AA2MiniPPX Wine Minimal Instructions

You can run AA2 in Linux and MacOS computers (with 32bit software support) with the use of Wine. Please refer to https://wiki.winehq.org/Download for instructions on how to download it in your OS distribution.

AA2MiniPPX requires an additional runtime not available in Wine called .NET Core 3. You can install it with the help of winetricks via the command line winetricks dotnetcoredesktop3. You might experience missing letters in the game and editor interface that you can fix with winetricks courier.

AA2 can't run properly as is. You must use either wined3d or dxvk in the launcher for 3D rendering. You must not have both enabled at once. If you choose to use dxvk, you also have to install an extra dll with winetricks d3dx9_42.

Debian/Ubuntu

Install Wine Stable branch from WineHQ repositories (currently at 8.0)

Add the architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Install the security key

sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt update

Debian

Distribution	Command
Debian Testing (Bookworm)	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/dists/bookworm/winehq-bookworm.sources
Debian 11 (Bullseye)	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/dists/bullseye/winehq-bullseye.sources

Ubuntu

Distribution	Command
Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/kinetic/winehq-kinetic.sources
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)Linux Mint 21.x	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources
Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)Linux Mint 20.x	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/winehq-focal.sources
Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)Linux Mint 19.x	sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/bionic/winehq-bionic.sources

Update the package database

sudo apt update

And install wine-stable and winetricks

sudo apt install winehq-stable winetricks

Install .NET Core 3 runtime and Courier font

winetricks dotnetcoredesktop3 courier

Add Japanese locale.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Run Wine with Japanese locale.

`LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" wine AA2Edit.exe`

OR

`LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" wine AA2Play.exe`

Vulkan graphics

If your graphics card supports Vulkan, you can enable win10fix and change d3d9 variant to DXVK or DXVK2. You must also install d3dx9_42 and disable wined3d in the AAUnlimited launcher.

winetricks d3dx9_42