TLDR; NOT VERY USABLE BUT COULD WORK IN THE FUTURE

BizHawk is a great emulator, but it has one major flaw. It only runs on Windows. Now, you might say “jUsT usE wIndowS, stOp BeiNG A LinuX FANBOy”.

Well, I hate Windows and I hate Microsoft. I find Windows painful to use, so being able to use BizHawk in GNU/Linux would be great. And besides, it’s always nice to have support for more platforms.

I’ve previously been unable to run it through Wine, although I’ve recently had some luck by using the 64-bit version of Wine 3.21 and Wine 4.1 (avalible as “Wine Staging”).

Note that these are only the versions I’ve tested, but all up-to-date versions of Wine Staging should work.

Things that don’t work

These are a number of things that I’ve noticed issues with when messing around with N64 emulation:

Virtual Pad is just a blank window.

Controller/Keyboard input and hotkeys doesn’t work. At all. TAS Studio works as a replacement, although not a great one.

GLideN64, Glide64 and Glide64mk2 plugins are broken. Use Rice instead. Change the plugin before loading the ROM if N64 games crash on start-up.

Playing movies is… Strange. Should work if the menus could be avoided. Maybe there’s a command-line argument that could be used?

Probably a lot more stuff.

I’ll continue to try to get things to work, but for now, I’ll stick to using a VM.