Sunday, February 28, 2021

Disney Pixar Finding Nemo Paper Toys Flash application in 2021


As you all know, Flash support on the internet was finally completely discontinued on December 31, 2020. 😟

This meant tons of Flash games and other applications  on tons of websites became pretty much unusable, like the cute Disney Pixar Finding Nemo papercraft toys I posted about in 2012: link


Although the alternative link to the Dan Dare website still works, the Flash application won't run in any webbrowser anymore:



There are still ways to get it to work offline though, although it requires a few steps (see the image at the top for a visual guide):
  1. First you need to find the URL to the actual Flash application on the website so you can save it to your own computer:
  2. Go to the Dan Dare website: link and press Ctrl+U to view the website's actual HTML source code (in Google Chrome at least; other webbrowsers should have a similar option).
  3. Press Ctrl+F and search the source code for the mention of .swf (the file extension for a ShockWave Flash file).
  4. It will find two instances, in this case the second one will be the link to the actual file; click it and save the .swf file to your computer.
  5. Now go to https://www.bullrushsoft.com/online.html; it can convert the .swf file to a standalone executable .exe file that you can run offline on your computer.
  6. Upload the .swf file you downloaded from the Dan Dare website, and after it's converted, use the small download button that appears at the bottom to download the .exe file to your computer.
  • Now annoyingly, because the developer of the online tool is unknown to my Antivirus software and to Windows Defender, both off them stopped me from running the .exe file at first.
    • Antivirus solution: for my Antivirus software, I made a special Folder with the .exe file and set my Antivirus software to exclude it from its scans
      • ONLY do this if YOU trust the application too, and NEVER turn off your antivirus software completely!!
    • Windows Defender solution: you can click the "More info" link to see a "Run anyway" option" (ONLY do this if YOU trust the application!!)
  • TIP: "print" the paper toys as a PDF file, so you can always print them again whenever you want without having to go through all this again. 😇
Have fun building!

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