Breath of Death VII: The Beginning

What works

Installer

What does not

Game does not launch

Workarounds

What was not tested

Anything in game, since the game fails to launch.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Requires .NET and XNA Framework 4.

Using winetricks is not a requirement, but it is used in this guide, as it makes things more convenient-like (using the -q (--unattended) option will make the installation of 'dotnet', 'xna', and 'wmp' much less of a hassle).

• Create a win32-prefix. (How do I create a 32 bit wineprefix on a 64 bit system?)

• winetricks (What is this "winetricks" thing? Where do I get it?)
  • dotnet40
  • devenum
  • quartz
  • wmp9 or wmp10 (The codec package for the 7+ player offered during installation is not needed.)

• Additionally required dll which is not available via winetricks (at this time):
  • qedit (Important: After copying the dll, it needs to be registered (wine regsvr32 qedit) after adding the override via winecfg.)

Installation

• Installation can be skipped if one has a previous installation somewhere.  The files can be copied from another prefix for example (under steamapps/common).  Steam itself is not required at runtime.
• Steam should install the game fine, and the .NET/XNA installations can be made to work if they don't work out-of-the-box.  Using winetricks will be more convenient, however.

Last Updated

• 2018-07-16

Last Tested With

• Wine Vanilla 3.0.2 and 3.12
• Wine Staging 3.12

Known Issues

• The game will occasionally crash when quitting.