you haven't been able to get bottles working for VNs? I'm willing to help out in this case, it's how I predominately played most of my VNs
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I added a new section for a basic Bottles setup: https://wiki.comfysnug.space/doku.php?id=visualnovel:winedistros#using_bottles_as_a_wine_manager
There's still a lot I don't know, but there's definitely some cool stuff in Bottles and I'm glad I can finally use it, haha. Thanks for your help!
Unfortunately not! Admittedly, I only tried the Flatpak on Arch while I tested Lutris on all the distributions we provide instructions for. I got a bunch of different errors when trying to launch Sono Hanabira 1. I'm reinstalling Bottles with Flatpak now so I can test it again.
First, I create a Gaming bottle. I change the Runner to system Wine, which is Wine Staging 8.12 for me. Then I get the classic File Join error:
So, it seems like the filenames are garbled. I install cjkfonts as a dependency—I wish it gave me feedback as to what it's doing like Lutris does in the installer while it does this because it takes a while, but that's a small usability thing. I also set the LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 environment variable in settings for the bottle. I try to launch it again and the text isn't garbled anymore, but I still get the filejoin error:
This is weird, because I'm pretty sure this is a result of a bug that existed from 2008-2022 fixed in Wine 7.10, and I'm using Wine 8.12.
At this point, I wonder if the locale is taking and run the commands listed in this comment: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2129#issuecomment-1354415425
I try again, but I get the same error. At this point, I figure Sono Hana is probably a tricky game so I try H2O now, which I know works in normal Wine, Lutris, and even CrossOver, but I get this:
And I get a lot of similar issues for other VNs, too.
I'll see if I can give it a try later tonight, since there may have been a regression since I last played anything. do you have any specific VNs you had issues with aside from sonohana? I played through the rance series using bottles up to magnum quest.
I try again, but I get the same error. At this point, I figure Sono Hana is probably a tricky game so I try H2O now, which I know works in normal Wine, Lutris, and even CrossOver, but I get this:
Here are some other VNs:
- I tried Dracu-Riot and don't even get a window:
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
- I tried Hatsuyuki Sakura and got an odd one complaining about not being able to find Startmenu.exe:
StartMenu.exeが見つかりませんでした。
- I tried Suteki na Kanojo no Tsukurikata, which gives me this:
00c4:err:module:import_dll Library UnityPlayer.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\2bcd2b83\\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe") not found
00c4:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\2bcd2b83\\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe" failed, status c0000135
- I tried Amrilato, which tells me it can't find the game executable and gives me this:
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
Failed to launch. Arguments are:
0 "Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\4b6a94df\\lib\\windows-i686\\TheExpressionAmrilato
.exe"
1 NULL
2 NULL
3 NULL
- I tried Higurashi Meakashi, which gives me this even though there is a data folder named this:
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
There should be 'HigurashiEp05_Data'
folder next to the executable
And it continues on in this fashion. I'm using sys-wine-8.0, but switching to soda-7.0-7 gives me identical results. It seems something is fundamentally broken in the install, but I don't see how that could be given I installed it via Flatpak.
I do have dracuriot so I will be able to test that again then, by chance are you running the games from bottles internal system bottles' "Program files", I run all my games from that
Most of these games are installed in my ~/games/VNs folder, but Higurashi is in a Wineprefix. These games were installed long ago, and some of them don't even have methods of installation. Since you gave me the idea, I installed Flatseal and gave Bottles free reign on "All user files (filesystem=home)", which it didn't have, but that didn't help. I'm very much not an expert on Flatpak, so it's possible I missed something basic. Lutris on Linux Mint worked perfectly fine with Sono Hana 1, so I don't know what's different about Bottles.
Edit: I copied Sono Hana 1 to ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/runner-dir/drive_c/Program Files/その花びら1 and it worked! In the end, it was something basic. I think I'm going to break the sandbox though because I don't want to move all my games there: https://docs.usebottles.com/flatpak/expose-directories/use-system-home
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