Out of the 15 they now have, 7 have "official" Linux support:
- FATAL FURY SPECIAL
- SAMURAI SHODOWN 2
- SAMURAI SHODOWN V
- THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2000
- THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 CLASSIC
- BLAZING STAR
- KING OF THE MONSTERS
All the others, like the Metal Slug series weirdly have unsupported Linux versions included as "bonus" content.
See the GOG news about it here.
Worth noting, there was a Humble Bundle that had these and more back in 2015, so it's likely Humble had some sort of exclusive deal on them for a while. Hopefully they will add more in future!
Will hopefully please some of you that missed the previous Humble Bundle with them in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Avehicle7887 May 30, 2017
It is worth adding that despite there's no Linux icon, the Metal Slug games also come with Mac and Linux installers.
There's a small note in each of the Metal Slug game pages:
"Please note: macOS and Linux versions are provided as unsupported bonus content."
I can only guess unsupported means that if these versions don't work, support may not be able to help you if you run into a problem. For the record I bought all 4 and tested them and besides the well known stuttering from the DotEmu port, the games run fine and are perfectly playable on Linux.
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 30 May 2017 at 9:17 pm UTC
There's a small note in each of the Metal Slug game pages:
"Please note: macOS and Linux versions are provided as unsupported bonus content."
I can only guess unsupported means that if these versions don't work, support may not be able to help you if you run into a problem. For the record I bought all 4 and tested them and besides the well known stuttering from the DotEmu port, the games run fine and are perfectly playable on Linux.
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 30 May 2017 at 9:17 pm UTC
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Cool i guess good to support the original games but i have been playing all those games on emulators for a while now hopefully they have added some features or enhancements
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iplaygameswearingatux May 30, 2017
Could anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
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"Please note: macOS and Linux versions are provided as unsupported bonus content."I am honestly surprised that GOG.com allowed that, knowing how anal they used to be about providing support for every one of their products.
What I would love to see is for games on GOG.com with source ports to include just the relevant game data files as unsupported bonus content like this, so that you do not need to download Windows installers and binaries in order to play them on Linux or macOS (or indeed even on Windows).
Maybe they would consider it now.
Last edited by Hamish on 30 May 2017 at 9:48 pm UTC
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Actually they all have linux version, either officially or as unsupported bonus content, so it seems they all should work, just some without 3rd party support given :). Thanks for mentioning Avehicle7887!
Last edited by Faalagorn on 30 May 2017 at 9:49 pm UTC
Last edited by Faalagorn on 30 May 2017 at 9:49 pm UTC
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Strange, have updated the wording in the article to reflect that.
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ProfessorKaos64 May 30, 2017
Nice! I'll have to fire up lgogdownloader and add shortcuts in SteamOS.
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Could anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
If these are the same as the ones present in humblestore then i can confirm they work with MAME
Correct these are. They all work on Linux. They come with a MAME wrapper.
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Bit of a shame these aren't all available in steam, they would make good SteamOS titles for local multiplayer. Still it's good that there available from GOG.
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this is nothing new.
those games are avaliable on humble bundle too.
and buying on humble bundle, allow you to play on android or pc (windows, mac, linux)
those games are avaliable on humble bundle too.
and buying on humble bundle, allow you to play on android or pc (windows, mac, linux)
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Bit of a shame these aren't all available in steam, they would make good SteamOS titles for local multiplayer. Still it's good that there available from GOG.
They are also available on Humble Bundle. I install them on my machines and my STEAMOS HTPC and they are some of the most played games in my home.
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Bit of a shame these aren't all available in steam, they would make good SteamOS titles for local multiplayer. Still it's good that there available from GOG.
They are also available on Humble Bundle. I install them on my machines and my STEAMOS HTPC and they are some of the most played games in my home.
Need to try Humblebundle again sometime, the website keeps crapping out in my browser.
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muntdefems May 31, 2017
I am honestly surprised that GOG.com allowed that, knowing how anal they used to be about providing support for every one of their products.
The Galaxy client is the one to blame for that, apparently. As it seems, all the games without official Linux support include Galaxy features, and since there's no Galaxy for Linux, there's no official Linux support either. A rather stupid reason if you ask me, but here's that.
What I would love to see is for games on GOG.com with source ports to include just the relevant game data files as unsupported bonus content like this, so that you do not need to download Windows installers and binaries in order to play them on Linux or macOS (or indeed even on Windows).
You probably already know that, but the Windows installers are created with Inno Setup so they can all be extracted with innoextract. It'd be a little redundant to offer the assets separately in a zipfile.
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Avehicle7887 May 31, 2017
Luke_Nukem May 31, 2017
You probably already know that, but the Windows installers are created with Inno Setup so they can all be extracted with innoextract. It'd be a little redundant to offer the assets separately in a zipfile.
I would much prefer to have a zip/tarball of the assets, than have to contribute to the Windows d/l statistics. Hell, even a simple installer for the assets only would be great.
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THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 CLASSIC
Classic, not Unlimited Match? Aww, but I wanna play as Li Xiangfei, the best character. Oh well, Metal Slug is awesome at least.
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Could anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
I wrote a slightly detailed guide how to make them work in MAME, you can find the link here (links to gog.com forums)
That guides seems really complicated. I have the HB versions and I just dump the neogeo.zip and the game.zips and they work as is. Were GOG versions altered?
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Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?
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Avehicle7887 May 31, 2017
Could anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
I wrote a slightly detailed guide how to make them work in MAME, you can find the link here (links to gog.com forums)
That guides seems really complicated. I have the HB versions and I just dump the neogeo.zip and the game.zips and they work as is. Were GOG versions altered?
Can you please upload a screenshot of what's inside the neogeo.zip in the HB version? If they're altered I wouldn't as I don't own the HB version.
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