Ruffle
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23recommend
3warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Ruffle is also available as a Firefox extension. Maybe install that and be happy”
“Not AI, but Flash games have been 'saved' already, if you've still got the .swf:”
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“It's cool to see how far Ruffle has come in making flash games playable without flash.”
“thankfully bought back to life by Ruffle”
Caveats and dissent
“Ruffle never even makes the call out to the server”
“does not work with ruffle yet”
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“We have the web, we don't need ruffle”
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“AMF serialization/deserialization in Ruffle has some definite issues”
Ruffle developer who maintains Flash-based websiteson “Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animati…”
“Also a Ruffle developer here”
Threads where it came up
- Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved 10 mentions
- Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026 4 mentions
- Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art 3 mentions
- Building a New Flash 3 mentions
- When stick figures fought 3 mentions
- Pirating the Pirates 1 mention
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All comments 30
“Ruffle is also available as a Firefox extension. Maybe install that and be happy”
“Not AI, but Flash games have been 'saved' already, if you've still got the .swf:”
“It's cool to see how far Ruffle has come in making flash games playable without flash.”
I end up being drawn into and wasting time on a flash video site [1] at least once a year and there's always at least a bunch of animations not working properly. But it has gotten better over the years. [1] https://z0r.de/7194
“Ruffle has gotten quite good”
“thankfully bought back to life by Ruffle”
“You know you can use Ruffle if you really want Flash right?”
“The original SWF file can be played by Ruffle”
“If you're on MacOS, you can run the file with this software:”
“resurrected it with Ruffle”
“There were many study materials that were made in Flash that came back alive with the help of Ruffle.”
“https://ruffle.rs/ is pretty solid”
“there exists Ruffle[1], a Rust + WASM reimplementation of Flash that can play swf files”
“That documentation, for stubs, can be somewhat misleading”
“Ruffle never even makes the call out to the server”
Hi! You have done amazing work, and I'm ever grateful to your team for keeping AS3 alive! I used sockets in some of my multiplayer games, but that's not where I ran into problems with Ruffle. Since those games only upgraded to sockets after an initial HTTPS connection, I haven't even gotten to the point of trying sockets yet. I mainly just used NetConnection.connect() for routine API calls, not to open a socket. AFAI
“it has high % compatibility but it is ok”
“does not work with ruffle yet”
I suspect this is why one of my most favourite games of that era, Attak by JohnnyTwoShoes[0], does not make it past the loading screen 0: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/search/#8421aab1-183f-4845-87ca-16903d79cc9d
“Open source flash player emulator”
“iirc support is generally good”
“We have the web, we don't need ruffle”
“you can still program in Flash if you really want to, and distribute your programs on the web”
“And, of course, Ruffle[1][2] to play them.”
“They work in all browsers without flashplayer now thanks to Ruffle.”
“Well technically you can still use Flash via Ruffle, a WebAssembly-based emulator”
“Many of the old games and movies still play back well with Ruffle installed (https://ruffle.rs/).”
“Using Ruffle.”
“Ruffle[0] is a decent Flash replacement and compatibility is pretty good[1].”
“It's great!”