Offline games archive (original files)

These are the original files of the locally hosted games and web ports listed at https://garbsoftball.com/g, stored under the site's own folder layout. The bucket was made public at the owner's request. Rights stay with the games' owners.

How to play (read this first)

Do not open a game's index.html straight from disk. Browsers block a page opened as file:// from loading its game data, so the game stops at its loading screen (Subway Surfers, for example, stays at "0% of 35MB Loading..."). The games must be served over http://, as the original site did. serve.py does this and needs only Python 3.8 or newer:

1. Download serve.py from the top of this bucket (Windows: also serve.bat; macOS: serve.command).
2. In the folder where you saved it, run one of:
   • python3 serve.py --get "subway surfers" (Windows: py serve.py --get "subway surfers"). This downloads that game's files from this bucket, checks each by SHA-256, starts a local server and opens the game. Use a name, part of a name, or the id from _reports/inventory.json.
   • python3 serve.py: serves everything already downloaded and opens a searchable game list.
3. To download many games at once, use the hf CLI, then run python3 serve.py:
   • everything (about 79 GB): hf buckets sync hf://buckets/smodusermc/offline-games/site ./site;
   • one folder: hf buckets sync hf://buckets/smodusermc/offline-games/site/games/subway-surfers ./site/games/subway-surfers. Some games also use shared folders, for example site/extra/ for emulator cores; --get fetches everything a game lists.

Some games load a public library from a CDN (for example the Ruffle Flash player from unpkg.com). --get also downloads the stored copies of those libraries (_vendor/), and serve.py points the game page at them, so those games work offline too.

Status

• All 604 catalog entries have been processed:
  • 297 captured (32,296 unique files, 79.28 GB of game files);
  • 300 skipped, because the game itself is hosted on another site or embedded from one;
  • Geometry Dash left out, because it was delivered separately;
  • 6 not capturable or deferred (the reasons are in the review).
• The bucket holds about 79.39 GB, including reports and evidence.
• Archive-wide review: _verification/FINAL-REVIEW.md. Per-entry table: _verification/final-review-entries.csv.
• Latest batch report: _verification/LATEST.md (batch 6). Every batch report is at _verification/batches/<batch>/README.md.

Layout

• site/: the site's files at their original paths (site/games/<game>/…, site/gamefile/…, site/extra/…).
• _vendor/: public runtime libraries that some games load from CDNs, stored so the builds could be tested with outside network blocked.
• _reports/: inventory.json (every catalog entry and its status) and games/<id>.json (every stored file, with size and SHA-256).
• _verification/: batch reports, browser-run results, screenshots and evidence.

Using the files

• These are web builds that expect to be served over HTTP from the site root (paths like /games/…): use serve.py (above) or any static web server that serves site/ as the root with correct MIME types (for example application/wasm). They are not file:// or single-file releases.
• Some builds need cross-origin isolation, as on the live site: Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin and Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: credentialless.
• Games that load a library from a CDN need that URL either reachable or routed to the copy in _vendor/.
• Every file in every captured entry's manifest was read back from this bucket and matched by SHA-256 and size: most at capture time, and the 74 earliest entries (8,575 files) in a final read-back (_verification/final-readback.json).
• Browser checks confirm start-up, menus and some gameplay only; none is a full playthrough. Known source-side gaps and test-machine limits are listed in the review.