through some Reddit posts, and one of the posts had a link to Adobe's download page, where you can download Flash as a portable app. It's just a single EXE file and then you drag and drop the SWF into it.

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

Then the file you want is called Flash Player Projector. Hyperlinks will be in different colours for different people, but here it's the one highlighted in purple.

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Good catch there about the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine :-)

I did also wonder about some sort of Flash emulator where you could run SWFs in a sandboxed mode.

What about FLV files? They're videos that use Flash as a container. My standalone EXE from my previous post can't open FLV files, but Avidemux (video editor) can open them fine.
 
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