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What works
- login
- game
What does not
- game without patch
What was not tested
- pvp
Additional Comments
game runs very well, if you apply the vertex shader patch (see how to)
my Hardware: phenom II x4 3.2GHz; nvidia 560 GTX TI 2GiB; 4GiB RAM
performance: ~60 fps
Installation of Wine: 1st of, I recommend you use wine-1.5.13. Next, you need the vertex shader patch (use 'save as'). Extract the wine source, copy the patch to the extracted wine source tree and open a terminel. cd to the source tree and run "patch -p1 < wine-1.5.11-swblending.patch" (Name might be different for the patch if you changed it) without quotes. Once the patch is successful, compile wine via "./configure && make". Next, install with "make install".
Installation of Game: Download megaten form the official site and run it in wine. Should the installer hang, quit it completely and run it again. Should the installer not work for you (which also sometimes happens on windows!), either run it on a virtual windows system or download the preinstalled archive from Gamershell.
Updating the game: Run "wine start ImagineUpdater.exe" form the installation tree of megaten. If you happen to get a mismatch error, use the manual patch available on the Atlus Online Forums.
Different resolutions: For some reason, CAVE, the developer, decided to not include many resolution options. But you can manually fix that. First off, I recommend to run the game with virtual desktop, so open winecfg, activate virtual desktop and set the resoluton to something you want, e.g. 1920x1080. Now go to the megaten installation tree, open OutsideOption.txt and edit the lines ResolutionX and ResolutionY. They should look like this:
-Color 32
-FullScreen true
-ResolutionX 1920
-ResolutionY 1080
It's important that the FullScreen option is set to true. The game should now start in the selected resolution. If you get an error, check if the resolution in winecfg and OutsideOption.txt are identical! You can also use uncommon resolutions, I e.g. use 1920x1053 with disabled window decorations, so the window of the game is maxed on my desktop without being covered by my panels
Alternatively, you can run the game without virtual desktop in windowed mode. Therefor, change -FullScreen true to -FullScreen false and the resolution to the dimensions you want your window to have.
Fixing Fonts: Since wine uses open fonts, you might experience weird spacing and characters (special letters) being broken. At the time of writing this, the only solution I can recommend is using the actual ms fonts. You need msgothic.ttc and msmincho.ttc, google should help you finding them. Save both in [your_wine_folder]/drive_c/windows/fonts/.
updated: 2012.9.21.
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Blank screen
by midramble on Monday February 18th 2013, 5:44
Hello,
First of all thank you so much for the wonderful info. I'm trying to run imagine through wine and I'm coming up with a blank white screen when the game tries to run. I installed wine and wine bottler from the combined dmg. With that I could download and install the game and even run the updater; however, when I hit play it gives me a blank white x11 screen that freezes. I downloaded the version you suggested, extracted, ran the patch, compiled (took 30 mintues btw hahaha) made install, and still giving me the blank white screen. Have I missed a step or do I need to completely uninstall wine and go again from scratch?
I couldn't make it.
by Christophe on Wednesday August 1st 2012, 15:28
Sorry... I know you already explained a lot.. but I still couldn't make it. I don't know what is the source and when I ran the wine "Configure" I got this message.
And I don't really get how to apply the patch, sorry, (by the way I am french, so sometimes it's a bit harder for me sorry).
I did download the patch, the installing .exe, the wine, (i don't know if I could install correctly the wine). But from there I was completely lost.
If someone could give me all the actions needed, with * between actions, or something like that. Sorry I know I ask for much. I could put everything on desktop (Computer is french but terminal is english)
"ImagineClient.exe expeerienced a problem and needs to close"
by Robert Lee on Monday February 13th 2012, 11:53
I tried installing wine 1.3.32 using the above mentioned vertex shader patch and I installed shin megami tensei. The updater and options work find but when I try to launch the game itself I just get a crash with the error in the subject. I am using an AMD e-350 1.6ghz dual core with integrated radeon graphics using the FOSS radeonhq drivers. Any suggestions ro advice for maybe edits to the registry or settings or anything that may fix this?
RE: by Robert Lee on
Thursday February 16th 2012, 9:33
vertex shader patch for wine 1.3.37
by Yuki on Tuesday January 31st 2012, 9:30
apparently, the new vertex shader patch doesn't exactly work on the wine version 1.3.37, but I'm not entirely certain.
ok, uncertainty aside, there's that 10001 error indication that something doesn't work properly and my female intuition tells me it's something about shaders.
for the time being, I cannot recommend any update higher than 1.3.36 with the vertex shader patch for wine 1.3.28
