Play ScummVM on Raspberry Pi

25/05/2016 - Category: Raspberry PI

![Monkey Island](https://misapuntesde.com/images/2016/05/monkey_island.jpg)

Laura plays better than me The Secret of Monkey Island

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](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/scummvm-sails-onto-the-raspberry-pi/) 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