Freaks 2.x

A 3D maze and monster smashing adventure, a remake of the 90s MS-DOS game Freaks! with free rotation, depth cue lighting and storms. Heal by feeding on the corpses of the monsters you kill.
Port Details
Genres
action
Requirements
Porter
Downloads
207
Last Updated
2026-10-12
Rating
None
Miscellaneous
Ready to Run
Instructions
Ready to run, no additional files needed.
Additional Information
Notes
Thanks to Ángel Ortega and the Freaks team for this public domain remake of their 90s MS-DOS maze shooter, where you only heal by feeding on the monsters you've killed.
Save games are stored in freaks/conf/.
Controls
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| D-Pad / Left Analog | Move forward/back, turn left/right |
| L1 / R1 (hold) | Strafe (with D-Pad left/right) |
| A | Fire |
| B | Menu confirm |
| Start | Menu confirm |
| Back | Game menu |
Compile
The game's qdgdf framework has no SDL backend upstream, so this port adds SDL2 video and audio
drivers to it (patches/qdgdf-sdl2.patch). The same patch adds a QDGDF_HOME save-directory
override. A second patch adds a --without-readline option to filp
(patches/filp-without-readline.patch), since readline is only used by the debug console.
apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev
wget https://triptico.com/download/fr2002-19.10.29.tar.gz
tar xzf fr2002-19.10.29.tar.gz
cd fr2002-19.10.29
patch -p1 < ../patches/qdgdf-sdl2.patch
patch -p1 < ../patches/filp-without-readline.patch
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./config.sh --with-sdl2 --without-readline
make
strip -o fr2002.aarch64 fr2002
All game data is embedded into the fr2002 binary at link time.