Terraria + Linux + MonoGame + Mono

This video is the Terraria Xna game running on Ubuntu using MonoGame and Mono.

My intent is to show how developed is MonoGame and Mono projects by porting a known xna game to linux.

I'm not publishing any of the methods, source codes or binaries, as it would probably be illegal. Terraria developers could easily publish their game to other platforms using MonoGame and Mono projects. It took me about 6 hours to make it run. To then it'd take much less.

I'm running it on a core i5 laptop. I've got no video card (all video processing is done on the cpu integrated vga as far as I'm concerned). So I couldn't play the original game on Windows anyway, XNA wouldn't start due to unsupported video card. Using MonoGame on Windows could allow other uses with low end video cards to play the game as well.

The game's running slow due to the recording. I didn't recorded the audio, but it works (except the background music). When I played the game without the recording process it issued a satisfactory performance (I guess something around 60 fps).

In the end you can see that an exception is thrown. It still need some fixes to be reliable, but the hardest part (get the game to play) is already done. This issues were mainly caused by the fact that I do not have to game source code.

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[olethanh]

Does that mean you had to reverse engineer the binary to make it works?

[andreesteve]

Unfortunately, yes. There could be a way to just edit the intermediate code (IL) so one could relink the libraries correctly. It'd be a much more interesting solution.

[samuelchang30]

Can you do a tutorial please?  Becuase i am completley new to Linux.

[Holagrimola]

In my terraria folder, there is no "bin" folder, and then I dont know what to do therefore... please help!

[Morris Buel]

Is it possible to run the game without recompiling it? I've tried running it from wine or mono, and I get the same error, it's looking for Terraria.main

[Thechosenarne1]

Yeah make a Tutorial Please i wanna play terraria sooo much on my linux!

[Thechosenarne1]

if you mean how to get terraria on Linux then i Like

[EagleEyeOfSA]

Reverse engineering non-obfuscated C# applications isn't that hard. Getting them to work again is the hard part. Admittedly, any decent C# programmer could probably fix up such code (assuming an accurate decompiler is used), but ironing out all the errors from a bugged decompiler is the main problem.

[orzel1244]

me writes are : Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Terraria.Main' from assembly 'Terraria, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Terraria.Main' from assembly 'Terraria, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

[Littlefighter1911]

@andreesteve So you are really skilled @ Reverse Engineering? Nice...

[Eloy Vega]

at the last second you can see he's using "recordmydesktop". Nice work by the way

[TheHallonfisk]

what did u record with?