diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4f9d591..c3501c0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -57,6 +57,3 @@
 [submodule "subprojects/protobuf-c"]
 	path = subprojects/protobuf-c
 	url = https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git
-[submodule "backends/playback/gme/game-music-emu"]
-	path = backends/playback/gme/game-music-emu
-	url = https://github.com/libgme/game-music-emu.git
diff --git a/backends/playback/gme/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/playback/gme/CMakeLists.txt
index 8e287f7..9992cee 100644
--- a/backends/playback/gme/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/playback/gme/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 set(BACKEND_GME_SRC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gme_backend.cpp)
 set(BACKEND_GME_INC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
-add_subdirectory(game-music-emu)
+pkg_check_modules(libgme IMPORTED_TARGET libgme)
 add_playback_backend(gme_backend ${BACKEND_GME_SRC})
 target_include_directories(gme_backend PRIVATE ${BACKEND_GME_INC})
 find_package(OpenMP)
-target_include_directories(gme_backend PUBLIC game-music-emu/gme)
-target_link_libraries(gme_backend PUBLIC gme OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX)
+target_link_libraries(gme_backend PUBLIC PkgConfig::libgme OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX)
diff --git a/backends/playback/gme/game-music-emu b/backends/playback/gme/game-music-emu
deleted file mode 160000
index e76bdc0..0000000
--- a/backends/playback/gme/game-music-emu
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit e76bdc0cb916e79aa540290e6edd0c445879d3ba