(SOLVED) Trying to run a game on WINE with a foreign locale

[split granite]

😭??

[remote comet]

i can't believe you finally finished installing

bruh what is that image

@split granite i can help you but you need to follow me in this

[split granite]

yeah?

[remote comet]

1. You need to Uncomment the Japanese locale in your system

Go to this file /etc/locale.gen and uncommenti the line ja_JP.UTF-81

Uncomment = Remove The # Sign Before it

2. After uncommenting the line, you need to generate the locale

Type this command in the terminal locale-gen

[split granite]

it's read-only

[remote comet]

type this in your terminal

sudo nano /etc/locale.gen

after you remove the # sign

click Ctrl+X to save

[split granite]

ohhh alr

[remote comet]

then Y then Enter

[split granite]

doesnt look very good

[remote comet]

what did generate this error

[remote comet]

Three Simple Steps:

1. Type sudo nano /etc/locale.gen
2. Remove The # Sign Before ja_JP.UTF-81
3. Click CTRL+X, Then Y, Then Enter

Also Run sudo locale-gen instead of locale-gen

[split granite]

oh

[remote comet]

you seem to lack the admin perms

[remote comet]

just a tip you need to memorize, when it says permission denied just add sudo before the command

apply that to anything that says permission denied

[split granite]

oh bet

[remote comet]

ok done?

[split granite]

lemme run the file

[remote comet]

Wait

we have not finished yet

[split granite]

yeah?

[remote comet]

3. Install Japanese Fonts If You Haven't Already

[split granite]

the game uses english just with a japanese locale since it was translated

will i still need to install a japanese font?

[remote comet]

so no japanese text?

[split granite]

shouldnt be any

[remote comet]

ok last thing

Your system is english so you need to run this game like this

LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" wine YourGame.exe

[split granite]

yeah i kno the command

LANG="ja_JP.UTF8" wine /home/copperwirestealer/Desktop/GyakuShawn/gyakushawn.exe

i have it copied 🙏

[remote comet]

good

keep me updated

[split granite]

it's running but the text is entirely distorted

please don't judge my taste in games 🙏

[remote comet]

yeah that's japanese

[remote comet]

wouldn't be as worse as your taste in music

[split granite]

it's 100% the engligh translation, japanese wouldn't have spaces and the number of characters matches up with START - HOW TO PLAY - QUIT

[remote comet]

you didn't tell me why an english game need to locale?

[split granite]

it's a translation mod

[split granite]

baja mali knindža is goated wtf ur on?

[remote comet]

what version of wine are you one

check that with wine -version

[remote comet]

I almost cried 👏 🥲

[remote comet]

where did you get wine

[split granite]

i think straight from the terminal

because i couldn't figure out the website

[remote comet]

may i give you a simpler solution that would save both me and your mental health?

We will get bottles

[split granite]

alr

[remote comet]

flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles

press Y and Enter

tell me when it's done

when it finished type this

flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles

and wait don't do anything till it finishes

when it's done you will see it's UI

just go along with it's introduction

[split granite]

alright im running the second command rn

:3 thx!

[remote comet]

no problem, i just wanna see you playing your weird game and having fun so get that done 🥲

[split granite]

locale doesn't work with bottles

[remote comet]

bottles does not need locale

btw if you want to change bottles directory

go to prefrances and change it

just saying that before you fill up your system partition

[remote comet]

what did you do?

Bottles is straight forward

Click + sign > New Bottle > Choose Gaming > Wait till in finishes

if the game is installed click add shortcut

if not click install programs

i always suggest installing it from an installer

[split granite]

thats exactly what i did

[remote comet]

i will tell you how to import the save data, just get it working first

[remote comet]

hey follow this:

In terminal enter:

mkdir -p ~/.wine/locale-ja/

then

localedef -f EUC-JP -i ja_JP ~/.wine/ja_JP.EUC-JP

then

localedef -c -f SHIFT_JIS -i ja_JP ~/.wine/ja_JP.SJIS

Then I create the bottle, and entre into the bottle's Preferences and added two environment variables

LANG /.wine/locale-ja/

and

LANG /.wine/locale-ja/

Like this

[split granite]

how do i get into this menu here?

[remote comet]

Bottle Preferance

[split granite]

yeah, how do i get into that

[remote comet]

Click Settings

[split granite]

ohhh i found it

[remote comet]

ok do what i said above with the terminal commands and everything

[split granite]

alr

am i good to run now?

[remote comet]

you should

i have a last wild card but i hope it runs

[split granite]

its still fucked

[remote comet]

last try

run these in terminal

sudo dnf install glibc-locale-source glibc-langpack-en

and

sudo dnf install glibc-locale-source glibc-langpack-jp

if the second one failed try

sudo dnf install glibc-locale-source glibc-langpack-je

[split granite]

says command not found

[remote comet]

dnf?

type

sudo apt install dnf

then type the above commands

[split granite]

alr

Error: There are no enabled repositories in "/etc/yum.repos.d", "/etc/yum/repos.d", "/etc/distro.repos.d".

[remote comet]

are you sure you used apt

because there are related to yum (a package manager for other distro)

[split granite]

i used apt

[remote comet]

then why is says yum

[split granite]

u tell me u told me the command

[remote comet]

open TeamViewer 😭

[split granite]

smh

[remote comet]

you gotta believe me when i tell you 'you are the only one who got that amount of unseen errors'

[slow barn]

try downloading some fonts
you can do this with a windows install if need be
download some language packs and then in C:\windows\Fonts
copy paste the .ttf into

xdg-open $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts
if need be into xdg-open $HOME/.fonts/ also
you can also get some supported misc fonts through linux too
sudo apt install fonts-noto fonts-powerline fonts-3270 fonts-inconsolata ttf-mscorefonts-installer
and after copy paste some more in .wine/drive_c directory again

ran into this before as well

basic default .wine/drive_c started recently with winehq to download just arial.ttf so it has some font support with troublesome applications
like screenshot above

if you want to just boop in and out of the ntfs windows disk
just open a folder manager like nautilus or dolphin
open the ntfs windows disk
and just go through your c: drive to windows/Fonts
copy paste them there into your home dir in linux from linux from the language packs from windows
easy trick

you can also check what wine is doing with this

clear ; echo '' ; wine --version ; strings $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/dxgi.dll | grep v2 ; ls $HOME/.cache/wine

[remote comet]

i have been connected with him with TeamViewer for more than 2 Hours trying to get it working 😭

[slow barn]

its mostly just copy paste fonts into wine dir in windows/fonts

he can do it

[remote comet]

yeah we will try next time

[split granite]

im on linux not windows

im not getting windows just to download a font.

[slow barn]

it is an easier method

[split granite]

wait nvm i got it working :3

thank youuuuu