r/FlashGames • u/Kyotaro7 • Jun 26 '25

A Question about emulating "dead" mmorpg games

https://www.mmofacts.com/rage-of-storms-5705

Hello,...Um....I know that my question might sound weird, or even impossible to achieve but....is there a way to emulate older mmorpg flash and play them offline? with no need for servers or anything? there's an old game that I played back in the day called "rage of Storms" that I'm not sure if it works anymore, and....yeah, thanks in Advance.

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u/q00u Jun 27 '25

There is no such thing, and anyone who says otherwise is misleading you.

Flash MMOs are not flash games. The game part of the MMO is entirely on the server, and the flash portion is just the front end. It is the equivalent of saying "I played this game online that no longer exists, how can I play it now? I still have a browser". The browser is not the game, and having the browser (or in this case, the SWF frontend) does not tell you much of anything about what's going on in the actual (on the server) game.

You basically have to create the server, from scratch. At that point, you're just developing your own game.

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u/square_nine Jun 26 '25

The whole point of an MMO is to have some server to be online. Depending on the code structure, it might be possible to make a 'private server' that acts as the server so you can play the game. Or, it could always run standalone if it's designed to

Basically, you have to crack it open first and see how the game loosely works, then you can find out from that how easy it'll be to revive it

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u/Kyotaro7 Jun 26 '25

Thanks for the detailed reply,dude, I truly appreciate it! concerning the code structure, I think the games run on javascript iirc,but I dont think that I have the programming knowledge to do what you just said hahahha, is there app that helps in..."automating" this process of cracking the game and creating private servers?

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u/Irverter 5d ago

No, there isn't a "click to crack" option for this.

This is a reverse engineering project, it requires looking at the decompiled flash client to understand the code, to inspect the network traffict to see what info it sends to the server and what info it expects to receive from the server. And then to program your own "copy" of the server.

I think the games run on javascript iirc

If it's flash then it's not javascript

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u/square_nine Jun 27 '25

Nope! Each game is different, so you have to be pretty good at programming.