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Hello everybody. I have a quastion: is it possible to play swf without flash player installed? I mean include swf and flash player itself in one exe-file.

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As pointed out, bundling a runtime with an SWF was a common solution years ago. Important update for anyone reading this later: Adobe ended official Flash Player support on December 31, 2020 and implemented blocks after that date, so relying on deprecated Flash runtimes is no longer a safe long‑term strategy. See Adobe's end‑of‑life statement for details: Adobe Flash Player end‑of‑life.

Current, practical alternatives for running or distributing legacy SWF content:

  • Ruffle (a WebAssembly/native emulator) — best for ActionScript 1/2, partial AS3 support; useful for running many SWFs without the original player: Ruffle.
  • BlueMaxima Flashpoint — an offline preservation project with a launcher and curated archive of web Flash content: BlueMaxima Flashpoint.
  • JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler — extract graphics/sounds/scripts if you need to port the content to HTML5/JS or rebuild it: JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler.

Practical workflow and cautions: test the SWF in Ruffle first; if it runs, consider packaging it with Ruffle (HTML+WASM) for distribution. If it fails, use a decompiler to extract assets and reimplement interactive parts in modern tech. Do not run untrusted SWFs on production machines (they can carry exploits). Finally, check licensing before bundling any third‑party runtime or redistributing assets; for public distribution, porting to supported technologies is the safest, most future‑proof approach.

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flash projector is an exe that plays an embedded flash file, so yes it is. and its very simple.

there are free programs that will create a projector out of any swf file.

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Thanks!

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