🎬 Flash Intro Viewer
The recovered Flash files play here via Ruffle, an open-source WebAssembly Flash emulator. Click any "Play" button below.
Known Ruffle limitation: the intro uses Adobe's TLF (Text Layout Framework) for the "Click to Enter" button text. Ruffle's TLF support is incomplete, so the button itself doesn't render with text on it — but the area where it would have been is still clickable. Try clicking the dark area near the bottom-center of the player. If that doesn't navigate, jump directly to the WordPress site using the link beneath the player.
Intro TLOH Final v2
318,300 bytes · captured 2014-04-27
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Intro TLOH Final v2 (inner animation)
310,853 bytes · captured 2014-04-27
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About the Flash content
Inspecting the SWF binary tells us exactly what the original site did:
- The animation is a vector text scroll: "Throughout the history of time, brave souls have been deemed heroes... only the best become..." (followed by what was almost certainly "The League of Honor" as the title reveal).
- Built in Adobe Flash Professional CS5, created 2012-01-26, last modified 2012-05-27.
- Uses the Engravers MT font and Adobe's TLF text-layout runtime.
- When the intro ends and the user clicks Enter, the AS3 code calls
navigateTourl("../theleagueofhonor.com/index2.html") — redirecting to a regular HTML page (the WordPress site we've already recovered).
- No additional .swf files existed on the domain that the Internet Archive ever crawled. The original folder was named
/Animation/, suggesting more was intended — but only this one was captured.
What about "more Flash" after Enter?
The "deeper site" visitors saw after clicking Enter was the WordPress site itself, not more Flash. It had animated GIFs (recovered — see the gallery), the Juggernaut theme with carousel effects, and dynamic content. All of that is in this archive. Click Site Root or browse All Pages to see it.