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Supported Games

The follow list of games are supported. It is worth noting that there are multiple releases of these games, and some specific releases may not be supported.

Game Name Game ID System DVP NVidia Intel (Mesa) AMD (Mesa) AMD (proprietary)
After Burner Climax SBLR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0009 ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax Rev A SBLR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0009A ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax Rev B SBLR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0009B ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax SDX SBMN Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0018 ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax SDX Rev A SBMN Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0018A ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax SE SBLR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0031 ✓ ✓ ✓
After Burner Climax SE Rev A SBLR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0031A ✓ ✓ ✓
Ghost Squad Evolution SBNJ Lindbergh Red DVP-0029 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Harley Davidson SBRG Lindbergh Red DVP-5007 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hummer SBQN Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0057B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hummer SDLX SBST Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0057 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hummer Extreme SBST Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0079 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hummer Extreme MDX SBST Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0083 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Rev A SBML Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0019A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Rev B SBML Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0019B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Rev C SBML Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0019C ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Rev D SBML Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0019D ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Rev G SBML Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0019G ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Export Rev B SBNK Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0030B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Export Rev C SBNK Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0030C ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Export Rev D SBNK Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0030D ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D 5 EXP SBRY Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0075 ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D 5 EXP 2.0 SBTS Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0084 ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D 5 EXP 2.0 Rev A SBQN Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0084A ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 5 Rev A SBQZ Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0070A ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 5 Rev C SBQZ Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0070C ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial D Arcade Stage 5 Rev F SBQZ Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0070F ✓ ✓ ✓
Let's Go Jungle SBLU Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0011 ✓ ✓ ✓
Let's Go Jungle! Rev A SBLU Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0011A ✓ ✓ ✓
Let's Go Jungle Special SBNR Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0036 ✓ ✓ ✓
SEGA Network Taisen Mahjong MJ4 SBPN Lindbergh Red EX DVP-0049G ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SEGA Network Taisen Mahjong MJ4 Evolution SBTA Lindbergh Red EX DVP-0081 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SEGA Network Taisen Quiz Answer X Answer SBMS Lindbergh Red DVP-0025H ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SEGA Network Taisen Quiz Answer X Answer Live SBUR Lindbergh Red DVP-0087D ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Outrun 2 SP SDX SBMB Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0015 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Outrun 2 SP SDX Rev A SBMB Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0015A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Primeval Hunt SBPP Lindbergh Red DVP-0048 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RAMBO_SBQL SBQL Lindbergh Red EX DVP-0069 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RAMBO_SBQL (China) SBSS Lindbergh Red EX DVP-0078 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
R-Tuned SBQW Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0060 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sega Race TV SBPF Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0044 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead 4 Rev A SBLC Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0003A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead 4 Rev B SBLC Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0003B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead 4 Rev C SBLC Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0003C ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead 4 Special SBLS Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0010 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead 4 Special Rev B SBLS Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0010B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The House of the Dead Ex SBRC Lindbergh Red DVP-0063 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Too Spicy SBMV Lindbergh Red DVP-0027 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 SBLM Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0008 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Rev A SBLM Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0008A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Rev B SBLM Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0008B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Rev E (Public Version C) SBLM Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0008E ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Export SBLM Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0043 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown REV A SBUV Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5019 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown REV B SBXX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5020 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown REV B ver 6.0000 SBXX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5020 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 R SBQU Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5004 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 R Rev D SBQU Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5004D ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Fighter 5 R Rev G SBQU Lindbergh Yellow DVP-5004G ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Tennis 3 SBKX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0005 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Tennis 3 Rev A SBKX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0005A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Tennis 3 Rev B SBKX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0005B ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtua Tennis 3 Rev C SBKX Lindbergh Yellow DVP-0005C ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Game Issues & Fixes

All Games: missing dependencies & libraries

Additional libraries that you might need to install to get all games running are listed here:

sudo apt install build-essential freeglut3:i386 freeglut3-dev:i386 libglew-dev xorg-dev libopenal1:i386 libopenal-dev:i386 libxmu6:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libsdl2-dev:i386 libfaudio0:i386 libfaudio-dev:i386 libncurses5:i386 libasound2-dev:i386 alsa-utils:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386

On Debian, libglut might not be found. Adding a symbolic link will fix it.

sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglut.so /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3

Let's Go Jungle Rev A

  • The game must be run in export mode to have the stereo sound option.

Outrun 2 SP SDX

  • You need to set SKIP_OUTRUN_CABINET_CHECK to 1 in linuxloader.ini to play in DX, SDX or Standard cabinet types.

Hummer (all versions)

The games will ask for libGLcore.so.1 and libnvidia-tls.so.1 you can copy for example libkswapapi.so as libGLcore.so.1 and libnvidia-tls.so.1 and the game will work fine.

Configuration File : linuxloader.ini

All configurable options are set and explained in the linuxloader.ini file itself, and should be reasonably easy to understand. This chapter further explains some of those setup options.

You will see the value AUTO by default for some of the config options. This is present when the emulator might set that config value to multiple different things itself. For example rideboard emulation is set to AUTO so that the emulator doesn't enable it for all games, and only turns it on for the special games that require it. If it was set to 1 it would always emulate the rideboard on serial port 2, and if it was set to 0 it would never emulate it.

Controller Setup

There are 2 modes for the controller setup in the emulator, these are set using the INPUT_MODE flag in the configuration file.

Input Mode 0

In this input mode, both input mode 1 and input mode 2 are active.

Input Mode 1

In the first input mode, the keys on the keyboard are used to control the game play. If playing a light gun game, the mouse pointer in the window is used as the player 1 light gun. There are no configurable options in this mode.

Input Mode 2

In the second input mode, inputs are taken directly from the evdev library in linux and so you can configure additional devices such as light guns, controllers and steering wheels.

To list the available inputs you should type:

./linuxloader --list-controllers

From there you will be able to see the controllers and all of the inputs support. Then in the config file you should map an arcade input to a controller input as follows.

PLAYER_1_BUTTON_UP XBOX_CONTROLLER_BTN_UP
ANALOGUE_1 XBOX_CONTROLLER_ABS_X

You can map digital controls to analogue controls. The analogue value will be set to the digital value, such that if the button isn't pressed it will be set to 0, and if the button is pressed it will be set to MAX. This is useful if your controller doesn't have analogue accelerator or break buttons.

ANALOGUE_0 XBOX_CONTROLLER_BUTTON_BR

You can map analogue controls to digital controls too. For each analogue input, there are 2 more inputs created ending in _MAX and _MIN. These are digital controls that will be triggered when the analogue input is either at the minimum or maximum value. This can be useful if you'd like to use an analogue stick to control a fighting game for example.

PLAYER_1_BUTTON_UP XBOX_CONTROLLER_ABS_Y_MAX
PLAYER_1_BUTTON_DOWN XBOX_CONTROLLER_ABS_Y_MIN
PLAYER_1_BUTTON_LEFT XBOX_CONTROLLER_ABS_X_MIN
PLAYER_1_BUTTON_RIGHT XBOX_CONTROLLER_ABS_X_MAX

You can set a deadzone for analogue axis. Each anaolgue input has 3 potential deadzones: start, middle, and end. The deadzone is a percentage of the range from the start, middle, or end that should snap to its respective extreme. This is useful for input devices that don't perfectly center, or pedals that don't perfectly return to 0. For instance.

ANALOGUE_DEADZONE_1 10 13 10

Will cause input on analogue input 1 to be clamped as follows:

  • At the start of the range the first 10% of the range will be set to 0%. In the case of a steering wheel where left is 0%, center is 50%, and right is 100% this will set steering percentages 0-10% to 0%.
  • In the middle of the range the center 13% of the left of middle, and 13% of the right of middle will snap to the middle.
  • At the end of the range the last 10% of the range will be set to 100%, similarly to the start case.

Audio Setup

There are currently no audio options that you can set. If you have a stereo sound card installed then the audio will be downmixed to stereo. If you have a 5.1 sound card installed and the game supports surround sound, each surround channel should be passed through properly and should play sound as it was originally intended.

Stand alone mode

The compiled version of the loader contain a folder named ll-deps. If you copy all the files from the tar.gz to a specific folder you can run the loader as a standalone app. The loader will look for the dependencies in that folder. If there is a missing library for a specific game, you can add it to that folder instead of cluttering the game's folder. You can aslo specify a custom folder for the dependencies using the -L or --library-path options. You can also copy the libraries to yout lib32 folder in you linux distro (not recommended). The loader will look in ll-deps first. Or, you can use the appimage.

-g or --gamepath

With this new option, you can specify the location of the game, where the game's ELF resides.

./linuxloader -g /my/custom/folder/hod4/elf

The loader will search for known elf files in that folder but you can also run it like this:

./linuxloader myCustom.elf -g /my/custom/folder/hod4/elf

The loader will load myCustom.elf inside the passed folder.

Passing a folder containing an elf

With this option, you pass a full path, including an ELF name like this:

./linuxloader /my/custom/folder/hod4/elf/myCustom.elf

The loader will load the ELF in that folder.

You can combine all options.

If by mistake, you pass both, a full path including an ELF and a path with -g option, the path passed with -g option will be omitted. Remember that if the path containg spaces, which is not recommended, pass the path inside double quotes or \ before the space.

Configuration files (linuxloader.ini and controls.ini)

If you'd like to change game settings, you can create the config files for controls and game configuration using the following commands

Linux

This will create the file named linuxloader.ini in the specified folder

./linuxloader --create config /path/to/your/game-folder

This will create the file named myconfig.ini in the specified folder

./linuxloader --create config /path/to/your/game-folder/myconfig.ini

If you'd like to change controls, you can create the config files for controls using the following command

This will create the file named controls.ini in the specified folder

./linuxloader --create controls /path/to/your/game-folder

This will create the file named mycontrols.ini in the specified folder

./linuxloader --create controls /path/to/your/game-folder/mycontrols.ini

If you specify a configuration file either for the game settings or controls in the command line, this is the behavior the loader will do:

Linux

/path/to/linuxloader -g /path/to/game -o /path/to/configfile/myconfig.ini -c /path/to/configfile/mycontrols.ini

NOTE When you specify a config file in the command line, you need to pass the path and the filename as shown above. If you don't provide a filename, the loader will not find the file.

Config File Loading Order

  1. It will try load the specified file from the path you provided.
  2. If the file doesn't exist it will try to load linuxloader.ini or controls.ini file, in the folder where linuxloader is running.
  3. If that file also doesn't exist it will try to load linuxloader.ini or controls.ini from the directory where the game executable is located.
  4. If linuxloader.ini does not exists in the games's folder, as a fallback, it will try to load lindberghloader.ini.
  5. If none of the files exists, it will use the default values.inuxloader --create --help

Will give you instructions on how to use the new commands.

## ID4 and ID5 Card Support

Read the guide inside `docs` folder.