Instructions for Curating

A guide to testing your extracted Flash games, Java Applets, and more.

• Download Flashpoint Core, a lightweight developer version of Flashpoint
• Most games are tested within Flashpoint Core X.X/Games/Flash/htdocs. X.X is the version number
• Make note of the direct URL to the game's main files you've extracted

Important, for most non-flash games, you need to save not only the game main file, but also the HTML code snippet in which the main file is embedded - place that in an index.html file, and keep reading

• Within htdocs, make a folder with the website name
  • i.e. newgrounds.com, static.nickjr.com, etc
• Within that folder, begin mimicking the URL by building corresponding subdirectories.
  • i.e. newgrounds.com/alienhominid/59593_alien_booya202c.swf - you would make an alienhominid subfolder, if your url has more, keep adding subfolders until it looks like your url
• Finally, place your game's main files in the last subfolder (along with an index.html if you've created one)

Now that you have the code set up correctly in htdocs:

• Open up Flashpoint Core and click on New Game on the bottom right corner
• Click on Application Path and select the appropriate path for your extracted game ** i.e. flashplayer.exe for flash, startUnity.bat for Unity, etc.
• The Launch command should be the exact URL to where you extracted the game
  • However, for most non-Flash games, you need to link it to the html in which the game is embedded
• If you want to edit these locations later, head to the Arcade tab and select the game (there will be a pencil image and a trash image next to the name) and click the pencil
• You should see a new game in the launcher list
• Run it

Tips for debugging issues:

• Observe the Flashpoint redirector window and see if you're getting 404 errors - you can grab any missing assets or code by going to the indicated URL locations, downloading it and placing it correctly in the htdocs
• Hunt down other websites in which the game has been embedded or even originally hosted if any of the files end up being broken

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Once it works, follow the instructions on the Curation_Format.