Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe - 14 Feb 2025 at 11:03 am UTC

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

While the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection does exist, this project works with the originals and enhances them. You do need to own the games to run through TRX. You can grab them from GOG or Steam.

The latest release of TR2X 0.9 is out now, which amongst other things includes "Linux builds and toolchain" support, so you can run it natively on Linux and benefit from all the improvements. Going by the status page they say "TR2X is finished with the decompilation and is now able to run without the original game .exe. The focus is now to clean up the code base and enrich the game with new enhancements and features". The update also includes a pause dialog, a photo mode feature, support for animated sprites and more.

Pictured - Tomb Raider II

TR1X 4.8 for Tomb Raider I was also release adding a few new features and lots of fixes. This already had Linux support.

Source: GitHub

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Action, Adventure, New Release, Open Source, Reimplementation

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robertosf92 6 days ago

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Nice to see more of this free replacements arrive, along with new versions of classic FOSS games like Freecol or Freeorion

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Ehvis 6 days ago

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Nice. I've slowly been going through TR1, so I can continue when I'm done.

I played a bunch of TR1 when it released, but the others I did not have time for.

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Cyril 6 days ago

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I'm a bit surprised so I ask the question: is anyone know if these are available on the AUR? It doesn't seems to be the case.

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mrdeathjr 6 days ago

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In my case seems work ok with mesa 25.1, use opengl but in my case use zink

https://i.imgur.com/pd095BT.png

https://i.imgur.com/csW9VGL.png

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FireBurn 5 days ago

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Most importantly can you still lock the butler in the freezer?

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legluondunet 5 days ago

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If you own Tomb Raider 1 - 2 on Steam or GOG, you will find Lutris scripts installer that uses TRX:

https://lutris.net/games/tomb-raider-i/
https://lutris.net/games/tomb-raider-ii/

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Phlebiac 4 days ago

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Looks like Luxtorpeda currently only supports OpenLara for TR1, and OpenTomb for TR2-5:
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages

d10sfan is usually all over these things, so maybe he ran into some issue with TR1X?

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rea987 3 days ago

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Looks like Luxtorpeda currently only supports OpenLara for TR1, and OpenTomb for TR2-5:
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages

d10sfan is usually all over these things, so maybe he ran into some issue with TR1X?

Official page and the GitHub repo of the engine mention decompilation as well as reverse engineering. d10sfan hesitates to include tools made possible by such methods due to legal risks involved. re3 fiasco left a sour taste on everyone unfortunately...

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legluondunet 3 days ago

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OpenTOMB development stopped 5 years ago...and OpenLara supports only TR1, the support for next chapters stayed incomplete.
Today I found only TRX as active project.

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