Setting up a wine prefix for visual novels with movie playback support [guide]

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  • Wine-Builds

    Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)

  • The main issue is that newer versions of wine tend to break vns (black screen galore, movies won't play) so we will be downloading older builds from here and here i tested with 5.10 so I will be using that version in this guide. Feel free to download a different version or build it yourself if this one causes issues.

  • wine-ge-custom

    My custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot.

  • The main issue is that newer versions of wine tend to break vns (black screen galore, movies won't play) so we will be downloading older builds from here and here i tested with 5.10 so I will be using that version in this guide. Feel free to download a different version or build it yourself if this one causes issues.

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  • rum

  • I used a small script called rum to do this.

  • LAVFilters

    LAV Filters - Open-Source DirectShow Media Splitter and Decoders

  • For LAVFilters, Download the installer

  • mf-install

    Media Foundation workaround for Wine

  • At the point where HenPri crashes, there is a very short video which acts as a title card. You're going to need to install wmp11, evr.dll + dxva2.dll, and some Media Foundation files.

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