This page will help you play RotMG with the stand-alone version of Adobe Flash Player to reduce lag, because Web browsers (especially Google Chrome) may be less than ideal for playing Realm. A video tutorial outlining a similar procedure can be followed here.
Kongregate users will have to follow some additional instructions in order to play on the Flash Projector. For the first few steps Kongregate-specific instructions are italicized.
Note that this option is currently unavailable to Steam users. Those who wish to use the standalone Adobe Flash projector should contact Kabam Support to link their Steam account to a web account and then follow the instructions.
Go to Adobe’s support website and download the most recent release of the Adobe Flash Player projector for your system (Windows, Macintosh, or Linux). Currently, the most recent releases are 23.0 (Windows/Macintosh) and 11.2 (Linux). Follow the instructions from Adobe to install the software. For Windows machines, the file is a .exe and needs no installation.
While other Flash projectors exist, there is no guarantee that they either work or are safe. If someone links you to a projector and the link is pointing anywhere other than a page on adobe.com, you should not click the link and can assume they are attempting to have you install malicious software.
For a link which auto-updates to use the current release, use the following:
http://www.realmeye.com/appspot
Copy the above to your clipboard and proceed to the next step. If you use this, the only time you will have to update the URL is if the site goes down.
Alternatively, you may use a direct link to the AssembleeGameClient file; this will not auto-update, and will need to be changed with each release.
For the current release 27.7.X6.1 (ver. 2 the devs don’t understood the concept of version numbers) the link you will need is:
https://realmofthemadgodhrd.appspot.com/AssembleeGameClient1476385207.swf
If this link or the link you are currently using stops working, you will need to find the new active link to the game. To do so, follow these instructions:
https://realmofthemadgodhrd.appspot.com/AssembleeGameClientcode from previous link here.swf
Kongregate users will need to copy the link into a browser and then save it as an .swf file. More often than not, simply pressing Ctrl + s
will open the browser’s save window.
(On Mac the easiest method is using Terminal.app. Lauch it and in the terminal window that opens type
wget https://realmofthemadgodhrd.appspot.com/AssembleeGameClientcode from previous link here.swf
and the file will be downloaded to the current directory, which is usually your home directory)
Because Kongregate users will require an address of under 255 characters (at least, for Windows machines), we recommend giving the .swf file a short name, like a.swf
, and saving the file to a location with a short address such as their C: drive or a small folder in the C: drive.
As we continue, the instructions will act assuming that a.swf
is saved in a folder named “RotMG” in the C: drive.
Open your flash projector and in the top left corner click on “File” and then “Open”.
This will bring up a window asking you to provide either a URL or destination for a local file. In the empty “Location” box paste the game link from the previous step.
Press “OK” and the game should load.
If the projector just returns to an empty white screen after pressing OK, then you either gave it an invalid or outdated link to the game. Refer back to the previous step for instructions on finding the current link.
To access the game after you close it, just reopen projector and click File to see a list of recently opened files.
That’s it! Enjoy playing Realm of the Mad God!
Kongregate users should make sure that the Flash projector is able to open the .swf file that was saved in step 2.
After bringing up the “Open” window for the Flash projector. Click “Browse”
Find the saved .swf and open it. You should now be able to see the file path in the “Location” box. It should look like: C:\RotMG\a.swf
Copy and paste the file path to a text document. You will be adding more to it later.
Press OK in Flash Projector to run the client.
To solve the “d’oh, this isn’t good” error: Right click in the Flash projector window and select “Global Settings”. Click in the “Advanced” tab in the window that comes up and click on “Trusted Location Settings”. Add the folder that holds the saved .swf file as a trusted location.
Restart Flash Projector and reopen the swf. It should now show the main game screen.
Go to http://www.kongregate.com/games/Wild_Shadow/realm-of-the-mad-god and sign in to your Kongregate account.
You’ll have to get the link Kongregate uses to connect to the game. The address includes the phrase “DO_NOT_SHARE_THIS_LINK” for a reason. Anybody who has this link can log in to your Realm account, so be careful.
Chrome
F12
in Windows to open the developer tools console, or right click on the page and select “Inspect element”. The console should appear at the bottom of the Kongregate game page.Firefox
Ctrl + Shift + K
on Windows or Cmd + Opt + K
on Mac (or right click on the page and select “Inspect element”) to pull up the developer console. Navigate to the tab at the top of the console titled “Debugger”.Right click on “kongregate.html” and copy the link address.
Another method for Firefox requires Firebug.
Safari
Your new direct link to the game can be used in a web browser, but not the Flash Projector. It’ll look something like:
http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/kongregate.html?DO_NOT_SHARE_THIS_LINK=1&kongregate_username=a&kongregate_user_id=b&kongregate_game_auth_token=c&kongregate_game_id=d&kongregate_host=e&kongregate_api_host=f&kongregate_api_path=g&kongregate_ansible_path=&kongregate_preview=i&kongregate_language=j&preview=k&kongregate_split_treatments=l&kongregate=m&kongregate_svid=n&o&KEEP_THIS_DATA_PRIVATE=p
It should look like a whole jumble of data, but all you need are these and the values that come after (connected with equals signs and seprated with ampersands):
kongregate_username
kongregate_user_id
kongregate_game_auth_token
kongregate_api_path
Shorten the URL to:
http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/kongregate.html?kongregate_username=a&kongregate_user_id=b&kongregate_game_auth_token=c&kongregate_api_path=d
Test it in a web browser to see if it works.
In step 3 you should have copied the file path of the saved .swf file to a text document. It should look like so: C:\RotMG\a.swf
Replace http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/kongregate.html
in the shortened address above with file:///filepath here (should end in .swf)
The URL is now ready to be used in Flash Projector. It should look something like this:
file:///C:\RotMG\a.swf?kongregate_username=a&kongregate_user_id=b&kongregate_game_auth_token=c&kongregate_api_path=d
You’ll probably want to save this path somewhere once you get it working, but try to keep it secure!
You have to save the path because you’re forced to paste it in every time. Windows doesn’t like the long file name.
When the game updates, you’ll have to download the new .swf and fix the path if you saved the .swf with a different name. No need to change the Kongregate account info.
If you don’t want snoops seeing your account info through the recently opened files on projector, delete all the “RecentMovie” registry entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Flash Player.
Edited from a forum post by Shalmii
Adobe does have a Flash Projector for Linux. After downloading it, unzipping the tarball, and running the Flash player program, you can come across the following error:
“Error while loading shared libraries – xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.so not found”. (the xxxxxxxxxxxxxx is just a filename )
As it turns out, the way that the 64-bit versions of Ubuntu are set up is such that the 32-bit libraries of various programs aren’t there, and are instead linked to 64-bit versions of libraries. This is all fine and good, except when a 32-bit program is programmed badly: to depend directly on the 32-bit library. Such was the case for Flash Projector.
The ia32-libs package is the one that is missing. The problem is that Ubuntu’s repositories for 64-bit distributions don’t have that package. It has similar packages, but Flash Projector demands that package.
The solution can be found on stackoverflow. Essentially, you to add the repositories for an older version of Ubuntu to the list of software sources, install the old ia32-libs package, remove the repositories, clean up, and install gcc-multilib for a few more libraries.
For an itemized tutorial:
To get something like this
We’re going to have to make a .desktop file! This tutorial is for any X Window GUI interface, which covers the vast majority of normal users’ desktops.
While I’m assuming this is for Flash Projector and therefore Realm, I’m going to write in a manner that you can follow regardless of the program you’re using.
Add the following to your file, and save it to /usr/share/applications as <name>.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Name of the thing that is displayed outward.
Exec=/path/to/thing/you're/executing
Icon=/usr/share/icons/<name-of-icon-file.img>
This block of tags is metadata telling the system how to handle the thing, where to look for the thing, and how to display itself. The thing you’re executing does not need to be a program in and of itself. You could make it link to a .jar file, or a .sh bash script to start something up in a specific manner (like Minecraft running with a custom amount of allocated RAM)
Here’s what my launcher for Realm looks like:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=18.0.2
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/opt/flash.sh
Icon=/usr/share/icons/rotmg.png
Name=Realm of the Mad God
StartupNotify=true
This links to an icon of Oryx (the .png), and a simple bash script (the .sh)
#!/bin/bash
cd $(dirname "$0")
./flashplayer http://realmeye.com/AGC
which opens up Flash Player (also in the /opt directory), grabs the latest AGC from Realmeye, and runs it.
When you use Flash Projector in Windows, press Ctrl + Alt + Del (Ctrl + Shift + Esc in Windows 7) to open task manager, and set the priority of the projector to High. This should reduce lagspikes.
You can also use Flash Projector to see a bit more of the game at a time:
This will allow you to see objects that are just slightly outside of the normal view.