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Yesterday me gave the Pi a little rest from his 24/7 duty, almost forget there were some games installed from the official repository (Raspbian).

My favorite is of course Battle for Wesnoth but also have installed Open TTD, FreeCiv and FreeCol (never played the last one though, too busy slaying orcs).

So, do you game on the Pi?
What games are your favorites (emulation valid as well, not only native) ?
Any GOG game able to run on the freaking most awsome device of the last decade?
I guess you could run all DOSBox games on a Raspberry Pi if you manually extract the files on a PC first. I doubt any games here would natively support ARM CPUs.

I installed RetroPie once, which includes many emulators and gamepad support. Looked fun, but I was too lazy to set it all up properly.
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DarthJDG: I guess you could run all DOSBox games on a Raspberry Pi if you manually extract the files on a PC first. I doubt any games here would natively support ARM CPUs.
You might actually be able to get GOG's Linux installers (when present) to run on the Pi, as I believe the installers are just shell scripts with binary data attached.

If there's no Linux installer, you could try innoextract.

(Of course, a more complex solution would be to run the Windows installer with a combination of qemu-user and wine, but that would probably be frustratingly slow. It's possible that early low-resource Windows games might be playable, but I haven't tried it. (Maybe I should try running Avernum 1 under these conditions and see what happens?))
SNES9x is my favourite.
https://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews/2755/l/try-out-the-raspberry-pi-model-3-b-plus-review

This shows Star Wars Jedi Outcast Steam version running on the pi3, with help of some fan made bits.

I believe there was a fast x86 emulator at one point for the pi?

Is there a list of DosBox games on Gog?

Edit: the x86 emulator is Exagear
I've found a thread with the DosBox list.
I do have a couple of games on the list, will try one or two to see how well it runs.
Post edited July 26, 2019 by Dark_art_
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dtgreene: Maybe I should try running Avernum 1 under these conditions and see what happens?
Yes, please.


Tales of Maj'Eyal is quite a high profile open source game, I never play it but is there any Pi ported version?
Bash. You can do pretty much anything in it -it's similar to Minecraft in that regard- but requires less resources, although you often have to use various add-ons like "sed", "awk", "wget", and others in order to improve on the capabilities of the base game and be able to do what you want. Or maybe Python, I even built an implementation of 2048 in that, so it could be said to be a meta-game.

Not only on the Raspberry Pi though, I play them on most of my machines. Not on the Amiga 500 or the portable 386, or my Performa 475.
Post edited July 26, 2019 by Maighstir
There's no games specific to the Raspberry Pi/RetroPie, only emulated games from other systems, therefore question is invalid.
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ColJohnMatrix: There's no games specific to the Raspberry Pi/RetroPie, only emulated games from other systems, therefore question is invalid.
Isn't Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition specific to the Raspberry Pi?
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ColJohnMatrix: There's no games specific to the Raspberry Pi/RetroPie, only emulated games from other systems, therefore question is invalid.
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SirPrimalform: Isn't Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition specific to the Raspberry Pi?
Slippery slope fallacy. I don't think I should need to mention this.
Post edited July 26, 2019 by ColJohnMatrix
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SirPrimalform: SNES9x is my favourite.
Eh, I like Z-Snes a bit more, but to each their own. :)
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SirPrimalform: SNES9x is my favourite.
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GameRager: Eh, I like Z-Snes a bit more, but to each their own. :)
Ohhh, c'mon. SNES9x and Z-NES are not games :D

My favorite NES game, is by far Duck Tales2. I played that thing so much, back in the day.
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GameRager: Eh, I like Z-Snes a bit more, but to each their own. :)
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Dark_art_: Ohhh, c'mon. SNES9x and Z-NES are not games :D

My favorite NES game, is by far Duck Tales2. I played that thing so much, back in the day.
True, but they are both great emulators for even legally playing your owned games on other hardware(by legal I mean to me it's legal to do so if you own the games), and the Pi might be able to play them.

As for Ducktales....it's odd you mention it as I am playing the remastered game for PS3 atm(not now now but this month/etc).
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SirPrimalform: SNES9x is my favourite.
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GameRager: Eh, I like Z-Snes a bit more, but to each their own. :)
ZSNES (if that's what you are referring to) is written in x86 assembly, therefore it will only run on x86 CPUs without emulating. In fact, it will only run on 32-bit x86; on 64-bit it can only run in 323-bit mode.

To run this on the Pi would require emulating an x86 CPU and running the emulator on that, which would involve two nested layers of emulation, which the Pi might not be able to handle.

(The other main SNES emulators have their issues as well; SNES9x has a "no commercial use" license, which prevents it from being included in debian main, and bSNES requires a CPU with good single-threaded performance, and the Pi's CPU is not enough for that purpose.)
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GameRager: As for Ducktales....it's odd you mention it as I am playing the remastered game for PS3 atm(not now now but this month/etc).
That version is very good as well. Never finished but had played most of the levels.
Oh man, the music!!!!

I´ve installed Retropie on a old SD card to get any dos game to run. DOSBOX was easy to get installed as well but the GOG games I own wich run on DOSBOX, when extraxted with 7Zip, give the files on the attached picture.

Of course, those are not correct, as there are no .exe or .bat file.
Anyone has a clue to what can be done to use those files?
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Post edited July 29, 2019 by Dark_art_