Experiment: Running under Wine (Linux Mint)

[Bluescreen92jrd]

I don't know what the policy is for commentary on this project, so I thought I would post my thoughts about using the Animal Crossing Windows app in Wine.

Launching the application

In my particular experience, simply double-clicking the application's EXE file will just pop up the window for a split second before closing it automatically. The workaround is to open up your bash terminal to the folder in which the game files are stored and launch the application from there: wine AnimalCrossing.exe

What I see working

Inability to run the app directly (at least on Linux) notwithstanding, the game launches and runs. Controllers work (regardless of platform, use Xbox controller for best results), sound and 3D graphics work.

I'm gonna play a bit and come back with my findings. Feel free to comment.

[Bluescreen92jrd]

After playing for a while, it just works, aside from a slight frame skip here and there. Graphics tend to slightly flicker sometimes. Sound is fair.

The machine I'm running the game on:
HP 255 G7
AMD A4-series processor with integrated Radeon R3 Graphics
Linux Mint 22.3 with Cinnamon desktop 6.6.7
8 GB memory, 500 GB storage
Wine, Wintricks, and DirectX/Vulkan translators installed

[bongjutsu]

I don't know what the policy is for commentary on this project, so I thought I would post my thoughts about using the Animal Crossing Windows app in Wine.

Launching the application

In my particular experience, simply double-clicking the application's EXE file will just pop up the window for a split second before closing it automatically. The workaround is to open up your bash terminal to the folder in which the game files are stored and launch the application from there: wine AnimalCrossing.exe

What I see working

Inability to run the app directly (at least on Linux) notwithstanding, the game launches and runs. Controllers work (regardless of platform, use Xbox controller for best results), sound and 3D graphics work.

I'm gonna play a bit and come back with my findings. Feel free to comment.

You absolutely can run it by double clicking on it. You will first need to make sure that AnimalCrossing.exe has the executable permission (if you're using a desktop environment, you should be able to find that setting by right clicking and checking properties. Otherwise, in terminal, chmod +x AnimalCrossing.exe will make it executable). Then, if you're in a desktop environment again, you will need to make sure that it knows to execute .exe files with wine. I'm not entirely sure how to do this as it differs depending on your particular DE. If running through a terminal, ./AnimalCrossing.exe will run it through your default wine installation as well. Given you mentioned that a window pops up and then disappears, my guess would be that your DE just isn't configured for exe files, but it's definitely something you can fix. What I'm wanting to know is if it can't be built to run natively, though as it works just fine through wine/proton, it's probably not needed.