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Install Manic Miners in Lutris

Manic Miners is a fan remake of LEGO Rock Raiders. This guide covers installing it with Lutris, plus fixing its incorrect cover art.

Garrett Dees

Garrett Dees

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Manic Miners is a complete faithful remake of the 1999 game LEGO Rock Raiders. It has been in development since May 2019 and is developed by a single person; Baraklava.

Lutris Installer Script

Copy this script and save it as manic-miners.yaml.

description: Manic Miners
game_slug: manic-miners
installer_slug: manic-miners
name: Manic Miners
notes: |
  https://manicminers.baraklava.com/
  https://baraklava.itch.io/manic-miners
runner: wine
script:
  files:
    - zip: N/A:ManicMinersV1.0.zip
  game:
    exe: $GAMEDIR/drive_c/Games/Manic Miners/ManicMiners.exe
    prefix: $GAMEDIR
  installer:
    - task:
        name: create_prefix
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
    - extract:
        dst: $GAMEDIR/drive_c/Games/Manic Miners
        file: zip
slug: manic-miners
version: V1.0.4
year: 2023

Install Manic Miners

  1. Open Lutris and click Add Game
  2. Click Install from a local install script
  3. Click Select a file, locate manic-miners.yaml, click OK
  4. Click Install to start the process
  5. Click Install again when prompted to confirm the installation
  6. Click Continue to proceed
  7. Click Select a file, locate ManicMinersV1.0.zip, click OK
  8. Click Install to begin the game installation
  9. Click Close when the installation completes

Update Lutris covers

Lutris downloads cover art automatically, but it pulls incorrect images for this game.
Download the two correct images from the SteamGridDB links above before following these steps.

Step 1: Delete the cached artwork

  1. Open Dolphin and navigate to ~/.local/share/lutris/
  2. Delete the file coverart/manic-miners.jpg
  3. Delete the file banners/manic-miners.jpg
  4. Navigate to ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
  5. Delete the file lutris_manic-miners.png

Step 2: Replace with correct covers

  1. In Lutris, right-click Manic Miners, click Configure
  2. Click the vertical cover art slot
  3. Browse to the 600x900 SteamGridDB image and select it
  4. Click the banner slot
  5. Browse to the 460x215 SteamGridDB image and select it
  6. Click Save to apply changes

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