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Playing Mina the Hollower on a Orange pi 5 MAX, full speed, no stuttering -- feels comfy af (lemmy.nz)
submitted 4 months ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Pretty sure most of you will drop a "Well, duh -- that's pretty much a NES game"... which is true, yes. A NES game with plenty of layers (FEX > x86_64 to arm > wine > Directx 12, if my memory serves me right) and the fact that vulkan support is "meh", but still very limited (What you are seeing is pure opengl) makes this a very significant accomplishment. This is not the only game that can run on it -- even Metro 2033 (linux native version) can run quite in an acceptable framerate (10'ish FPS, worst case scenario), and the fact that this is run on a device that barely sips the 10 watts mark... makes this feel very "I'm in the future"-kind of thing.

Oh, and the ingame res is odd like that due to the wacky panfrost support (its gpu "drivers") but its 100% fine when I remove all these terminal windows.

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[-] popcar2@piefed.ca 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Damn niiiice, I've also seen people run it on Android via FEX. It's nice to see X86 to arm is becoming viable way faster than expected.

On a completely unrelated note, I quickly threw together Mina as a regular mouse earlier today. I had no context in which to post it so... Why not, here you go!

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[-] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Love the mouse!

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Indeed. And it'll get better when the vulkan support is properly added.

Also, that's a very lovely drawing you've done there, great job. Very cute.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

How long did you expect it to take? FEX is a decade in the making.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 4 months ago

What do you use for x86_64 to arm?

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Doesn't this have a native Linux build? Why are you running the Windows version aside from 'because I can?'

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It does. I've bought the Windows version regardless so I can test the game on different machines.

-EDIT- ...and just came to mind that some Linux games does not run at all on the opi 5 due to poor vulkan support -- which might be the case of this game as well.

t. Bought the TMNT linux native brawler game (forgot its name now -- TMNT something something shredder) and the game refused to run. Then, bought the windows version right after and the game ran smoothly.

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

I can't speak for them, but in my experience with GOG games launched via Heroic launcher, the windows version of the games tracks my progress and achievements with my GOG account but the Linux versions never do. So that's why I personally choose Windows versions of at least GOG games.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

Hah, neat! Which Linux is that? I got a OrangePi 5 8GB and most ready images like BredOS didn't play nice with emulators, so I had to contend with orange's own android port

Also, uh, don't look now, but I think the feds are onto you

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's armbian "bleeding edge", minimal install with sway. Thankfully nowadays it "just werks" and does not require further/weird tweaks like masking the systemd-logind service, and so on, so forth.

Also... oh snaps

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nice!

Tried playing the game myself and couldn't stand it. But cool that it runs nice on tht setup!

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Nice to hear I'm not the only one! Gave it up after 5 mins because I couldn't take the pixelated graphics on a widescreen monitor.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

I think it's for the NES kids. It has very Zelda vibes and that's just never my kind of game. Unless it has squad based tactics.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I can’t even get jackbox games working right for me. Really slow and the screen just keeps flickering.

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

That happens because you are expecting it to work out of the box -- the orange pi boards are meant for tinkerers. You've got to get your hands dirty to get it to work/game properly. Which can be as easy as a single bash script, however.

t. I use a bash script to automatically install all the necessary packages, commands, etc.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Respectfully no, I literally had to do solder repairs on this board to make it work. I’ve owned it for a while now. I know what’s still rough on it. I’m on fedora mainline, not using armbian hacks.

It’s a problem with jackbox and proton that’s even worse with FEX being stacked on top of it.

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

I literally had to do solder repairs on this board to make it work.

...I'm pretty sure you -don't- need to go that far -- just made a quick search about it where the linux version was made available in 2018, and absolutely no one is mentioning the need to do solder repairs.

"Respectfully", you are doing something wrong.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Really? Those 2 resistors weren’t ripped off the board from a previous project gone wrong? Well I’ll be damned.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

My days of gaming are pretty much over, so I'm out of the loop, but I really like how this game looks. Is it free and can I play it without steam and other tools? For example 0.a.d. Runs just from an appimage.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

The game's not free, unless you pirate it. It's available on Steam and GOG

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