emulator: "SuperTuxKart"
type: standalone
core_classification: game_engine
source: "https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code"
profiled_date: "2026-10-22"
source_commit: "fab79150111944c9e33396db68eb5de84f2efeaa"
pin_frozen: "EmuELEC, the only platform that ships it, builds this revision (EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/supertuxkart/package.mk:5). Later commits are not part of that build."
core_version: "git"
display_name: "SuperTuxKart"
cores:
  - "supertuxkart"
systems: [supertuxkart]

notes: |
  The free kart racer. A development build announces its version as git, and
  the data directory is accepted only when it holds the marker file
  supertuxkart.<version>, here supertuxkart.git. It is
  $SUPERTUXKART_DATADIR/data, else the first of ./data, ../data, ../../data
  and the data directories next to the executable that holds the marker, else
  the build-time install path. No marker stops the game with a fatal error.
  The code's data directory holds the configuration, interface, shaders and
  fonts. Karts, tracks, music, sounds, models and textures come from the
  separate assets set, read from $SUPERTUXKART_ASSETS_DIR, ../../stk-assets
  or ../../supertuxkart-assets relative to the data directory, or from the
  same tree.
  ref: CMakeLists.txt:5-7, src/utils/constants.cpp:33,
       src/io/file_manager.cpp:170-262, src/io/file_manager.cpp:269-292

  EmuELEC builds this revision without data. On first start its
  run_supertuxkart.sh downloads the 1.4 tag of stk-code, keeps its data
  directory under /storage/roms/ports/supertuxkart, unpacks the 1.4
  stk-assets-mobile set into it, creates the supertuxkart.git marker the 1.4
  tree lacks (it carries supertuxkart.1.4), and runs supertuxkart with
  SUPERTUXKART_DATADIR set to that directory.
  ref: EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/supertuxkart/package.mk:4-11,
       EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/supertuxkart/scripts/run_supertuxkart.sh:10-34

files:
  - name: "SuperTuxKart data"
    path: "data/"
    type: directory
    category: game_data
    system: supertuxkart
    required: true
    installed_on: [emuelec]
    description: "Game data tree (data/ of stk-code with the stk-assets set)"
    note: "Must hold supertuxkart.git for this build."
    source_ref: "src/io/file_manager.cpp:179-225"