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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by rpigab on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:59AM (#34709895)
My opinion is the same as yours, plus recently I've installed some Flash games becasue I'm nostalgic, one way to do it and play games in deck mode is this link [1], but you can also just run "flashplayer.exe --some-options game.swf" with Proton and it'll work too. I love good flash games like Sonny 2 and I know Flash has security issues and had to be killed, but I'll never let it go, I'll always have to run it somewhere for retrogaming.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/ytgisk/guide_fla...

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by becquerel on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:26AM (#34710381)
Just so you know, there's a Linux-native Flash emulator named Ruffle you might want to try. It's worked pretty well with the things I've tried so far, and it's one less layer of emulation.

https://ruffle.rs/#downloads

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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by mjevans on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:44PM (#34711724)
Ruffle is legit, but there are some later era flash games that don't play because they claim to / actually use later versions of the Adobe 'action script'; I'm hopeful that they'll eventually be supported and the archived versions of flashplayer (standalone) will not be necessary for anyone.
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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by andrepd on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:56PM (#34711945)
Flashpoint is a preservation project for Flash games (and many more: Java, Silverlight, etc). It's honestly mind-blowing: https://unstable.life/flashpoint-database/search/
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Re:Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming M... by passwd on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:01AM (#34741425)
Note, in AUR there's a Flash Player standalone package - flashplayer-standalone I believe. You can use it very similarly, just without a need for proton.
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