Games on Pinephone
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(10-08-2020, 08:12 AM)gamerminstrel Wrote: I know there was a thread from 6 months ago talking about Retropie, but can we have a dedicated thread somewhere talking about what games work on the pinephone? I really like the idea of people posting here how they manage to get what game to work.

On Mobian, you have access to the full Gnome Software app, but there's literally no way to know if a game will "Just work", or "work but not fit on the screen", or just crash upon opening. The UBPorts app store is... kinda rough. Last I tried it a lot of apps just didn't work, and the games that did work were pretty minimal.

Atm I'm using Mobian, and:

-The only game I've installed that ran with zero issues was Aisleriot.
-All of the generic games with "Gnome" in the title don't fit on the screen properly.
-Retroarch from the Software Store opens, but neither fits on the screen or accepts touch-screen keyboard inputs.

Has anyone else found games that are playable? If anyone else is interested I might look into making a spreadsheet or database that can be updated as progress gets made.

I've had nethack on mine since forever. Also lots of the xscreensaver hacks (including many of the opengl ones) work on the postmarketos release that it shipped with. You'll probably have better luck with unit scaling, I've found using scaling really isn't worth it.
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I can't install Aisleriot on pmos for a missing dependency, but dungeon crawl stone soup work. Unforrunately only the orizzontal orientation is barely playable in ruleset mode. Probably it is possible to personalize the layout.
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