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Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations p... by sghitbyabazooka on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:26PM (#47026032)
when archiving, it's preferable to leave the files in the state you originally found them
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Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations p... by kstrauser on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:58PM (#47026336)
Is there a standard patch format for this use case, where you could keep the original files and have a second file that patches them at load time to make them runnable?
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Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations p... by Grom_PE on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:13PM (#47027076)
As Flash files are often compressed, a patch wouldn't be any smaller than having an original and a fixed copy. You'd have to invent a new patch format that operates on an uncompressed SWF.
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Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations p... by kstrauser on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:28PM (#47028353)
Perhaps naively, that seems tractable to me.
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