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vanronical33711948
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December 20, 2019
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How Do I Use Flash For Wayback Machince Plz

  • December 20, 2019
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hello there i hope poeple are freindly here on this site and i have a big huge question for you guys

as you all know flash is shutting down and i was really really hoping if someone out there knows how to use it for the wayback machine besucse i would love to use it to go back on my childhood games on wayback machine likes of the CBBC channle ones and cuppole of other games aswell i hope this sites better than boring reddit hope everyone is well but

could someone plz tell me this method as much help is requesred here big thanks

(p.s soz for spelling mistakes i type too fast)

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    Correct answer jeromiec83223024

    Two things: 

    1. This is a great question for archive.org
    2. The folks at archive.org and the Ruffle.js team are working to preserve a lot of Flash-related content.  I'm sure they can give you more information on their roadmap.

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    Mark Fancher
    New Participant
    November 23, 2020

    I was just trying to get this working myself. It's a shame because the Flash era of the 2000s was really quirky and amazing. Histroic even. I remember so many fun sites. It's sad it seems that they are gone forever.

    jaita
    jaita
    New Participant
    March 26, 2021

    Bumping this up. Can we please get some flash support for old sites? 

     

    Thanks, 

    T
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    Brainiac
    March 26, 2021

    There is no support for Flash Player. Not sure what or who you are trying to bump.

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      bodhisiedler
      New Participant
      August 9, 2020

      Hello! I know that I'm 232 days late but I couldn't bear to see a question go unanswered. Maybe you already know the answer to your question now, but I wanted to answer it here anyway.

      Long story short, I don't think you can. The reason being that the Wayback Machine's crawlers never actually copied the code for the Flash objects in the page, I think they probably just copied the actual message saying something along the lines of "please enable Flash" and just archived that. The Wayback Machine has archived Newgrounds.com 12,267 times since late 1998 (December 12 to be exact). But ​try and use any Flash elements on these snapshots, and the site breaks. Flash just isn't supported because these snapshots, these archived fossils don't exist anymore. It's like trying to interact with a ball vs a picture of a ball.

      I'm pretty sure that this is why Flash doesn't work. I only learned this because I too wanted to know how to use Flash on the wayback machine and stumbled accross your post. I really hope this helps you along with anyone else looking for help.

      jk21005719
      jk21005719
      New Participant
      August 27, 2020

      Yeah, hi! Nice to have a more recent thread. I was trying to get the awesome simpsons movie avatar generator working via waybackmachine at http://web.archive.org/web/20110409112029/http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html but i couldnt figure it out. Strangely enough, I tried Puffin browser on Android and I actually got some flash going for the language selection. But as I click "enter site" it just goes white.

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      December 31, 2019

      Can someone answere plz 

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