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The MoviesStunts & Effects

Run your own Hollywood studio again. The original 2006 game, recompiled to WebAssembly: no emulator, no installer, just a browser tab.

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The main menu with the Game submenu open
The original menus
The studio lot at the start of a new game
Your studio lot
Studio buildings with the hiring rooms
Build and hire
The tutorial congratulating the player on hiring their first star
Your first star

The real game

Every line of game logic is the original machine code, translated to WebAssembly ahead of time. Not a remake.

Your own copy

Point the page at your installed game. Files are read on your computer; nothing is uploaded and no game files are hosted here.

Saves stay put

Settings and saved studios are kept in your browser, so you can pick up where you left off.

Roll camera

  1. Choose your game folder

    The folder of your installed game: the one with MoviesSE.exe and Data.

  2. Action!

    The game opens in fullscreen. Click it to capture the mouse; Esc releases it.

Needs desktop Chrome or Edge with WebGPU, and the English The Movies: Stunts & Effects 1.2 (MoviesSE.exe from June 2006). The first start downloads about 30 MB.

Questions

Is this an emulator?

No. The game's Windows program was statically recompiled: its x86 code was translated to C and compiled to WebAssembly. Direct3D runs on WebGPU, sound on Web Audio, and the game's movies are decoded with ffmpeg.wasm.

Why do I need my own copy?

The game's models, sounds and movies belong to their owners and aren't hosted here. The page reads them from your installed copy, on your computer.

Which browsers work?

A current desktop Chrome or Edge. The game needs WebGPU and shared memory for its threads. Safari and Firefox aren't supported yet.

Something went wrong

Some rarely used parts of the game aren't supported yet; voice-over recording is one of them. Tell me what happened and I'll look into it.

Can I support the project?

Thank you for asking! If you enjoy it, you can buy me a coffee. Bug reports help a lot too.

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