Adobe and all major web browsers ended support for Flash Player at the end of 2020. Since hardly anything on the web uses Adobe Flash anymore, this wasn't a huge loss. But there's one major exception that many people are nostalgic for: Flash games.
Flash games were once wildly popular, as they let budding developers share their creations with others. Unfortunately, since Flash is no longer supported, these games have effectively disappeared from the internet.
Download Flash Game To Mac
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll download a Flash game called New Super Mario 63. Unfortunately, you'll need to repeat these steps for each game you want to download. It doesn't take too long, so you should have a little local Flash game collection built up before long.
To begin, navigate to the page containing the Flash game you want to download. Where the game once was, you'll see a puzzle piece icon with the Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported message mentioned above.
Next, you'll need to open the source code for the page hosting the game. Right-click anywhere on the page (aside from the game's box) and hit View page source. The keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl + U on Windows and Cmd + Option + U on macOS.
This should find at least one result, though it may have more depending on the page. The file you're looking for typically contains the name of the game, so you can ignore installer files like expressInstall.swf.
In the past, you could sometimes find this information on the game startup screen or main menu, but since you can't play the Flash game in your browser anymore, that won't work. Instead, try looking for a game credit on the page you're visiting.
If there's nothing there, a quick Google search for the game's title should bring up additional pages that host it. Take a look at those and you should eventually find one that has the actual Flash file.
In case all else fails, you can try using tools that let you download the entire content of a website. Once you have a local copy, search for the SWF file (likely using a similar Ctrl + F menu).
Now you can download the SWF file that contains the Flash game. Simply right-click the link ending in ".swf" that you found earlier and choose Save link as to download it to your computer.
If you plan to download several games, we recommend creating a new folder on your computer to keep them all together. You should consider backing up this directory so you don't lose the games if something ever happens.
At this point, you might be wondering how you'll actually play the Flash games since they're not in a browser. As it turns out, many media player apps can handle SWF files (which are Flash objects). This lets you play them offline, getting around the problem of Flash not working in web browsers anymore.
On Windows, Windows Media Player will open SWF files. However, in our testing, it had issues detecting keyboard inputs. Thus if you plan to play Flash games offline, we recommend downloading Adobe's local version of Flash Player. This is a tool intended for developers to open Flash files outside a browser, but it works for personal use, too.
Handily, you can resize the window to change the size of the game. Right-click on the game, or use the toolbar buttons at the top, to change the zoom level or game quality. If you have any issues, check out our tips to improve the performance of Flash games.
While this method works well for grabbing a local copy of a few Flash games, it will take a long time if you want to build up a large library. Thanks to the work of diligent developers, other tools allow you to enjoy tons of Flash games offline without downloading them yourself.
If you're into Flash games, we highly recommend checking out Flashpoint. It's a Flash preservation project that collects over 100,000 titles into one Flash game downloader, and is available in two versions.
Ultimate is over 1TB and contains all available Flash content in one package, so we don't recommend that. The much smaller Infinity version downloads games the first time you play them, then keeps them for offline play afterward.
Now you know how to download Flash games from the internet and play them without a browser. Flash games are an important part of history for both video games and the internet. In just a few minutes, you can preserve some of that lore and keep your favorite games around long past Flash's end of life.
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As a result, many popular browsers even disable Flash by default. Take Apple for example. Safari on macOS Sierra disables Flash by default and requires you to actively enable that option if you want to use it. Browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome run Flash in sandbox mode as a opposed to an extension. This ensures a higher level of safety and security for its users, while enjoying access to flash-enabled content.
As a precautionary measure, you will only find Standalone Flash Player Projectors on this site (and not any plugin versions); these files were originally sourced from official Macromedia/Adobe download repositories. As a general rule, only download Flash Players from a site you trust. Future updates from Adobe for Flash will be added to this page, if made available.
However, the other key reason why Adobe ended support for Flash may have been because of the abundance of fake Flash Player downloads that had become one of the most common ways for harmful code to arrive on Macs.
If you are on MacOS Sierra (10.12) or earlier, the Flashpoint installer cannot automatically install Wine. If you want to play a game that requires Wine, you will need to install it through MacPorts by following these instructions.
If you see the Flash Player EOL information screen (shown below) when you try to play a game, that means that Waterfox is loading your installed Flash Player plugin instead of the plugin that is bundled with Flashpoint. To fix the problem, uninstall Flash Player from your Mac and restart Flashpoint. Games should work in Waterfox now.
If you see a "Failed to install Flashpoint dependencies" error when trying to download Flashpoint, that likely means that something is wrong with your Homebrew installation. Run the following command in your terminal:
Thanks to the work of volunteer LindirQuenya (Ardil), we now have an equivalent to FlashpointProxy for Mac, aptly named FlashpointProxyMac. This allows us to use the native standalone projectors for most Flash games and eliminates nearly all of the Flash-related bugs that plagued previous Flashpoint Mac builds.
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