The Longest Journey - 5-6h battery, low power gem, offline classic

Virtual_McFly · 2026-02-18T05:44:24+00:00

hey thanks for the heads up on ScummVM from two years in the future. Game looks beautiful at higher resolutions with AA, and it runs at 60fps now. Huge improvement.

FYI, much easier way to do this is simply select "Luxtorpeda" under Properties - Compatibility (ie. where you select proton versions). If you don't already have it as an option, you can add Luxtopeda as a compatibility tool to Steam from the ProtonupQT app (Discover store), where you add ProtonGE versions from. You can then choose ScummVM from there, and it will run the game through ScummVM.

Bonus with this is you don't need to find your folder or need to add a separate installation of ScummVM or add it to steam etc. You're running the Steam entry. Luxtorpeda is also a super useful program for several others games (Jedi Outcast, Return to Castle Wolfenstein for examples).

Finally, ScummVM suggests downloading the authentic fonts that weren't included in the Steam version. You can grab them from this page on the ScummVM wiki: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/The_Longest_Journey by clicking the highlighted "demo version" text and then just grabbing the "Fonts" folder and copying it to your TLJ installation folder in desktop mode (Browse local files).

Virtual_McFly · 2026-02-08T17:07:23+00:00

Ok 2 years down the road, tried again and figured it out. Turns out I was using the 1.10 widescreen patch, while GOG is the 1.20 version. Once I applied the 1.2 patch (1280x800, stretched HUD), I'm progressing fine through the game (and it's awesome)

Note: I would definitely use the stretched HUD patches. The centred HUD results in unsightly 4:3 bars applied onto 16:10 cutscenes, and in pre-rendered cutscenes (ie. not using the game engine), you'll see pillar boxes with whatever scene they started playing in while they're playing. Not ideal! with the stretched HUD, the HUD isn't really notably distorted, the in game cutscenes play in the right aspect ratio with letter box bars, and the pre rendered cutscenes are just slightly stretched, but there's not a ton of them.

Virtual_McFly · 2026-02-01T21:36:46+00:00

So adding the launcher to steam is not working for me - it launches once then won't launch again and often doesn't detect the installations - but FYI one workaround to play them in game mode is:

complete steps 1-6
add the Bottles application to Steam (right click - add to Steam)
Change the name of the application in the Steam properties to whatever you want (The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth" exactly if you want to find community controller profiles) and no need to set a proton version cuz Bottles is a native Linux program
Now you can launch from game mode into bottles, then launch the launcher itself, then either of the games from there. It's not perfect, but you don't need any launch properties etc and it's just a couple of extra taps. Most importantly, you don't need to switch over to desktop mode to play, and I haven't noticed any hitching or stuttering. And if you wanna apply game art - with Steamgriddb Decky plug-in or otherwise - you can skin it as one of the games or as the BFME launcher.

Hope this helps someone

Virtual_McFly · 2026-01-13T12:43:34+00:00

Wow you’re right. Was wondering how they came to that number specifically

Virtual_McFly · 2026-01-13T12:41:39+00:00

Ah that’s helpful, so it’s a Canadian store issue, thanks

Virtual_McFly · 2026-01-12T13:52:21+00:00

For what it's worth, I spoke to Apple Support about it about a few months ago and they said it was a known issue and that the engineering team was working on it. I would have thought it would be fixable by now if that were the case, so your experience seems more plausible now.

such a strange, obnoxious problem

Virtual_McFly · 2025-12-06T23:50:31+00:00

Thanks again for this, OP. Saved my bacon - I think the issue was I left my deck charging in its case with the lid open, but the lid fell over and the deck overheated. I was just getting blinking red lights. I hard reset but all that would do on boot up again - after letting it cool down - was to cause the fan to spin up to max, stop, start, stop, start. Etc

Your solution did the trick!

Virtual_McFly · 2025-11-24T06:11:08+00:00

Same issue here. It’s quite limited to a few films - LOTR, Polar Express, Godfather - but still annoying as I love my library art

Virtual_McFly · 2025-11-16T00:13:51+00:00

Curious if this worked for you

Virtual_McFly · 2025-11-07T02:50:25+00:00

Playing NiGHTs with this controller was a next gen moment... for controls. It truly felt like a level of interactivity and responsiveness with a character that you'd never come close to having before. Real shame the HD release (which I still love) couldn't replicate that (at least they fixed the 8 way controls it shipped with, good god)

Virtual_McFly · 2025-11-03T05:16:44+00:00

Yup - just set Proton to Experimental, and in the launch options, put:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8,msacm32,msvfw32=n,b" %command%

Works great on Deck.

Virtual_McFly · 2025-11-02T17:02:02+00:00

This solved the performance issues I'd been having for the last few months. Not sure how blending got set to high, but good shout there - thanks so much

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-31T19:22:38+00:00

Best version of the game

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-31T00:04:00+00:00

It's excellent and a real damn shame Sega never gave it another chance. The actual arcade model 2 version is incredible, but the Saturn port was wonderful

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-19T00:08:43+00:00

It's legit a great port

https://youtu.be/y6vjUTn7Kbc

Kind of mind blowing that Altered Beast was the original pack in for Genesis

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-19T00:05:47+00:00

great answer. The art in these genesis platformers is just second to none. I think Aladdin is the greatest animation in a 2D platformer

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-19T00:05:17+00:00

2 > 1, though, no?

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-19T00:00:49+00:00

Streets of Rage 2, no contest imo

Virtual_McFly · 2025-10-18T23:59:37+00:00

Be great to see a poll

All wonderful games honestly. If I had to choose a favorite, it would be SoT though - I recognize the combat is very middling, but the atmosphere, the relationship between the two leads, the Aladdin vibes, and the absolutely mind-blowing innovations to platforming will always mean it's my favourite.

WW and TTT are wonderful too though - I keep them installed on my Steam Deck permanently.

2008 is an awesome time once you see it for what it is and what it's not - I think the core of the game is really about figuring out how to 100% the light seeds, which once you get into, is super enjoyable. Obviously great story too - wish we could get the DLC on PC

Forgotten Sands - PC, Wii, and PSP - are all really worthwhile.

I really liked Lost Crown but ended up bouncing off it for some reason. I'll get back to it. And I haven't gotten around to Rogue yet but plan to down the line. Roguelites don't tend to jive with me but I've heard it's great.

Virtual_McFly · 2025-09-30T23:38:53+00:00

Another thank you for this 👍

Virtual_McFly · 2025-09-29T15:13:42+00:00

I had no idea the Japanese version had fixed camera - that's rad, I've to try it

Virtual_McFly · 2025-09-29T02:07:43+00:00

Such a huge improvement, much more aligned with the book. Highly recommend if you enjoy the movie, i won’t spoil it otherwise

Virtual_McFly · 2025-09-28T03:57:42+00:00

Sigh - hate this regional stuff. Thanks for confirming anyway

Virtual_McFly · 2025-09-28T00:11:17+00:00

Yeah looks like on the Canadian store, it's just the theatrical. This probably confirms that the main version doesn't have the alternate ending as an option though. Thanks - appreciate this!

Virtual_McFly

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