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Open Transport Tycoon

OpenTTD is an open source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It is an "Urban planning and simulation game". OpenTTD duplicates most of the original game's features but also has numerous additions including bigger or smaller maps, a multiplayer capability, improved language support, custom AI support, and ports for several commonly used operating systems. It offers LAN and Internet play via public and worldwide servers for up to 255 players. OpenTTD also includes numerous usability improvements not present in the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe. OpenTTD also incorporates many features from TTDPatch and like TTDPatch it is available under the GNU General Public License.

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Installation

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# pacman-g2 -S openttd


After installation, you must get the original graphical files. You can find them on abandonware websites as [1] or [2]. Download the game and extract him. You can find inside this files:

  • sample.cat
  • trg1r.grf
  • trgcrr.grf
  • trghr.grf
  • trgir.grf
  • trgtr.grf

Move this files in /usr/share/openttd/data with root.


Musics

If you want the original Transport Tycoon musics, you must find by yourself the musics files.

First, install Timidity++ with :

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# pacman-g2 -S timidity++


After, go here [3] and download the file. Extract him and rename all music files as “gm_ttXX.gm” where XX take values of 00 to 22. Move the rename files in /usr/share/openttd/gm with root.

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