Saira on WINE

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Offline minmay

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Saira on WINE
« on: December 12, 2009, 19:34:13 »
I cannot get it to work.  The closest I could come was to put the game in windowed mode and emulate a virtual desktop, where about half the screen was completely cut off and thus the game was unplayable.

Anyone else tried?  Anyone else tried something that worked?

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2009, 19:37:32 »
I just downloaded and it doesn't work for me either. I have windows XP. The entire window is pretty much black. I can hear the music. I was really eager to try it. The fact that the same dl can't be moved over to another PC means I can't try it on my laptop either.  :sad:

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2009, 19:43:29 »
It can be moved, just get the portable .zip version or re-download it at the new computer.

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Offline LightningEagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2009, 22:21:11 »
I've had a little luck getting Saira to run in WINE.

It's not all happy times though.

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/LightningEagle/Screenshot.png

If anyone know how to fix such a black thingie... please do tell.

I'll report back with any progress I make.

EDIT: maybe I should mention. Up to that point everything has run very nice, apart from the weird black area.
EDIT2: hmm... (EDIT3:) some fonts are messed up.
@Nifflas: what fonts are used in the game?  :huh:

EDIT4:
* The menu box opens just fine and other boxes also.
* Text in menu works fine.
* Photos doesn't show up. They're there, they're just all black.
* It's the small text, for instance where you mount the the parts in the teleporter. The text in that box is messed.
* When looking at the window and the black frame (see picture), the game-image is pushed down the height of the upper black bar and the right side is covered by the bar in that position.
* Puzzles appear to work fine. At least the two first ones do.

EDIT5:
Application crashed when I tried to run the Device Solver with a puzzle.
« Last Edit: December 12, 2009, 22:40:47 by LightningEagle »

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 08:29:09 »
HOWDIDYOUDOTHAT?!
i only get "cannot find directorypacker.mfx"
I dont care about messed up fonts/ black area!
btw does it only crash with the puzzle solver or witha the pda as well?

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Offline LightningEagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2009, 09:59:56 »
HOWDIDYOUDOTHAT?!
i only get "cannot find directorypacker.mfx"
I dont care about messed up fonts/ black area!
btw does it only crash with the puzzle solver or witha the pda as well?

PDA works fine... but as I've stated: photos are all black.

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2009, 11:54:09 »
So..... how did you do it?!  C)

Btw, i might play saira on my ds  :crazy:
(using win2ds  C))

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Offline LightningEagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2009, 14:14:24 »
So..... how did you do it?!  C)

Fetched the newest WiNE package for ubuntu 9.10, downloaded the portable version of the game, ran terminal, navigated to the game, typed in "wine saira.exe" - ENTER!

Then it said: missing *****.dll (don't remember which one) and I googled and downloaded it and added the library to the emulated C:/

Then I ran again and... well.. you know the result.  ;)

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Offline smeagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2009, 13:17:02 »
thanks!
Edit: i get "cannot load binaryarray.mfx. This object might..." etc
Did you somehow fix this while making another program work then forgot about it?
« Last Edit: December 18, 2009, 13:20:59 by smeagle »

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Offline LightningEagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2009, 14:36:10 »
thanks!
Edit: i get "cannot load binaryarray.mfx. This object might..." etc
Did you somehow fix this while making another program work then forgot about it?
I can't have done that, no. I hadn't installed wine prior. Another thing I did however, which I forgot to mention: I copied all my .ttf fonts from my windows install to the font directory in the emulated c:/
« Last Edit: December 19, 2009, 14:39:39 by LightningEagle »

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Offline smeagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2009, 05:38:10 »
ill try that!

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2010, 09:54:27 »
Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

I get this. Its so off center it's ridiculous.. I'm unsure what the problem could be.

@Smeagle; You need to download MSVCP60.dll and put it in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to get rid of that error.

[mod]placed image inside spoiler[/mod]
« Last Edit: January 13, 2010, 21:55:48 by Miyako »

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Offline LightningEagle

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2010, 20:08:00 »
Hmm, same problem as I have, though more severe it seems.

If you could resize or compress your image a little more it would put less strain on the less fast connections.

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2010, 20:13:05 »
Quote from: Smeagle
thanks!
Edit: i get "cannot load binaryarray.mfx. This object might..." etc
Did you somehow fix this while making another program work then forgot about it?

Quote from: Miyako
@Smeagle; You need to download MSVCP60.dll and put it in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to get rid of that error.

Oh, that's my fault :)

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Re: Saira on WINE
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2010, 21:50:20 »
what.. how it is your fault. o-o

@Lightningeagle; The thing is that yours and mine are the same, but I think our resolution makes yours work better because you cant even see the ground with how far mine is down. 1440x900
« Last Edit: January 13, 2010, 21:56:55 by Miyako »