Yikes! This is exactly what I was worried about, and it's why I didn't take a gamble on the Fanatical deal without the game having any Steam Deck status yet.

Konami is an odd duck where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. For some stuff, they contract out suitable indies to do the work and things usually tend to work great and have a lot of love poured into them - see Bomberman (which they ended up with due to absorbing Hudson Soft after they went bust) and Bail or Jail, as well as the Castlevania and Contra retro collections, all of which are fantastic experiences on Linux and the Steam Deck.

But then there's stuff like this that's presumably been done in-house, and which apparently has issues on all platforms [External Link]*, and it just isn't acceptable. And then they do basically zero marketing for anything, as well, which is a whole other problem that doesn't help any of it.

*It's 2023. We shouldn't be seeing "the ability to switch between windowed and full-screen mode is planned" - that should've been in there from the start!

Quoting: EriThe only reason I was mildly interested in this half cooked collection was to play it on Steam Deck

Same for me. I'll wait for fixes and a bigger sale, I think! :shock:

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I very much enjoy run-downs like these - they always seem to lead me to games that I hadn't heard of before. Many thanks! :grin:

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Any readers using Citra? What do you think to it?

I last used it a couple of years ago, when I was still adjusting to being a Linux PC-gamer after decades exclusively in the console (and particularly handheld) space, just to revisit some familiar games for a brief time, and it worked amazingly well even back then!

I would highly recommend Kirby Triple Deluxe if anyone's looking for a charming, chilled-out 3DS platformer, by the way - and with emulators you can remap the button layout to something that's actually comfortable to use, which is something that the original game didn't allow on real hardware.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderGOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!!!

This is why we cant have nice things.........

Hey, Salvatos ruined it first! :tongue:

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GamingOnLinux just did a full server migration and so if you’re seeing this, welcome back home, please wipe your feet at the door.

Sorry, I accidentally blew up the door on the way in. Hope it wasn't too expensive! :tongue:

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Thanks for the heads-up on all of these, Liam - great article! :grin:

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Quoting: whizseThanks for the tip! I picked up Catie in MeowmeowLand [External Link] for a single euro!

Glad to help! :smile: I picked up five games in that one, one of which will be one of my Halloweeny picks for this week's Weekend Players' Club thread. :grin:

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Great bundle, though not a lot that I'm after in this one. The Build your own Fall Bundle 2023 [External Link] is similarly good, as well! :smile:

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This is a good-looking bundle, and seeing so many Steam Deck Verified and Playable icons in one list like this, along with some native builds as well, makes me grin. :grin:

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Quoting: dziadulewiczMicrosoft owned Minecraft now?

Microsoft bought Minecraft on September 15th 2014, so that's been the case for quite a long time. :unsure:

Quoting: dziadulewiczBest to get familiar with Minetest. It is a free and open source adaptation started by another Finn Perttu Ahola. MineClone2 brings you this "Minecraft" in pretty much wholesome way without Microsoft hovering in the background.

Minetest and MineClone2 are great, especially for folks like me who got burned by an (as far as I know) unresolved bug in the console versions of Minecraft where a particular update removed all your DLC (free or otherwise; Thankfully for me it was just freebies I'd claimed during events, but others did lose paid stuff as well) and you could only work around it if you were able to log in on a Microsoft platform; There was no way that I was going to re-buy it once I moved all of my gaming to Linux, and for how I play Minetest/MineClone2 was the perfect replacement.

However, Minetest wasn't the game that had an event, in this case. :wink:

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnd one day when Microsoft buys Atari they can add Infogrames Armadillos....... :wink:

Now that's a scary thought! :tongue:

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