Play ScummVM on Raspberry Pi
Play ScummVM on Raspberry Pi
In a utopian world, Raspbian comes with a installer like Steam for games and programs that just run any program out-of-the-box. Unfortunately it is not the case. Due my daughter is turning six years, I want to show her the exciting world of adventure games, so I present in this article how to install ScummVM in your Raspberry Pi using SDL2.
[ Installations and first steps ]
It was presented in March officially its port for Raspberry Pi using SDL2. Remember that ScummVM is a collection of game-engines to play adventure games. The main problem comes with the lack of SDL2 support in official Raspbian repos (for a change).
I must to say that in the steps that I follow here, I've used the latest version of Raspbian until date. Let's download and install some required packages:
sudo apt-get install -y libvorbis0a libjpeg62-turbo libpng12-0 libasound2-dev libudev-dev
wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.4.zip
wget http://www.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.8.0/scummvm-1.8.0-raspberrypi.tar.gz
tar -xzvf scummvm-1.8.0-raspberrypi.tar.gz
unzip SDL2-2.0.4.zip && cd SDL2-2.0.4
[ SDL2 version 2.0.4 ]
Method 1: Through a Retropie script (you don't need to install it):
git clone https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup/
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh sdl2 install_bin
Method 2: Compiling with:
./configure --host=armv7l-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/usr --disable-pulseaudio --disable-esd --disable-video-mir --disable-video-wayland --disable-video-x11 --disable-video-opengl
make -j4
sudo make install
### Total Time compilation and installation on Raspberry Pi 2 without overclock: 5 minutes
Now we will access to the folder where you have installed the engine and run it with ./scummvm
Some keyboard shortcuts to consider:
Space: Pause
F5: Options
F8: Restart
If you want free games you can grab it here.
Link: gist.github.com > A Bash script to install SDL2 on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)