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Neverhood

RPG / MMORPG

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Date added: 27.11.2007

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The Neverhood Chronicles: WineHQ Installation Guidelines
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This document describes _a_ way to make the Neverhood adventure game
running (?) using wine on Linux.
Note that it's not tested too much, yet.
Any suggestions, corrections or so are pretty welcome.

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1. Prerequisites
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Working WineHQ installation emulating Win98 with sound configured.
I've tested it on alpha version 20050725 built from source, as well
as on beta version 0.9.3.

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2. Installation steps
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1/ copying files to HDD:
These files from the game CD should be copied to HDD:
data/hd.blb
setup/nhc.exe
setup/smackw32.dll
setup95.exe

Copy them to a directory accessible to wine, let's say
<MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>/Neverhood
(where <MY_PATH_TO_GAMES> is full path).

If you prefer to run the entire game from HDD (just like I do),
copy the game CD content to another directory accessible to wine,
let's say <MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>/Neverhood/cd_content

Note that using the game CD as the data-disk should work, too,
but I didn't test it. If you want to use the CD as data disk,
you should only have to set "Data Drive" entry in
the registry template (see below) to wine CD-ROM drive
(let's say "D:") and have your CD-ROM drive accessible in wine
on the letter of course. If you succeeded, let me know.

2/ finding-out your PID:
Run
$ wine <MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>/Neverhood/setup95.exe

The installation wizard should appear. Just below the funny
picture of Klayman you should see your PID in form
12345-678-9012345-67890.
Note the PID down and chose "Exit" (the installer failed to install
the game, at least for me).

3/ modifying the registry:
Add the lines below to your ~/.wine/system.reg, filling your own
paths and PID. Supposing your root / is mounted as Z: in wine,
it should look like:

[Software\\DreamWorks Interactive\\Neverhood]
"Data Drive"="Z:<MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>\\Neverhood\\cd_content\\"
"PID"="<MY_PID>"
"Installed Directory"="Z:<MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>\\Neverhood"
"Run File"="Z:<MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>\\Neverhood\\nhc.exe"
"KBPS_OTHER"=dword:ffffffff
"KBPS"=dword:ffffffff
"Installed"=dword:00000001

Note that you have to change "/" to "\\" in your paths and the path
to the CD content... (I hope it's clear.)

4/ running Neverhood:
Now you should be able to run Neverhood by
$ wine <MY_PATH_TO_GAMES>/Neverhood/nhc.exe

If not, try to look at the Troubleshooting section.

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Troubleshooting
---------------

I've experienced various problems with running Neverhood using wine.
Some of them are just annoying, some of them are crucial.
If you find better solution, let me know, please.

1/ "it doesn't run at all" problems:

Problem: message "CD-ROM not found" appears
Status:   solved
Solution: you have set the paths wrong, check the registry entry
          again

Problem: message "Error Initializing DirectSound" appears
Status:   solved
Solution: I got that message when there were another wine-preloader
          hanging nonfunctional. Make sure there's no other
          wine-preloader hanging there. If that doesn't help, check
          wine sound settings and look at sound problems below, too

Problem: message
          "wine: Unhandled privileged instruction at address ..."
          appears on the console followed by wine debugger reports
Status:   solved
Solution: It seems that Neverhood can't run when wine is emulating
          Win2000. Switch wine to emulate Win98

2/ graphics problems:

Problem: keyboard does not work if running in full-screen mode
Status:   workaround
Solution: configure wine to run applications in virtual desktop

Problem: mouse cursor is duplicated (you can see both your
          system cursor and the Neverhood clay cursor)
Status:   workaround
Solution: (by churchyard): after you run nhc.exe, try to run it
          again. A message stating that there's another instance
          already running should appear. Click on "OK".
          The virtual desktop should close; double-clicking back
          to the Neverhood virtual desktop should hide system cursor.

3/ sound problems:

Problem: sound is missing constantly
Status:   solved
Solution: setting emulation mode for sound in wine solved that

Problem: sound is missing in the intro and (probably all?) animated
          cut-scenes (maybe a codec missing?)
Status:   unsolved
Solution: