One of the coolest features on the BlackBerry PlayBook is the solid Flash support. Over time I have been trying many different flash games and found that about 50% of them are loads of fun on the PlayBook. Some require a keyboard for movement or right click mouse button for options but most don’t. If you are hardcore you can even play those that do require a keyboard or mouse using Bluetooth devices.
FTWrath let me know about a tutorial he wrote up about how to save Flash games locally on your PlayBook and then play them offline. Here are the steps he choose to simplify the process:
- browse to File 2 HD
- take the link of your Flash game. We will test this with Magic Touch. As you can see I took the full website URL where the game is played.
- Paste that in the File2HD text input area, agree to Terms of Service, and make sure Objects is selected. Now click Get Files.
- you might have a few SWF files returned. Select either by holding down on them and selecting “Save Link As”
- Now choose a file name and Save.
Here’s the fun part. To play the game locally
- Fire up the browser
- Open a new tab and type in File:// and hit enter.
- Browse to > Accounts > 1000 > Shared > Downloads
- Find the swf file you just saved and select it.
- It will open your game in the browser. Bookmark the game and add it to Homescreen.
Now you can load it whenever you want and play offline!
Kudos to FTWrath for the tutorial. Let him know what you think in the forums.
crackm8701 ( View Profile) - Posts: 686
Posted: June 24, 2011 at 5:47 PM EST
Thanks for that info didn’t know that…
scuebydue ( View Profile) - Posts: 1337
Posted: June 24, 2011 at 9:36 PM EST from my BlackBerry PlayBook | OS 1.0.0
I get a “cannot navigate to local files”??
Keeper ( View Profile) - Posts: 225
Posted: June 24, 2011 at 10:46 PM EST
Using “local:///” instead of “file:///”
scuebydue ( View Profile) - Posts: 1337
Posted: June 25, 2011 at 9:39 AM EST from my BlackBerry PlayBook | OS 1.0.0
This gets me to the directory. But I cant go anywhere 🙁
tfrankson ( View Profile) - Posts: 208
Posted: June 24, 2011 at 11:33 PM EST
Cool Thanks
Amir Saad ( View Profile) - Posts: 1049
Posted: June 25, 2011 at 12:02 PM EST from my BlackBerry PlayBook | OS 1.0.0
Never knew that…it’s like the possibilities with this device are endless iPad users…
Jay Harker ( View Profile) - Posts: 1465
Posted: June 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9700 | OS 6.0.0.448
Very cool trick! I gotta try this
Ed Not Registered
Posted: June 25, 2011 at 6:45 PM EST
Wow. That means potentially millions of apps. Someone needs to make an ap that aggregates these into a “free app store”!
Keeper ( View Profile) - Posts: 225
Posted: June 25, 2011 at 11:21 PM EST
Then here is our offer once again with 700 swf flash games:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ne46aadg4hvgj
Note that some games need keyboard to play then just ignore them or using bluetooth keyboard one.
Try and have fun guys.
Cheers.
Jay Harker ( View Profile) - Posts: 1465
Posted: June 26, 2011 at 1:12 AM EST from my BlackBerry PlayBook | OS 1.0.0
Just tried it out. I got it to work by typing local:// instead of file:// and hitting enter. To get to the shared directory, I had to hold down “parent directory” until the submenu came up. I then selected open link. I did this twice until i saw shared. I then opened the downloads link the same way and found the magictouch.swf file. I then followed the rest of the directions as above.
Works perfectly.
DaSaint ( View Profile) - Posts: 397
Posted: June 26, 2011 at 8:38 PM EST
muahahaha…. oh and thanks