Playing Maple Legends on a Linux Box, The Guide.

Okay, I got it working on Fedora 31. Luckily, wine does provide packages, so I didn't have to use binaries compiled from source.

Install wine-staging:

Code:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/31/winehq.repo
dnf install wine-staging winetricks
# IMPORTANT: Make sure you are using binaries provided by wine-staging and not Fedora
export PATH="/opt/wine-staging/bin:$PATH"

It's important not to use binaries provided by Fedora: they don't work. However, installing winetricks will pull in wine-common, which installs the binaries.

Code:

$ which winecfg
/opt/wine-staging/bin/winecfg

Install MapleLegends:

Code:

# Populate initial configuration data
winecfg
# Install deps
winetricks vcrun6sp6
# Run installer
wine ~/Downloads/MapleLegends2020Feb17.exe

Configure wine:

Code:

# Download ws2_32.dll and ws2help.dll
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
mv ws2_32.dll ws2_32.bkp.dll
cp ~/Downloads/ws2_32.dll ~/Downloads/ws2help.dll .
winecfg
# Set Windows version to Windows 98

Play!

Code:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/MapleLegendsHD
WINEDEBUG=-all wine ./MapleLegends.exe

(vcrun6sp6 was the only winetricks package I needed to install for this. No .NET or DX9/11 needed.)

Follow up: Running multiple clients seems to just work. I've been able to run 2 clients without needing to clone the directory or mess with wineserver.

 

does it work on ubuntu ?

 

I believe it should. The only issue might be 32-bit WINE support or Ubuntu having an older WINE version. I don't know if either is the case with Ubuntu though.

 

Is it less laggy ? If I play maple story on a Linux box

 

Yes but if you are worried about lag I would recommend you use Xubuntu instead since it's much faster than standard Ubuntu.

 

I will try to make it run in elementary os.
i will post about it

 

thank you~
i'm looking forward to it

 

For folks trying to get the new update to cooperate with Wine, here is the MapleLegends.exe provided by the "macOS client" (read: wineskin wrapper): mega⋅nz/file/aGQBmK5S#AbbiAGGONHc5e0WLIfFo1zulb8i4WfcTBWYQGBXPecA

If you want to get it yourself, you have to download the macOS wineskin wrapper and then extract that *.pkg file (*.pkg files are actually XAR archives; I compiled some old XAR archiver/de-archiver to extract it, but reportedly just using

Code:

7z x

also works). Then you can extract the "Payload" file like

Code:

cat Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i

and inspect the resulting Wine prefix to get the MapleLegends.exe from it.

It seems to work better than the MapleLegends.exe that is in the Windows client download (and yes, they are different; I checked their SHA-512 sums), since the macOS one actually launches. But I cannot log in because keyboard and mouse input both just... don't work. I also can't see any mouse cursor whatsoever whenever my mouse is over the game window.

 

OK so I found the problem: MapleLegends.exe was not the only differing file. Copying over ijl15.dll, Sound_DX8.dll, PCOM.dll, and unins000.exe (all of whose SHA-512 hashes did not match) at least fixed the input issue, so I can log in. If you want those files by themselves, here: mega⋅nz/file/CaJ13ITQ#TFP8zoCsbVB9jvNyD8roCCiFBI0UFWKI6G7Ot2I9Gf0

 

Ok, here are some additional notes on this method of nabbing resources from the macOS version:

NOTE: If you are reading this, the previous files that I uploaded in my last two responses to this thread are probably outdated. I recommend just copying the macOS version's "MapleLegendsHD" directory over wholesale into your Wine prefix.

If you are extracting the resources from the macOS binary yourself, here is the easiest way to do it (exploiting the cleverness of 7zip; if you don't have the "7z" command, then you need to install it; it's called "p7zip-full" on Debian-based distros):

Code:

[.../] $ ls
MapleLegends-MACDDMMMYYYY.pkg

[.../] $ mkdir MapleLegendsMac && cd MapleLegendsMac

[.../MapleLegendsMac] $ 7z x ../MapleLegends-MACDDMMMYYYY.pkg

[.../MapleLegendsMac] $ ls
Payload~

[.../MapleLegendsMac] $ 7z x 'Payload~'

[.../MapleLegendsMac] $ ls
'MapleLegends  .app'/   Payload~

[.../MapleLegendsMac] $ rm 'Payload~' && cd 'MapleLegends  .app'/Contents/Resources/drive_c/MapleLegendsHD

[.../MapleLegendsMac/MapleLegends  .app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/MapleLegendsHD] $ ls
 Canvas.dll     Data/          ijl15.dll      Legends.ini   MapleLegends.dll   NameSpace.dll   npkpdb.dll   ResMan.dll   Shape2D.dll     WzMss.dll
'Crash Logs'/   Gr2D_DX8.dll   l3codeca.acm   List.wz       MapleLegends.exe   npkcrypt.dll    PCOM.dll     Setup.exe    Sound_DX8.dll   ZLZ.dll

You can also use this: stackoverflow⋅com/questions/11298855/how-to-unpack-and-pack-pkg-file as a reference.

 

Are you still able to run the newest client on Fedora 31? I tried following your steps but upon trying to start the client it fails with the error message:

Code:

0024:fixme:heap:EnumSystemFirmwareTables (0x4649524d, 00000000, 0)

followed by a bunch of the ws2dll errors that were mentioned earlier in the thread to be normal. Any advice?

 

You may have to use the files from the macOS version. That's what I had to do for last patch (as you can see from my comments) and so I did the same for the latest patch.

 

Right, that was actually what I was going to try next but it ended up getting late so I put it off until today. Using the macOS version's `MapleLegendsHD` folder instead of the Windows version's worked, though there are a lot of sound errors that pop up. Still, the game is playable! Thanks.

 

I installed wine 5.9 and mono-complete (no additional dlls or plugins), used 7z to extract the MacOS version, copied over the ws2_32.dll and ws2help.dll files from the MacOS system32 directory, set my display mode to 60 hz, and it works! Awesome guide, thank you all!

Without changing display mode from 144hz to 60hz Maple would close itself without giving me anything to work with. Using

Code:

WINEDEBUG=+d3d wine MapleLegends.exe

I saw that the last thing before closing was getting a list of display modes, so I hoped (correctly!) that mine was invalid.

 

Was the mac version approach working without the hp/mp regen bans?

I've tried to install wine-staging on debian, without winearch32, then winecfg'd it into 98, afterwards replacing the ws2_ (2) .dll files. This however resulted in a lot of call errors based on the ws2_ dll about some calls not being supported. Perhaps it's because wine is hella old on debian, will try another install approach later on, but wondered if this is common?

 

I followed these instructions and got the game working on the latest patch!

 

In winecfg if you set it to use a virtual desktop you can open the game without changing your refresh rate, this has complications with multiclient however. As an alternative you can run MapleLegends with these commands:

Code:

wine explorer /desktop=MapleStory,1920x1080 MapleLegends.exe
wine explorer /desktop=MapleStory1,1920x1080 MapleLegends.exe

Each client will require you changing the desktop name

 

hi bro, do you remember the steps?

 

there must be a little thing I need, I did all the process in ubuntu 20.04, Zuma works great, Vice Çity and all games I tried, but MapleLegends, opens a blue screen, and it goes out. I am using the folder I have in my windows PC, some people say using the exe found in mac version works, so, i will try that and will post about.

if anyone can give me a tip, I will appreciate it

 

Hi friends, good news for ubuntu 20.04 users, I made it run, I will post the process I did in a few hours, I am sleepy now, it runs normally, since this a 10 inches minilaptop and with no fan cooler system, I can open two windows but it gets slow. but something is something.