Please keep in mind the game was designed to run on a 4:3 display and in a 640x480 resolution which is what the game will start and run on. If you’ve done everything right, after a short moment of loading, StarCraft should start up and run in all it’s 640x480 glory.įigure 1 - Booting up StarCraft on an ODROIDįigure 2 - You can play both StarCraft and Brood War To run, StartCraft you need to to change into your StarCraft folder and run the following command:
Then you need to install Wine to run the game:Īfter this, all requirements are installed and in place and we can try out the game. Go into the StarCraft game folder on your ODROID, and run the following command which will download and extract his binaries for StarCraft: PicoDrive – A very fast Sega emulator especially for the Sega 32X.PCSX ReARMed – Playstation 1 emulator for ARM devices.These binaries were made by notaz, which is a developer from the OpenPandora project who has brought us impressive tools like: First, you need to download the binaries needed to run the game and extract them into your game folder. Once you’re done, there are two things you need to run the game. Installing requirements and game binaries The resulting folder should be about 1.3 GB in size.
This step is very important, since it’s required to play the game without CDs. After that, insert the Brood War CD (ISO) and copy the install.exe from here as well, then rename it into BroodWar.mpq. Copy that file to the installation folder of StarCraft, and rename it StarCraft.mpq. On your StarCraft CD (ISO), you will find the file install.exe which is about 600MB in size. Once you have installed the game, addons, and the patch, there are two more steps you need to perform. This is very important as it will only work with this version.
Once you install the game and the addon, you also need to patch it to version 1.16.1 (for example, from ). Keep in mind though, that you need the CDs or CD images of the ORIGINAL StarCraft with the Brood War addon, and NOT the online installer from Blizzard. Since by now Blizzard offers a free online installer for StarCraft and Brood War, some might argue it’s even legal to download the ISO files if you don’t have the game yourself. Generally this is not a hard task, and what you need are your original CDs (or CD images) for StarCraft along with the Brood War expansion. StarCraft + Brood War installation CDs (NOT the installer from Blizzard, but the original CDs or CD images).
Did you know you can run the original StarCraft on your ODROID? If not, please let me tell you how it works, at least if you have an ARMHF-based ODROID such as the ODROID-XU4, C1, or U3.