Recommendations for SWF decompiler for change n' publish purposes

Question

My mission is to take an existing SWF file, decompile it, change a few things (mostly localization stuff) and then republish it. So I figure to get a SWF decompiler program that will extract the FLA file from the SWF, edit the FLA and then - publish it.

As far as I know this is the most commonly used SWF decomplie program. One problem with this one - it costs.

I'd like to know if there are any alternatives (preferably free) to SWF decompression software in the market that could perform my requested operation.

Answer 1

You will not find a better decompiler than Sothink's. Trillix offers one that seems pretty good from what I have seen, but I know Sothink works well. I have used it a number of times on swfs where I accidentally deleted, saved over, or otherwise screwed up my FLA. If you simply want to get a glimpse of how something is being done on someone else's swf, and you want to do it for free, there are several swf -> asb (actionscript byte code) converters. The only problem there is you need to learn to read asb, which isn't very easy at first.