Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari)

ashibaka · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

This is an excellent freeware game, translated to English in February.

Windows: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
Mac: original+patch
Linux: No port!

If it can be ported to OS X, shouldn't Linux be easy enough? Please, someone examine this at least a little

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Omega21 · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:

Regarding this game, it seems that it has gotten the platinum score in Wine. The only thing reported glitchy is that it doesn't work while in windowed mode. How do you get it into functional full screen? Thanks guys!
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gAzo0o · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 22

Amazing game, I have played through it with wine (newer versions), without any problems.
You can select full screen in DoConfig.exe. If you want it in window mode, just set the virtual
desktop in winecfg and it should be fine. In fact even my gamepad worked flawlessly.
So enjoy it, it's a good game

jurrie · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

Somewhat old topic, but there's a Linux port now! I found out about the game (and the port) today, and boy is it a sweet game. Lovely music, old-school graphics and gameplay and a beautiful story. A must-play for any platform fan.

Post of the person who ported it: http://community.livejournal.com/doukutsu/101690.html
My personal mirror (in case his goes down, he stated he won't host forever): http://jurrie.net/files/doukutsu-linux.tar.bz2
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_story
Interview with author (fun read): http://www.tigsource.com/features/interview_pixel.html

He didn't release source code since he isn't allowed to (or so he says). I don't know the details, but it worked like a charm on my system.

wah_wah_69 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 140

I love this game!
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Gad Zooks · n00b Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 8

Nice, sweet game!

Bigun · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 1805

I know this is an old post, but it deserves a bump
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Panko · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 9

This looks like a fun game. I look forward to trying it out.