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Installing RPG Maker XP, VX, or VX Ace Under PlayOnLinux: The Complete Guide! - hanetzer - 02-21-2013

I had to do some custom setup to get MS Office to work under wine, these custom settings may or may not be needed for RMXP to work under wine as well, if you have a problem following these steps please post here and I will update the steps. Also I am using a heavily customized Precise x64 install and I am not sure what, if anything of that, affects the success/failure of this venture, so again if something does not work let me know and I will add the correct steps.

Assumes:
1. Familiarity with the terminal
2. Patience

Initial Setup:
Open a terminal and run:
Code:
wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_precise.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux wine


This will add the wine & PlayOnLinux (hereafter POL) ppa's to your system so you can get the bleeding edge software you need.

Open POL (how you do that will depend on your desktop environment; I use gnome-fallback, so its under "Games" in the main gnome menu; for Unity you can search the dash, and if all else fails alt+f2 will open your run prompt, type in playonlinux and press enter)

At this point you have two options:
Automated installation
Manual Install

Now, for the moment of truth! To run your installation click on the appropriate icon to highlight it and click the debug link to the right of the POL window.

At this point it may hang something terrible, and the window may keep whatever image is over it (you will see what I mean), just wait it out as it will do this every time you run it untill I or another figure a way to speed up its loading. If all goes well you should get an activate dialog, yay! Do your legitimacy magic, and you it should register just fine.After registration it may hang some more, again you just have to be patient :P

At this point you should be greeted with the familiar window we all love so much! If its no trouble, after installation, first run, and registration could you please send me a copy of the playonlinux.log in the appropriate VD so I can improve on the script for everyone?

You can even create a .desktop launcher file; I'll add it here when I finish making mine, but it seems RMXP works under wine with all the bells and whistles, excluding playing .mid (midi) files and .mp3, or any sound it seems in the in-editor playtest

Known Issues - hanetzer - 02-22-2013

Works:
Most everything

Does Not Work:
Alt+Enter fullscreen; will wreak havoc on your display, pressing Alt+Enter will reverse the damage but it is rather startling.
Playing .mid or .mp3 files (use .ogg instead of .mp3, its open-source anyways); wip (this is a general linux [for midi at least, mp3 in linux {not under wine} is pretty easy] and/or hardware issue [If your sound card can do midi it may work] and not RMXP on linux in particular)
I have taken the liberty of converting the RTP music for both RPG XP and VX from .mid to .ogg, you can download either by clicking the icons below. There is not one for VXAce as their music is already all .ogg.
[Image: rpgxpaudio.png][Image: rpgvxaudio.png]
Just unzip the contents into the proper directory and delete the .mid files.
Also, This method's (and likely any other's) success/failure is in part based on your graphics card.

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac Install Script - Testers needed! - hanetzer - 03-05-2013

Have put together a PlayOnLinux install script. What does that mean? It means all of the above complicated mess will be handled automatically. Good news, right?

Problem is, I need testers to try it out on other machines, not like my own. This is a call to all linux (any distro, ubuntu, red hat, fedora, etc) and mac (PlayOnMac is just the same as PlayOnLinux) users. If you are interested either post here/pm me your system specifics (os, hardware, etc) and we'll talk.

RE: Installing RPG Maker XP, VX, or VX Ace Under PlayOnLinux: The Complete Guide! - hanetzer - 03-13-2013

Update:
I have submitted my PlayOnLinux script for approval, and should soon now appears in the PlayOnLinux Database under Games, but you must enable the testing scripts option. It automates all of the above steps, including replacing the .mid music with .ogg. With it any paying/trying user will be able to hit the ground running.
In action:
[Image: screenshotfrom201303122.png]

RE: Installing RPG Maker XP, VX, or VX Ace Under PlayOnLinux: The Complete Guide! - Cecil_Harvey_358 - 07-07-2015

Hello,

I was testing out your auto-install file for RPG Maker Vx Ace. I use Ubuntu-GNOME, for the record.  I ran the code file through PlayOnLinux, but got the "Error! Files Mismatch" message. Any ideas on how to get around this?

RE: Installing RPG Maker XP, VX, or VX Ace Under PlayOnLinux: The Complete Guide! - Francexi - 05-15-2016

Oh, very useful. Thanks a lot