Pretty sure most of you will drop a “Well, duh – that’s pretty much a NES game”… which is true, yes. A NES game with plenty of layers (FEX > x86_64 to arm > wine > Directx 12, if my memory serves me right) and the fact that vulkan support is “meh”, but still very limited (What you are seeing is pure opengl) makes this a very significant accomplishment. This is not the only game that can run on it – even Metro 2033 (linux native version) can run quite in an acceptable framerate (10’ish FPS, worst case scenario), and the fact that this is run on a device that barely sips the 10 watts mark… makes this feel very “I’m in the future”-kind of thing.
Oh, and the ingame res is odd like that due to the wacky panfrost support (its gpu “drivers”) but its 100% fine when I remove all these terminal windows.
I can’t even get jackbox games working right for me. Really slow and the screen just keeps flickering.
That happens because you are expecting it to work out of the box – the orange pi boards are meant for tinkerers. You’ve got to get your hands dirty to get it to work/game properly. Which can be as easy as a single bash script, however.
t. I use a bash script to automatically install all the necessary packages, commands, etc.
Respectfully no, I literally had to consider repairs on this board to make it work. I’ve owned it for a while now. I know what’s still rough on it. I’m on fedora mainline, not using armbian hacks.
It’s a problem with jackbox and proton that’s even worse with FEX being stacked on top of it.
Nice!
Tried playing the game myself and couldn’t stand it. But cool that it runs nice on tht setup!
Nice to hear I’m not the only one! Gave it up after 5 mins because I couldn’t take the pixelated graphics on a widescreen monitor.
Damn niiiice, I’ve also seen people run it on Android via FEX. It’s nice to see X86 to arm is becoming viable way faster than expected.
On a completely unrelated note, I quickly threw together Mina as a regular mouse earlier today. I had no context in which to post it so… Why not, here you go!
How long did you expect it to take? FEX is a decade in the making.
Indeed. And it’ll get better when the vulkan support is properly added.
Also, that’s a very lovely drawing you’ve done there, great job. Very cute.
Love the mouse!
Doesn’t this have a native Linux build? Why are you running the Windows version aside from ‘because I can?’
I can’t speak for them, but in my experience with GOG games launched via Heroic launcher, the windows version of the games tracks my progress and achievements with my GOG account but the Linux versions never do. So that’s why I personally choose Windows versions of at least GOG games.
It does. I’ve bought the Windows version regardless so I can test the game on different machines.
-EDIT- …and just came to mind that some Linux games does not run at all on the opi 5 due to poor vulkan support – which might be the case of this game as well.
t. Bought the TMNT linux native brawler game (forgot its name now – TMNT something something shredder) and the game refused to run. Then, bought the windows version right after and the game ran smoothly.
What do you use for x86_64 to arm?
FEX.
Oooooo
Hah, neat! Which Linux is that? I got a OrangePi 5 8GB and most ready images like BredOS didn’t play nice with emulators, so I had to contend with orange’s own android port
Also, uh, don’t look now, but I think the feds are onto you
That’s armbian “bleeding edge”, minimal install with sway. Thankfully nowadays it “just werks” and does not require further/weird tweaks like masking the systemd-logind service, and so on, so forth.
Also… oh snaps
