I use KDE Plasma Desktop and I have noticed one little, teeny, tiny issue. Had this game not been released for Linux, I probably would not have purchased it but for some fantastic reason the fine developers at Conatus Creative chose to release it on Linux and for that, I am quite grateful. Also note, there are several controllers I haven’t yet tried. My fingers comfortably wrap around the controller and it fills my hands quite nicely. It it quite literally the best feeling gamepad controller I have used to date. After trying a few controllers, I ended up liking the and preferring the Wii U Pro Controller for gaming. If you look above, you will see that Wii U – Generic Gamepad is the detected controller. Just make sure that Generic Gamepad Configuration Support is selected.Īfter that, everything should work tip-top. What it boiled down to was ensuring there was generic controller support in the Steam Settings. They didn’t have any odd behavior so I went digging through the forums and the settings in hopes of finding the problem. I could check that all the buttons and joysticks were working from the KDE Plasma System Setting for input devices window. They were recognized properly as an input. There is SO MUCH conflicting information out there… I settled on two wireless, PS3 Rock Candy controllers at about $15 each.Īfter plugging the wireless dongles in, they weren’t immediately usable and I couldn’t figure out why. I decided to reduce my options and I went to a local store and looked up each model of controller and the challenges of using them on Linux. That forced me into a mode of doing some research quite rapidly on what controllers would be compatible with Linux and I was impatient, unwilling to order and wait for their arrival. I didn’t know anything about “modern” controllers to use in Linux and so forth. I did the search, found the game and went through the purchase process.Īfter purchasing and downloading the game, I realized, I didn’t know anything about Steam gaming in Linux, or any form of gaming that didn’t use the keyboard or analog joystick. There is no need to dig into any help sections to understand how to use it. I think Steam has a very decent interface. Or install it through the terminal as it is available in the main repository: Either do the direct one-click install here: Installing it is as straightforward as most anything else on openSUSE. I had to play this game, so it was time to get on the “Steam Wagon”. I now had a real, true and burning reason to install Steam on openSUSE. Up to this moment, there haven’t been any new games ported to Linux of which I was interested. If you notice, toward the end, you will see that delightfully, semi-pompous-looking penguin toward the end that made my heart skip a little with excitement. I was very excited to see there was a Linux version of this game on Steam and when I saw this promotional video of it, I jumping out of my seat in excitement. In my idol searching around for information about “River City Ransom”, I learned of the sequels that weren’t released in the US and more importantly, the Sequel to this game on Steam by a Canadian company, Conatus Creative. I started to reassemble all of my vintage tech about a year ago and in that time, I introduced my oldest boy to the colorful, fun-packed wonders of the Nintendo Entertainment System and one of those games was “River City Ransom.” We both had loads of fun. The roll playing bit of it is to power up your character with new abilities and upgrade stats by making purchases using the money you “earn” from the antagonists you beat up. “River City Ransom” is referred to as an “RPG Beat ’em up”. Sometime in the early 1990s, when it was still a thing to rent Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges from a video store, a friend and I came upon this game, “River City Ransom” which, to our understanding was supposed to be similar to “Double Dragon II”.
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