How to save your favorite flash games to your computer

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

Despite the fact that very soon it seems that there will not be a single browser with support for Flash, you can still play your favorite games created with this technology. You just need to download them to the hard drive of your computer in advance.

Whether we like it or not, Flash is a thing of the past. It passed its peak a long time ago, and now we see how browser manufacturers, one by one, exclude Flash support from their programs.

Very soon it may turn out that the content posted on the Internet, created with the help of this technology, will become completely inaccessible. But a huge number of wonderful games have been created on Flash, which no one will rewrite and adapt to new requirements. Therefore, you need to take care now to save your favorite games if they are dear to you. This can be done in just a few simple steps.

Open the page of the game you want to save and wait until it is fully loaded.
Right-click and select View Page Code.

Save Flash page
The source code of the page will open in a new tab. Press the key combination Ctrl + F and enter the query “.swf” in the search field that appears.
Now you have a rather difficult task to complete, especially if you are not very familiar with HTML. It is necessary to find among the search results a link pointing to the file with the game. It usually has the same name as the game itself and sits inside an iframe element.

Save Flash code
Right-click on the found link and select the "Save link as …" command from the context menu. This should start downloading the game to your hard drive.
The saved game can be opened and played safely without the help of a browser. In the Windows operating system, this is perfectly handled by a standard media player or, for example, GOM Player.

Save flash gom

The second method is suitable for those users who could not find the desired link in the source code. Use the services of the File2HD.com service, which will skillfully analyze any web page for you and provide direct links to all the elements it contains. You just have to select the link to the file with the. SWF extension and download it to your computer.