Installing / Running DMMd on Linux, Mac and BSD

**imbatman** · 09-08-2014, 08:34 AM

Or: How to get DMMd running with Wine.

You'll need

A Terminal Emulator (e.g. xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal...)
Wine (Tested with wine-1.6.2, wine-1.7.2, wine-1.7.25 and wine-1.7.27)
DMMd (either as Folder or ISO)
Winetricks (normally installed with wine)
Root-Permissions (in case you need to install the locale, mount the ISO manually etc.)
Basic Knowledge of your Distro (If that's not given, I'd be more than happy to help)
A cup of coffee (Optional)

Tested on

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit
Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit
OpenSUSE 13.1 64-bit

If you are using Mac OS X Blonmac has a very detailed guide for you Here
If you have a Folder/ZIP with DMMd.exe inside (e.g. from Fuwonovel) you can skip Step II and III

I. Installing the Locale

First you must setup the ja_JP locale.
Just run (Should work for Linux and BSD alike) [Requires Root] :

Code:

sudo locale-gen ja_JP.utf8

Note: OpenSUSE 13.1 already has the ja_JP.utf8 locale installed

II. Mounting the ISO

As DMMd's Setup has no special copy protection you can just mount the ISO without emulating a CD Drive

Try mounting the ISO with mount [Requires root]:

Code:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disc
sudo mount -o loop YourDMMdFile.iso /mnt/disc

If this is not possible right click on the ISO file in your File Manager Open With -> Mount Image
If you are using the second method right click on the mounted Image -> Properties
You should see a path like /media/yourUser/DMMd/.
You'll need it in the next step

III. Installing the Game

As the Setup will install files that contain Japanese Letters we'll need the locale for the first time.

Code:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8
wine /mnt/disc/product/setup.exe

If you used the second method for mounting the game please replace the path (e.g. /home/yourUser/DMMd/)
Now a setup window will open.
dsetup0.png

Click on next

dsetup1.png
Click the upper selection box and click next. (By clicking Next you are accepting the License)

dsetup2.png
Click next.

dsetup3.png
Click next.

dsetup4.png
Now wait a while while game installs...

dsetup5.png
Click on No.

dsetup6.png
Now first uncheck the option and then click on finish.

You have sucessfully installed DMMd!

If you are using the No-CD-Crack you won't need the ISO anymore, so you can unmount it:

Code:

sudo umount /mnt/disc/
sudo rmdir /mnt/disc/

Alternatively you can just unmount it using a file manager.

IV. Preparing Wine

You can install all the Libraries you need just by typing

Code:

winetricks d3dx9 dxdiagn devenum quartz ffdshow

Wait a while and a Dialog will appear

wsetup0.png
Click OK

wsetup1.png
Click Next

wsetup2.png
Click Next

wsetup3.png
Click Next

wsetup4.png
Click Next

wsetup5.png
Scroll down, check MPEG-1,MPEG-2 and click Next

wsetup6.png
Click Next

wsetup7.png
Click Install and wait (Only takes a few seconds) then click finish.

V. Installing the v1.10 Update / No-CD-Crack

Open the DMMdUpdate1.10.exe in an archive manager of your choice and copy the DMMd.exe, nss.npa and system.npa file into the DMMd Folder.

If you don't have any archive manager which can handle the .exe format just use 7-ZIP:

Code:

7z x DMMdUpdate1.10.exe DMMd.exe nss.npa system.npa

You can install the NO-CD Crack by moving the DMMd_crack_for_ver110.exe file into the DMMd folder

You can open the DMMd-Folder by executing:

Code:

xdg-open $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/NitroplusCHiRAL/DRAMAtical\ Murder/

If xdg-open is not supported on your distro just replace it with your file manager

VI. Running the Game

First let's change the directory to our DMMd Installation

Code:

cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/NitroplusCHiRAL/DRAMAtical\ Murder/

Now execute the following:

Code:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8 wine DMMd_crack_for_ver110.exe

or

Code:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8 wine DMMd.exe

And it should run.

A Information window will appear just click on OK.
Then you'll be asked if you want to enable fullscreen - I recommend choosing No to avoid any problems.

And there you have it:

How to install the English Patch

Important:

I found out, that most of the time you'll just need to place the patch files in the DMMd-Directory and that's it . So before you do the things listed below just try to place the patch files in your DMMd folder and see if it works.First Download NIPA (by Minagi) and the *-patch.npa files of the English Patch (by RocketBasement) and place both in the DMMd directory (See the End of Step V if you are unsure how to find it) (Of course you won't have to do that in case you have a prepatched Version (e.g. from Fuwanovel))
Now open a Terminal, nevigate to the DMMd directory and execute the following: Code:

Code:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8
wine nipa.exe -xg cg.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -xg cg2.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -xg nss.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -xg cg-patch.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -xg cg2-patch.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -xg nss-patch.npa DramaticalMurder
cp -r cg-patch/* cg
cp -r cg2-patch/* cg2
cp -r nss-patch/* nss
mv cg.npa cg.bak
mv cg2.npa cg2.bak
mv nss.npa nss.bak
wine nipa.exe -cg cg cg.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -cg cg2 cg2.npa DramaticalMurder
wine nipa.exe -cg nss nss.npa DramaticalMurder
rm -rf cg cg2 nss

If anything goes wrong just delete cg.npa , cg2.npa and nss.npa and rename the .bak files to .npa files.

EXPLANATION: Just pasting the *-patch.npa files in to the DMMd directory isn't enough, because wine (atleast on my setup) messes up the paths, which breaks the patch loading, no matter where the DMMd folder is located.

Took me forever to figure this out, i hope i could save you some time.

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