Trickster
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Trickster is a MMORPG (Wikipedia's article) (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game with a look similar to Ragnarok Online. At least, it seems because I didn't get it work and the beta period is finished.
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I hope that this information will help when the final version will be released. Ok, let's go !
Installation Process : InstallShield and Alien characters handling
I installed Wine like described in the "Wine installation HOWTO" section "Sarge".
So I downloaded the game and I ran the installation setup which worked flawlessly after installing the Winetools. (I did install Wine without the Winetools and the installation was a nightmare.)
If the installation failed, take a look at the "InstallShield tips and tricks" article.
The title looks like Alien characters because Windows use ISO-xxxx-yy or cpxxxx charsets (where xxxx are numbers and yy are numbers OR letters) which don't fit well for displaying Japanese characters and it doesn't seem that the application can switch the charset to use so...
It's possible that your WM doesn't handle the characters used to display the title of the current window. If that's the case, you can let Wine handle the window by itself.
To do it, put this at the end of your ~/.wine/config file :
Using Wine's builtin WM
[AppDefaults\\Trickster_102_cb.exe\\x11drv] "Managed" = "N"
If you still want to get a grasp on the windows displaying by Wine, you can try to setup virtual desktop for Wine. This desktop will represented by a window managed by your WM with a simple title. Then, inside the window will be run Wine's applications.
To get this behaviour, put this in your ~/.wine/config file :
Get a virtual desktop window
[AppDefaults\\Trickster_102_cb.exe\\x11drv] "Managed" = "N" "Desktop" = "800x600"
Then you'll have a way to manage Wine windows with your WM.
I hope you still here and haven't fainted with the number of explanations...
Running the updater
After the game installed, you'll have to run the updater.
Before doing this, be aware that You should have Internet Explorer installed because Mozilla ActiveX Controls (which can be used too with the updater) will freeze the updater's window.
If everyting is ok, go the folder where the game was installed and run Splash.exe.
Launch the updater (not too far, please...)
$ cd /path/to/Trickster/ $ wine Splash.exe
There's another way to launch installed applications. Let's say the Trickster was installed in C:\Games\Trickster, you can launch it, this way :
Another way to run the updater
$ wine C:\\Games\\Trickster\\Splash.exe
If everything is ok, an interface will appear representing a Box with a small web page, two progress bar at the bottom left and four buttons at the bottom right but only one is displayed while updating; This one means "quit".
So let the updater do it's job.
When finished, the four buttons will appear at the bottom right of the interface. The buttons carry those meaning :
- Start the game [Upper-Left Button]
- Options [Upper-Right Button]
- Update [Bottom-Left Button]
- Quit [Bottom-Right Button]
I didn't translate the buttons, I just use my eyes and my brain (which are pretty related) to give a logical meaning to these buttons.
Then, at this point, 'Start the game' and hear a good music while looking at the error message written in Alien because your current charset doesn't handle Japanese characters unless you're Japanese. By the way, if you are Japanese, I would like to have the error message translated. This could be helpful.
If you configured the game to be displayed in Fullscreen, you won't see the error message because it will be displayed behind the loading screen. Just hit ok after 10 seconds and wait 5 seconds. If you still see the loading screen, you can fire up a terminal by pressing "CTRL+ALT+F1", login as a user and type wineserver -k.
The Wine's output
I've catch some Wine's output in a file that I've uploaded on my web personnal storage
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