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The surprise is that there are no surprises, for once.
Last time I played Fairy Bloom Freesia (11 years ago!), I was still using Windows 7, and this game had known issues there. And of course Japanese indie/doujin games tend to be a PITA under Wine too, but I'm glad to report this time that I just installed the game in 2025, and It Just Works™. Heck, even my decade-old savegames were there!
Get a gamepad, keyboard controls SUCK on this game - they sucked in 2013, and still suck nowadays. Beware - ESC closes the game without confirmation!!!
Sin sorpresas, solo descargar y jugar
Este "Devil May Cry para pobres" siempre se portó bien bajo Windows, y ha sido un buen ciudadano bajo Wine/Proton durante todos estos años, algo inusual para un juego doujin. Instalar, jugar, apestar :P
Ademas, solo son ~200MB lo que toma este juego en disco - la instalacion de Proton pesa muchisimo mas que eso!
Works out of the box, no fuss no muss, only catgirls
Unlike all other entries on the Nekopara series, Vol. 0 is a prequel, a sort of "bonus disk" that is by far the simpler entry of the series. This one has no videos, other than that it's your standard Kirikiri fare, titles that are well behaved under Wine. Press "P" to jiggle and get that final achievement.
The game is fully playable, you will only miss the OP/ED movies, everything else works fine
Opening/ending videos do not play at all - the game just skips them. This is most likely due to missing GStreamer components to demux/decode WMV/ASF files (which are used by this series).
This is a visual novel built on Kirikiri, where use of WMV videos is common. FWIW, usually Kirikiri+WMV VNs work fine on vanilla Wine after installing gstreamer-libav and gstreamer-plugins-ugly (which provides the ASF demxuer required for this format). Unfortunately the savegames for the Steam and non-Steam versions of Nekopara (yes, I paid for both!) are not compatible, so I can't really test video playback on upstream Wine unless if I play the game all over again.
Protontricks is required to install this: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
Don't bother using protontricks to install WMP11, it will cause the game to crash. Instead, do this:
- Clone this git repo: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
- Run protontricks and select your game (in this case, "NEKOPARA Vol. 3: 602520"}
- Dismiss a bunch of warnings complaining that it can't detect the bitness of your Wine setup (these days it's WOW64 by default)
- Keep "Select the default wineprefix" selected, hit OK
- Select "Run a commandline shell (for debugging)", hit OK. This will fire up your default terminal emulator, now configured to run Wine/Proton within your game prefix
- On the just opened terminal run the following:
export WINEARCH="win64"
bash /path/to/your/vn_winestuff/codec.sh quartz2 wmp11
winecfg -v win10
This should be enough to get the OP/ED movies working, for those that absolutely want them (hint: you paid for them, so you do!)
The OP/ED movies will not play without tinkering, but the engine (Kirikiri) will just skip them. Other than that, everything works flawlessly, so enjoy your catgirls and your pervy patissiere~
In windowed mode the menubar may not render at all - the workaround is to minimize then restore it.
Game ocassionally exits out of the blue - can't tell if it is a crash or an abnormal exit
Videos do not work, and unlike Volumes 1-2 (which ran on good ol' Kirikiri that would jist move ahead when video playback failed), Nekopara Vol.3 uses a new engine (CatSystem 2) where failure to play the videos wil HANG the game. And due to reasons, I couldn't use Protontricks to deal with this (also, changing Proton versions or even trying with GE didn't helped). Fortunately the game engine options are exposed on this version, so go there an disable videos so you can continue loving your catgirls~
Leaving aside the video playback issue (that does NOT happen on vanilla Wine), the Nekopara series continues being the ultimate catgirl simulator choice for Linux :)
Protontricks is required to install this: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
Don't bother using protontricks to install WMP11, it will cause the game to crash. Instead, do this:
- Clone this git repo: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
- Run protontricks and select your game (in this case, "NEKOPARA Vol. 3: 602520"}
- Dismiss a bunch of warnings complaining that it can't detect the bitness of your Wine setup (these days it's WOW64 by default)
- Keep "Select the default wineprefix" selected, hit OK
- Select "Run a commandline shell (for debugging)", hit OK. This will fire up your default terminal emulator, now configured to run Wine/Proton within your game prefix
- On the just opened terminal run the following:
export WINEARCH="win64"
sh /path/to/your/vn_winestuff/codec.sh quartz2 wmp11
winecfg -v win10
This should be enough to get the OP/ED movies working, for those that absolutely want them (hint: you paid for them, so you do!)
OP/ED videos WILL hang or crash the game unless movie playback is disabled on the engine options, or if the WMP11 runtime is installed following the instructions above.
You can play without tinkering, but unlike the previous volumes (0 to 2), this time NEKO WORKs switched engines, from Kirikiri (which moves on when videos fail to play) to CatSystem2 (which HANGS when it fails to play videos). If you absolutely do not want to tinker, and do not care about the OP/ED movies, open the Config menu on the menubar, select "Engine Config", go to tab "Compatiblilty", check the "Don't play movies" option, confirm and restart the game to prevent the game hanging right at the start of Chapter 1.
Oh, if you can't see the menubar, this is a glitch - minimize then restore the window and it will render AND work properly this time.
Protontricks is required to install this: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
Don't bother using protontricks to install WMP11, it will cause the game to crash. Instead, do this:
- Clone this git repo: https://github.com/b-fission/vn_winestuff
- Run protontricks and select your game (in this case, "NEKOPARA Vol. 3: 602520"}
- Dismiss a bunch of warnings complaining that it can't detect the bitness of your Wine setup (these days it's WOW64 by default)
- Keep "Select the default wineprefix" selected, hit OK
- Select "Run a commandline shell (for debugging)", hit OK. This will fire up your default terminal emulator, now configured to run Wine/Proton within your game prefix
- On the just opened terminal run the following:
export WINEARCH="win64"
bash /path/to/your/vn_winestuff/codec.sh quartz2 wmp11
winecfg -v win10
This should be enough to get the OP/ED movies working, for those that absolutely want them (hint: you paid for them, so you do!)
Back again to Kirikiri as the game engine, that means it will just skip the videos unless you tinker to get them working - aside of that the game experience is just perfect.
Please note that unlike every other game in the series so far, the R18 DLC is a off-site purchase (get it from Denpasoft), and it comes with its own installer - fire it up via protontricks' debug console, or just run it via vanilla (heh) Wine. If you choose the latter way, be aware that the installer will not be able to detect your game install location, and furthermore you have to enable hidden (dot) files on winecfg, then point the installer to Z:\home\$USER\.steam\debian-installation\steamapps\common\NEKOPARA Vol. 4\.
Now, to wait for Vol. 5 After and the highly sought Shigure route more Fraise...
Funciona sin mas... siempre que tu GPU sea buena para DXVK
Si tu GPU cumple con los requisitos minimos para DXVK entonces Sonic Mania corre sin ningun inconveniente. Ahora, los requisitos de sistema de este juego son basicamente "tostadora", por lo que si intentas usar Sonic Mania via Proton en una GPU mas vieja que no aguante Vulkan 1.3, vas a necesitar PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 para que el juego arranque, lo cual es ironico.
