PlatinumQuest

What works

Playing the game (single player) with any graphics settings.

What does not

Installer requires workaround

Workarounds

The download that you can get from https://marbleblast.com/index.php/downloads/pq is an .exe-ified .jar file, so running it in Wine will just give you a complaint about JRE not being present. Rather than installing a Windows version of a JRE into Wine (ouch), you can just do this after cd'ing to the directory where the .exe is located:

1. mkdir MBLauncher-Windows
2. mv MBLauncher-Windows.exe MBLauncher-Windows/
3. cd MBLauncher-Windows/
4. 7z x MBLauncher-Windows.exe
5. rm MBLauncher-Windows.exe
6. cd ..
7. jar --create --file MBLauncher-Windows.jar --manifest MBLauncher-Windows/MANIFEST.MF -C MBLauncher-Windows/ .

Now you have MBLauncher-Windows.jar and you can run it with java -jar MBLauncher-Windows.jar. The first time that you run it, it will crash with an exception saying that it didn't have permissions to execute MBLauncher-Windows.jar. That's OK, just run it again and it should magically work. If you haven't already created the wineprefix, do so. Once the .jar is running, go to the "Advanced" tab (should be the furthest to the right) and change the "Game location" to $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/PlatinumQuest or wherever you want the game files to go. Then click the "Update" button next to "Run full update". When the game files are finished downloading, the launcher will crash beacuse it tries to immediately run the game. That's fine, just run the executable (marbleblast.exe) yourself through Wine and it should work.

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

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