The Settlers 2 On The Raspberry Pi

A quick tutorial how you can play The Settlers 2 on the raspberry pi.

About The Project

There are many projects which want to preserve games and even try to improve them. One of them is Return To The Roots.

The project aims to restore the original feeling of the old game by not changing gameplay related mechanisms and focuses on fixing bugs and making it possible to still play the game on todays machines.

If you're interested in the project and even want to contribute to it you can find them on github.

Compile It Yourself!

Needed Packages For Compilation

We will need some packages to compile the game.

Compiling The Game

Now we will clone the sources from github and compile it.

This may take a while...

Getting The Assets

To be able to play the game we need the assets of it. I will use the GOG version and extract the assets from the installation file. You can use every versíon of the game like the cd version.

To easy extract the assets from the installer we will use a tool called innoexract. Install it using apt:

Download the GOG installer on the Raspberry Pi and then run the following command on it:

A directory named "app" will be created with the contents of the installer. You can rename it for more convience using:

Moving The Assets And Starting The Game

Moving the files to the right directory

The game itself expect the assets at a specific path. Use the following command to move them there.

Everything should be in place now and we can start the game.

Let's Play!

Start the game using your launcher or the console. You can start it in full screen by using the command like so: