If you like me grew up during the great flash era with websites like Newgrounds or fiddled with creating flash content yourself in Adobe Flash (or Macromedia Flash even!) then you’re probably well aware a lot of great content was created with it. Games, animations and more created a boatload of memories and nostalgia.
Sadly, Adobe retired Flash and the final downloadable version of Flash Player was version 32. This version also had a “kill switch” to make sure that after the EOL (End Of Life) period would not start anymore unless you changed the date on your computer. It’s been a few years since and Flash hasn’t seen a return for download.
I thought this was the end for me as well regarding being able to play Flash Player content locally but I discovered quite a while ago that there was one more official Adobe Flash build available through Adobe’s Animate software. Inside its software package are executables for Flash Player 35 and its Debugger variant Flash Player Debugger 35.
I’m happy to say these executables are completely portable requiring no installation and are digitally signed by Adobe themselves. As such they should run on most Windows devices. I backed those Windows executables up for archiving purposes.
Click on Read More for the downloads.
Download Flash Player 35
Standalone Flash Player 35
.zip | SHA256: f68aa40eaf28a939e7e80f55f2ccabcd406212e3efa19ee7c7d50142629cb92f
.7z | SHA256: a5be75844daae56d8b25a9777fdf0c3da5f2b64c5c32ae9bcf5b3d56c872cefd
Standalone Flash Player Debugger 35
.zip | SHA256: 65f32c0d359560a20f25322d7e5072c04263d6a8e6188a5a7ea259adc9d9a470
.7z | SHA256: af3de0dbd2530e002792af0ec9f1df2b8a627cab4707701ff5a16834741f8d3c
Flash Player and Debugger 35 combined
.zip | SHA256: 9e0ab63e9240eeba6e5e3fa48e96d8d3ff670188f106588fde32ae632203368d
.7z | SHA256: 701336a66ac3c83019ad42fbc2df265262e4e9adb6d200b1d2e6b146469bd261
VirusTotal reports: Flash Player 35 / Flash Player Debugger 35
Beware: I provided the VirusTotal report links but even so, you are downloading (zipped) executables from a website on the internet. Never blindly trust and always check the SHA 256 file hash of the zips and scan the executables with your virus scanner. Other options are to run these executables in a sandboxed environment.
Final note: Flash Player is of course EOL and as such using it is at your own risk. Please use common sense when opening flash material.
Bonus: JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler
In case you were wondering what the Debugger is for: it allows you to debug flash applications (what a surprise). One great tool that can make use of it is this open-source flash decompiler and recompiler. I’ve used it many times to edit/mod flash games. I provided a backup of this tool as well and will provide the original Github link below. It requires a Java runtime to run.
JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler v22.0.1
.zip | SHA256: 39bf2e630a50e5c025915398e1e86956551a83c3626d3ce8f0f3bda2521713fa
Github link: https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler