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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Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?Do you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?
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Are these actual ports ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?
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Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?
Because you want to.
I don't mine picking these up, especially when they were available via the 2 instances they were given out via Humble Bundle.
I would prefer if companies sold the ROMS of their games from yesteryear to the public.
I don't have the GOG versions but the HB versions came with a wrapper that took care of the controller settings for you, you also had save states setup via gamepad presses.
You can do that with MAME but MAME still has issues with defined controllers. If you removed a controller or connected it to another USB port - you may have to reconfigure on the fly. There is a way to lock it down but it requires a lot of setup.
Many people complained about the DOTEMU port but I've put these games on some really low tier machines and they ran awesomely.
If they support Linux, I'll support them is how I go about it.
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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?
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.
I have the NeoGeo X Gold handheld. Got pretty much all of them. I will pass on this.
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I have the NeoGeo X Gold handheld. Got pretty much all of them. I will pass on this.
That looks dope!!!! but I already have the Neo Geo gamepads and fighting sticks for the computer. I lost my passion for mobile gaming since I ride my bike to work. When I was a mass commuter I use to play my NeoGeo Pocket Color daily!
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King of the Monsters is fun. I wish they'd bring Wind Jammers to Windows/Mac/Linux too.
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Do you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?I really don't care about the legality of it. I love retro games, but I'm not going to pay a penny for them.
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Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?Do you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?
Well yes as long a you own the original cartridges you are allowed to download the roms for free, and to be honest its really really unlikely even in America that someone is going to kick your door down for downloading a game that came out in 1992.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.
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Do you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?I really don't care about the legality of it. I love retro games, but I'm not going to pay a penny for them.
You could also download modern games, sofware, movies and music for free from internet. But it doesn't mean it is good. I don't like piracy.
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.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
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.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.
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I wonder why is it THESE set of games were released and not others? Because all of the NeoGeo arcade games work on Linux, Mac and Windows via emulator. The 2x they were on HB and now on GOG....Why these specific games and not the others?
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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.Surely if all I want is the raw assets though then it is the rest of the installer that becomes redundant?
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You could also download modern games, sofware, movies and music for free from internet. But it doesn't mean it is good. I don't like piracy.I enjoy piracy quite a bit, but to each their own. However with old retro games like these and others, I really don't consider it piracy at all. I mean most of these games the developers/publishers are either dead or have moved on to the point that they don't do anything with or care about those IP anymore.
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I enjoy piracy quite a bit, but to each their own. However with old retro games like these and others, I really don't consider it piracy at all. I mean most of these games the developers/publishers are either dead or have moved on to the point that they don't do anything with or care about those IP anymore.
Refer to the rules. There will be no more talk about how much you enjoy piracy, consider this a warning. This is a legal way of obtaining games that are no longer in physical form and if you don't agree, well, tough but your entitlement has no place here.
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iplaygameswearingatux Jun 1, 2017
Are these actual ports ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?
rom + emulator (+ 4 avatar images in Metal Slug X)
The BIOS is not compatible with newer MAMEs, but the games are OK (the Metal Slugs at least). I was looking for a way to force start MAME with the GOG BIOS, but couldn't find it yet.
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Are these actual ports ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?
rom + emulator (+ 4 avatar images in Metal Slug X)
The BIOS is not compatible with newer MAMEs, but the games are OK (the Metal Slugs at least). I was looking for a way to force start MAME with the GOG BIOS, but couldn't find it yet.
They work.
In terminal type mame and the name of the rom file - It will open. You could also make a shortcut to it if you like. This is how I play them.
I have the HB versions but one of my friends bought them via GOG and uses Fedora - Got them up and running with the latest MAME.
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Joeyboots80 Jun 2, 2017
Thanks for the heads up, gonna grab some of these. Loved Neo-Geo back in my arcade days. :D
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