Cutscenes do not work in The Great Ace Attorney: Chronicles on Linux. Currently using Bottles.
Would ask this on a LinuxCrackSupport community. Without it, the best choice is here, as i didnt buy the game on steam.
TGAA uses wmv cutscenes during the first half of the game. They cant play properly, getting stuck on a black screen. While it could be circumvented by removing the wmv files, skipping the cutscenes altogether is detrimental to the story, as this game is sort of a mystery-focused vn. Cutscenes are important.
The wmv files can be played with mf-installcab, according to this reddit post. The issue im having is that most online help refers to either steam, lutris or a raw ~/.wine folder. I use Bottles to run windows software, so if its possible to keep using that instead of Lutris, itd be appreciated.
-I tried this command line from a "Kingdom Hearts on Linux" tutorial to run mf-installcab on the bottle and it seemed to properly run and install the necessary dependencies. However, the cutscenes still do not work.
-I tried re-encoding the cutscenes as suggested here, but that did not work either, nor i expected it to.
-Using the Bottles options, I installed the Media Foundation dependency. That did not work either.
My situation is highly specific, even for a linux user, so i dont expect nor demand a solution. Apparently lutris works just fine from what i can read, so i might try that if nothing else works. Still, any help, no matter how small, will be appreciated.
I'm not too familiar with Bottles. But for Media Foundation troubles one usually uses the Proton or Wine versions by Glorious Egroll. I think ProtonUp-Qt is able to get that for Bottles as well.