Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie
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Bethesda has been giving away their original first two MS-DOS The Elder Scrolls games:
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/arena
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/daggerfallI believe only Arena works on the Raspberry Pi using DOSBox.
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@backstander said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
Bethesda has been giving away their original first two MS-DOS The Elder Scrolls games:
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/arena
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/daggerfallI believe only Arena works on the Raspberry Pi using DOSBox.
That'a nice but due to there being far too many games, we are not including MS-DOS programs which do not have modern source ports. Every DOS title listed above has received a modern source port which works on RetroPie without going through DOSBOX. I have nothing against DOSBOX: its just that the sheer number of games playable that way is so huge that its ridiculous to even attempt to begin listing all of them - even just the free ones. That's awesome. Just too awesome for me to curate, I'm afraid. If ypu want to make a list like that then I'll link to it. Thanks anyway. :)
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Also of note are:
List of commercial video games released as freeware
Open Source Game Clones cant say which of those work on the Pi.
The retrode and the kazzo are devices to dump game Cartridges to a PC.
Amiga Forever for the kickstart roms and some games.
ScummVM has some games that are released as freeware.
The games fore The Vectrex were also released as freeware.
On the mame site are some roms.
While not all dos games can be listed we should include sites with multiple games like gog.com
Three abandonware sites removed: Verifying them thoroughly would take a lot of work -
We want to list stuff that's tested as working on RetroPie. I think I'll try some of the Amiga and Vectrex stuff, but the rest, who can test it?
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Added Myst: Masterpiece Edition
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For The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime, the files I extracted from my genuine Mac CDs work on RetroPie but the GOG version doesn't work. What gives!?
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From discussing this with people on the scummvm irc channel, I found out that Pegasus Prime on GOG has a bunch of ugly hacks to make it work which haven't been merged into ScummVM. People can play with data extracted from the Mac CDs but not from the GOG re-release. That's too bad. :(
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Quake Rally is here and here and Quake Matrix is here. Apparently, these mods were based on modifying the Quake 1 source code. Running them isn't out of the question, but would require getting the modified source and applying the modifications to the ports of Quake currently running on the Raspberry PI. I'd be interested in recruiting any interested parties for a collaborative project along these lines so that these awesome mods (and maybe Quake 2 as well) can shine again. It may also be worth looking into the possibility of porting SUPERQOT to the Raspberry PI, as it's just a modified version of the Darkplaces Quake engine, which I understand already works on Raspberry PI.
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Updated with the locations of ROMs on your Windows storage drive if you bought "SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics" or "Atari Vault" on Steam.
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This might be kind of along the sames lines as MOON8 for the NES...
Have you heard of the NES 8 BIT XMAS?
These are Christmas/Holidays themed homebrew NES games and they release a new cartridges every year. You can download a demo ROM for most of the years. I believe I first heard about these from @mediamogul. -
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Gotta add STREEMERZ
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@benmclean I noticed that there is not an ARCADE section to this post. Since running MAME is a very common goal of RetroPie users, I would suggest adding Gridlee, a game that was created with emulation and distribution in mind from the get-go. It is a great one for setup and testing of MAME.
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@caver01 said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
@benmclean I noticed that there is not an ARCADE section to this post. Since running MAME is a very common goal of RetroPie users, I would suggest adding Gridlee, a game that was created with emulation and distribution in mind from the get-go. It is a great one for setup and testing of MAME.
Added! :)
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@BenMcLean Here is a link to a set of homebrew
ColecoVisionROMs. Some fantastic clones and great original games. http://www.colecovision.ca/roms_homebrew_0-9.php -
All of the Neo Geo games at GOG seem to work flawlessly on RetroPie 4.3 (I only checked their attract mode and some minutes into actual gameplay). So, I think they would fit nicely into this topic's list.
You'll need the neogeo.zip and [romname].zip (e.g. pulstar.zip) from the GOG installer file. The Linux .sh installers are just zip files you should be able to extract with any zip tool. On Linux/Retropie, this could be unzip:
unzip pulstar_en_gog_1_15377.sh -d .Mind the "." at the end, it means "current directory" in Linux. The option -d determines the directory to extract to. You could also use another extraction path after the -d option. The neogeo.zip and [romname].zip are located in the subdirectory data/noarch/game/ .
Alternatively, you could extract the Windows .exe installers with the tool innoextract that's available for Windows and Linux. For Pulstar, the command on Linux/Retropie would be:
innoextract "setup_pulstar_gog-1_(14775).exe"Here, the neogeo.zip and [romname].zip are located in the subdirectory app/ .
Important: You have to put the filename into quotationmarks if it contains special characters like "(" or ")" that are used as operators by the Linux shell itself. Otherwise, you'd have to put a backslash "\" before every single special character, e.g. "\(" and "\)" in the example above.
edit: According to @Eckaji, some Windows versions of the GOG Neo Geo games are modified and won't work in Retropie. So, you should prefer the Linux installers.
edit 2: Some of them are only listed for Windows, but all of those have (not officially supported) Mac & Linux versions in their "Goodies" download section. Thanks to @Eckaji for making me aware of this.
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ColecoVision NORTH: Added.
Neo Geo games on GOG: Added.
Thanks
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@benmclean Thank you, the same to you! What do you think about a link to my post above for instructions about extracting the roms?
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@clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
@benmclean Thank you, the same to you! What do you think about a link to my post above for instructions about extracting the roms?
Sure OK.
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