Play DarkEden on Raspberry Pi[MMORPG]

🕐🕐🕐 Duration: Up to one day (kernel + wine + box86)

🔧🔧 Difficulty: Medium

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Interest: Hours of fun

[UPDATE November 30, 2021: Decently playable on Pi3 with 800x600]

After a long time slacking, I decided to do a new article on one of my favorite MMO's: DarkEden.

I first thought it was a dead end but actually DarkEden runs fine on Raspberry Pi. Only updater is the issue. This has proven working with DarkEden Legend server.

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As DarkEden is a PK game, you are advised to have a Pi 4 for optimal gaming experience. Pi 3 works and has an acceptable performance in 800x600 but will somewhat impediment you when taking part to events and PVP. You should avoid higher resolutions but you will still enjoy the game.

• Set your Resolution to 800x600 in Resolution.inf that way:
  
  ResolutionX: 800
  ResolutionY: 600
  Fullscreen: 1
  
  

Prerequisites:

Install Raspberry Pi OS 32 bits (PINN)

Install Box86 and Wine

 

Get it working

This is quite tricky. You'll have to do 3 steps:

•  Download DarkEden Legend installer and run it with wine.
•  Download last patch from the same site, run it with wine from DarkEden installed path. You can as a workaround update your DarkEden on a remote PC and port the fully updated directory to your Pi filesystem.
•  Write a script in DarkEden directory:

        nano legend.sh

        Inside nano (the red part must be changed according to your directories),

            WINEPREFIX=/home/pi/yourx86wineprefix/ /home/pi/winex86directory/bin/wine dklegend.exe NEWSTART Futec \(148.72.153.181:9909\) 

Slayers, say hi to Raspberry Pi!

        Save and quit

• Run the game with

        bash legend.sh

 

Tadaa! Have fun with your new MMORPG on Raspberry Pi.

I plan to update a small guide with farming places on this blog soon, stay tuned.

The pi gamer