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Is there a frogger type game that works with os2008?
Thanks

The coleco emulator runs frogger okay if you have the rom.

This has been driving me mad for a week, I had been playing Frogger a while ago, but couldn't recall how. I finally remembered, Google Gadgets.

1) If you haven't already make an IGoogle page ( http://www.google.com/ig )
2) Add Frogger. Use link or search 'google gadget frogger'.
2a) OR Add tab games. It will autopopulate the tab, it included frogger for me.
2b) Minimize all the games (Click on the [-] between the [V] and [X])

4) Next, 'Right Click' (hold stylus down) on the Linked Title of the flash game and select open in new window. Make the page full screen and enjoy. Once loaded it should continue to function offline.

**Bonus!!!! If you go to components and de-select shockwave flash and re-load, It will ask where to save the Frogger.swf file since it doesn't know what to do with it. Now it's available offline.

Thanks for that tip on downloading swfs.

You are welcome....if it works. But in my excitement, I tried 4 other games, it didn't work with those. Let me know if you find a pattern.

I did the same on some more games, instead of autosaving, I went to the 'code' box that displays instead to find the swf file. Enter that adress into a browser window and you get the download. Unfortunatly, I only found a handfull that worked with the N800 without even a space bar or right click. I will add them to the wiki list of flash games later (will give a link to it here when I do).
They were frogger, packman, beer golf (put-put), and with less playability (counterstrike trainer and duckhunt). just one level.

WOW - GREAT tip on Frogger etc., I have been playing it offline. Not all the games on igoogle etc. will save in this fashion, however, so here is how root out any flash game for offline play using Firefox (it can also be done on IE, though it's more laborious). This process works for any .flv video file as well. You can also use Flash Extractor or similar, sometimes you can get lucky, but I'm an old fashioned crawl-through-the-code kind of guy...So here goes:

1. Make a folder "Flash Games" or whatever, you will need a place to store them 'cause you will soon start scooping them up like a pro!

2. Go to any flash game page - Google.com/ig is a good place to start, as the games there are really links to the pages where the actual games are stored - as an example, let's use http://games.uflaz.com

Go there and find a game you like (ex. trafficjam)

3. Clear your cache (makes it easier to find the file you will need)

4. Start the game, pause it or kill it, simply going to it will put the link in your cache

5. Open new tab, enter "about:cache" in the address bar, hit enter, up comes the Firefox cache page

6. Select "Disk Cache", which goes to the cache. Ctrl F or Find, enter ".swf" in the find box, keep hitting find to go through all the .swf entries that might be there, most are bogus, setting up the player etc...Look for a URL that has the game name in it, this one was:

about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http://2games.uflaz.com/swf/trafficjam.swf

Click on the url, this opens a new page with "key: your URL" at the top.

7. Scan down the page to "file on desk", drag/copy the file location you see there. Two ways to proceed from here -

Open a blank tab, paste the file location you copied into the address bar, hit enter, Up pops a "You have chosen to open" dialog box, select save.

OR: You can also browse to that location on your hard drive (mine was C:\Documents and Settings\Fleury\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\twacjiqi.default\Cac he\5097D41Ad01) and retrieve the file directly, and move it to your desktop. Rename it with an .swf extension (it will be a generic looking file, no extension, long name with many numbers usually, but it is really a flash file).

8. To test the file, try "open file" from your browser, if the game fires up, you are in business!!

9. Move the folder to your tablet's memory card via USB, use file manager to find it, click it and enjoy....