Exile Saga ALPHA (WINE on Fedora 20 Linux)

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Exile Saga is a retro JRPG currently having a Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1086709365/exile-saga

I looked at this game a few weeks ago but discovered there was no native Linux version planned so didn't investigate much further. However, the developer messaged me a few days ago to let me know there was a Linux version of the alpha now available so I thought I'd give it another look.

It turns out that it's an officially supported Wine version rather than native, but I like the fact that the developer has listened to what people have asked for and has made an effort. The installation instructions are a little sparse so I thought I'd note down exactly what I did. Bash commands have a leading '$':

Step 1: Create a wineprefix for the game, replace [user] with whatever your username is:

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/[user]/.local/share/wineprefixes/exilesaga" winecfg

Step 2: When the config program comes up select Windows Vista as the version (not sure if this is necessary, but it's what I did)

Step 3: Open up the drive_c.rar file and drill down until you get to the 'Exile Saga' directory, extract just that directory into (replacing [user] as before) /home/[user]/.local/share/wineprefixes/exilesaga/drive_c/Program\ Files/

Step 4: Use this command to start the game (replacing [user] as before):

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/[user]/.local/share/wineprefixes/exilesaga" wine /home/[user]/.local/share/wineprefixes/exilesaga/drive_c/Program\ Files/Exile\ Saga/Exile\ Saga\ -\ Alpha\ 1.1/Game.exe

If all that sounds a bit complex then I suspect downloading the Windows installer and running it directly would work just as well. Follow step 1 above then issue the command:

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/[user]/.local/share/wineprefixes/exilesaga" wine Exile\ Saga\ -\ Kickstarter\ Alpha\ Setup.exe

The benefit of using a wineprefix is that you can adjust the settings without upsetting anything else you have running in WINE, and also you can uninstall the whole thing by deleting the directory in .local/share/wineprefixes



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