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You can extract GOG installers with innoextract.

innoextract --exclude-temp setup_rollercoaster_tycoon2_german_2.0.0.6.exe

will leave all resources necessary to run OpenRCT2 in ./app/

Gog versions work well under wine (1.6 from the wine PPA) for me. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit (not sure why I'm using 32-bit, but I've upgraded this computer from Dapper).

The only trick(s) needed are to add '/nogui' to the end of the installer, so that it will run correctly. Although I think I added some dll in winetricks to get the 2.0 installers to run without it later. The other trick I use is to fix audio stuttering and I do this by suspending pulseaudio by running the game like so:

pasuspender wine <game.exe> or
padsp wine <game.exe> (haven't tried this yet).

Oh and it seems Syndicate Plus works much better in the native Linux version of DosBox, so I'd assume ScummVM games would work just as well in ScummVM under Linux.

I think some use the unpacking tool Innoextract to bypass the GOG installer and run the setup.exe directly in wine.

Edit: Also, so far if the wineHQ app database has positive reports, then I've had success with the GOG version.

Late Edit: You can add the windows DLL "gdiplus" using winetricks to get the GOG 2.0 installer to work without any cli options.

innoextract is able to extract game files from many GOG installers I've tested. Serious Sam: The First Encounter extracts fine while Quake has some minor case sensitivity issues (need to symlink Id1 to id1). Haven't tested multipart installers though.

You could try using innoextract or similar to extract the data files from the disk without running the installer. I've heard of this recommended to people trying to install the game, I don't know if it also works for the expansions.

> I don't want to accidentally get a virus

RCT2 expansions contain only data files and no executable code.

If you are getting the games through GOG, you need to install them first (which may require Windows). If you don't have Windows, try one of these (1, 2) extractors.

(I tried it: Wow, GOG has updated all the games from DOSBox to ScummVM since I last looked, even KQ7. I'm not sure I'm a big fan of this; in particular giving KQ1--3 a mouse cursor which they didn't originally have.)

If you open the game folder, you can safely delete the "scummvm" folder, as well as any files starting with "gog", "unins", ".ico" files, ".pdf" files, shortcuts, etc. Copy all the remaining files to your phone. Then if you run ScummVM on your phone, you should be able to point it at the directory containing the game files and it will pick up the game.

(I'm trying it now; I'll update this if I discover any other steps.)

> Also, for anyone else running Linux, the demo worked 100% in WINE, as most AGS games tend to.

No need for Wine -- just unpack the installer with innoextract and then play the game with the open-source AGS interpreter (which is what Wadjet Eye bundle with their official Linux releases). This works great for the both the demo and for the full game.

Have you run the installer (autorun.exe)? From the directory names you list it sounds like what you have is the disk image, which has the files in archived form. Running the installer will create the installation directory. If you cannot run the installer because you don't use Windows, you can try using innoextract instead.

If you have run the installer and it completed successfully, you should have the installation directory somewhere, most likely in C:/Program Files. If you can't find it, search your computer for "rct2.exe".

Unless you want to play vanilla, you need not bother with the crack; OpenRCT2 will ignore it anyway. OpenRCT2 needs only the assets to run.