Using Wine
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There is not a version of La-Mulana for operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. Fortunately, La-Mulana sort of works in the Windows compatibility layer Wine.
La-Mulana will crash unless some native Windows DirectX DLLs are used. Overriding dmime, dmusic, dmloader, dmsynth, dmband, dmfile, and dmstyle will make it work. Or you could turn off sound entirely, but that would eliminate the game's audio clues and beautiful music.
[edit] How to set up La-Mulana for use in Wine.
Copy dmusic.dll, dmime.dll, dmsynth.dll, and dmband.dll to where your Wine's system32 folder is setup or the LA-MULANA folder. (example "/root/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32")
This will enable SSCC music. If you don't have these files, the game will still run.
You should make a script (.sh) file to run the game like the following example:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dmusic,dmime,dmsynth,dmband=n" wine "path to lamulana.exe goes here"
If you want to play in a window, you should setup a script file like this:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dmusic,dmime,dmsynth,dmband=n" wine explorer /desktop=lamulana,800x600 "path to lamulana.exe goes here"
800x600 is where you specify the size you want.
If you want to run LamulanaJukeBox.exe, you can use the same WINEDLLOVERRIDES.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dmusic,dmime,dmsynth,dmband=n" wine "path to LamulanaJukeBox.exe goes here"
[edit] Wine-specific bugs
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La-Mulana runs slightly slower in Wine than in native Windows. This is a problem common to nearly all 2D DirectX games. -
La-Mulana will crash if not run in a virtual desktop. La-Mulana will also crash if Alt-Enter is pressed to attempt to take it out of fullscreen mode, which is actually only fullscreen on the virtual desktop. (Wine 1.0.0, Mac OS X 10.4.11: not yet confirmed on other platforms) - The boss fights with Amphisbaena and Sakit are incredibly slow-mo, as are the minibosses that cause the screen to flash (Anubis, that one in the labyrinth), and the ending. The controls are also slow to respond. This makes Amphisbaena easier and Sakit harder. (Wine 1.0-rc4, Mac OS X 10.4.11: also on wine-1.1.40_0+darwin_10, Mac OS X 10.6.2; and Gentoo x86 wine-1.1.38, but on Gentoo the slowdown is not that severe)
- Tiamat's hair attack makes the game crash outright. (Wine 1.0.0, Mac OS X 10.4.11; wine 1.2_rc2 on Max OS X 10.6, and Gentoo)
