macOS or Linux port?

[138479762]

Danganronpa 1 and 2 got them, will this have them as well? And if not does anyone know if it works on Parallels/WINE?

[mziab]

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work properly using wine right now.

At first the launcher crashed when selecting video settings with an "Method not found: 'Int32 System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf" error, but I was able to fix it by installing dotnet46 using winetricks (be advised that dotnet45 or dotnet452 are too old).

However, even after doing all that the first game crashes after the Aksys Games logo with "An application error occurred! "Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors" was termed." error. The second game just freezes on a black screen after some logos. Judging from other threads, this problem doesn't seem to be unique to wine, though. I'm still hoping this can be fixed with some more overrides.

UPDATE: I was able to get it going a bit further by installing ffdshow. It now displays the title screen, but crashes immediately after selecting Start,

[138479762]

Originally posted by mziab:

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work properly using wine right now.

At first the launcher crashed when selecting video settings with an "Method not found: 'Int32 System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf" error, but I was able to fix it by installing dotnet46 using winetricks (be advised that dotnet45 or dotnet452 are too old).

However, even after doing all that the first game crashes after the Aksys Games logo with "An application error occurred! "Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors" was termed." error. The second game just freezes on a black screen after some logos. Judging from other threads, this problem doesn't seem to be unique to wine, though. I'm still hoping this can be fixed with some more overrides.

UPDATE: I was able to get it going a bit further by installing ffdshow. It now displays the title screen, but crashes immediately after selecting Start,

Dang, I'm willing to pay for games that don't have ports as long as they work in WINE or Parallels but if that's the case then no tux, no bux. Or no i no buy, I will use anything that isn't Windows or a console.

[babo]

I've gotten VLR to work through wine just fine, but i get errors for 999. Two windows open and then the game crashes and gives me the same error, "An application error occurred! "Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors" was termed."

I truly hope there is a Mac port, if anyone manages to work out 999, please offer a solution!

[mziab]

Your post gave me hope, so I tried on a fresh wine prefix again, this time without installing ffdshow, quartz or dotnet46. And VLR worked, albeit without the opening cutscene. 999 still crashed. It seems VLR didn't like ffdshow or some of the other overrides I'd used previously.

It gets better: I installed LAVFilters 0.69 from here[github.com] as recommended by someone on reddit. And now I have the VLR opening video playing, but with no audio. So close :) Apart from that the game seems to be running fine.

Even better: for curiosity's sake I tried 999 again after installing those codecs... and it didn't crash on me after clicking Options or Start. The sound was muted for some reason, so I had to fixed that in the options. But after that... the game plays just fine. It suffers from missing audio in the opening cutscene like VLR, but now we're getting somewhere!

Hopefully the missing cutscene audio can be fixed by fiddling a bit more with the codecs. So yeah, this is very playable after some fiddling.

[babo]

What I've noticed is that although vlr works, it does skip the opening cutscene entirely. I figure if that can happen for 999 too then I can at least make it to the start menu.

Also, regarding lavfilter- when I download it and then run it, it immediately gives me the option to uninstall it and doesn't actually run. Any tips?

[mziab]

Weird. Do you have any other codec packs installed? Some people on reddit had to uninstall K-Lite before they could install LAVFilters. It installed normally for me, but I used a clean wine prefix to make sure there's no cruft.

[babo]

I don't think so- I used a new wrapper and everything for it and even when it runs there is no difference in preformance. Could I PM you somehow for more assistance if that's okay?

[mziab]

Sure, but if it's anything specific to using wine on a Mac, I probably won't be able to help you. I've only used pure wine on Linux. For what it's worth, I'm running wine 2.2 with just LAVFilter installed (using LAVFilters-0.69-Installer.exe from github). That seems to be enough to get both games playable except the lacking audio in cut-scenes. I've played 999 up to the first puzzle section and nothing seems obviously wrong apart from that.

[Zef]

+1

i only use wine for decade old games, the last thing i want to do is give windows another extra sale.

[babo]

Honestly I don't know how much good posting here will do, but I also want to reccomend that if you want the port for linux/mac, we need to contact the devs ourselves. Spike Chunsoft is on twitter and facebook, that's a start.

[138479762]

Originally posted by Papaya:

Honestly I don't know how much good posting here will do, but I also want to reccomend that if you want the port for linux/mac, we need to contact the devs ourselves. Spike Chunsoft is on twitter and facebook, that's a start.

I don't have a facebook but I did tweet to them about it, thanks for the idea https://twitter.com/halbenull/status/847958846978932736

[babo]

Originally posted by halbe:

Originally posted by Papaya:

Honestly I don't know how much good posting here will do, but I also want to reccomend that if you want the port for linux/mac, we need to contact the devs ourselves. Spike Chunsoft is on twitter and facebook, that's a start.

I don't have a facebook but I did tweet to them about it, thanks for the idea https://twitter.com/halbenull/status/847958846978932736

Yeah!! I've been tweeting at them so much I've been a nuisance, and messaging them on facebook but.. nothin. Very frustrating. Just gotta keep trying!

[Г]

+1 for linux, tweeted them... i'd also be fine if it could work well in WINE, honestly, anyone gotten it working via PlayOnLinux (what i use to manage my wine prefixes)?

[Г]

finally got the launcher, 999, and VLR working on Ubuntu 17.04 with PlayOnLinux and WINE 2.8 , though it hung at the escape of the first room, and the intros wouldn't play. installing LAVFilters as suggested in this thread got through those, though without sound. nothing else special installed in that wine prefix, only steam and other steam games. all-in-all, seems playable now!

[gabi623]

Pls port to Linux