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Title: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 18, 2025, 05:15:19 pm
Hello

I was contacted to revisit some old flash games and I wanted to give it a try.
I think it will be worthy to document the working flash games with Odin and possible also include those in Hobbes in some way.  Maybe adding a install.cmd script to add an icon on the desktop, and include an PNG and ICO file for each. (I'm still brainstorming this)

I don't remember installing Flash on my ArcaOS VM and they work. Maybe the flash engine is embedded on the .exe.

Give a try this ones, run it like "pe eggs.exe" from the command line.
Do they work directly for you?

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Dave Yeo on June 18, 2025, 06:04:52 pm
I tried these, nothing happened, possibly due to never having the Flash plugin installed here.
Bitwise simply wrapped the Win32 Flash plugin in an Odin wrapper so it is possible you have a Flash.exe or such installed somewhere.
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 18, 2025, 07:37:34 pm
Hello

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't know why they run here. I think I will try a Vanilla ArcaOS 5.1.1 VM Image and see if it runs there. Because I don't remember that I installed the Flash plugin on this VM.

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Remy on June 18, 2025, 08:06:43 pm
I tried these, nothing happened, possibly due to never having the Flash plugin installed here.
Bitwise simply wrapped the Win32 Flash plugin in an Odin wrapper so it is possible you have a Flash.exe or such installed somewhere.

Do you run
PE flashgame.exe or just the exe ?
PE.exe must be used

I confirm, no need to have Flash 0.4.2 installed.
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 18, 2025, 10:17:28 pm
Hello

I just confirmed on my Vanilla VM that the flash games run with "pe eggs.exe" (or the other exe files).

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 18, 2025, 10:59:35 pm
Hi

The game called Cocotte.exe is called Eierjagd.

What do you think shipping it this way?

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Dave Yeo on June 19, 2025, 03:05:34 am
My Odin install was broken. Reinstalled and the games eun
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 19, 2025, 05:08:22 am
Here are the others.
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 20, 2025, 06:00:40 am
Here it is CrazyBall (A Pinball game) that you can play with the left and right keys.

I convert it from swf to exe and it seems to run with Odin. Give it try.

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 20, 2025, 06:26:42 am
And High School Musical 3 Pinball, and Free World Game Pinball.
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Ibrahim Hakeem on June 20, 2025, 10:22:44 am
Here it is CrazyBall (A Pinball game) that you can play with the left and right keys.

I convert it from swf to exe and it seems to run with Odin. Give it try.

Regards

Hi Martin,

Can I ask how you're doing the conversion from SWF to exe? I'm sure a batch script could be made easily enough.

Just editing my own reply: I've had luck with creating a projector through Flash 5's standalone player. Regrettably, it doesn't seem to be working on most of my flash library from the early to mid 2000s. Is there another possible method which may work with more SWFs? More specifically: any later versions of flash compatible with Odin?
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on June 20, 2025, 12:19:28 pm
Hello

I had been using this SWF converter online:
- https://pdfrecover.herokuapp.com/swftoexe/
I selected Flash 9 r277

Regards
Title: Re: Revisiting some Flash Games
Post by: Martin Iturbide on August 21, 2025, 05:26:54 pm
Hello

I found this two simple games on my archives.

I will upload those to Hobbes in a few days.

Regards