Post subject: Is it possible to TAS flash games?
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If not, do you think it will be possible anytime soon? And why isn't it possible right now? Thanks in advance. =)
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Technically, it should be possible, though I've yet to see an actual emulator for doing so. The easiest way I guess would be to just emulate windows instead and run a flash game from there, but that's another story of its own.
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Given that the flash player already runs a virtual machine for the actionscript, it is definitely possible. You just need a player that support savestates and other tools.
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Why hasn't anybody created it yet? :( It would be so awesome!
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Because it is a lot of work to write a new virtual machine?
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Well if people created emulators for something as complicated as NGC, I'd expect someone would have created something for Flash... sorry then
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The thing is, nobody needs to write a new flash player, since there already is one that everybody can use. Except us. There is noone who cares about us, we are a minority. Everybody else is happy with the existing player. Aside from some "must be open source" freaks that is. They have been trying to write their own player. I can't say that they've had much success.