Exagear Discontinued

[hooperre]

I had seen it mentioned around here as people wanting to try it out. It was certainly a neat idea, but as a previous buyer I got an email saying to download it while it's still there.

What I found is [warning: uneducated windows walk ahead] that things that install .dll's independently through, say, a GOG install typically worked out okay. Neverwinter Nights (one of my favorites of all time prompting me to buy this before they made a dang Enhanced edition which I also bought) ran. I haven't tried it on a 3b+, but on the 3b it ran without crashing but skipped quite a bit. That being said, the money was enough to preserve running that game in some fashion. (I think of my Pi as my armored tank of retro gaming that, once preserved, protects me from having future compatibility issues.)

"Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego?" however, did not install correctly and neither did Age of Empires which were both installed from CDs. I think they were installed depending on pre-set libraries on Windows 95, so they didn't work well with wine (at least out of the box, I don't work with wine outside of this occasion so I may have been missing a lot.)

RIP Exagear.

Anyone else have an experience they want to share?

[Gwyllion]

Any way yo buy one license?

[Parabolaralus]

Exagear which i didnt get a chance to try i believe runs off some custom WINE variants used for the project. Dont quote me on any of that.

For older games though including my main RetroPie install im using a x86 PC running Kubuntu at the moment, but specifically i use playonlinux within this.
I had absolutely no troubles creating a WINE container using this program to play some older games i have such as Gothic 1, 2, 3 (my personal favorites) as well as i even got warbirds running which i recall playing on w95 back in the day. Neverwinter nights 1 and 2 are also setup and had almost zero troubleshooting involved though i only played 1 briefly..Great game btw!

You said you're running windows so WINE isn't an option, but something to consider as maybe even a dual boot. You also don't need ZOMG hardware to get these older games running even if you did at the time such as integrated intel works well so does older Nvidia cards.

Also Neverwinter Nights is coming to the xbox one and i think PS4 here shortly...Im not sure how it will play with a controller, but its day one purchase easy for me! The Titan quest port worked pretty well with a controller so im optimistic.