What games are the best in gentoo? What emulatiors are best?

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

Yes, im new to gentoo and just got my Insperion 8200 running cherry. I dont even know where to start as far as games in gentoo. I know im intrested in emulating games like the old NINTENDO and SNES but there are so many different emulatiors, maby you all could tell me which are your favorite, do any support multiplayer??. Also i have a pretty good machine so how about some computer games too; i like: halo, warcraft, NWN, rise_of_nations, Europa 1400, what might I try? How many of you all use wine or similar to play buggy Windows games in gentoo?? Im also debating that posibility.

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ginji · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:29 am Post subject:

NWN has native linux support

plenty of emulaters, just have a browse through /usr/portage/games-emulation/ for them, read the portage info on each of em, and try em out...

halo will prob not run (after all it's a M$ peice of $h1t)... others i do not know

what gfx card do you have, cause you will have to set that up as well (if you haven't yet

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Wine(X) is decent and getting better by the day it seems, so thats definatly an option. The Linux version of NWN is fantastic. As far as console emulation, I'm currently hooked on Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. VisualBoyAdvance plays it just fine. Of course the graphics are a little jaggy if you increase the window size beyond the tiny little GBA screen size, but otherwise its fine.
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sapphirecat · Guru Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 376

For Super Nintendo emulation, go for zsnes.

It comes with a menu-based GUI, cheat code support (Game Genie and others), and tons of screen modes.

I remember looking at a couple of NES emulators, and actually playing on FakeNES for a while, but they all use z/x for the buttons, which just doesn't work on a Dvorak layout. So I don't use it.
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Clete2 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject:

hackerError · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

If you like Halo you should try playing Tribes.
There is a native version of Tribes2 for linux, and tribes legends is free and in portage.

Halo is just Microsoft stealing tribesII, then trying to be CS by only allowing you two weapons.

GET TRIBES!
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

So, i dont even know what leageally owning games really means, i cant get them off of the nes cartrages, so how do i get roms?
Im assuming Tribes2 is not free? Ill look into it but i have zero money.
Thanks everyone ill get right to putting off my studies

Clete2 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

Buying the game. That's legal. I'm not sure if ROMs are legal.
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Shigure · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 33

Roms, as per what Nintendo has to say about them, are not legal to download off the internet (at least, in the US). As for Tribes 2, it was distributed by Loki, and wasn't free either. Loki long since has gone out of buisness, so you could probably find a copy fairly cheap.

Hope that helps.

Clete2 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject:

Oops. Better delete those... I had no idea. I knew that the 24hr crap was dead fake. Thanks for the heads up. Masking?
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Shigure · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 33

Sorry, didn't see that. To perm unmask a package, you need to first create the directory /etc/portage. Next, make a file called package.unmask, then dump what you want unmasked in there. For instance, you could do

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

ANyone get into any games that i can simply emerge????

jathey · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 48

Here are some of my favorite games in the portage tree:

FreeCiv, a clone of Civilization 2, is great. Network play is included. The interface isn't as slick as its inspiration, but it's still fun.
PyDance is a Dance Dance Revolution clone. It comes with a couple of songs, and there are others to download on on the wibbly wide web.
Frozen Bubble is a puzzle game like Snood for Windows. High production values on this one.
Tuxracer, at least the old open source version, is in the portage tree. Great feeling of speed, and cute too.
Abuse-SDL is a classic side-scroller. I believe it has been completely freed by its creators, so you can get the whole game.
Neverball is a Super Monkey Ball clone. This is essentially a 3d marble rolling game, and is more fun than it sounds.
If you don't own the original game, you can at least play the shareware versions of Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Descent 1, Descent 2, Duke Nukem 3D, and many others, all in graphically enhanced engines. If you have a powerful video card, be sure to check out Tenebrae Quake for some real eye candy.

As for emulation, fceultra is probably the best NES emulator. ZSNES is best for SNES, hands down. If you run your display in 16-bit mode, Gens is great for Sega Genesis. epsxe is a great PS1 emulator. If you have a fast processor, Mupen64 will play lots of N64 games.

If these aren't enough games to entertain you, then you need a job or more homework. :wink:

Clete2 · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:26 am Post subject:

Hmm. Well, I had to edit some file and uncomment something...

Ah, games:

Enemy Territory (enemyterritory)
America's Army (americasarmy)
Tons of demos
Tribes Legends (legends, I think)
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bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

zsnes, mupen64 needs qt, i hate kde so that isent going to work. I guess that all these emulators need qt (what exactly is qt - assoiated with kde at least)? Where does one find roms, search google??

Rodent · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:55 am Post subject:

qt and gtk are the interface libary files (the way programs get menus and whatnot) for KDE and Gnome. It would be a vast misconception that KDE is nesscary to run qt based apps or the other way around. The differences are most clearly seen in the language of use KDE C++, Gnome C. KDE was first, but orginally under a non-free (as in freedom) lisence thus Gnome was started. Most (ie me) consider qt to be more designed like BSD and gtk to be more adhoc like linux. BTW Gnome is LGPL (bsd like) and KDE has a more GPL like lisence (however still commerical).

You can get some roms legally at http://www.starroms.com.
As for other (illegal) sources for roms I would suggest you ask else where as it is clear violation of the forum guide lines to disscuss such things. However, newsgroups, IRC, and P2P networks have long been open communities for that kind of 'disscussion.'

christsong84 · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:23 am Post subject:

nwn vote here...and you can emerge it but I've had an easier time just following the instructions on the website...makes it easy since I own both x-pacs
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blight · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Austria

Dudes... I have written the mupen64 gui - it's plain GTK-1.2 without *any* Qt...
A new mupen64 version will be released soon (with a dynarec) and it will be much faster... also all the people really into emulation seem to believe that 1964 1.0 is usually better than project64