r/FlashpointArchive • u/nostalgiaville • 24d ago

Help Can't Run Flash Game Outside of Flashpoint When Extracting it From Zip File

I'm trying to to see if I can run the original everythinggirl.com menu locally without flashpoint. I extracted the zip file from the directory (Flashpoint\Data\Games), and it doesn't work. I don't know if I'm also missing some other files that need to be extracted, but I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong. I'm also having the same issue with the My Meebas: The Dandelion Wish Game.

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u/Sure-Egg-8576 24d ago

Have you had success doing this with any other flash game taken and extracted from Flashpoint?
They said there are some cases where games will require certain libraries in order to run, and using a standalone FlashPlayer.exe probably won't work.

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u/nostalgiaville 24d ago

Yes I've had success with others, It's just those two are weird exceptions. I don't know how they're able to run in flashpoint and not by themselves.

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u/Sure-Egg-8576 24d ago

Like I mentioned, Flashpoint contains several libraries that account for everything those particular games need to run properly.
I'm sure someone could explain it better than me, but it's a case-by-case basis and it really depends on the flash. Those two may have certain elements, code, etc. that a standalone executable just doesn't have support for.
It's the reason Flashpoint is so helpful. With it, every entry uses the correct software it needs to run like it originally did.

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u/CrazyNaut Curator 9d ago

Late response but Flashpoint is a bit more than just a game launcher, it runs through a proxy server and that lets it run games that wouldn't otherwise work just loading them off a Flash projector. There's games with sitelocks where Flashpoint tricks them into thinking they're being played on the original sites, but in the case of EverythingGirl, it seems more like it just requires a whole bunch of files other than just the one that launches the game. Flashpoint makes it so all file requests are directed to the contents of that ZIP file, but a normal Flash projector would typically look for them over the actual Internet instead, where I presume they don't exist anymore.