LucasArts diehards just got a new excuse to lose an entire weekend (not that we had plans to begin with): DREAMM, the LucasArts-focused emulator from former MAME dev Aaron Giles, has dropped a chunky new update that unlocks a whole stack of late ’90s Star Wars odds and ends on modern machines.
Version 4.0 expands support to cover all Lucas “family” titles released before 2000 across DOS, Windows, and even FM Towns, plus the complete set of Lucas Learning edutainment games. On top of that, it now runs Willow and Monopoly Star Wars, along with six previously unsupported Star Wars PC releases from the late ’90s, including Rogue Squadron 3D, Rebellion, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, and Episode I: Racer and The Phantom Menace. A bunch of Episode I-era kids’ titles like Pit Droids, Gungan Encounter, Yoda’s Challenge, and Jabba’s Game Galaxy also make the cut.
DREAMM isn’t trying to be a general-purpose Swiss army knife like DOSBox or ScummVM; it’s a bespoke launcher/emulator that handles all the weird installers, copy protection, and registry nonsense for you. The 4.0 release layers in quality-of-life features like full controller support, experimental online netplay, Direct3D 11 rendering, and higher-quality MIDI, so those John Williams MIDI horns finally sound less like a dying modem.
DREAMM runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and the dev explicitly calls out improvements for non-Windows builds. Because of that, a ton of these 80s-90s LucasArts and Lucas Learning titles are now basically one-click playable on things like the Steam Deck and other Linux portables, instead of living behind 20-year-old PC quirks and dead installers. Considering how many of these games aren’t legally sold anywhere anymore, this feels like someone is opening a lost wing of the LucasArts museum.
Will you be booting up any LucasArts gems on your Steam Deck this weekend?
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Source: DREAMM
