Newgrounds Works to Preserve Old Flash Games

By Kasaix • 5 years ago

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Adobe plans to drop support for Flash by the end of 2020, and an era will come to an end. A lot of our earliest faps/schlicks were to Flash games. You see that header above? Classic hentai game. Newgrounds, an empire built on Flash, is taking steps to ensure that Flash-native projects will still be playable, allowing us to cling to that bygone era.

In a blog post titled Flash Emulation & Brave BAT by TomFulp, the creator of Newgrounds, a plan is outlined to use Ruffle to convert Flash with Ruffle's own code.

"Ruffle is being written in the Rust programming language and targets desktop and the web using Web Assembly. The project is open source and contributors are now coming aboard, which is exciting! There is even work being done to create a browser extension that detects old Flash embed code and swaps it with Ruffle, meaning you could visit any old website and the Flash will (eventually) just WORK."

You can read the whole post HERE, and it's well worth a read. A lot of effort is going into preserving the old projects that built Newgrounds and started the online content creator scene that we enjoy today.

Anon - Jackson 5 years ago

It's nearly impossible to play on smartphones and most operating systems now. Every nerd is ecstatic about killing Flash, and how this is the best result, meanwhile I'm sitting here wondering about the literal thousands of creations that will be lost forever and nobody cares. Sad.
I'm glad somebody is working on it.

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GameJunkie999 5 years ago

I actually played that game there was like 5 of them. They had that and Franks Adventures on 2 Flash Games, way back in the day cant remember the name of it though,

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---------------- 5 years ago

I know how all the holes in Flash make it a security risk, and I know how it was never meant to be what it became over the years (albeit only because Java sucked ass back in the day), but I can't be thankful that they're tearing it all down. I always hated how they just kept patching it and disincentivised (or just blocked) its use, and now they're just killing it instead of fixing it properly.

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AnimePimpster 5 years ago (edited 5 years ago)

I loved playing all of the McSlut's games! I loved the random trivia, item hunting, early parody porn of both new and old artists and just the randomness of it all. Slutty was the best partner to leave you to get fucked up and have sex with you at the end. The only thing I never figured out was, what character was she based on?

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