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I purchased the Atari 50 collection and I would like to play it on Linux. I installed it with the Wine emulator seamlessly but it crashes on running. Then I browsed the install directory and found a gigantic 11GB "assets.pie" file, so I have no chance to extract the games and play them with an emulator. Is there a way to extract this "assets.pie"?
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oligalma: I purchased the Atari 50 collection and I would like to play it on Linux. I installed it with the Wine emulator seamlessly but it crashes on running. Then I browsed the install directory and found a gigantic 11GB "assets.pie" file, so I have no chance to extract the games and play them with an emulator. Is there a way to extract this "assets.pie"?
Found two ways that could work:
https://gist.github.com/WinterSnowfall/7d87ed156fb65896fdba6e925e54bb2a
https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/issues/62#issuecomment-1326696288
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oligalma: I purchased the Atari 50 collection and I would like to play it on Linux. I installed it with the Wine emulator seamlessly but it crashes on running. Then I browsed the install directory and found a gigantic 11GB "assets.pie" file, so I have no chance to extract the games and play them with an emulator. Is there a way to extract this "assets.pie"?
Little update, doing everything through Linux:

Download https://github.com/Masquerade64/Cowabunga/releases/latest, extract the EXE, put it and assets.pie in the same and run:
wine cowabunga64.exe --key atari assets.pie output.zip
For the arcade games, extract the folder roms/Arcade from the output ZIP, download https://gist.github.com/WinterSnowfall/7d87ed156fb65896fdba6e925e54bb2a, place the downloaded JS file in the Arcade folder and run:
node atari502mame.js ./
For the other games, they're all in the roms folder.

And for the Atari Lynx BIOS file, open it on a hex editor, e.g. KDE's Okteta, and change the last F0 for 80.
Post edited September 08, 2023 by _Auster_
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oligalma: I purchased the Atari 50 collection and I would like to play it on Linux. I installed it with the Wine emulator seamlessly but it crashes on running. Then I browsed the install directory and found a gigantic 11GB "assets.pie" file, so I have no chance to extract the games and play them with an emulator. Is there a way to extract this "assets.pie"?
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_Auster_: Little update, doing everything through Linux:

Download https://github.com/Masquerade64/Cowabunga/releases/latest, extract the EXE, put it and assets.pie in the same and run:

wine cowabunga64.exe --key atari assets.pie output.zip
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_Auster_: For the arcade games, extract the folder roms/Arcade from the output ZIP, download https://gist.github.com/WinterSnowfall/7d87ed156fb65896fdba6e925e54bb2a, place the downloaded JS file in the Arcade folder and run:

node atari502mame.js ./
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_Auster_: For the other games, they're all in the roms folder.

And for the Atari Lynx BIOS file, open it on a hex editor, e.g. KDE's Okteta, and change the last F0 for 80.
So can I assume you got it working on linux?
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UrsaCorvalis: So can I assume you got it working on linux?
By "it", you mean the tools for the extraction process, or the ROMs?
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UrsaCorvalis: So can I assume you got it working on linux?
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_Auster_: By "it", you mean the tools for the extraction process, or the ROMs?
Both actually. Though I will assume there are always some "issues" somewhere
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UrsaCorvalis: Both actually. Though I will assume there are always some "issues" somewhere
Been 8 months already, so I don't quite remember things clearly, but I don't remember having had issues.