The Ur-Quan Masters

The Ur-Quan Masters (UQM) is an open-source port of Star Control II (1992), a classic action-adventure game by Toys for Bob. It combines space exploration, diplomacy, resource gathering and real-time ship combat in an open-ended galaxy. The game is widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made and was released as open source by the original creators in 2002. This system scrapes metadata for the “ports” group(s) and loads the uqm set from the currently selected theme, if available. Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.

Quick reference

  • Emulator: The Ur-Quan Masters
  • Folder: roms/uqm/
  • Accepted ROM formats: .game

BIOS

No Ur-Quan Masters emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.

ROMs

You need the UQM content package file. Download uqm-0.8.0-content.uqm from the official UQM downloads page. Create a packages folder inside /userdata/roms/uqm/ and place the content file there. Then create an empty file called Ur-Quan Masters.game in /userdata/roms/uqm/.

Directory structure

/userdata/roms/uqm/
               ├── packages/
               |    └── uqm-0.8.0-content.uqm
               └── Ur-Quan Masters.game

Optional add-on packages (voice, music remixes, etc.) can also be placed in the packages/ folder. Check the UQM downloads page for available add-ons.

Saves

Save location saves/uqm/save/

Emulators

The Ur-Quan Masters

The Ur-Quan Masters has no additional ES configuration options.

Controls

The Ur-Quan Masters has built-in gamepad support via SDL. Controls can be configured in the in-game setup menu.

Troubleshooting

My game does not launch

  • Make sure the packages/ folder exists in /userdata/roms/uqm/ and contains uqm-0.8.0-content.uqm.
  • Verify that the .game launch file exists in /userdata/roms/uqm/.

Further troubleshooting

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

  • systems/uqm.txt
  • Last modified: 5 weeks ago
  • by wizzard