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Japanese locale should be enabled by default on Mac.
You can check by running:
$ locale -a | grep ja
Which should return something like this:
ja_JP
ja_JP.eucJP
ja_JP.SJIS
ja_JP.UTF-8
Japanese fonts should also be preinstalled but, alas, they don't seem to work 100% in wine.
You could install more fonts in hopes of getting one to work properly but I personally didn't bother.
Install XQuartz 2.7.9 (newer releases have font issues).
Download wine (any version you want) and run the installer.
Get the latest release of winetricks:
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
$ chmod +x winetricks
$ sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin
Run the wine application, which will launch a terminal window.
There, type the following commands:
$ export WINEARCH=win32
$ export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/wa2"
$ mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX" && wineboot -u
Install wine-mono and wine-gecko if prompted.
Copy the files to the wineprefix:
(assuming you have them in your home folder)
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX"
$ mkdir "drive_c/Program Files/Leaf"
$ cp -r "$HOME/WHITE ALBUM2" "drive_c/Program Files/Leaf"
Apply a registry edit to act like the game has been installed:
$ curl -o wa2.reg https://ghostbin.com/paste/r627o/download
$ regedit wa2.reg
You can now proceed to the next step.
Mount the disks. To do that, rename both .mdf files to .iso and double click them.
Now, mount them in the wineprefix:
(assuming you have them in your home folder)
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices"
$ ln -s /Volumes/WHITE_ALBUM2_1 x:
$ ln -s /Volumes/WHITE_ALBUM2_2 y:
$ ln -s "$HOME/WHITE_ALBUM2_1.iso" x::
$ ln -s "$HOME/WHITE_ALBUM2_2.iso" y::
Run the setup:
$ cd /Volumes/WHITE_ALBUM2_1
$ LC_ALL=ja_JP wine setup.exe
Some glyphs will show up as squares but most will be fine.
Enable opengl:
$ winetricks settings ddr=opengl
Install requirements:
$ winetricks lucida
$ winetricks devenum
$ winetricks d3dx9
$ winetricks quartz
$ winetricks wmp10
The installation of wmp10 may hang after it's finished. You can terminate it with Ctrl + C.
Download the latest release of the installer.
Move it to the White Album 2 directory and run it:
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Leaf/WHITE ALBUM2"
$ mv "$HOME/Downloads/WA2_patch.exe" .
$ wine WA2_patch.exe
You should now be able to launch the game with this:
$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 wine WA2_en.exe
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1is necessary to be able to run the game. You can set an alias for it by writingalias winegl='LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 wine'in your.bashrcfile and then run the game withwinegl WA2_en.exe.
excellent, are you Japanese, bro?