This morning I received an email from a friend who wanted a recommendation for software to help him download a Flash based game from a popular website. He was going to be on flight and wanted something to play on his laptop when he got bored. 

I don’t support piracy and in good faith have to tell you up front that protecting people right to make money is a strong belief so please check with the terms of service for the game and the website before doing this but … if the publisher has no issue with you downloading the game it’s simple:

1. Load a page with the SWF game on it
2. View the source code of your document
3. Find the tag which will specify where your SWF is stored
4. Open a new NotePad document
5. Write this code: <a href=’URL’>Save this</a>
6. Paste the URL (http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/FlashElementTD.swf) as the href value, replacing the phrase URL in step 5.
7. Save your document as an HTML (.html) document
8. View it in a web browser
9. Right click the link and Save to your desktop