Switched to Linux, need help with thcrap or whatever's currently in use

[echerwrecker]

So I've heard that thcrap is troubling on Linux. I'd like to know how exactly to make it work? Thanks in advance.

 

[NuMetalFan]

TL;DR: thcrap requires wine mono to be installed. that's it, pretty much.
detailed instruction: https://daichungus.github.io/touhoulinuxguide/

 

[echerwrecker]

Oh okay thank you

 

[laselle]

wait, do you play the games on linux ?? how

 

[The_Fighter]

wait, do you play the games on linux ?? how

wine lets you emulate windows games, from there you can play touhou on linux

 

[echerwrecker]

apparently the games downloaded off this site come as thpatch files instead of the raw games. i'm stupid lol. do they run as english patches just like that or do i still need thcrap?

 

[laselle]

wine lets you emulate windows games, from there you can play touhou on linux

i have tried it already but never could launch them, so it seems im doing something wrong, do you know if we have tutorials where they show how to configure it or do it please thankya

 

[timotekino]

real men only use linux to start a failed webhosting service ... just search on google bro...

 

[timotekino]

who plays this game anyway

 

[echerwrecker]

i have tried it already but never could launch them, so it seems im doing something wrong, do you know if we have tutorials where they show how to configure it or do it please thankya

try attaching the games to steam as non-steam games then launch from there. linux can't run .exe files without outside support because it doesn't understand that they're executables. i managed to get them to work through lutris, steam SHOULD work but i don't know i haven't tried that one

 

[echerwrecker]

who plays this game anyway

a lot of people surprisingly

 

[echerwrecker]

real men only use linux to start a failed webhosting service ... just search on google bro...

good thing i'm not a man then

 

[laselle]

try attaching the games to steam as non-steam games then launch from there. linux can't run .exe files without outside support because it doesn't understand that they're executables. i managed to get them to work through lutris, steam SHOULD work but i don't know i haven't tried that one

i have lutris, how did you do it tell me please ive been switching to windows for run the games i feel so dumb

 

[Deliverer8099]

apparently the games downloaded off this site come as thpatch files instead of the raw games. i'm stupid lol. do they run as english patches just like that or do i still need thcrap?

I believe most of the games come pre-patched with thcrap (and perhaps vpatch), but it isn't necessary to use them. The thpatch-en exe can be ran to run the game with English patches and perhaps vpatch, but vpatch.exe can be run by itself to play the game without thcrap but with vpatch. There's also the normal game exes that you can use to play both without vpatch and thcrap.

 

[Deliverer8099]

i have lutris, how did you do it tell me please ive been switching to windows for run the games i feel so dumb

Not long ago, I wrote down here how I run the games with Bottles. But for Lutris (and I'm also kinda assuming a system installation rather than Flatpak), the main things I would look out for are:
1. Setting the Locale to Japanese in the Lutris game configuration.
2. Probably not using standard Wine and instead using something like the kron4ek staging tkg version or a Proton fork like GE-Proton or Proton-CachyOS (but I don't know how well Lutris supports Proton). Maybe it isn't necessary, but I don't know. And I guess I'd also have Mono installed (in my case, I get prompted to install it when first running a Wine version).
3. Potentially, I think installing Japanese fonts could be good, so that Japanese text would show up alright.
I vaguely remember having gotten Touhou to run with a Flatpak install of Lutris before, but I haven't used Lutris in a long while. Though I just remembered that I had to specify, I believe a Wine prefix location for it?

 

[echerwrecker]

i have lutris, how did you do it tell me please ive been switching to windows for run the games i feel so dumb

ok so turns out lutris is vibecoded, i dont particularly like ai stuff so im gonna try with steam today. will update

 

[echerwrecker]

Ok so touhou 7 and 8 worked just fine with steam / proton experimental. 9 gives this error however. havent unzipped 6/6nc/10 just yet though, will try those in a bit

 

[echerwrecker]

(i used these files from the folders)

 

[echerwrecker]

yea im switching to bottles this stuff aint working gang

 

[echerwrecker]

Not long ago, I wrote down here how I run the games with Bottles. But for Lutris (and I'm also kinda assuming a system installation rather than Flatpak), the main things I would look out for are:
1. Setting the Locale to Japanese in the Lutris game configuration.
2. Probably not using standard Wine and instead using something like the kron4ek staging tkg version or a Proton fork like GE-Proton or Proton-CachyOS (but I don't know how well Lutris supports Proton). Maybe it isn't necessary, but I don't know. And I guess I'd also have Mono installed (in my case, I get prompted to install it when first running a Wine version).
3. Potentially, I think installing Japanese fonts could be good, so that Japanese text would show up alright.
I vaguely remember having gotten Touhou to run with a Flatpak install of Lutris before, but I haven't used Lutris in a long while. Though I just remembered that I had to specify, I believe a Wine prefix location for it?

ok so i switched to bottles. everything i have works just fine. except touhou 8 and 9.
image 1 is stuck on that page forever. if i try to disable updates and launch it doesnt launch at all.
image 2 says "path not found" despite me putting the entire touhou 9 folder inside the bottle directory.