MapleStory v62 on Linux (wine)

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So before I start note that this is only a private server v62, and I have yet (and probably won't) try to do this for anything else... <note> I may try on higher versions of maplestory, but only private servers </note>

Okay so after hours upon hours of endless research, I have successfully gotten Maplestory v62 to work on wine.

Of course it is based on this guide, but he isn't very descriptive on how to make it work.

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So for anyone planning on doing this, let's start:

Step 1: INSTALLING WINE (I use Arch Linux, you can do it however this translates into your distro)
I use the terminal, because I like my errors and what not.

[user@user ~] $ sudo pacman -S wine winetricks (use your package manager in place with pacman)

Step 2: INSTALLING DLL's
Once wine and winetricks are done installing, do one of two things. 1) If you run 64-bit linux

[user@user ~] $ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg

2) if you run 32-bit linux just run

[user@user ~] $ winecfg

Now once that is done creating your wine prefix run

[user@user ~] $ winetricks

Inside winetricks select these: Select the default wine prefix->Install a Windows DLL or component. Now in this list check these:

<note> I was lazy when I did this and didn't want to test, and don't really care so I selected multiple d3dx's, I may go back and see which ones I need though</note>
d3dx11_42
d3dx11_43
d3dx9_26
d3dx9_28
d3dx9_31
d3dx9_35
d3dx9_39
d3dx9_42
d3dx9_43
dotnet20 (I had to personally download this, not sure if you will. So winetricks will open a browser and tell you to download this and put it in a folder)
mono210

This all should take a little bit, but not too long.

Step 3: Fill in DLL's
Not sure if the dude's forum thread will still be up in the future so I uploaded the 2 dll's you need to mediafire <note> no matter how old this topic gets, message me and I will help out, but make sure you title the email MAPLESTORY HELP! </note>

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FOR ws2_32.dll

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FOR ws2help.dll

Copy both of these to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ or /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

Step 4: Back to winecfg
Now that we are done with that, go back to winecfg with this

[user@user ~] $ winecfg

and change the "Windows Version" to 98, click apply and then ok.

Step 5: Point your terminal to your Maplestory directory <note> it doesn't have to be installed in linux, you just need a Maplestory folder with all the necessary files </note> You can do this with a

[user@user ~] $ cd [I]/your/Maplestory/directory/here[/I]

So currently it's a little buggy or so I might end up joining the wine developers or whatever it's called so I can try and make it run as smooth as possible.

I will also update once I test with different Maplestory versions