Play Hostile space revived on Raspberry Pi [MMORPG]

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

🔧🔧 Difficulty: Medium

🌟🌟🌟 Interest: Interesting

This vintage space setting MMO needs a small tutorial to make work. Here are the steps.

Prerequisites:

Install Raspberry Pi OS 32 bits (PINN)

Install Box86 and Wine

 

1. Start from a pristine wineprefix

WINEPREFIX=/home/pi/wpristine/  /home/pi/wine-x.x.x/bin/wine wineboot 

Your current wineprefix might have an uncompatible vcredist installation, that's why it's needed to restart with wineprefix.

2. Install the needed vcredist runtimes: 2013 and 2015

install vcredist 2013 manually from Microsoft site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40784

Just execute the downloaded file with wine-x86

install vcredist 2015 manually from https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Same as above, execute the installable with wine-x86

3. Install game, get and run patcher and kill patcher loops.

wget https://hostilespace.co.uk/files/HSRClientSetupNoMusic.exe

WINEPREFIX=/home/pi/wpristine/ /home/pi/wine-x.x.x/bin/wine HSRClientSetupNoMusic.exe

cd /path/to/installed/game/


wget https://hostilespace.co.uk/files/HSRPatcher.exe


WINEPREFIX=/home/pi/wpristine/ /home/pi/wine-x.x.x/bin/wine HSRPatcher.exe


When the HSRPatcher starts looping the same lines of output, start a new terminal window and delete HSRPatcher.exe from the game directory. I had to do it twice before the patch applied successfully

4. Start the game

Just start the game with

WINEPREFIX=/home/pi/wpristine/ /home/pi/wine-x.x.x/bin/wine HSRClient.exe 

 


Have fun!

The pi gamer