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'''Flash''' (previously FutureSplash Animator, before that SmartSketch) is a software platform created by FutureWave Software, and currently owned by Adobe (previously Macromedia). Originally a drawing program for PenPoint OS, later ported to Windows and Macintosh when pen computing failed to take off, frame-by-frame animation features were added to it in a new program called FutureSplash Animator. The company was acquired by Macromedia in December 1996, rebranding FutureSplash Animator to Flash, an amalgamation of <font size="Future" and "Splash3"><b>Nintendo Consoles</b></font> [[File:n64 logo. In turn, Macromedia was acquired by Adobe on December 3, 2005. Their operations, networks, and customer care organizations were merged shortly after.png|21px]]* [[First_and_Second_Generations_of_video_game_consoles|Color TV-Game]]* [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|NES / Famicom]]** [[Nintendo_Entertainment_System_emulators#Family_Computer_Disk_System|Family Computer Disk System]] * [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo / Super Famicom]]** [[Super_Nintendo_emulators#Satellaview_emulation|Satellaview]]** [[Super_Nintendo_emulators#Super_Game_Boy|Super Game Boy]]* [[Nintendo 64 emulators|Nintendo 64]]** [[Nintendo_64_emulators#64DD_emulation|Nintendo 64DD]]* [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]]* [[Wii emulators|Wii]]* [[Wii U emulators|Wii U]]* [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]]
Used by an overwhelming majority of websites in the early 2000s to the mid<font size="3"><b>Nintendo Handhelds</b></font> [[File:Gameboy Advance.png|30px]] * [[Game & Watch]]* [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]]* [[Virtual Boy emulators|Virtual Boy]]* [[Pokémon mini emulators|Pokémon mini]]* [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]]** [[GBA e-2010s, Flash has been the goReader emulators|e-to platform for multimedia and animation, being utilised for streaming video providers such as YouTube, children's websites due to its rich content, and has spawned a subculture of animators as exemplified by the likes of Newgrounds. A number of popular animated series were also animated using Flash, most notably ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', ''Phineas and Ferb'' and ''Happy Tree Friends'' to name a few.Reader]]* [[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS]]** [[Nintendo_DSi_emulators|DSi]]* [[Nintendo 3DS emulators|Nintendo 3DS]]
Flash's popularity declined in the late 2010s due to the rise of alternative (and open) web standards such as HTML5 and mobile device manufacturers dropping support for the platform, a prominent example being Apple who publicly stated that iOS will ''never'' support Flash<font size="3"><b>Nintendo Arcade</b></font>* [[Nintendo_Entertainment_System_emulators#VS. Google followed suit when it dropped support for the platform in subsequent Android releases, and it didn't help that a series of security issues, coupled with Flash itself being a closed standard, has led Adobe to wind down on Flash and retire it in 2020System|Nintendo VS.System]]* PlayChoice-10* Super Famicom Box * Nintendo Super System * Ultra 64 * [[Nintendo 64 emulators#Aleck 64 arcade emulation|Aleck 64]]* [[GameCube emulators#Triforce|Triforce]]
==Implementations=={| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"! scope="col"|Name! scope="col"|Platform(s)! scope="col"|Latest version! scope="col"|Accuracy! scope="col"|<abbr titlefont size="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software3">FLOSS</abbrb>! scope="col"|Active! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]|-|Adobe Flash Player|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}Nintendo Emulation Boxes<ref group=N name=plugin /b>|[https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html 32.0.0.465]|Reference ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://ruffle.rs/ Ruffle]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}|[https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/releases Nightly builds]|Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://lightspark.github.io/ Lightspark]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Web}}<ref group=N name=plugin>Web version only available as an [[wikipedia:NPAPI|NPAPI/PPAPI]] plugin.</reffont>|* [https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/releases 0.8.3]|Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|-|[https://swf2js.com/en/ swf2js]|align=leftEmulation Boxes|{{Icon|Web}}|[https:NES Classic Edition //github.com/swf2js/swf2js JavaScript file downloadFamicom Classic Mini]|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}|-|[https://gnu.org/software/gnash GNU Gnash]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|* [https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/download.html 0.8.10]|Low ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|[https://open-flash.github.io/ Open Flash / Doμ Player]Emulation Boxes|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}|[https:SNES Classic Edition //github.com/open-flash/domu-player GitSuper Famicom Mini]|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}|-|Shumway|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}|[https://github.com/mozilla/shumway Git]|Low ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|}<references group=N />
;Ruffle:A Rust implementation that easily compiles to several platforms, but mainly targets HTML5. The devs are planning to focus on ActionScript 1 and 2 support first, with AS3 support coming later. Development of Ruffle is sponsored by multiple veteran Flash game archives, most notably Newgrounds. It's 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], as well as playing the vast majority of [https://old.homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner] toons. ;Lightspark & Gnash:Two C++ implementations that somewhat complement each other, and are both designed specifically to provide a FLOSS alternative to Adobe's official players. Lightspark says it has 78% of the APIs covered, while Gnash has focused on older versions of Flash that Lightspark is less likely to support properly, hence why Lightspark can use Gnash as an automatic fallback if both are installed simultaneously. Lightspark's external dependencies would make it cumbersome to port it to HTML5, so it's only available in browsers as a replacement for the official Flash browser plugin. ;swf2js:An open-core HTML5 implementation that uses a dynamic recompiler. The open-source "Free Version" supports limited features, such as AS1, AS2 and ZLIB compression, whereas the payware "Production Version" supports further features, such as AS3 and LZMA compression. ;Shumway:An HTML5 implementation. Developed rather actively for a few years, under Mozilla sponsorship, but ultimately abandoned in 2016. ==See also==* [[Flashpoint]] - preservation effort for games designed in commercial web frameworks (not just Flash). [[Category:Not really emulatorsCompanies]]
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<font size===Comparisons===;Adobe Flash Player"3"><b>Misc</b></font> :The official closed-source implementation by Adobe, who discontinued it in 2020. The web version relies on an obsolete plugin API that the major browsers no longer use; many browsers were only keeping the API around specifically for Flash's sake in the years leading up to its discontinuation.* [[Amiibo]]
