Flashpoint Archive

Kinda blows that It's shipped as gigantic compressed zip file. I happen to have the space for it but not double so I can actually use it. Shipping 10GB standalone chunks or just totally uncompressed would have been so much easier. I'm pretty sure all torrent clients could handle a couple hundred thousand files just fine.

See also https://ooooooooo.ooo/. "9o3o is an official (but experimental) online version of the Flashpoint Archive."

Note of caution to the hoarders: I had a copy of flashpoint 11 on one of my drives and recently tried to move it to another disk... after two days of robocopy doing it's thing less than half of the files had been moved.

Obviously 1.4TB is enormous so long copy operations should be expected, but the sheer number of files makes it hilariously difficult to manage if you ever want to move it after extraction.

I like how the date of this HN post is in the 1970s. I believe this was the start of the Unix epoch time?

*Seems like it's a username and not a date.

They also have a nice analytics page (which will now probably go down under the load of HN users, it wasn't the fastest to begin with):

https://flashpoint-analytics.unstable.life/

What I find interesting is that the vast majority of users are in the US. I wuold have expected a 2-fold or even 5-fold increase over the next countries (in EU), but if I look for example at Germany, UK or France, there's a 10x to 50x discrepancy.

Seeing as those countries are usually very much into emulation of older systems, were flash games simply not that poular outside of the US?

Personally, for example, I had some flash games that I played, but it was definitely a niche at least among my friends/family at that time, even at school or university.

Not including the Nitrome library sucks so much. I think archive.org has a zip of all of them though.