Mv GameName.app/Contents/Resources/Data GameName_Data For other sources, extract Windows installers with innoextract, 7za or similar tools.įor Windows games, obtained folder structure with GameName.exe and GameName_Data is the same as Linux.įor Mac games, the file structure is different and it is needed to move and rename some files around :.dmg files, mount them with sudo mount -o loop,ro -t hfsplus image.dmg mountpoint. For itch.io, download and extract a Windows version with 7z x Game.exe.After renaming it to Scripts.gz, gunzipping it, and extracting the resulting cpio archive, it is possible to finally get to the game content. After extracting its contents, the next step is to find a file called 'Scripts' in a subdirectory (cannot remember its exact name right now), which is actually a gzipped cpio archive. pkg files, which are in fact xar archives. For Mac, most (if not all) installers come as. For GOG.com, download a Windows installer and extract its files using innoextract -gog setup_whatever_game.exe.
It is also possible to download an old version of the game that way. For Steam, use Proton ( macos-depot-download for Mac), SteamCMD or Steam console to download a Windows or Mac depot (search SteamDB for the actual depot numbers of the game).If not, it is usually possible to download (and extract if they are archived) the files under Linux natively: If the game is installed on Windows, Mac or Wine/Proton, these files can be used. Unless trying to fix a broken Linux game or add support for 32-bit or 64-bit for games shipping with only 32-bit or 64-bit executable in Linux (which should be possible by adding the respective files), files for the Windows or Mac version of the game need to be obtained. Since Unity is based on Mono, only appropriate Linux executables are needed, so it is possible to manually "port" an Unity game made for another platform, that does not ship with Linux executables by locating and placing appropriate executable, as long as the game have OpenGL, OpenGLES or Vulkan renderer enabled, uses GLSL or SPIR-V shaders and doesn't use plugins that are impossible to obtain for Linux.įor older Unity 5+ games before Metal, porting from Mac version can alleviate the problems with pink shaders, since instead of DirectX/Direct3D HLSL shaders common OpenGL GLSL shaders were used.įirst, files for the game to port needs to be obtained. 1.3.3 Finding files in own game libraryįrom Unity 4, Linux is supported target platform for Unity games.1 Porting a Windows or Mac game to Linux.
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