minigalaxy
A simple GOG client for Linux (by sharkwouter)
xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development) (by xemu-project)
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| minigalaxy | xemu | |
|---|---|---|
| 64 | 131 | |
| 1,051 | 2,433 | |
| - | 7.9% | |
| 6.9 | 7.9 | |
| 15 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| Python | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
minigalaxy
Posts with mentions or reviews of minigalaxy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.
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What's the best or easiest frontend for installing games from GOG?
Personally I use mini galaxy. https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/
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GoG survey: Time to nag them about Linux support
Minigalaxy is great for native apps. Lutris is hit or miss for wine/DVXK.
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This is goodbye, but is it forever?
E.g. Minigalaxy offers many of GoG Galaxys features (Tagging /u/anevilduck here in case he doesn't know it) and only has around 13500 lines of Code.
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Valve has set the bar pretty high, but It'd be nice if anyone else at least did the bare minimum
The official client isn't, but there is a 3rd party one available for Linux https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy
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How to Install And Play GOG Games on Linux With Minigalaxy – A Simple GOG Client for Linux - Wine
https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/
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Thinking of switching to linux
So long as you have a Vulkan capable GPU, you should be able to get almost all GOG games working. You could use Lutris with GOG Galaxy, Lutris with GOG offline installers or MiniGalaxy.
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I'm thinking of changing over to Linux exclusively for a gaming exclusive set up. Is this sensible or should I remain on Windows?
HeroicGamesLauncher / MiniGalaxy: Launcher alternative for the EpicGamesLauncher / GoG.
- Minigalaxy version 1.2.2 released
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Playnite 10 has been released. Open source video game library manager.
Besides there are other projects like https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy that has some of their coding from PlayNite and of their own to work on Linux and there are Tutorials like https://playnite.link/forum/thread-1156.html to make it work nonetheless. Also thanks to Steam's Proton layering, everything is easier at Linux gaming side.
xemu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xemu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
- Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator
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Replay old video games
Xbox: Xemu is the best Xbox Emulator according to the emulation wiki: Download Xemu
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Xemu (Original Xbox) Emulator: https://xemu.app/
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Local Co-op Action RPGs on PC
Black Stone: Magic & Steel / 4 players / Xbox: Plays great on Xemu.
- Why does it seem like Xbox emulation is so far behind the times
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Is it possible to play burned original Xbox games with Xbox One X?
xemu is another option, if you have a Windows rig with sufficient power. Beats me as to how well Coast2Coast runs exactly, but the site boasts it to be playable at least.
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Bloodwake (and likely others) Physics Speed Issue Resolution
I think they is an option to fix this within the emulator. Check out the GitHub page, it does have some details.
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Found this at my grandparents house, can I play them on PC?
DVD-drive and https://xemu.app/
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EON Announces the XBHD, a Plug-and-Play HDMI Adapter for Original Xbox
Xemu is the best current XB emulator, it comes complete with Insignia (Xbox Live 1.0 reimplementation) support, with a little tinkering.
- I tested a bunch of Xemu (og xbox) games on Steam Deck so you don't have to
What are some alternatives?
When comparing minigalaxy and xemu you can also consider the following projects:
lutris - Lutris desktop client
Cxbx-Reloaded - Xbox (Original) Emulator
HeroicGamesLauncher - A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux [Moved to: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher]
pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac.
extract-xiso - Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.
GameHub - All your games in one place
xqemu - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux
rpcs3 - PS3 emulator/debugger