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Save Flash Games on your hard drive


I have to admit that I like to play flash games from time to time and enjoy some tremendously. It happens that websites that offer flash games are not available at the time that you want to play the game which is why I would like to explain how you can easily save flash games on your hard drive to play them without an Internet connection.

Visit a website that displays a flash game on its website. Right-click a free area of that page and select View Page Source from the right-click menu. You could alternatively click on View > Page Source in Firefox. Internet Explorer uses right-click and select View Source while Opera users right-click and select Source.

Search that source for a url that ends with the swf file extension (search for the term .swf). This is the location of the flash game on the server. Copy that address and paste it into the browser window again. The flash game should load just fine. Go to File > Save Page As in Firefox and the flash game should be saved on your hard drive.

Drop the file into your favorite browser to play the game. To make it easier you could assign a software to swf files which would have the result that you only need to double-click the flash games to start them. To do that right-click the file and select properties from the menu.

Now click on the change button and select your main browser as the program to open swf files with. I have created a small video that explains the whole process.




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12 Responses to “Save Flash Games on your hard drive”

  1. Thinker says:

    You like flash games, but you dont post them any more on this site! I miss them ! :P

  2. Martin says:

    Thinker I have plans, just wait and see ;)

  3. Vivek says:

    or ….

    # Go to Tools -> Page Info
    # Click on ‘Media’ Tab
    (It will have all kinds of media (images, audio, video, flash file) links.
    The .swf file you’re looking for will be filed under ‘Embed’ type.)
    # Just click “Save as”

    Option 2 –
    Most of us have ad-block in installed. Check the option ‘Show tabs in Flash and Java’
    Next time you want to save a .swf, just right-click the ad-block’s tab and ‘Save link as’ ..

  4. Chris says:

    I have been using this way to save flash files for a while now, but is there a way to save working versions of the other flash games that stop this method.

    http://www.kongregate.com/games/garin/monsters-den

    Is the most recent one that i cant save. Well you can but it only gets 10 seconds into the website advertisement and dies. I managed to save a working version of the older game, 1.0 from max games (using the above methods). But not the newer 1.1.

  5. tom says:

    it dunt work for me. i gt up too the bit were u save the file but i cant save it it blanked out
    anyone now y?

  6. john says:

    ummm…..srry but i tryed to do those things and its weard can u tell me what to search on Ghacks.net to get the vidio plz
    or if u have a way of getting a free flash save thingy plz help i need games on my labtop

  7. Eric says:

    Yes the cookies smell good……
    random much….

    (gets banned lol)

  8. NoName says:

    didnt work for me

  9. Mike says:

    ya it didnt explain enough at all. i guess most people are jsut supposed to magically know what you’re talking about. makes no sense

  10. Nicholis says:

    yeah, it gives me the thing where I have to extract stuff. This sucks, what a joke. I don’t use firefox, so why are you telling me advice of what to do if I have it? Work harder next time if you actually wnat to help people.

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