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Linux games suitable for an arcade cabinet?
bitsweep:
Minor thread bump here...
KoboDeluxe
Gratuitous YouTube link:
Project Page: http://www.olofson.net/kobodl
It's a 4-direction, top-down space shooter. Originally based on a much older Xwindows game named X-Kobo, this is a complete rewrite. It offers OpenGL acceleration if you have the driver/kernel-module installed for your video card, or will run in "software" mode. The controls are completely re-mappable (I run it on my PC's with a USB Logitech Rumblepad) so getting it to work with your digital or analog sticks is easy. Best of all, it offers a whole slew of differing resolutions, down to 320x200 (or lower if you hit 'custom') so it will work on arcade CGA monitors. (Assuming of course you've got the sync-rate set right...)
It's also really smooth/well-written. I play at 1024x768 resolution on a crappy 2004 e-Machines laptop with an abysmal ATI IGP-320 chipset, and with the OpenGL 2D acceleration on it doesn't stutter at all. (Athlon-XP CPU @ 1.8Ghz.)
Cheers,
-S
bitsweep:
Another bump, this time for X-Rick, a re-engineering of the old Amiga game, Rick Dangerous.
Youtube link (Dreamcast homebrew version):
Project Homepage: http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/
You can re-map the default keys for the thing when you start it from the command-line, and you can specify "fullscreen" mode as well. It's basically a joystick + 1 button game, but a little weird to get used to initially as up/down has multiple meanings if you hold down the button or not.
Very much a fun retro-platformer.
-S
NightSprinter:
As the sources were recently released for it, check out "Rom Check Fail". Mish-mash of various retro games (SMB, Defender,Asteroids, etc.) that switches the player and enemy types at random every few seconds. Definitely one of those games made for a 15KHz resolution.
[Edit] Just tested the game out on my NEC XM2960 after adding the 256x240 modeline. This is a game MADE for an arcade monitor.
NightSprinter:
Other games that seem to be made for an arcade cabinet/monitor would include Cave Story+ (not sure of a way to legally get it, since the latest Humble Indie Bundle closed), VVVVVV, and OpenTyrian. Others I could think of include Rocks and Diamonds, Dodgin' Diamond 2, Freedroid, Stepmania (if you enjoy DDR and/or Pump it Up), and just more than I could even think of over at the Linux Game Tome and Linux Game DataBase sites.
bitsweep:
*BUMP!*
Here's another one that I play quite a bit, and which has very configurable controls. I play it with a game-pad, but it's easy to set up the keyboard, so remapping to an arcade stick + buttons is a piece of cake:
WordWarVI
It's a vector-styled side-scroller shooter, something of a hybrid between Defender, Scramble, with a whole bunch of "Bullet Hell" shooter effects.
Homepage: http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/
YouTube demo:
The soundFX on this are a blast!
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