As a bit of background, flash games were often sponsored. The bigger websites would pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to put their (clickable) logo in the beginning of a game, and sometimes would also have either timed or permanent exclusivity to their website.
replywhen archiving, it's preferable to leave the files in the state you originally found them
replyIs there a standard patch format for this use case, where you could keep the original files and have a second file that patches them at load time to make them runnable?
replyAs Flash files are often compressed, a patch wouldn't be any smaller than having an original and a fixed copy. You'd have to invent a new patch format that operates on an uncompressed SWF.
replyPerhaps naively, that seems tractable to me.
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