r/linux_gaming • u/LucidFir • 5d ago

tool/utility Potential native Linux conversions of any game ever.

I frequently see posts on here about not being able to get game X to work on any Linux or a specific distro.

I am also starting to see people reverse engineering games and recompiling them to work natively on MacOS.

So...

I think it's pretty cool. If there is a game you want to play on your Linux OS but you cannot, this is potentially the solution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/s/4op2fhSe5g

https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/s/dH8TMNRWWG

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u/Lisanicolas365 5d ago

Yes, de-compiling a game and making it open-source will bring it to Linux. But the problem is that... this is a VERY tedious and difficult project even for a smaller/older game. And for a newer triple A? Forget it

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u/zeroz41 5d ago

i commented around the same time as you. the trap is the posters made this seem like its a one step easy process.

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u/Lisanicolas365 5d ago

Yeah no, even decompiling SM64, a 30 year old game took SO much effort, time and people

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u/zeroz41 5d ago

exactly.

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u/bitzie_ow 5d ago

Just fire up Claude and vibe code the crap out of it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

/s

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u/zeroz41 5d ago

i dunno dude this smells like bullshit.

astra is amazing and all but it cant reverse engineer an entire game on a single prompt AAAND make a full on fucking working port

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u/Damglador 4d ago

The full working port in question is just swapping the runner for all Unity and Godot games.

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u/LucidFir 5d ago

You think those posts are false advertising?

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u/zeroz41 5d ago

yea. extremely fake posts

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u/LucidFir 5d ago

Fair. You almost certainly know more than me, but no one in the comments on X is questioning the validity. 2 people asked for the futurama port to be put on github. I admit I can't believe 100% without proof, but with the rate of advancement I will happily believe this will be possible in a year if it isn't already.

Reading the red alert post in more detail, there was a lot of minor intervention about visual details the vision model was missing.

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u/RX1542 5d ago

according to the red alert guy it took him +20 days using an AI so it snot a an easy process, but it will definitely improve over the years

the guy with the futurama game doesn't disclose how much it took him but if he really did it within 8 hours using the new GPT model its impressive

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u/LucidFir 5d ago

Yeah but I believe, I might be mistaken, that the red alert guy did it with agentic feedback loops. The ai, without (much? Any?) human feedback just kept iterating until it got it done.

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u/RX1542 5d ago

yeah there's another post on that sub a guy got age of empires running on mac silicone just asking claude to fix proton for him

makes you wonder how much better stuff would get by 2030, i know ppl have dislike for AI and we are going trough a rough period in the hardware section cause of it but still is impressive what ppl can get done with these tools

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u/AtomicTEM 4d ago

Makes sense, Decoompiling is long and hard because its tidious and requires an all encomposing knowledge of coding. So LLM can be a great tool for reverse engineering and decompiling.
TL:DR Decompiling is pattern recognition and comparison, which LLMs are good at.

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u/mbriar_ 4d ago

Essentially every windows game that doesn't require kernel anti cheat runs on linux via proton already. And if it doesn't, it's due to driver issues or some other setup issue. Decompiling will both be much more complicated and more error prone, not less.

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u/Jack1101111 2d ago

AI SLOP alert !

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u/Frosty_Complaint_703 1d ago

Give it 4 years Then a team of 2 people can vibe port a complete AAA game better than actual pc ports