Playing Maple Legends on a Linux Box, The Guide.

Latte do you want me to proofread this i see a lot of typos and grammatical errors

 

WINE stood for WINdows Emulator first Kappa

 

I agree Kappa

 

Do you have it in a word document somewhere how would I go about doing this

 

Thanks for Guide @Latte

 

Thank you for this guide, but I'd like to improve on it.
First of all, there was no mono210 for me so I did not install it and maple still runs perfect.
Second. It is required to download more fonts, run winetricks -> default -> install font -> allfonts. I didn't do this first and maple just came up in weird symbols.
Third if you want to run maplestory in window mode, use this command:
wine explorer /desktop=MapleLegends,1024x768 MapleLegends.exe
ofcourse you need to navigate to your maple folder in the terminal.

Running this all on Arch linux with plasma as DE and it runs very smoothly!
and for anyone wondering how to install wine on arch linux, just run yaourt wine
and select the numbers for wine and winetricks, that's it. If you don't have yaourt, run sudo pacman -S yaourt

And also if you have downloaded the windows installer, you can just keep wine on windows xp, run the setup using wine and change to windows 98 after that to run the game! That's what I did if you change to windows 98 first, you're going to get an error that the version of windows is to old to run the installer

EDIT:
I installed it yet on another PC running Arch linux, and this time winetricks wouldn't open, to fix this I had to manually install "zenity"
so for arch users: sudo pacman -S zenity
for ubuntu users: sudo apt-get install zenity
note: this is only when executing "winetricks" does not give a graphical interface.

On both my systems sound did not work because my pc's are 64 bit, to solve this I had to install these additional packages:
lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse lib32-openal
agin for arch users: sudo pacman -S lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse lib32-openal
for ubuntu users: sudo apt-get install lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse lib32-openal

Then on my second system, I did not install all the directX's you stated.
I left out these ones and maple still works flawless, so if you could remove those?

• d3dx9_26
• d3dx9_28
• d3dx9_31
• d3dx9_35

Also, if anyone want's to play maplestory windowed without entering the command every time again which I stated above, just put the command above in a .sh file (ex: maplestory.sh) and do a chmod +x maplestory.sh on it, now you can click the file and it will run maplestory in windowed mode

usually the path is also going to be ~/.wine/drive_c/MapleLegends/MapleLegends.exe

 

Hey folks. I was wondering if you guys have gotten this to work on a VM? I tried the above methods on Virtualbox, but I got stuck. Maplelegends.exe executes, but Maple doesn't come up. I can see the process running in the System Viewer. No error or anything, just no app appearing.

 

Yes I got another server that had a newer version to work on vmware player. Worked flawlessy, only had to change a registery key so that maple did not detect that it was a VM, but why would you want to run this in a VM if you can run this native on windows, linux and mac?

 

My intent was to multiclient, in order to Mule items to a new character w/o drop trading. I know multiclient to level is frowned upon. Is it frowned upon to transfer items? I am thinking the problem I am running into is related to Virtualbox, but I am unsure. I'll have to try VMware.

 

Many people here use VMware or other Virtual Machine software to multiclient. But ye, don't use VirtualBox.

 

Thanks for writing this guide! I'm running Arch; at first I had a problem where the game wouldn't start. I ran winecfg, went to Graphics, and checked the "emulate a virtual desktop box", and that fixed it. Just posting in case someone else has the same problem.

 

Mint 18.1 XFCE
Almost decade-old laptop running perfectly

 

shit guide try harder Latte

 

Got Legends up and running perfectly but no continuous attack. (Only attacks once when holding atk button or skill) Any ideas?

 

Midnight Any luck? I don't remember what I did in the past, so I'm struggling to get this working again.
Edit:
Midnight I got something working.

$ xmodmap -e "remove control = Control_L" # Removing the control ability from the left Ctrl key makes it repeat.
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 62 = Shift_L" # Swap the left shift with the right shift
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 50 = Shift_R" # because removing the left's shift ability doesn't make it repeat.
$ xmodmap -e "remove shift = Shift_R" # Remove the shift ability from the new left Shift key makes it repeat.​

Doing the above will make your left control and left shift keys useless with combinations. You'll have to use the right ones.
I don't remember needing repeated jumping, so this will do for now.
I believe I actually played without problems on Linux Mint (by dual booting, as I am using Arch Linux). I wonder if the GMs have this handy information.
Edit: I quickly noticed that I need repeated jumping.

$ xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = grave" # Swap left alt with `. Reflect this change in your MS controls.
$ xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = grave" # Removing the alt ability from the new left Alt key makes it repeat.​

Edit: The following allows you to bind the in-game Alt key action to `. It complements the previous two commands.

$xmodmap -e "keycode 49 = Alt_L"
$xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Alt_L"​

 

So, I tried to install on Ubuntu and there was no "mono210" option for me. I managed to install the MapleLegends folder but I cannot open the game. Could someone help please? x:

Edit: I did it! Really thought I was running in 32bit prefix but it was set to 64bit instead.

I'm having a problem, though. When I open the game, my entire computer's resolution goes super zoomed and I can't even log out. I fixed this by commanding Wine to open in a 1920x1080 window, and now I an play - but the game opens in low resolution, like in windowed mode. When I press Alt + Enter, the Wine window goes fullscreen, but MapleStory doesn't.

Could someone help me here?

 

Is there a way to multiclient using wine?