Sunday, September 19, 2021

Playing Snailiad on Debian Linux in 2021

Flash is dead. It's still a bummer that Adobe hasn't just released the source code for public maintenance.
There are still some flash games around which should be preserved for future generations. Snailiad is one of them.

I've joined the official discord server of Snailiad to check for the currently accepted way of playing it. It turns out that newer versions of Flash are playing Snailiad at a wrong speed and the recommended way is using Flash 11.3 for it.

The old Flash binaries can be grabbed on archive.org.
Disclaimer: Download this program at your own risk. It's an old preserved linux binary and I can't assure its authenticity!
Please check the md5sum before installing: 11b83aafdd4de9b64590b2ed43c6cb08
https://archive.org/download/standaloneflashplayers/fp/fp_11/11.2.202.644/

As this is a 32 bit application, some libs need to be installed in their 32 bit version.
sudo apt-get install libxt6:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
Then you should be fine with:
./flashplayer Snailiad.swf
Happy Snailing around!