LittleGPTracker (a.k.a 'The piggy')

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I’ve got it running!
I didn’t succeed in building it from the source, but I found out that after some tweaking a version built for PocketChip runs just fine, and it was easier than I thought.
I found CHIP version in this forum. And here’s a download link.
I also downloaded the Debian version from the official website to have all the samples and demo song, and put it all in /games/Linux/lgpt (and lgpt.picochip-exe into bin folder inside).
Since GS key mapping is not really standard, you’ll also need to add a config.xml with the following content into the same folder as executable

<CONFIG>
	<KEY_A value="j" />
	<KEY_B value="k" />
	<KEY_LEFT value="left" />
	<KEY_RIGHT value="right" />
	<KEY_UP value="up" />
	<KEY_DOWN value="down" />
	<KEY_LSHOULDER value="h" />
	<KEY_RSHOULDER value="l" />
	<KEY_START value="return" />
	<KEY_SELECT value="space" />
</CONFIG>

Now you can create a launcher shortcut and it should work. But there’s a catch, you won’t be able to quit and return to the main menu, so here’s a little hack that I’ve discovered while exploring how to run SamplerBox.
You’ll need to install xbindkeys

sudo apt install xbindkeys

Crate a file (let’s name it lgpt-quit-bind) with the binding to the menu button to kill LGPT (preferably also in the same folder as executable) with the following content

"killall lgpt.picochip-exe && killall xbindkeys"
Escape

and run it each time before you launch lgpt, basically by adding another line to the launch script, so it’ll look something like this

#!/bin/bash
xbindkeys -f /path/to/lgpt-quit-bind
/path/to/lgpt.picochip-exe

That’s it, now you should be ready to rock the parties with some tracker music!

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