Roberta

Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM

This is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and Boxtron.

Official mirrors: GitHub, GitLab.

Prerequisites

You will need Python (>= 3.5), ScummVM (>= 2.0.0) and inotify-tools.

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install scummvm inotify-tools

OpenSUSE

$ sudo zypper install scummvm inotify-tools

Debian, Ubuntu et consortes

$ sudo apt install scummvm inotify-tools

Arch, Manjaro

$ sudo pacman -S scummvm inotify-tools

Installation (using tarball)

1. Close Steam.

2. Download and unpack tarball to compatibilitytools.d directory (create one if it does not exist):

   $ cd ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/ || cd ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ $ curl -L https://github.com/dreamer/roberta/releases/download/v0.1.0/roberta.tar.xz | tar xJf -

3. Start Steam.

4. In game properties window select "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and select "Roberta (native ScummVM)".

Installation (from source)

1. Close Steam.

2. Clone the repository and install the script to user directory:

   $ git clone https://github.com/dreamer/roberta.git $ cd roberta $ make user-install

3. Start Steam.

4. In game properties window select "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and select "Roberta (dev)".

Configuration

Settings for Roberta can be found in ~/.config/roberta.conf (or wherever XDG_CONFIG_HOME points to).

Additionally, per-game settings can be changed through variables set in Steam client. For example, to force game to use your secondary screen, right-click your game in Steam Library, select Properties → Set Launch Options… and set: LUX_USE_SCREEN=1 %command%.

Development

Read all about it in the contributing guide :)

Known issues

• Some games hang after triggering Steam overlay in ScummVM 2.0.
• As of August 2019, Arch AUR package for ScummVM does not work correctly.