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Gaming on Raspberry Pi
dodrian Mar 8, 2017
I just acquired a Raspberry Pi 3 and installed Retropie for an emulator replacement of my old Gameboy and Nintendo systems which are sadly a bit past their prime.

I've been looking to install some native Linux games as well, but it seems that even though retro-style 2d graphics are popular in modern games, those games still want 2Ghz and 2GB+ RAM (Terraria, Stardew Valley, etc.)

So - what Native Linux games have you found to run well on lite hardware? (1.2Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM, no dedicated GPU memory AFAIK)

Bonus points if they use a gamepad.
lucinos Mar 8, 2017
Quoting: GuestThe Pi has an ARM processor so you won’t be able to run the very large majority of non open-source games.

exactly that.

so you have mainly emulators, open source games and browser games.
dodrian Mar 8, 2017
Quoting: GuestThe Pi has an ARM processor so you won’t be able to run the very large majority of non open-source games.

Yes of course, I should have realized that!

Though, there are a few games out there that are basically packaged .jars, I wonder if I could get some of them to work...
1xok Mar 8, 2017
Quoting: dodrian
Quoting: GuestThe Pi has an ARM processor so you won’t be able to run the very large majority of non open-source games.

Yes of course, I should have realized that!

Though, there are a few games out there that are basically packaged .jars, I wonder if I could get some of them to work...

Minecraft runs on the Pi:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137279
s8as8a Mar 9, 2017
Perhaps Supertux ( http://supertux.github.io/ ) would be a good candidate for that hardware?
g000h Mar 9, 2017
Something you may not have realised, but the Raspberry Pi could be used as a Steam-link client (not exactly, but close to that - Moonlight). So you run Steam on your PC, and play the game on your Pi connected to your TV in the other room.

https://www.howtogeek.com/220969/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-steam-machine-with-moonlight/

People were doing it with Raspberry Pi 2 models, so the Pi 3 should run even better.

While blabbing about Steam-Link technology, I have been contemplating playing Windows games (on my old PC) and steam-linking to my main Linux PC, so I don't have to suffer coming out of Linux to do my gaming. Thinking to play Skyrim like that. Obviously I'd much prefer to play natively, and when a game is only out on Windows I avoid buying it unless I really really want it.

Note: I really, really want Witcher 3... but not cheap enough / not on Linux - so I'm still holding out.
dodrian Mar 10, 2017
Moonlight looks really cool, but unless I'm reading it wrong it needs to stream from a Windows computer, which I don't have.
damarrin Mar 10, 2017
Skyrim runs very well in Wine, no need for streaming.
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