{"id":34500,"date":"2021-08-31T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34500"},"modified":"2021-10-02T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:13:20","slug":"kart-racing-game-supertuxkart-1-3-adds-nintendo-switch-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/kart-racing-game-supertuxkart-1-3-adds-nintendo-switch-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Kart Racing Game SuperTuxKart 1.3 Adds Nintendo Switch Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertuxkart1200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The popular kart racing game SuperTuxKart 1.3 finally goes stable! Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 21.04.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of development, the game now is ported to Switch though you need to have <a href=\"https:\/\/switch.homebrew.guide\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homebrew<\/a> installed. So the 3D open-source arcade racer now works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS (beta), and Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34503\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34503\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/supertux-switch.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo via erik mclean (edited)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to SDL2 and Mary, there&#8217;s an option to <b>enable force feedback<\/b>. You can find it in &#8216;Options -> Controls&#8217; if you have a controller that support the feature.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics settings now provides &#8220;render resolution&#8221; option. With it, the resolution can be lowered by up to 50% to get better frame rates.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.supertuxkart.net\/2021\/09\/supertuxkart-13-release.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SuperTuxKart 1.3<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>URLs in text on STK UI are now clickable.<\/li>\n<li>Lap line extensions to make sure the lap counting still takes place even if you drive a little bit off the road.<\/li>\n<li>New high scores selection screen<\/li>\n<li>updated SuperTuxKart Blender scripts<\/li>\n<li>New Arenas and Karts:\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient Colosseum Labyrinth &#8211; new battle arena in a dark environment inspired by the Rome colosseum.<\/li>\n<li>Alien Signal &#8211; arena based on a real location of the SETI program.<\/li>\n<li>Sara the Racer replaced by the cute Pepper from Pepper&#038;Carrot.<\/li>\n<li>Gnu has got a new look, Adiumy and Emule also got a makeover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>See SuperTuxKart 1.3 in video:<\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 610px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-34500-1\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/trailer.supertuxkart.net\/1.3\/trailer.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trailer.supertuxkart.net\/1.3\/trailer.mp4\">https:\/\/trailer.supertuxkart.net\/1.3\/trailer.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h3>How to Get SuperTuxKart 1.3 RC:<\/h3>\n<h4>Linux Tarball:<\/h4>\n<p>Users can grab the Linux tar bar from the github release page (under assets):<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/supertuxkart\/stk-code\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SuperTuxKart Releases<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then extract, right-click on the &#8220;run_game.sh&#8221; file and select Run to launch the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh-600x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-stk-sh.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Ubuntu PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>The racing game has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~stk\/+archive\/ubuntu\/dev\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official Ubuntu PPA<\/a> that contains packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 21.10, and their based systems, e.g., Linux Mint 20 and Zorin OS 16.<\/p>\n<p>1.) To add the PPA. Open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or searching from the activities overview screen. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stk\/dev<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertuxkart-ppa-focal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertuxkart-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"109\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertuxkart-ppa-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertuxkart-ppa-focal-450x88.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Next, update the system package cache. This is done automatically in Ubuntu 20.04 and higher, though Ubuntu 18.04 and some Ubuntu based systems need to run this command manually:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<p>3.) Finally, install the game package via apt command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install supertuxkart<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-supertuxkart-focal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-supertuxkart-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-supertuxkart-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-supertuxkart-focal-450x185.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Remove SuperTuxkart:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove kart racing game, simply run the apt command with remove flag in terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove supertuxkart supertuxkart-data<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the Ubuntu PPA using command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:stk\/dev<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular kart racing game SuperTuxKart 1.3 finally goes stable! Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 21.04. After a year of development, the game now is ported to Switch though you need to have Homebrew installed. So the 3D open-source arcade racer now works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1189],"class_list":["post-34500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-game"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}