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→Implementations: WAFlash not necessarily recommended over Ruffle or AwayFL anymore
! colspan="6"|HTML5 / WebAssembly
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|[https://github.com/vidkidz/waflash WAFlash]Ruffle
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|[https://clubpenguinadvanced.github.iocom/waflashruffle-demo/ Web]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-|Ruffle|[https:/rs/ruffle.rs/demo Web demogit]
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|[https://awayfl.org/ AwayFL]
|[https://github.com/awayfl/awayfl-player git]<br />[https://exponenta.games/games/AFL/ Web demo]
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|[https://github.com/vidkidz/waflash WAFlash]
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|[https://swf2js.com/en/ swf2js]
|[https://github.com/swf2js/swf2js Download (Free Version only)]<br />Demo sites:<br />[https://swf2js0.com/free/index7.html Free Version]<br />[https://swf2js.com/prod/index.html Production Version8]
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===Comparisons===
====Hybrid====
;Ruffle<small> ([https://ruffle.rs/demo/ web demo])</small>
:A Rust-based player that targets both HTML5 and desktop. Notably used by a bunch of veteran Flash content sites including [https://www.newgrounds.com Newgrounds], [https://homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner] and [https://www.coolmathgames.com CoolMathGames], and also by the Internet Archive's [https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash Flash library]. By 2021, it had progressed to the point where it can run many early Flash games, including the original Flash version of [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/59593/format/flash?emulate=flash Alien Hominid]; support for newer AVM2-based files is now underway, although still far from complete. Unlike the other HTML5 options, Ruffle can actually be installed as a browser addon, with the caveat that a website's hosted copy will usually override the addon even if the site is running an older build.
:A proprietary software package designed to make the Harman version of Flash Player usable in modern browsers by running it inside CheerpX, a payware x86 emulator in WebAssembly. No-one on this wiki has had the chance to properly evaluate it, but we'd expect reference-level accuracy at the cost of woeful performance. That being said, CheerpX apparently has an alternate mode of operation that offloads most of the emulation and processing work to a server app, at which point the in-browser part is effectively just a streaming client.
;AwayFL<small> ([https://exponenta.games/games/AFL/ web demo])</small>
:Developed by the Away Foundation, this is arguably the most direct alternative to Ruffle, which it's roughly even with in terms of compatibility although there are still a bunch of SWFs that'll work fine in one but not the other.
;WAFlash<small> ([https://clubpenguinadvanced.github.io/waflash-demo/ web demo])</small>
:An inactive, closed-source C++-to-WebAssembly player that technically hasn't been made available to outside users, although there are a few sites where you can use it. It was considered the most accurate of the unofficial Flash players as of late 2021, although other still-active projects have caught up significantly.
;swf2js<small> (web demos: [https://swf2js.com/free/index.html free], [https://swf2js.com/prod/index.html production])</small>
:An open-core player that uses a dynamic recompiler. The source-available "Free" version supports limited features, such as AS1, AS2 and ZLIB compression, whereas the payware "Production" version is better suited to newer Flash files using such features as AS3 and LZMA compression. Built on more traditional JavaScript code, so it pretty much always performs worse than the WebAssembly-based options, sometimes noticeably so.
