[EMU] Linux Loader 3.0.0 released

[dkeruza]

The Linux Loader team is proud to announce the evolution of the Lindbergh Loader.

This new work-in-progress release introduces compatibility with Windows for selected Lindbergh titles, while maintaining full support for Linux.

Our goal is to eventually support all Lindbergh games on Windows, and expand to other Linux-based arcade platforms such as Namco N2/ES1, 
Raw Thrills, and other systems across both operating systems. At the same time, we will continue adding new features to improve the overall 
experience.

We will follow the same exact model used with the original Lindbergh Loader—meaning it will always remain free and open source, with no DRM, 
no online activation, and no shady practices. This makes it an ideal platform for contributors who want to help expand compatibility across 
more games and systems.

The first Windows release will support the following Lindbergh titles:

* The House of the Dead 4
* The House of the Dead 4 Special
* Virtua Tennis 3
* After Burner Climax
* Let's Go Jungle
* Let's Go Jungle Special
* Initial D 4 (JAP & EXP)
* Initial D 5 (JAP & EXP)
* Ghost Squad Evolution
* Too Spicy
* And of course, OutRun 2

Although the Windows loader is still in very early stages, it already includes several important features that will help drive future 
progress, such as:

* Full integration with the original Lindbergh Loader core
* Shared libraries loading
* Pbuffer implementation
* And more

The pace at which we improve the loader and expand support will largely depend on community feedback and support. We are a very small team 
working in our spare time, and all we can promise is to do our best. By support, we don’t just mean optional donations via Patreon—we mean 
support in any form. This includes joining the team to help with development, donating hardware, or even creating tutorials and guides to 
help others in the community. All of this is greatly appreciated.

For now, the original Lindbergh Loader will continue to be hosted on GitHub. Once we are confident that this new version is stable and free 
of major issues, the current repository may be archived.

We are also working on a GUI (currently WIP), as we understand that many Windows users prefer not to rely on command-line tools. At the same 
time, this will also be a welcome feature on Linux. As always, the scope of this project will depend heavily on community feedback and 
support.

We hope you enjoy this new release, and we welcome any feedback, bug reports, or suggestions.

— The Linux Loader Team

https://github.com/lindbergh-loader/linuxloader

 

Modifié lundi à 20:27 par dkeruza

[ducon2016]

Amazing! Finally, what a great option. ABC never worked properly and never improved with Teknoparrot, and being closed source might have been the main reason for that. So awesome to see such a great project and great sharing philosophy. 

 

Quick tips:

• To create controls.ini: linuxloader.exe --create controls 
• To create linuxloader.ini: linuxloader.exe --create config
• Unless you add it to the command line by default the loader looks for those config files in the game directory for example if you have abc in "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (SBLR) (Rev. A)\", you should have "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (SBLR) (Rev. A)\controls.ini" and "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (SBLR) (Rev. A)\linuxloader.ini"
• To find clean lindbergh rom search for SegaLindbergh on archive.org (thanks to @murray)
• To fix Afterburner ABX01 error:
  • Launch the game adding -t option: linuxloader.exe "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (SBLR) (Rev. A)\abc" -t
  • Enter "Game Assignments" (Q key), then set "cabinet movement" to OFF
  • Quit menu and close game
  • Relaunch game without -t

Modifié il y a 19 heures par ducon2016

[emulor]

 

 

 

 

 

This runs on Windows7, very fast and with audio!!

Thank you!

Modifié mardi à 13:37 par emulor

[3nigm4]

Il y a 14 heures, ducon2016 a dit :

Amazing! Finally, what a great option. ABC never worked properly and never improved with Teknoparrot, and being closed source might have been the main reason for that. So awesome to see such a great project and great sharing philosophy. 

 

Quick tips:

• To create controls.ini: linuxloader.exe --create controls 
• To create linuxloader.ini: linuxloader.exe --create config
• To find cleaner lindbergh rom search for lindberghromsbinbatocera on archive.org
• To extract files from .bin on windows use https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ 
• To fix Afterburner ABX01 error:
  • Launch the game adding -t option: linuxloader.exe "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (1.0 Rev. A) (2006-06-19) (Japan, USA, Export) [Sega Lindbergh Yellow] [TP]\abc" -t
  • Enter "Game Assignments" (Q key), then set "cabinet movement" to OFF
  • Quit menu and close game
  • Relaunch game without -t

Salut, tu pourrais si c'est pas trop te demander, deposer le build deja pret pour windows?

[3nigm4]

il y a 14 minutes, 3nigm4 a dit :

Salut, tu pourrais si c'est pas trop te demander, deposer le build deja pret pour windows?

ah je crois avoir compris, ton logiciel c'est pour le .bin des jeux et sinon le linux loader c'est tout en ligne de commande?

 

[taktvoll69]

Hi, amazing news from the arcade emulation front as a real alternative to Teknoparrot.

Unfortunately I have problems to build this project in windows. After starting the windows-Build.bat msys was automatically installed on my computer.

But what are the next steps  in order to start a game?

[holmes]

Hi,

I am also unsuccessfull to install. Multiple errors on downloading and installing.  Tried to edit the script. Went up to cmake but failed in the end.

EDIT:  I just realized I downloaded the wrong files, stupid me!

Modifié mardi à 19:25 par holmes

[MourningStar]

19 hours ago, ducon2016 said:

Amazing! Finally, what a great option. ABC never worked properly and never improved with Teknoparrot, and being closed source might have been the main reason for that. So awesome to see such a great project and great sharing philosophy. 

 

Quick tips:

• To create controls.ini: linuxloader.exe --create controls 
• To create linuxloader.ini: linuxloader.exe --create config
• To find cleaner lindbergh rom search for lindberghromsbinbatocera on archive.org
• To extract files from .bin on windows use https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ 
• To fix Afterburner ABX01 error:
  • Launch the game adding -t option: linuxloader.exe "D:\Roms\After Burner Climax (1.0 Rev. A) (2006-06-19) (Japan, USA, Export) [Sega Lindbergh Yellow] [TP]\abc" -t
  • Enter "Game Assignments" (Q key), then set "cabinet movement" to OFF
  • Quit menu and close game
  • Relaunch game without -t

Those bin files don't seem very clean? I'm getting 
"Warning: The ELF you are running is not Clean and might cause unwanted behavior.
         Make sure you ELF and game dump are clean before reporting issues.
         If you are sure the ELF is clean, please report it to us."

[ducon2016]

40 minutes ago, MourningStar said:

Those bin files don't seem very clean? I'm getting 
"Warning: The ELF you are running is not Clean and might cause unwanted behavior.
         Make sure you ELF and game dump are clean before reporting issues.
         If you are sure the ELF is clean, please report it to us."

 

Yes I have the same problem, but they are "cleaner" than some of the TP versions I had before which had various patched elf files. I have not yet found perfectly clean elfs matching CRCs. I even tried the eggman's archive from myrient and only disk1 and disk9 are part of all the "dumps" but no disk0, so kind of waste of time. We need to wait for a generous folk to share the real clean builds.

1 hour ago, holmes said:

I am also unsuccessfull to install. Multiple errors on downloading and installing.  Tried to edit the script. Went up to cmake but failed in the end.

2 hours ago, taktvoll69 said:

Unfortunately I have problems to build this project in windows. After starting the windows-Build.bat msys was automatically installed on my computer.

 

You don't need to build. Get the " linuxloader-win32.zip" from the release page

[RetrnArcGamer35]

13 minutes ago, ducon2016 said:

 

Yes I have the same problem, but they are "cleaner" than some of the TP versions I had before which had various patched elf files. I have not yet found perfectly clean elfs matching CRCs. I even tried the eggman's archive from myrient and only disk1 and disk9 are part of all the "dumps" but no disk0, so kind of waste of time. We need to wait for a generous folk to share the real clean builds.

 

You don't need to build. Get the " linuxloader-win32.zip" from the release page

can u put an example of how running a game should look for windows please for the people who are having issues. after reading ur post above im not understanding do the loader files need to be in the game directory. 

Modifié mardi à 20:30 par RetrnArcGamer35

[joefish]

1 hour ago, RetrnArcGamer35 said:

can u put an example of how running a game should look for windows please for the people who are having issues. after reading ur post above im not understanding do the loader files need to be in the game directory. 

 

he already did it 

 

anyway this is an example : linuxloader.exe "D.\roms\After Burner Clima\abc"

 

if you want to go in test menu add -t at the end

i.e. linuxloader.exe "D.\roms\After Burner Clima\abc" -t

[RetrnArcGamer35]

1 hour ago, joefish said:

 

he already did it 

 

anyway this is an example : linuxloader.exe "D.\roms\After Burner Clima\abc"

 

if you want to go in test menu add -t at the end

i.e. linuxloader.exe "D.\roms\After Burner Clima\abc" -t

got it working thanks again

[ducon2016]

Does anyone know how to decrypt the lindbergh isos on windows to get cleaner dumps?

Modifié hier à 03:35 par ducon2016

[lords]

2 hours ago, ducon2016 said:

Does anyone know how to decrypt the isos on windows to get cleaner dumps?

XDVDMulleter Beta 10.2 does ...)

[ducon2016]

7 minutes ago, lords said:

XDVDMulleter Beta 10.2 does ...)

 

Have you tried it with the Lindbergh isos? Just tried and it did not work.

 

[lords]

48 minutes ago, ducon2016 said:

 

Have you tried it with the Lindbergh isos? Just tried and it did not work.

 

 

yes. sorry forgot about that main issue..(

Montavista Linux environment and physical PIC security chip for decryption of game scripts

I do know the Chd and bin files if you can find them are dumped and decrypted ..iso like redump are encrypted. 

the only person around that i seen in the past is ,
Jay's Linux and emulator setup does not strictly require the physical hardware chip because the keychip's function can be emulated or bypassed

(keychip" is primarily used to decrypt the frontend.dat file into a mounting script)

 You can try this but I don't think it does ISO's haven't looked into it that well. this was hard enough to find in the past. lol

Jays Download

 Batocera uses python . for decrypted files already.

 

Modifié hier à 04:24 par lords

[taktvoll69]

Thanks, I still got a problem to run the ini. I´ve installed linuxloader-win32 into the linuxloader-main folder.

Where has to be put the ini-file with the command line to start the game ? Directly into the game folder or in the linuxloader-main folder? 

[ducon2016]

3 minutes ago, lords said:

Montavista Linux environment and physical PIC security chip for decryption of game scripts

 

Guess we will need to wait then for the official dumps.

[sonic323]

Thank you for this windows launcher, I've been waiting for it for a long time, great.
It works perfectly..😍

You have to do exactly as (Ducon2016) wrote, create (controls.ini and linuxloader.ini).
For me it works so that I created a .bat file and there you write the path to the game. For example: (linuxloader.exe "D:\Games\Arcade\Lindberght\The House of the Dead 4 (2005)\disk0\elf\hod4Mn_VGA.elf").
I have the bat file located in the folder where the Linuxloader launcher is located.

Not all games work, probably because I don't have clean linbergh games.
We have to wait until someone writes where to download clean games.

Thank you for this great launcher and I'm looking forward to the next versions..👍

[hippopippo]

you don't need phisical pic to decrypt isos, just correct aes and a vm running ubuntu :

 

sudo cryptsetup -c aes -s 256 --type plain open disk1.img loop2

Modifié hier à 07:32 par hippopippo

[ducon2016]

5 hours ago, lords said:

Jays Download

 Batocera uses python . for decrypted files already.

 

Thanks, that seems to be for Chihiro not Lindbergh. The bin files on archive.org for Batocera all say "not clean elf". So something is going on.

 

I actually found some information here https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/LindyLiberation

Not going to spend time on that, someone already made all the work and the clean files are around. Just need to be patient. It is already a glorious day to have "linux loader", so I can wait until the clean images drop. I have hundreds of other games to test and play anyways.

 

Game DVDs

Games are stored on installation DVDs. These contain a section of custom sega header data followed by an ISO file system with multiple partitions. As explained in the security chip section, one of these partitions contains a bash script to unencrypt the other partitions which contain the game data and executable.

Although there are multiple partitions, most games only use one partition to store all of the files.

Probably should try this and explain better, but this is how you get the data from the DVDS:

    Mount the DVD drive from a USB Drive
    Using a hex editor to search the raw image for “CD001” (ISO Marker), this is found at 0x288000 and 0x390000 on HOTD4.
    Subtract 32768 (0x8000) as per the ISO9660 standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660)

0x288000 - 0x8000 = 0x280000 = 2621440
0x390000 - 0x8000 =  3702784

    On a linux machine you can then mount these:

losetup -o 2621440 /dev/loop1 /dev/scd0
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/loop1 /mnt/cdrom/

These two partitions are encrypted. One contains the game data, and the other will contain a bash script that will unencrypt the game data folder. The PIC chip is used to unencrypt the smaller partition with the bash file, which then uses faster decryption for the game. It’s easy to find most of the bash files that unencrypt the game partitions with static keys by finding pre-decrypted Lindbergh images online. Some games use the same decryption keys, so if you find a game that hasn’t yet been decrypted that could be one way to do it. This is explained in more detail in the security chip section.

 

Modifié hier à 09:04 par ducon2016

[murray]

3 hours ago, ducon2016 said:

 

Thanks, that seems to be for Chihiro not Lindbergh. The bin files on archive.org for Batocera all say "not clean elf". So something is going on.

 

I actually found some information here https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/LindyLiberation

Not going to spend time on that, someone already made all the work and the clean files are around. Just need to be patient. It is already a glorious day to have "linux loader", so I can wait until the clean images drop. I have hundreds of other games to test and play anyways.

 

Game DVDs

Games are stored on installation DVDs. These contain a section of custom sega header data followed by an ISO file system with multiple partitions. As explained in the security chip section, one of these partitions contains a bash script to unencrypt the other partitions which contain the game data and executable.

Although there are multiple partitions, most games only use one partition to store all of the files.

Probably should try this and explain better, but this is how you get the data from the DVDS:

    Mount the DVD drive from a USB Drive
    Using a hex editor to search the raw image for “CD001” (ISO Marker), this is found at 0x288000 and 0x390000 on HOTD4.
    Subtract 32768 (0x8000) as per the ISO9660 standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660)

0x288000 - 0x8000 = 0x280000 = 2621440
0x390000 - 0x8000 =  3702784

    On a linux machine you can then mount these:

losetup -o 2621440 /dev/loop1 /dev/scd0
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/loop1 /mnt/cdrom/

These two partitions are encrypted. One contains the game data, and the other will contain a bash script that will unencrypt the game data folder. The PIC chip is used to unencrypt the smaller partition with the bash file, which then uses faster decryption for the game. It’s easy to find most of the bash files that unencrypt the game partitions with static keys by finding pre-decrypted Lindbergh images online. Some games use the same decryption keys, so if you find a game that hasn’t yet been decrypted that could be one way to do it. This is explained in more detail in the security chip section.

 

 

@ducon2016 use these, clean dumps, everyone should only use these, straight from the isos,  symlinks reconstructed for use with loader, it will solve a lot of headaches. You don't need to decrypt anything from Isos. 

https://archive.org/download/SegaLindbergh

 

[Trisil]

2 hours ago, murray said:

 

@ducon2016 use these, clean dumps, everyone should only use these, straight from the isos,  symlinks reconstructed for use with loader, it will solve a lot of headaches. You don't need to decrypt anything from Isos. 

https://archive.org/download/SegaLindbergh

 

Loving Deads - The House of the Dead EX (SBRC) game is not bootable, why?

 

[ducon2016]

3 hours ago, murray said:

@ducon2016 use these, clean dumps, everyone should only use these, straight from the isos,  symlinks reconstructed for use with loader, it will solve a lot of headaches. You don't need to decrypt anything from Isos. 

https://archive.org/download/SegaLindbergh

 

Thank you so much! Not sure why it did not pop up on archive.org when I initially searched for lindbergh. I guess I need new glasses! Confirmed those do not display the "not clean" message and seem to work.

[ducon2016]

11 hours ago, taktvoll69 said:

Where has to be put the ini-file with the command line to start the game ? Directly into the game folder or in the linuxloader-main folder? 

 

By default in the game folder, but you can change it with command line options -c "C:\yourpath\linuxloader.ini" -o "C:\yourpath\controls.ini"

[lords]

8 hours ago, ducon2016 said:

 

Thanks, that seems to be for Chihiro not Lindbergh. The bin files on archive.org for Batocera all say "not clean elf". So something is going on.

 

I actually found some information here https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/LindyLiberation

Not going to spend time on that, someone already made all the work and the clean files are around. Just need to be patient. It is already a glorious day to have "linux loader", so I can wait until the clean images drop. I have hundreds of other games to test and play anyways.

 

Game DVDs

Games are stored on installation DVDs. These contain a section of custom sega header data followed by an ISO file system with multiple partitions. As explained in the security chip section, one of these partitions contains a bash script to unencrypt the other partitions which contain the game data and executable.

Although there are multiple partitions, most games only use one partition to store all of the files.

Probably should try this and explain better, but this is how you get the data from the DVDS:

    Mount the DVD drive from a USB Drive
    Using a hex editor to search the raw image for “CD001” (ISO Marker), this is found at 0x288000 and 0x390000 on HOTD4.
    Subtract 32768 (0x8000) as per the ISO9660 standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660)

0x288000 - 0x8000 = 0x280000 = 2621440
0x390000 - 0x8000 =  3702784

    On a linux machine you can then mount these:

losetup -o 2621440 /dev/loop1 /dev/scd0
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/loop1 /mnt/cdrom/

These two partitions are encrypted. One contains the game data, and the other will contain a bash script that will unencrypt the game data folder. The PIC chip is used to unencrypt the smaller partition with the bash file, which then uses faster decryption for the game. It’s easy to find most of the bash files that unencrypt the game partitions with static keys by finding pre-decrypted Lindbergh images online. Some games use the same decryption keys, so if you find a game that hasn’t yet been decrypted that could be one way to do it. This is explained in more detail in the security chip section.

 

 glorious day to have "linux loader . yes.

 

Thankyou. )

9 hours ago, hippopippo said:

you don't need phisical pic to decrypt isos, just correct aes and a vm running ubuntu :

 

sudo cryptsetup -c aes -s 256 --type plain open disk1.img loop2

Thanks )

Modifié il y a 18 heures par lords

[taktvoll69]

where can I find a template to create a config.ini for lindbergh games starting with linuxloader?

[cocobel]

With the outrun2 on archive.org , I have the error message "not clean set"  , it loads and then crash .

I'm not sure how to find the elf file in the zip file 😕

 

 

Zip file : OutRun 2 SP SDX (Original music) (1.003) (2006-08-31) [Sega Lindbergh Yellow] [TP]

Modifié il y a 15 heures par cocobel
add zip file name

[hippopippo]

It does crash with proper elf too, many games still bugged or unsupported yet 

[cocobel]

il y a 14 minutes, hippopippo a dit :

It does crash with proper elf too, many games still bugged or unsupported yet 

you know where to find the clean outrun2 elf ? 

(I'm using OutRun 2 SP SDX (Original music) (1.003) (2006-08-31) [Sega Lindbergh Yellow] [TP])

 

Btw : great news for arcade lover !!

Modifié il y a 15 heures par cocobel
add filename

[RetrnArcGamer35]

11 minutes ago, cocobel said:

you know where to find the clean outrun2 elf ? 

 

Btw : great news for arcade lover !!

what is outrun 2. is that spdx or the original? edit nvm.  oh someone asked me about id5. u have to swap the. elf names thats what i had to do and it worked for a while until it crashed.

Modifié il y a 15 heures par RetrnArcGamer35

[murray]

9 hours ago, Trisil said:

Loving Deads - The House of the Dead EX (SBRC) game is not bootable, why?

 

Is it in the list of supported games?

[lords]

Modifié il y a 10 heures par lords

[murray]

9 hours ago, cocobel said:

you know where to find the clean outrun2 elf ? 

(I'm using OutRun 2 SP SDX (Original music) (1.003) (2006-08-31) [Sega Lindbergh Yellow] [TP])

 

Btw : great news for arcade lover !!

Step 1. Delete all of your Lindbergh games from your computer (every single one of them)

Step 2. Go and download the dumps for all the games here. https://archive.org/download/SegaLindbergh
 

Step 3. Never have to worry about your game dumps being an issue for the loader again. 

Step 4. Never use any other Lindbergh dumps from any other links again. 

 

Step 5. Any time anyone has an issue with a known working game, always point them to this post, confirm they have done steps 1, 2, 3, 4

 

There are a lot of dirty lindbergh game dumps out there floating around, some kind people have done all the work so you don't have to, just follow steps 1, 2, 3, 4  Spread it around
 

Modifié il y a 6 heures par murray

[ringa12]

Too Spicy - does not work, the game does not start

 

After Burner Climax - so that the game does not crash when you press the start button (gamepad), you need to change the lines in "controls.ini"
[Common]
Test = KEY_T
ExitGame = KEY_Escape
P1_Coin = KEY_5, JOY0_BUTTON_10, GC0_BUTTON_BACK
P2_Coin = KEY_6
P1_Start = KEY_1, JOY0_BUTTON_11, GC0_BUTTON_START
P2_Start = KEY_2
P1_Service = KEY_S

(change this if you want to reverse up and down controls "controls.ini")
[Flying]
Flying_Y = GC0_AXIS_LEFTY_INVERTED, JOY0_AXIS_1_INVERTED

The House Of The Dead 4 - The shoot button on the light gun does not work correctly (the mouse works fine)

Let's Go Jungle! Lost On The Island Of Spice - on the lightgun the controls do not work correctly, there is a twitching, the cursor is ahead of the movement

(change this if you want to reverse up and down controls "controls.ini")
[Shooting]
P1_GunX = MOUSE_AXIS_X_INVERTED
P1_GunY = MOUSE_AXIS_Y_INVERTED

Let's Go Jungle! Special - works well

The House Of The Dead 4 Special - works well

 

For the sinden light gun you can set the borders and cursor in linuxloader.ini

Modifié il y a 4 heures par ringa12

[maabus19]

2 spicy worked fine for me. I can't get ABC to work with the archive dump, but I can get it to work with a "dirty" dump. I've had a few of the archive dumps not work.

 

Sometimes you have to try running a game 2 or 3 times to get it to launch.

[ultrabub563]

1 hour ago, ringa12 said:

Too Spicy - does not work, the game does not start

 

After Burner Climax - so that the game does not crash when you press the start button (gamepad), you need to change the lines in "controls.ini"
[Common]
Test = KEY_T
ExitGame = KEY_Escape
P1_Coin = KEY_5, JOY0_BUTTON_10, GC0_BUTTON_BACK
P2_Coin = KEY_6
P1_Start = KEY_1, JOY0_BUTTON_11, GC0_BUTTON_START
P2_Start = KEY_2
P1_Service = KEY_S

(change this if you want to reverse up and down controls "controls.ini")
[Flying]
Flying_Y = GC0_AXIS_LEFTY_INVERTED, JOY0_AXIS_1_INVERTED

The House Of The Dead 4 - The shoot button on the light gun does not work correctly (the mouse works fine)

Let's Go Jungle! Lost On The Island Of Spice - on the lightgun the controls do not work correctly, there is a twitching, the cursor is ahead of the movement

(change this if you want to reverse up and down controls "controls.ini")
[Shooting]
P1_GunX = MOUSE_AXIS_X_INVERTED
P1_GunY = MOUSE_AXIS_Y_INVERTED

Let's Go Jungle! Special - works well

The House Of The Dead 4 Special - works well

 

For the sinden light gun you can set the borders and cursor in linuxloader.ini

How Can I Set Ctrl as a P1_Coin?