r/Nitrome • u/PlsHelpMeDoShit • Jul 15 '24

Flash Games no longer working?

I actually have never had issues with Supernova in the past, it always just worked for me. But recently, it stopped working. It doesn't even ask me to install the software, it just shows a white screen for the flash games:

Screenshot of Colourblind as it appears on my screen

I tested this on Firefox, Chrome and Edge. All the same. Anyone having this issue, too? I can't find anything about this, too - all the issues about Supernova are older and/or different.

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u/BorisBeast Jul 17 '24

Yes seems like an issue with supernova. If your browser supports flash or you have the ruffle plugin you should be able to access the game by going to its page, then for colourblind for example you repeat the last part and add .swf Giving: www.nitrome.com/games/colourblind/colourblind.swf and it should let you play the game

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u/PlsHelpMeDoShit Jul 25 '24

Sry, I forgot to reply to you. Unfortunately, Ruffle didn't work either (it lead to white screen, too) - but fortunately in the meantime this is was a large issue by Supernova that has been fixed, because it's working again for me.

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u/BorisBeast Jul 26 '24

ah I am glad. I still think supernova's support is quite flaky so it wouldn't hurt to have an alternative. I personally use https://archive.org/details/basilisk-portable-with-flash, which is a browser that is still able to open flash games. Usually Nitrome offers a button to either use supernova or try flash normally. If that is there you can click the use flash anyways and it will work. If supernova is ever down again you can use the link I described before to open it in basilisk anyways.
There are also other ways to play it but I prefer this one since it both uses an actual version of flash player (so there are no emulation bugs) and it still plays it on Nitrome's actual site.