[–] antiracistMetal ago 

Yeah, just navigate to the swf file and open it in there. You might need to select All Files rather than "director movie" file. If you don't see an All Files option, try dragging the swf into the open program.

[–] JonReeeeed [S] ago 

Did that a long time ago, and it says it won't open it because it's not a "director movie" file.

[–] antiracistMetal 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Ugh, okay, I got it. It took a long time and a lot of downloading. I'll tell you how I got it working, but first I'll tell you how it didn't work.

First I downloaded Macromedia Director from that site I linked, because it was the smallest download. It gave me the error you got.

Second I downloaded Adobe Director from that site I linked, because it was the newest. It gave me the error you got.

Third I downloaded a Flash extension for Chrome, but it just would not work.

Fourth, I tried Googling for why Chrome was blocking Flash even though I had the extension. I found a site which said to download Flash player here: https://get2.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Which was a 20mb download. I did not download it.

Curiously, that site said the "end of life is December 31st, 2020". This was interesting to me, because some months ago when I was struggling to get Flash working, the "end of life" had already come, years ago. So maybe due to demand or something, they brought it back to life for a limited time.

I don't know what this means. But maybe if you download that Flash player it can still play Flash even after December 31, 2020.

So then I uninstalled the plug-in.

Finally, what got it working was something that wasn't in the instructions on any page. All pages just had old instructions for old versions of Chrome. By tinkering around with it, I got it.

If you go to your Chrome settings, you will see a grayed out switch that says: "Block sites from running Flash (recommended)." Since that is grayed out, you would naturally think that it is NOT blocking sites from running Flash, and so you would naturally think you had no reason to enable blocking Flash.

But here was my reasoning. I saw there was a Block list and an Allow list, both with nothing in them. And I tried adding to the Allow list, but could not. I wondered how to add to the Allow list. And I guessed that if the "Block sites from running Flash (recommended)" option was turned on, I would then be allowed to add an exception in the Allow list, whereas with that option turned off it would make no sense to be able to add anything to the Allow list since everything is already allowed.

To my delight/surprise, when I flipped the switch, it changed from saying "Block sites from running Flash (recommended)" to saying "Ask first". So, when I went to the site, (which was a local page I made on my harddrive, but I assume it will work on https://armorgames.com/play/10523/bitejacker directly), it asked me if I wanted to enable Flash. And when I did, the game ran.

Praise God!

@peaceseeker @chirogonemd @niggaskissin @heygeorge check out this thread and its comment history.

Oh, and it did warn me that the "end of life" was coming at December 31, 2020. I don't know what that means. I assume you'll still be able to play Flash games in this version of Chrome browser after that date. But after that date, if you update Chrome browser, perhaps Flash will stop working. So it might be worth backing up this version of Chrome somewhere to use for playing Flash.

I'm on limited data mobile Internet, but I had to download those two versions of Director, the SWF, and the Chrome extension. So you owe me like $5 or something.

Notably, I did not have to download that 20mb Flash player from Adobe's website. It was as if my Chrome already had the Flash player installed, but just hidden behind an unclear user interface. But it might be worth downloading that Flash player if it is an independent player, which runs outside of a browser. I don't know, because I didn't download it.