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Dolphin Emulator, the free open-source GameCude and Wii emulator, released new 2503 release on Monday.
The new release improved the functionality to edit per-game basis graphics settings. In addition to the text interface, it now has visual interface to edit the settings from game properties tab.
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This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the most recent PCSX2, the free open-source Playstation 2 Emulator, in all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
PCSX2 is an application that emulates the PS2’s hardware, allowing to play PS2 games on PC or laptop with additional features, such as custom resolutions and upscaling, virtual and sharable memory cards, save states, and internal recorder for lossless quality at full speed.
Battle for Wesnoth, the free open-source turn-based strategy game, released new version 1.18.4 few days ago.
The new release introduced some changes to the single player campaigns mode, updated the UI, translations, and fixed some bugs.
RetroArch, the popular free open-source front-end for emulators and game engines, released version 1.20.0 a few days ago.
The new release added illuminance sensor support for Linux users. Meaning you can play Boktai with real light, just as intended. While, it’s also working on sunlight and camera support.
Want to beatify your Steam app window in Ubuntu or other Linux. Here’s a free open-source project to do the job in GNOME.
It’s Adwaita for Steam, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration style header bar.
Along with rounded window corners extension, it will look just like a native app.
Steam with Adwaita skin
Dolphin, the popular free open-source GameCube and Wii emulator, released new 2412 version today!
The game emulator supported Linux previously through an official Ubuntu PPA, however discontinued! In the new release, it added back official Linux support through Flatpak package, which works in most Linux distributions, through runs in sandbox.
This tutorial shows how to install and play the popular Minecraft sandbox game in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21/22, and their based systems.
Minecraft has different editions, including Java, Bedrock, Legends, and Dungeons, as well as the discontinued Pi edition.
So far, only Minecraft Java edition runs natively in Linux. User can however install and play the Bedrock and Pi editions through sandbox environments, though they are unofficial and have limitations.
Want to see frames per second (FPS), as well as CPU, GPU, RAM usage in your game screen? Here’s how to do the job in Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint based systems.
Most Linux distributions include a free open-source mangohud package in their system repositories. Which, allows to add a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more while gaming.
And, here’s how to install and configure mangohud for gaming in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.
This tutorial shows how to install and setup RetroArch (v1.20 updated) to play classic video games, including Arcade, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Sony Playstation games, in Ubuntu PC or laptop.
RetroArch is a free open-source cross-platform front-end for emulators, game engines, media players, and other applications. It’s the reference frontend for the libretro API, that offers several uncommon technical features, such as multi-pass shader support, real-time rewinding, and video recording.
This tutorial shows how to install the latest dolphin emulator (2503 updated) through either Flatpak or PPA repository in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04.
Dolphin, the free open-source emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii, released version 2503 few days ago. The release added visual interface to edit graphics settings on per-game basis from game properties dialog.
It also added track playtime support, improved Qt input mapping, and introduced cheat code whitelist for Hardcore RetroAchievements, allowing to add widescreen aspect ratio codes, and patch unfortunate game behaviors. See the release note for more about Dolphin Emulator 2503.
