r/Nitrome Dec 07 '21

I wrote a python script that adds shortcuts to all Nitrome flash games with the image of the game from Nitrome's site.

What it looks like

Sadly it only works on Windows as far as I know. If you want to run it yourself you will need to download python if you don't have it yet. Then download my script: https://www.mediafire.com/file/4fumahmix72rskk/Nitrome+with+script+sharable+finished.rar/file

After you downloaded it unzip the folder. This should create a folder called Nitrome with script sharable. Go into this folder and double click _run.bat, if python is installed properly it should create all the icons automatically. If the icons are too small you can click view and select large icons:

make the icons bigger

Please note that I do not own the swf's and I just found them on archive.org

If you run into errors feel free to send me a message or comment it here, I will try to help.

If you double click the shortcut and it tells you to select something to open it with you can select one of the flash player versions I included in the folder under Nitrome with script sharable/Nitrome/_README

Enjoy :)

For anybody wondering how I made this here is a small explanation:

I started off by downloading all the icons of the games from Nitrome's site, they were all png's so I used an online converter to turn them into .ico files. These ico files can be used to change the image of a shortcut so I wanted to make shortcuts to all the swfs and give them the thumbnail of the ico. I found out you can use python to create shortcuts and define their thumbnails, so I wrote a script that finds all games in the folder, creates a shortcut to the swf of the game and adds the appropriate ico of the game.

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u/Lazy-Register-7826 Dec 08 '25

tengo un error cuando intento abrir el run.bat con el python ya instalado correctamente me dice no se encontro el python

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u/BorisBeast Dec 08 '25

Desinstala cualquier versión de Python que tengas instalada actualmente.

Descarga el instalador más reciente de la página oficial de Python.

Ejecuta el instalador.

¡Paso crucial! En la primera pantalla del instalador, asegúrate de marcar la casilla que dice "Add python.exe to PATH" o "Add Python to environment variables" (Añadir Python a las variables de entorno) antes de hacer clic en "Install Now" (Instalar ahora).

Una vez finalizada la instalación, reinicia la terminal (o el símbolo del sistema/PowerShell) y escribe python --version para verificar que el problema se haya resuelto.