Need some advice. Looked for hours on web to find answer

pleblo

I am in the process of building a 4 player Arcade unit and wanted to know if there is a way to use retropie through Ubuntu to play windows type games. The types of games i am looking at are games from Game Jolt. This would be an example of what i would like to play.

https://gamejolt.com/games/marvel-first-alliance-2/18690

I really like these types of games they remind me of X-men, Simpsons, TMNT etc. I would love to play these with my4 player cabinet that i am building but these games install under windows. Does anyone know if there is way to run these in retropie or if it is even possible? If you could point me to an emulator that would run them or do i need to set up a windows based system and just keep a keyboard and mouse to start them?

mitu

The canonical way to run Windows applications (including games) is WINE. You'll need a PC/compatible system, it won't be running or performing very well on a Pi right now.

pleblo

Thank you..

I saw Eltechs pop on up a search but i couldn't get to the site to do more research so i figured it has shut down.

Ill look into WINE and see if this will work.

Thank you

mitu

@pleblo Eltechs sells a similar program, but for ARM/Mobile CPUs, where WINE doesn't run so well.

b3k

That link is to an OpenBOR game. This is an open game platform so it doesn't need Windows emulation. I haven't tried that specific game, but have several others running well on my Raspberry Pi 3.
The docs describe OpenBOR.
Searching the forum will yield more up to date info (for RPi install at least).

pleblo

@b3k

Thank you so much. Yes the install looks a little more challenging then other installs but i think i can figure it out. Pretty cool i found a list of games on the link that do work and that one was listed. Too bad the TMNT demo wasn't working although now they have a full release so ill have to try it out and see how it works.