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DirPlayer
DirPlayer is a Shockwave Player emulator written in Rust that aims to make playing old browser games possible on modern browsers.
Demo
Check out a live demo of this project at http://dirplayer-rs.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
Chrome Extension
Download the Chrome Extension at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dirplayer-shockwave-emula/gpgalkgegfekkmaknocegonkakahkhbc
The extension implements a polyfill that replaces all <embed> elements that point to a Shockwave file in websites you visit.
Requirements
- NodeJS
- RustLang
- wasm-pack
Building
[!NOTE]
Before we can start, we need to load the missing modules for NodeJS with thenpm installcommand.
🪟 Windows
Windows users can use our scripts which are located in the scripts folder and end with .bat.
- Build Rust VM with
scripts/build-vm.bat - Build extension with
scripts/build-extension.bat - Run locally with
scripts/run.bat
🐧 Other platforms
Building Rust VM
npm run build-vm
Building extension
npm run build-extension
Make sure to build the VM first. The bundled extension will be located in ./dist-extension.
You can install the local build by going to chrome://extensions, enabling Developer Mode, then clicking the Load unpacked button.
Note that the extension is currently only available on Chrome.
Running locally
npm run start
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Acknowledgements
This project would have not been possible without the extensive work of the Shockwave reverse engineering community.
A lot of code has been reproduced from the following projects:
https://github.com/Earthquake-Project/Format-Documentation/
https://github.com/Brian151/OpenShockwave/
https://gist.github.com/MrBrax/1f3ae06c9320863f1d7b79b988c03e60