DirPlayer

DirPlayer is a Shockwave Player emulator written in Rust that aims to make playing old browser games possible on modern browsers.

Demo

The extension implements a polyfill that replaces all <embed> elements that point to a Shockwave file in websites you visit.

Note

Before we can start, we need to load the missing modules for NodeJS with the npm install command.

Windows users can use our scripts which are located in the scripts folder and end with .bat.

npm run build-vm

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.

npm run start

If you have any questions or you're interested in being part of the discussions of this project, please join our Discord!

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: