Alternatives to Ruffle
An open source Flash Player emulator written in Rust for desktop and the web. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Ruffle
An open source Flash Player emulator written in Rust for desktop and the web.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Ruffle.
Flashpoint Archive
A preservation archive and launcher for playing Flash, Shockwave and other web games and animations offline.
Flashpoint Archive is a Windows-only launcher bundling over 200,000 preserved web games, covering Shockwave and HTML5 too, but the full archive needs a lot of disk space.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ScummVM
Replaces the original executable of hundreds of classic adventure games so they run on hardware that did not exist yet.
DOSBox Staging
Modern continuation of DOSBox for running DOS games and software.
v86
An x86 PC emulator that runs operating systems such as Linux and Windows 9x inside a web browser.
RetroArch Web Player
RetroArch compiled to WebAssembly, running in a browser tab.
