has anyone done a local install of iCarly's PAK RAT?

[vintagegamer]

My daughter would like me to put the iCarly game PAK RAT on our MAME machine.  It looks like a flash file.  Has anyone done a local install of this for their kids?

[Kevin Mullins]

iCarly who?   

Seriously, I know exactly what your talking about, but had never tried it. (though about it, but never did it)

[vintagegamer]

iCarly who?   

Seriously, I know exactly what your talking about, but had never tried it. (though about it, but never did it)

I figured it out 

[wp34]

Didn't they make an actual cabinet for Pak Rat for one of the episodes?  Seems like that caught my eye when the kids were watching it.

[Kevin Mullins]

Looked like an old Asteroids cabinet if I recall, with custom Pak Rat artwork and whatnot.
Doubt it was actually "playable" though.

[Hoopz]

Fairly easy to see whose kids are all about the same age here.

Though I don't recall exactly but weren't there shots of "actual" game play?

[vintagegamer]

There are a couple of shots, I can imagine that all the cab is running is an emulated version of the below link:

http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf

I have tried downloading that blasted swf file and loading it locally, and I can't get it.  Can someone else give it a try and let me know what I'm doing wrong?  I want to install this game on a box that's not connected to the Web.

[Lilwolf]

I haven't done this for years... but...

you want to grab the swf file from your cache if you can't download it.

but then you will probably want to setup a very basic html page that you run full screen, then launch it from there with the parameters (thats what you can't get away from).  You will have to create your own (google and you will see how)...

but the location I ran it from, they had their own launcher for the adds.  Hopefully you can get the params from their launcher (since its generic, I think they are all here )

               gameEmbedTag: '<object data="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="450" id="gameSwf" name="gameSwf"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="window" name="wmode"/><param value="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/" name="base"/><param value="adloader=true&base=http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/&gameName=icarly-pakrat&gameURI=&adfree=false" name="flashvars"/><param value="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf" name="movie"/></object>',
               gameAssetUrl: 'http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf',
               embedParams: {base:'http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/',wmode:'window'},
               gameURLAlias: 'icarly-pakrat',
               gameShowAlias: 'ica',
               gameWidth: 600,
               gameHeight: 450,
               gamePerAd: 0,
               gameTitle: 'iCarly: Pak Rat',
               gameId: 106151,
               gameType: 'flashGame',
               gameGenre: 'Strategy',
               skipAd: false,
               adType: 'freewheel',
               siteSection: 'Nick__Games',
               assetId: 'mgid:cms:item:nick.com:106151',
               site: 'nick'
            }

[vintagegamer]

I haven't done this for years... but...

you want to grab the swf file from your cache if you can't download it.

but then you will probably want to setup a very basic html page that you run full screen, then launch it from there with the parameters (thats what you can't get away from).  You will have to create your own (google and you will see how)...

but the location I ran it from, they had their own launcher for the adds.  Hopefully you can get the params from their launcher (since its generic, I think they are all here )

               gameEmbedTag: '<object data="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="450" id="gameSwf" name="gameSwf"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="window" name="wmode"/><param value="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/" name="base"/><param value="adloader=true&base=http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/&gameName=icarly-pakrat&gameURI=&adfree=false" name="flashvars"/><param value="http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf" name="movie"/></object>',
               gameAssetUrl: 'http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/PakRatPreload_Nick.swf',
               embedParams: {base:'http://www.nick.com/games/data/icarly/icarly-pakrat/',wmode:'window'},
               gameURLAlias: 'icarly-pakrat',
               gameShowAlias: 'ica',
               gameWidth: 600,
               gameHeight: 450,
               gamePerAd: 0,
               gameTitle: 'iCarly: Pak Rat',
               gameId: 106151,
               gameType: 'flashGame',
               gameGenre: 'Strategy',
               skipAd: false,
               adType: 'freewheel',
               siteSection: 'Nick__Games',
               assetId: 'mgid:cms:item:nick.com:106151',
               site: 'nick'
            }

Thanks- yeah, it's been a while for me too.  I thought you could just run the swf without needing all of the parameters but it wasn't working for me.  I'll have to see if I can reconstruct it.  Thanks.

[RayB]

You can only "run the swf" if you have installed the stand-alone Flash player. Stand-alone Flash player comes with Flash, the editor. AFAIK it cannot be downloaded on its own.

Anyways, I tried that swf file in the standalone flash player and it does nothing. It's just a pre-loader file. It likely looks for the main file using a relative filepath, or it has security checks to prevent running the game on anything but Nick's site.