I know, stupid AF that I can’t get it to work. For the life of me, I’m not able to play the game on the pc. Of course I can just play in the browser, but I wanted to install it on my Linux machine and fire it up whenever I wanted to. I haven’t tried for a while, but I remember trying a couple of months earlier and there was an app that installed and launched but my controller wouldn’t work with it. I know about super tux, but I wanted Mario. There is only snapcraft app to install called mari0, but I don’t use snaps. Could someone please help me get it installed without going through the whole retro arch thing? Thank you

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
    12·
    5 days ago

    You would need to emulate it. I assume you mean the NES version since you say the original one? In that case you would need to find a NES emulator and a ROM of the game. If you don’t dump the ROM yourself from a cartridge you own, you are in legally dubious territory. I am not sure about this community’s stance on piracy, but there are several communities on here that are completely fine with that and can help you along.

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    5 days ago

    Assuming Debian

    sudo apt install nestopia

    Find any ROM file for the NES game online for download (.nes extension). Load it into the program.

  • pop [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    I’m a bit “old school” and couldn’t get into RetroArch. In the old days you just needed an emulator for a specific console, and the game’s ROM file. This involves piracy, so check out !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for more resources and help.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 days ago

    I haven’t used any of the nes emulators but surely one of them has a flatpak or appimage if it’s not in your distro’s repos already.

    maybe mesen or fceux? I’m sure there’s others but those are the names that came to mind. I don’t like retroarch for its entirely shitty ui/ux and would take a standalone emu any day but emudeck will give a config ready to just drop roms in folders named after each console and play, if the setup was the only part bothering you about it

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      RetroArch is…… I don’t want to insult the developers for their hard work. I always appreciate FOSS, but man god damn it wtf is this thing? I’m going to look up the other two you’ve mentioned. Tried Nestopia and it’s the one that didn’t recognize my controller

  • boletus@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 days ago

    I don’t think there would be a pc port for any of the mario games. They’ve only ever been released on Nintendo consoles, so you would have to emulate it.