User:Dealing the Caffeine

Linux

This is going to be a guide on how to get melty working on your linux system hopefully.

There are a few ways we can go about setting this up, but in this guide I will be going over the ways that I would do it.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have all of your graphics card’s vulkan drivers installed, this is not a guide on how to do that so that part is on you (and google probably)
• You have the game and caster already in a folder, links will not be provided for the game but you may find caster linked in the links section of the melty blood wiki
• You are willing to mess around as I have only tested things on my Arch system and am guessing some things

Steam

We can easily make use of steam and steam play to play Melty Blood Community Edition

This is the simplest method imo, but is not my favourite method

1. Install steam
2. Go steam settings and into the Steam Play category
3. “Enable steam play for supported titles” and Enable “Steam Play for other titles” should be enabled
4. On steam we can now add cccaster
5. Go to “Add a game”, then “Add a non-steam game” and then press “browse” on the window that appears
6. Click on the dialogue labelled with in front of it “File types” and select “All Files”
7. Now we navigate to where you downloaded the game is (note: your saved files are probably saved in /home/$USER/* as this is the user home directory)
8. Add caster by double clicking on the application
9. Now press on “Add selected programs”
10. You can now launch Melty from steam

Bottles

Bottles is a graphical prefix manager for wine, making everything much easier to install. This is my preferred method as it also allows you to use a fork of wine which doesn’t have any graphical glitches.

1. Install bottles, we can do this by either using flatpak, the aur if you are using an arch based distribution or you package manager if it is in there.
2. If you are installing from flatpak you can use a graphical software store such as discover or gnome software centre. We can also use the terminal with flatpak install flathub bottles which will then prompt you to install
3. When you open the application it will ask you to install everything and you should do so
4. Then we create a new bottle, select the gaming bottle and give it a name such as melty. This will then create a bottle and for it being the first bottle it may take a while so be patient
5. Now we navigate to the Programs section
6. Click on the plus symbol at the top which will open up a file browser
7. Navigate to your melty folder and add your caster executable.
8. Click on the three dots and then add desktop entry which will allow us to open caster from a run launcher (being able to search for the application)
9. It should now be done

Wine

Just using wine, note: wineprefix may break if there is an update

1. Install wine from your package manager and make sure it is at least 7.0 because it makes things simpler
2. type in the terminal mkdir -p ~/.wineprefixes/melty && WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.wineprefixes/melty" winecfg && cd ~
3. click on ok when the winecfg window opens
4. in your web browser download dxvk
5. move the dowloaded file into you home directory with mv Downloads/dxvk*gz .
6. extract the file by running tar -xf dxvk*gz
7. set the variable for our wineprefix to install dxvk by running export WINEPREFIX=~/.wineprefixes/melty
8. then install dxvk with ~/dxvk*/setup_dxvk.sh install
9. now create a desktop entry with touch ~/.local/share/application/melty.desktop
10. set the section in Path to whatever the directory caster is in such as /home/$USER/Games/melty
11. now the desktop entry can be ran via a run launcher such as rofi or the start menu of your desktop environment

contents of melty.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Caster

Comment=Netplay Client for Melty Blood

Path=

Exec=WINPREFIX=“/home/$USER/.wineprefix/melty” wine cccaster.v3.1.exe

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Game;