The upgrade guide still said the /stream/ route was unchanged, but the
app now proxies streams itself and the session manager publishes no
port; an old route times out with a 504.
--seed-ratio and --seed-hours keep aria2c seeding after the download,
stopping at whichever limit comes first, before extraction starts; this
needs no extra disk. The README asks people to seed and explains
long-term seeding with --keep-archives. Re-running with --torrent once
extraction has begun no longer downloads the deleted archives again.
Drops the /flash and /html5 sections (old URLs redirect to /browse),
the GitHub star count endpoint, the unused HOME_RECENT_HOURS setting,
upstream's design notes and code review docs, and the issue template's
link to upstream discussions.
A Gitea workflow builds the app, session manager and streamer images
and pushes them to the instance's registry on pushes to main and on
version tags, reading the registry host at run time. Compose can pull
them with IMAGE_PREFIX. The update checker reads APP_UPDATE_URL instead
of upstream's GitHub releases and is off without it. Upstream's Docker
Hub workflow is removed.
The README opens with storage, CPU and HTTPS requirements, including the
per-player cost of streaming, and explains Flashpoint's legal standing.
Setup now uses the torrent and Infinity archive from Flashpoint's site,
and the streaming docs reflect the app proxying /stream/.
The script no longer carries download links: --torrent takes the
.torrent file from Flashpoint's downloads page, and --infinity the
Infinity archive. Before doing anything it works out the space the
download and extraction need, refuses to start without it, and asks
for confirmation unless --yes is given. It notes Flashpoint's unsettled
legal standing and the user's responsibility.
The app forwards /stream/ to the session manager, WebSocket upgrades
and the save-sync event stream included, ahead of helmet and
compression. A reverse proxy in front now needs no route of its own
for streams, and the session manager publishes no ports.
A new README for the combined project with setup from the Flashpoint
Ultimate torrent. New feature docs for streaming, proxy sign-in and
game saves; deployment, upgrade and streaming READMEs updated for the
single compose file; the project renamed throughout.
setup-flashpoint.sh downloads the Ultimate torrent with aria2c and
extracts each archive in turn, checking free space first and deleting
it afterwards unless --keep-archives is given. From Base_1.zip it takes
only the database, settings and playlists. --with-infinity adds
Infinity for Linux's software, which streaming needs, without replacing
anything. Re-running resumes where it stopped.
The app, session manager and streamer are built from source by a single
docker-compose.yml. Streaming is the opt-in "streaming" profile, enabled
by setting STREAMING_API_TOKEN. Replaces the separate production, dev and
streaming compose files.
Game detail and play are one portal page: a stage with the screenshot
and a Play button (or Enter) that loads the game in place, controls
under it, details, plays, rating, tags, favorite and add to playlist,
and related games.
Scaling the display up relied on full screen scaling the movie, but games
that set StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE stay at their native size in full screen,
leaving a small game against black. At the exact stage size, full screen
fits every scale mode and the browser scales the stream.
A game is streamable when its platform is allowed (STREAM_PLATFORMS,
default Java, Shockwave and Flash) and its launcher resolves under the same
rules fp-command applies. The display is sized from what it launches:
Director movies including Afterburner .dcr and pre-7 VWCF configs, SWF
headers scaled up to fit 1280x960, a page's largest embed, or a projector's
stage. Dimensions are rounded up to even for H.264.
fp-command applies the launcher's rules to any application path: execs.json
mappings, .bat to .sh, and .exe under Wine, resolving paths case-insensitively
and splitting launch commands as the launcher's shell command would. Windows
programs run from a writable per-session mirror of the install, with Director
Prefs and Flash saves linked into the synced saves. OldCPUSimulator, which
hangs under Wine, becomes cpulimit; Flash projectors go full screen; and
Flashpoint Navigator's toolbars are hidden. This replaces the LocalGames case.
Chilled color scheme as swappable tokens, Fredoka wordmark with a
configurable tagline, genre categories, search and random hotkeys.
The homepage offers a Game of the Day, a Time Machine with a date
picker, recently played games and Flashpoint playlist shelves.
Mature games are hidden unless opted in from the user menu, stored
in the browser and the account. Browse lists default to a seeded
shuffle and accept release date ranges.
The streaming client in a streamed game's iframe shares the app's origin and
keeps its settings in localStorage under its page address, which includes
the session. Those keys changed during play, so they were attributed to the
game and a new batch joined its save every session. Exclude them, and drop
any already recorded when gathering a save.
Saves games keep in the browser now sync with the signed-in player's
account: Ruffle SharedObjects and HTML5 localStorage, IndexedDB databases
(exported and imported whole, typed arrays and blobs included), and streamed
games' save files. Games share the app's origin, so storage that changes
while a game runs is attributed to it. Before a game starts, the account's
save is loaded unless this browser has a newer one; changes upload as they
happen; and a Saves dialog in the player restores any of the last 10, keeping
the save it replaces as a backup.
Adds game_save_snapshots and /api/game-saves for copies of the saves games
keep in a player's browser. An upload matching the current save is a no-op,
the newest 10 snapshots per user and game are kept as backups, and saves may
be up to 10 MB, so the router parses its own bodies past the app's 1 MB JSON
limit.
A proxy that sets the username header twice, as when Authentik's nginx
snippet and the documented lines are both present, made Node join the values
into "brad, brad" and create an account of that name instead of signing in
brad. Read each occurrence separately: identical repeats count once, and
conflicting ones are refused. The docs now note Authentik's snippet already
sets the headers.
On load, a signed-out visitor first asks the backend to sign them in as the
user an authenticating proxy vouches for, before guest mode or a login
redirect takes over; an explicit logout skips this for the rest of the tab.
Settings gains a password card for signed-in users, where a proxy-signed-in
user can set a password without the current one to log in without the
proxy.
With TRUSTED_HEADER_USERNAME and TRUSTED_PROXIES set, POST
/api/auth/trusted-login signs in the user an authenticating reverse proxy
(such as Authentik forward auth) names in that header, believing it only on
connections from the proxy addresses. Users are matched by username, so an
existing account is adopted; otherwise one is created, the first as admin
as with registration. New accounts get a random password, and a user the
proxy vouches for can set their own password without the current one, to log
in when reached without the proxy.
Flash games Ruffle can play now also report streamable, and the player
offers a switch to the original Flash Player streamed from the server.
Flash games launched from a page, which need the browser plugin, stream
instead of loading a page that can't play, and search no longer hides them
while streaming is enabled.
fp-launch runs a LocalGames .exe with Flashpoint's bundled Wine from a
writable copy, linking its Prefs directory, where Director projectors save,
into the synced saves directory. Players without a save start from the Prefs
the game ships with. The image adds the X, font and PulseAudio libraries the
bundled Wine loads.
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