diff --git a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.cpp b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.cpp
index 4b4af3db0..f00d63165 100644
--- a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.cpp
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ namespace physfs
 		releaseSet = true;
 	}
 
+	bool Filesystem::isRelease() const
+	{
+		if (!releaseSet)
+			return false;
+		return release;
+	}
+
 	bool Filesystem::setIdentity( const char * ident )
 	{
 		if(!isInited)
diff --git a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
index 327022886..d87881059 100644
--- a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
+++ b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ namespace physfs
 		void init(const char * arg0);
 
 		void setRelease(bool release);
+		bool isRelease() const;
 
 		/**
 		* This sets up the save directory. If the
diff --git a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.cpp b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.cpp
index 6786b90ed..c5575ffc0 100644
--- a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.cpp
@@ -297,6 +297,59 @@ namespace physfs
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+	inline const char * library_extension()
+	{
+#ifdef LOVE_WINDOWS
+		return ".dll";
+#elif defined(LOVE_MACOSX) || defined(LOVE_MACOS)
+		return ".dylib";
+#else
+		return ".so";
+#endif
+	}
+
+	int extloader(lua_State * L)
+	{
+		const char * filename = lua_tostring(L, -1);
+		std::string tokenized_name(filename);
+		std::string tokenized_function(filename);
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < tokenized_name.size(); i++)
+		{
+			if (tokenized_name[i] == '.')
+			{
+				tokenized_name[i] = '/';
+				tokenized_function[i] = '_';
+			}
+		}
+
+		tokenized_name += library_extension();
+
+		void * handle = SDL_LoadObject((std::string(instance->getAppdataDirectory()) + LOVE_PATH_SEPARATOR LOVE_APPDATA_FOLDER LOVE_PATH_SEPARATOR + tokenized_name).c_str());
+		if (!handle && instance->isRelease())
+			handle = SDL_LoadObject((std::string(instance->getSaveDirectory()) + LOVE_PATH_SEPARATOR + tokenized_name).c_str());
+
+		if (!handle)
+		{
+			lua_pushfstring(L, "\n\tno extension \"%s\" in LOVE paths.\n", filename);
+			return 1;
+		}
+
+		void * func = SDL_LoadFunction(handle, ("loveopen_" + tokenized_function).c_str());
+		if (!func)
+			func = SDL_LoadFunction(handle, ("luaopen_" + tokenized_function).c_str());
+
+		if (!func)
+		{
+			SDL_UnloadObject(handle);
+			lua_pushfstring(L, "\n\textension \"%s\" is incompatible.\n", filename);
+			return 1;
+		}
+
+		lua_pushcfunction(L, (lua_CFunction) func);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	// List of functions to wrap.
 	static const luaL_Reg functions[] = {
 		{ "init",  w_init },
@@ -337,6 +390,7 @@ namespace physfs
 			{
 				instance = new Filesystem();
 				love::luax_register_searcher(L, loader);
+				love::luax_register_searcher(L, extloader);
 			}
 			catch(Exception & e)
 			{
diff --git a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.h b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.h
index a7307e355..5bd348081 100644
--- a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.h
+++ b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/wrap_Filesystem.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 #include "wrap_File.h"
 #include "wrap_FileData.h"
 
+// SDL
+#include <SDL_loadso.h>
+
 namespace love
 {
 namespace filesystem
@@ -60,6 +63,7 @@ namespace physfs
 	int w_load(lua_State * L);
 	int w_getLastModified(lua_State * L);
 	int loader(lua_State * L);
+	int extloader(lua_State * L);
 	extern "C" LOVE_EXPORT int luaopen_love_filesystem(lua_State * L);
 
 } // physfs