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Hello. I am new to using Bizhawk. My goal is to play "Parasite Eve" for the Playstation with a randomizer available on Github. I want to be clear that I physically own a copy of the game and several PS2s, which are backwards compatible with the original Playstation. I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon. I have downloaded what is shown as a Linux zipped version of Bizhawk (2.9.1), but after unzipping it, it shows .exe files. I am able to open emuhawk with both Wine and Proton via Steam. Emuhawk seems to work at first, but when I attempt to use the firmware option under config, I get an unhandled exception error message. It then opens the firmwares box, but doing anything (even attempting to close it), the error message pops up. I have to kill the process within System Monitor in order to close it. It behaves the same with Proton, but I can I least close it without System Monitor. I have placed firmwares into the firmware folder per instructions of many videos I found, but no success on my side.
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You are not supposed to use Wine/Proton with BizHawk (they are not officially supported, and the Linux zips wouldn't have the Windows native libraries BizHawk bundles, rather just the Linux variants). You are supposed to use the EmuHawkMono.sh file, which launches EmuHawk with mono (and you are expected to install the mono "complete" package with your distro package manager).
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
You are not supposed to use Wine/Proton with BizHawk (they are not officially supported, and the Linux zips wouldn't have the Windows native libraries BizHawk bundles, rather just the Linux variants). You are supposed to use the EmuHawkMono.sh file, which launches EmuHawk with mono (and you are expected to install the mono "complete" package with your distro package manager).
This seems to have resolved the problem here. Thank you!