Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the video game from 1999 is a bit of a blast from the past and now kept alive by OpenPhantom. An open source project that aims to be two things: a legacy patch to bring modern platform support and fixes, along with a reconstructed game engine as their long-term project to support modding and new features.
They just released version 1.4 of their installer, which overhauled it to work fully with Wine / Proton exactly the same as it works on Windows, including converting certain files as needed for you.
"The installer runs under Wine and Proton and does everything it does on Windows, including converting the cutscenes and the menu artwork. Tested on a Steam Deck under Lutris and on a Linux Mint desktop, both with Proton GE 10-32.
Two settings decide whether this works, and one of them fails silently.
WINEDLLOVERRIDESmust containdinput.dll=n,b.OpenPhantom's loader isdinput.dll: it takes that name and forwards everything it does not handle on to the real one. Without the override Wine loads its own built-in dinput, the loader never runs, and none of the patches are applied. The game still starts and looks completely untouched, which is what makes this worth checking first.- Point your runner at
WMAIN.EXE, notTPM.EXE, which is the original 1999 launcher.Nothing else needs configuring. The cutscene and controller behaviour adjusts itself under Wine. If the patches seem to have done nothing, check the override, then look for
engine_fixes.logbesideWMAIN.EXE: no log at all means the loader never ran."
Pictured - OpenPhantom - 4K rendering with expanded draw distance
Like most similar open source projects you do need your own copy of the game for it to work, as they do not supply the copyrighted assets.
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and one of them fails silently.
which is what makes this worth checking first.I must say, this reads a lot like Claude's writing style. XD
legluondunet 4 Sep 2026
Thank you to this project (and to dxwrapper devs too), we can again play this game in good conditions.
They even fixed some old game bugs:
"saving while droids have blaster bolts in flight, then loading that save, crashed the game. It has done since 1999. Fixed. And Tomos Mother no longer disapears into the abyss another 1999 bug squashed!
modern feature:
- Controller support built in
- widescreen
...
Very nice project!
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