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Flash End-of-Life Alternatives (Important)

Hey everyone! I knew I made a list of alternatives but I figured I should delete the old one and make a new one since I don’t feel like I’ve emphasized the security issues with Flash plug-ins strongly enough.

The Adobe Flash Player plugin has serious security flaws and it’s highly recommended not to have Flash Player on browsers anymore. If you really want to do it, please do it with extreme caution.

Here are the safer alternatives to using Flash. I cannot validate the safety of them completely (I am not knowledgeable on information security), but they are definitely much safer than the former.

Ruffle web extension. Ruffle is an Flash emulator that was developed with solving Flash Player’s security issues in mind. It is still in development and doesn’t support newer Flash games entirely yet, but it is a good replacement to the Flash Player plugin. Ruffle is really good to run Flash games on the browser!

BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint. Flashpoint (or more specifically, Flashpoint Infinity) is a program that downloads online games from their server and allows you to play the games using the program. What’s nice about Flashpoint is that it allows you to run games that are sitelocked or require internet access by using a “fake server” within the program, such that the games don’t actually connect to the internet.

If you wish to run downloaded Flash games locally, there are two alternatives:

The best way to do it is to download the Ruffle Nightly Build. They are the equivalent of the local Adobe Flash Player, but Ruffle is honestly a lot better. The only drawback to it is doesn’t fully support newer Flash games.

The second best solution is to use a local Adobe Flash Player. I have come to realize that the local Adobe Flash Player (and executable files) still allows online connections and requests, which means that this may be the least safe option among the safer alternatives, although it is still somewhat safe. But you might want to run them with caution.

In the meantime, I’ll keep uploading games to my archive.org account. I won’t upload more on my MEGA drive but keep it open; I am a little worried about the safety of local Flash Players since there’s not much info on it online. Let me know if you guys know their safety level so I can update this!

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[LOST MEDIA FOUND] The first version of the Barbie Princess Dress-Up game has been completely found! Today I discovered the Swan Lake and Nutcracker parts were saved on the French version of the site (fr.barbie.com)

Google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qxEELXk8lyMjDW-zeNx4Izqxf_zwzNyc?usp=sharing

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20081031221733/http://fr.barbie.com:80/activities/fantasy/princess/princess_dressup/

Oh my gosh, thanks so much! You're doing god's work!

I'm going to upload this version on Internet Archive if you don't mind :).

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I know this is a shot in the dark because I can't tell if you're active or not anymore. But I thought I'd ask. Have you by chance backed up or have the means to find the 'Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale's desktop buddies? More specifically Sequin the dog. Someone else made a reddit post forever ago and we both tried with no luck to find it. They're visible on the waybackmachine, but cannot be downloaded. If not, that's okay. But I thought it was worth asking.

Hello! Unfortunately, a lot of Barbie downloadables are not available online anymore, including the desktop buddies, sorry about that!

The best bet to find them is if someone has downloaded it locally and kept it until now I believe.

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Hey I just found your blog right now and I thought maybe I could help! For a while now I've been making a HUGE Everythinggirl.com archive dump, collecting as many assets as I can from what's left in the Wayback Machine. It's not complete yet but I'm slowly adding more content as I go!

The archive contains content from Barbie, MyScene, Pixel Chix, Polly Pocket, and more, of different images/ads, videos, flash files, and html/css/javascript files, categorized from different years into their original folder/file structures. It also contains a bunch of flash/swf variants for different games and home pages, I even included some international ones as well. Hope this helps! :)

www.reddit.com/r/Barbie/comments/1p4cful/everythinggirlcom_archive_dump/

This is amazing, thanks for letting us know and working on this!! 💖

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This might not be the right way to go about it lol but as someone who cannot figure out how to add, or how to officially request to add games to Flashpoint, would someone (not necessarily you mod, if you don't want to or can't do it) please be able to add all of the (available?) games for this thing on the BBC website called Digger and the Gang, to Flashpoint? They're not currently on there. I LOVED those games as a kid, and thankfully the BBC officially archived the main page so it's still partially accessible + you can technically access games from the old site through the Wayback Machine (with Ruffle support), but I'm so worried that despite the archiving/site being accessible, that the games might be lost if something were to happen to the archived site and/or the Wayback Machine :(

You can request games on to be uploaded on Flashpoint's Request Form here!

I've been focused on uploading Playhouse Disney games on the Internet Archive among other things, so I have been putting Flashpoint uploading on the side, sorry! A curator should be able to pick it up if you request it! When I have the time, I'll also try to save it locally just in case :)

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Is there possibly anyway to recover the So In Style Barbie game called Fashion Flash? The Url was barbie.com/activities/friends/soinstyle/#/fashionFlash/

It's not archived as far as I know of, sorry! :(

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in case anyone needs it, I found the game I was looking for (https://www.tumblr.com/web-back-then/777863216976019456/hi-was-wondering-if-you-could-help-me-find-one?source=share) it's "My Stylist Career" which was available on girlsgogames and agame. thank you everyone for your help!

That's great, thanks for letting me know! 😊

I see that the game is on the Wayback Machine, the link is here.

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Hello, I just asked about the lisafrank jukebox, and amazingly, I just found it!!!!! So nevermind! Sorry to bug ya ;D

That’s amazing! Would you mind sharing the link, either on here or via PM? :)

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For those who are curious about this, I have uploaded the jukebox on MEGA here.

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I was looking at the bratz 2003 website, do you know what games were there, and what was the mix n match mall?

NuMuKi has archived most of the remaining Bratz Flash games here.

According to my Wayback Machine research, I think Mix-n-Match was a game that wasn't archived (there are quite a few games that weren't saved unfortunately).

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Hello! Do you by any chance know how to fix Flash games? I was able to find the old version of the Polly Pocket game "Dress and Drive" (before they gave it, and many other games on the site, a makeover for the release of the Pollyworld movie) but it doesn't load at all.

I opened it in JPEXS and the games files are completely present.

Hey! You can find the answer to this question here.

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Yes it's ibravo, I found the bridge game! Tysmmm

You're welcome! :)

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not sure if youve been asked this yet but do you have an archive of a barbie princess charm school game? it was on the official website but couldnt find it anymore

Unfortunately, there are no proper archives of the game, sorry about that! :(

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This game is available on NuMuKi! I've also uploaded a backup of it on Flashpoint a while ago.

Also, a bit of a useless infodump, but the assets are available on archive.org, but the website is horrible at loading xml files which is why the game doesn't work there.

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hi hello! recently i came across your american girl/ferry halim games! i was wondering if you knew or came across a similar page with games around the early 2000's that had a similar vibe? it had a brown/caramel background and had much more games of puppies kitties and like cute animals

This website is the closest thing I know of - hopefully that helps!

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Maybe one of your followers know? I used to play games on an Asian website, idk which country, the icon of the website was a yellow square like a cracker. One of the games was like flying on a bridge with holes and nuts you had to pick up and another was fishing related

The closest website with that logo I know is iBravo (the publisher of the Sue games), which has a round cracker instead of a square one. I looked up the games and it has a fishing game, although I haven't found anything with the bridge.

Do let us know if anyone finds something that fits the description better though! :)

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hi! was wondering if you could help me find one game. it was a designing game and from what I remember, it had two modes: one where you completed the request that has been given to you, and the other called "freestyle" (may vary since I played it in russian translation back then), in which you could design anything. I don't remember much, except it being a classic design game where you could combine different clothing parts (I remember collars and belts) and choose colors/patterns. I played it on girlsgogames around 2011-2014. tried finding it through the game categories in the web archive, but no luck. I'd really appreciate any help!

I can't seem to find a game that perfectly fits your description, sorry!

Hopefully someone here knows what this game is? :)

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do limbo elmo game

Sesame Street - Limbo Elmo : Sesame Workshop : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Sesame Street flash game originally from sesamestreet.com.Files mostly ripped from sesame-street.jp's archives.Download the zip and open m

An anon (although my notes says their name was lelegofrog2) has uploaded it on archive.org! Hope it helps :)

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In regards to this ask I sent (https://www.tumblr.com/web-back-then/767275896304549888/i-very-vaguely-remember-a-2000s-dress-up-game-that?source=share) the reblog by vampfucker666 (lol) is the right game!! Thank you vampfucker666 and web-back-then😭😭🙏 i've been trying to remember it for years!!!

That's great! Thank you so much @vampfucker666 💕!