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Out of the 15 they now have, 7 have "official" Linux support:
- FATAL FURY SPECIAL
- SAMURAI SHODOWN 2
- SAMURAI SHODOWN V
- THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2000
- THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 CLASSIC
- BLAZING STAR
- KING OF THE MONSTERS
All the others, like the Metal Slug series weirdly have unsupported Linux versions included as "bonus" content.
See the GOG news about it here.
Worth noting, there was a Humble Bundle that had these and more back in 2015, so it's likely Humble had some sort of exclusive deal on them for a while. Hopefully they will add more in future!
Will hopefully please some of you that missed the previous Humble Bundle with them in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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33 comments
km3k 31 May 2017
King of the Monsters is fun. I wish they'd bring Wind Jammers to Windows/Mac/Linux too.
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zimplex1 31 May 2017
Quoting: operaDo you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?I really don't care about the legality of it. I love retro games, but I'm not going to pay a penny for them.
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Whitewolfe80 
31 May 2017
31 May 2017
Quoting: operaWell yes as long a you own the original cartridges you are allowed to download the roms for free, and to be honest its really really unlikely even in America that someone is going to kick your door down for downloading a game that came out in 1992.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.Quoting: zimplex1Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?Do you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?
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sigmich 31 May 2017
Quoting: zimplex1You could also download modern games, sofware, movies and music for free from internet. But it doesn't mean it is good. I don't like piracy.Quoting: operaDo you have a legal source for getting all these games for free?I really don't care about the legality of it. I love retro games, but I'm not going to pay a penny for them.
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elmapul 31 May 2017
.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
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Whitewolfe80 31 May 2017
31 May 2017
Quoting: elmapul.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
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Hamish 1 Jun 2017
Quoting: muntdefemsYou probably already know that, but the Windows installers are created with Inno Setup so they can all be extracted with innoextract. It'd be a little redundant to offer the assets separately in a zipfile.Surely if all I want is the raw assets though then it is the rest of the installer that becomes redundant?
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zimplex1 1 Jun 2017
Quoting: sigmichYou could also download modern games, sofware, movies and music for free from internet. But it doesn't mean it is good. I don't like piracy.I enjoy piracy quite a bit, but to each their own. However with old retro games like these and others, I really don't consider it piracy at all. I mean most of these games the developers/publishers are either dead or have moved on to the point that they don't do anything with or care about those IP anymore.
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BTRE 1 Jun 2017
Quoting: zimplex1I enjoy piracy quite a bit, but to each their own. However with old retro games like these and others, I really don't consider it piracy at all. I mean most of these games the developers/publishers are either dead or have moved on to the point that they don't do anything with or care about those IP anymore.Refer to the rules. There will be no more talk about how much you enjoy piracy, consider this a warning. This is a legal way of obtaining games that are no longer in physical form and if you don't agree, well, tough but your entitlement has no place here.
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iplaygameswearingatux 1 Jun 2017
Quoting: razing32Are these actual ports ?rom + emulator (+ 4 avatar images in Metal Slug X)
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?
The BIOS is not compatible with newer MAMEs, but the games are OK (the Metal Slugs at least). I was looking for a way to force start MAME with the GOG BIOS, but couldn't find it yet.
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Joeyboots80 2 Jun 2017
Thanks for the heads up, gonna grab some of these. Loved Neo-Geo back in my arcade days. :D
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elmapul 3 Jun 2017
Quoting: Whitewolfe80you're quite outdated.Quoting: elmapul.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
they were purchased by an company that didnt knew how to manage the ips, then the original ownerd purchase it again.
nowadays they are owned by tencent, the saame company who owns Riot (league of legends creators)
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Whitewolfe80 3 Jun 2017
3 Jun 2017
Quoting: elmapulSo my point still stands SNK is dead not the same company also lost interest in these games i saw Fallout 3 and NV are now on gog, going to have to see if i can write a script to get them running on polQuoting: Whitewolfe80you're quite outdated.Quoting: elmapul.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.
you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games
they were purchased by an company that didnt knew how to manage the ips, then the original ownerd purchase it again.
nowadays they are owned by tencent, the saame company who owns Riot (league of legends creators)
Last edited by Whitewolfe80 on 3 Jun 2017 at 11:57 am UTC
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