Unofficial games repository

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For reasons we can only speculate about, Arch Linux ARM does not really have any games in their repository.
And by extension, neither does Manjaro ARM.

I don’t want to make our repository go to enourmous size (the games are often 500+ MB each), so I have created a separate repository, just for aarch64 based games.

To add this repository on Manjaro ARM all you have to do is this:

  1. Add this to your /etc/pacman.conf file:
[manjaro-arm-games]
SigLevel = Never
Server = https://www.strits.dk/files/manjaro-arm-games/
  1. Run sudo pacman -Syyu to update all your databases, including the new manjaro-arm-games one.
  2. Now you have access to the games in this repository.

Currently the games available in this repository are:

  1. OpenArena
  2. Xonotic (did not launch for me)
  3. SuperTuxKart
  4. Warzone 2100
  5. Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (srb2kart)
  6. Flightgear

If you have more games you want included in the above repository, please submit a working aarch64 PKGBUILD and I will probably include it.

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Would like to see 0AD working on the ARM devices, but I guess we need some additional iterations on the mesa drivers before this would be possible…

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hmmm when trying to install openarena from your repo it downloads sucessfully, but later give me an error such as…

error: openarena: missing required signature
error: failed to commit transaction (package missing required signature)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Others have reported the same, but I don’t know why, since the signatures where uploaded…

You can always add SigLevel = Never just above the server line, but that’s a workaround, not a fix.

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Looking into packaging 0ad.

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xonotic-glx launches on the pi4 but sound does not work
xonotic-sdk launches on the pi4 and everything works

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I should check how openmw works now.

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Yeah, I figured it’s because the graphics stack on my Odroid is still a WIP. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sad face );

resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) supertuxkart-1.2-1

Total Download Size:   586.24 MiB
Total Installed Size:  657.13 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
error: failed retrieving file 'supertuxkart-1.2-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst' from www.strits.dk : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Update your database. I uploaded an updated package.

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Dunno:

sudo pacman -Syyu

:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                                                                                           224.0 KiB  1600 KiB/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                            2.4 MiB  6.05 MiB/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                                        5.5 MiB  6.64 MiB/s 00:01 [###########################################################################] 100%
 privacyshark                                                                                     9.5 KiB   238 KiB/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
 privacyshark.sig                                                                               119.0   B  0.00   B/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
 manjaro-arm-games                                                                             1406.0   B  0.00   B/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

sudo pacman -S supertuxkart

resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) supertuxkart-1.2-1

Total Download Size:   586.24 MiB
Total Installed Size:  657.13 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
error: failed retrieving file 'supertuxkart-1.2-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst' from www.strits.dk : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Try again now.

The repo server, might be slow at “updating” the files it has.

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Tried. Works now. Thanks.

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@Strit what about Widelands (https://www.widelands.org/)? You see I’m more fond of RTS games :wink:

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I will look into it.

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Hi all (I didn’t notice accounts needed to be recreated. Oh, and aparently, I am not allowed to link anymore? Anyway…)

That’s a cool repo! Made it super easy to play a bit of SRB2Kart with the Pine64 community.

For platformer, I would suggest Frogatto (by the Wesnoth authors).

For additionnal strategy games, I would suggest Wesnoth and FreeCiv (← I don’t count how much hours I’ve lost to this one).

Cube has a very simple engine and should work on most ARM board. And due to being extremely optimized (the octree is the map), Sauerbraten - aka Cube2 (and all its derivatives: Red Eclipse, Tesseract) should work on boards where the board has decent modern OpenGL (e.g.: panfrost)

For point’n’click Sierra/LucasArt -styled games: there are several games which have donnated code and assets to ScummVM. This engine is available in Manjaro, so all is needed is “just” adding a few data packs to the unofficial games repo.

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This is awesome. Thanks!

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Leepspvideo’s latest pi news showed it on MX linux repos in raspberry. i don’t have anything to contribute here, but just a compliment: there are a nice number of games now in manjaro kde arm for raspberry. Also there is a “beta fork” (?) version of Box86 to manjaro that i didnt tested yet (if anyone did, please comment), and the pi labs and pi apps guys seems to be aiming on the raspbian 64 now (most aps run in arm32)