Running Supercard patching software on *nix with wine

tc1415 · February 12, 2007, 05:10:49 PM

Hi all,

Trying to run the patcher on my Fedora 6 install constantly fails as the patcher fails to outputs files - it gives an Open File Error. Looking at the console output of wine i can see:

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fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented
which leads me to believe it is something that is not implemented in wine causing the problem.

However, according to NT on IRC, some of you got this working so I was wondering if anyone know how to make this work as I really don't want to have to install Windows!

Thanks in advance!

liquidnitrogen · February 12, 2007, 07:18:12 PM

i would like to know how to do this too!... haha... using Linux Mint (ubuntu derivative) and i took the easy way out by using CrossOver Office (5.0.3) ....

SukkoPera · February 13, 2007, 07:20:09 AM

I'm running Slackware and the patching software works with Wine. I have even packaged it as a Slackware package

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My suggestion is to try a newer/older version of Wine. I'm using wine-0.9.25-i486-3kjz, got from linuxpackages.

gingi · February 13, 2007, 09:02:14 AM

I also have this problem in Ubuntu. However, if you try to run the patcher software through the installer (check "Launch this program now" at the end of the installation), then it works perfectly. So you can be like me and reinstall everytime you want to patch some roms :?

tc1415 · February 14, 2007, 02:07:08 PM

QuoteMy suggestion is to try a newer/older version of Wine.

I'm currently using wine-0.9.30-1.fc6 from Fedora, and I can't see that a newer version will have less functionality than an older one. Unless I am mistaken, of course.

Sonny_Jim · February 14, 2007, 05:26:16 PM

Have you tried changing into the directory it was installed in and running from there? e.g
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/SC/
wine Supercard.exe

tc1415 · February 14, 2007, 06:01:22 PM

Thanks, that worked. Can't believe I didn't think of that!

Now onto other things...

liquidnitrogen · February 18, 2007, 04:11:52 AM

strange... changing it to the directory and then wine supercard patcher.. and it'll work.. if i were to put it in the gnome menu with...

wine "<path to supercard patcher" it wont... -.- (quotes needed... dunno why, gnome just seems to work like that)

gingi · February 18, 2007, 04:29:56 AM

Yeah, it's very weird, my shortcut is now a small shell script that cd's to the patcher folder and then opens it with wine.

Jabba · February 18, 2007, 10:12:57 PM

What do you think the success rate of it running in darwine would be?