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|[https://github.com/darktohka/clean-flash-builds 34.0.0.289 ] (Windows, Mac)<br />[https://github.com/darktohka/clean-flash-builds/releases/tag/v1.7 34.0.0.137 ] (Linux)

|[https://ruffle.rs/#downloads Nightly builds]

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;[[Ruffle]]<smallclass="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;"> ([https://ruffle.rs/demo/ web demo])</small><small class="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;"> ([https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/310 avm1 compatibility]) ([https://ruffle.rs/avm2.html avm2 compatibility])</small>:A Rust-based player that targets both HTML5 and desktop. Notably Ruffle has been able to run many early Flash games since 2021, and the main development focus is now on support for newer AVM2-based files, although that's still far from complete as of 2024. Unlike the other HTML5 options, Ruffle can be installed as a WebExtension in browsers that support it, with the caveat that a website's hosted copy will sometimes override the extension even if the site is running an older build.:Ruffle has become hugely popular as an alternative SWF player, being 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 early 2021, it had already reached It's also the point where it could run many early Flash games, including most actively developed and arguably the original Flash version most accurate of [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/59593/format/flash?emulate=flash Alien Hominid]; support for newer AVM2the open-based files is now underway, although still far from complete as of December 2022. Unlike the other HTML5 options, Ruffle can be installed as a WebExtension in browsers source players that support itare available today, so this is likely your next best option if you don't want to bother with the caveat Flash Player or anything that a website's hosted copy will sometimes override the extension even if the site is running an older buildbeen forked from it.

[[wikipedia:NPAPI|NPAPI]]—in case you don't remember—is an obsolete browser plugin system designed to allow for interactive web-page elements beyond what early versions of HTML could do on their own. While there were a bunch of different in-browser software platforms co-existing in the earlier days of the internet, NPAPI effectively existed only for the sake of SWF players once the format became properly dominant and pushed everything else out of the in-browser ecosystem. With the shrinking relevance of SWF in the late 2010s, the plugin system that the players relied on was increasingly seen as an ancient relic that modern browsers would be better off without. So, while Adobe was phasing out Flash Player in late 2020, and so NPAPI was also gradually started being dropped phased out by all the major browser vendorsin late 2020 (around the same time that Adobe was preparing to drop Flash Player itself). NaturallyNPAPI hasn't entirely gone away though, as some indie browser devs still maintain NPAPI it in their own forks of stuff like Firefox and Chromium, so it hasn't entirely gone awayand such.

:The proprietary reference player, which Adobe stopped directly supporting at the end of 2020 and has since fully delisted from their website. The plugin version has a built-in kill-switch that was flipped in January 2021, so it's probably not much use even in browsers that still support NPAPI, but the desktop player version is still usable if you download it from an archived version of the Adobe website.:Despite It's also worth noting that the hard discontinuation and a lack of support for user-friendly features such as URL spoofing, Flash Player still remains by far the most capable desktop player for Flash games as of mid-2023. If a Flash game is listed in [[Flashpoint]], it almost certainly uses Flash Player to run the SWF.hasn't been completely discontinued:While Adobe has dropped Flash Player, Harman International has continues to maintain [https://airsdk.harman.com/flashplayer an extended support version specifically ] intended for enterprise users]. There; and there's also a consumer-level Chinese version which is actively developed by a company called Zhongcheng, but although you shouldn't get it directly from them their official site (Flash [dot] cn) because it'll be full of bundled malware.:Despite the hard discontinuation and a lack of support for user-friendly features such as URL spoofing, Adobe's Flash Player still remains the most widely-compatible desktop player for Flash games as of 2023, which is why the [[Flashpoint]] preservation project still relies on Flash Player to run its SWF games.

:A C++ player specifically designed to provide drop-in FLOSS replacements for both the desktop and NPAPI versions of Flash Player. It claims to have 83% of the overall SWF spec covered as of August 2022, but development has been fairly slow ever since 2015, when it became a mostly one-person effortcirca 2015. Lightspark historically focused on more recent versions of the SWF spec that weren't supported by Gnash, hence why Lightspark could (and still can) use Gnash as an automatic fallback if both are installed simultaneously.

;AwayFL<smallclass="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;"> ([https://exponenta.games/games/AFL/ web demo])</small>

;WAFlash<smallclass="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;"> ([https://clubpenguinadvanced.github.io/waflash-demo/ web demo])</small>

;swf2js<smallclass="plainlinks" style="font-weight:normal;"> (web demos: [https://swf2js.com/free/index.html free], [https://swf2js.com/prod/index.html production])</small>

* [[Flashpoint]https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?tab=collection Archive.org-Software Library: Flash] - preservation effort Internet Archive's Flash Games Software Library is abundant with options for any level of computer gaming. With an in-site emulator ready to run thousands of games designed in commercial web frameworks (not just Flash)the Software Library, the Internet Archive can turn your computer into a mini arcade at the click of a button.