So i've decided to make a tutorial for how to play halo ce on Linux. It works great, 100% of the time! There are 2 different programs i recommend. Cedega(costs but is the best) http://www.transgaming.com/products/cedega/ , And WINE(Free, works..) http://www.winehq.org/ .
First thing you need to do is obviously have a computer with Linux on it. There would be no point on following this tutorial otherwise..
To get started go ahead and download WINE from WINEHQ(http://www.winehq.org/). If you have Linux, all you have to do is click here. apt://wine
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Once you have that installed, go ahead and download this. http://www.wmclan.net/mfc42.dll , next go to "Applications\Wine\Browse C" Then click on Windows\System32\ and place it in there.
When your done with that, go ahead and download Halo CE. http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=410 Make sure that you hit save, and not open.
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Next, Go to your desktop(or wherever you downloaded it to) and right click on your file.
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Click on "Open". It may also say something along the lines of "Open with WINE".
When prompted, read through the license agreement and hit Agree.
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Follow the dialogs to install the game.
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Now that that is finished, you are going to need to download the latest EXE's, The updater doesn't work the way it should. Download http://wmclan.net/halolinux/HaloCELinux.zip and unzip the content to "/home/YourName/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Halo Custom Edition"
IMPORTANT!!
YOU MUST CHANGE THE REGISTRY VALUE FOR YOUR CURRENT VERSION!!!!! IT WILL KEEP SAYING THERE IS UPDATES!!!!
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Go to your desktop, or to Applications\Wine\Programs To load up halo. When changing your visual settings, alt tab to get back into the game, If you don't it looks like it freezes.
Can i haz rep? NO SCREENSHOTS OR GTFO!
Herz ya Screenshotz.
(goto http://wmclan.net/halolinux/ingame/ for all of the screenshots)
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NOTE: The quality of the pics look horrible for some reason.. Possibly my mozilla, or halomaps is resizing them or something... Right click view image to see high quality.
UPDATE: JUST GOT TEXT TO WORK IN GAME!!
To get text to work, open up terminal and run this command..
make sure you change it to your correct directory.Code:msiexec /i '/home/e3po/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Halo Custom Edition/redist/msxmlenu.msi'
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Another update...
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