Archipelago/worlds/aquaria/docs/setup_en.md

Aquaria Randomizer Setup Guide

Required Software

• The original Aquaria Game (purchasable from most online game stores)
• The Aquaria randomizer

Optional Software

• For sending commands like !hint: the TextClient from the most recent Archipelago release

Installation and execution Procedures

Windows

First, you should copy the original Aquaria folder game. The randomizer will possibly modify the game so that the original game will stop working. Copying the folder will guarantee that the original game keeps on working. Also, in Windows, the save files are stored in the Aquaria folder. So copying the Aquaria folder for every Multiworld game you play will make sure that every game has its own save game.

Unzip the Aquaria randomizer release and copy all unzipped files in the Aquaria game folder. The unzipped files are:

• aquaria_randomizer.exe
• OpenAL32.dll
• override (directory)
• SDL2.dll
• usersettings.xml
• wrap_oal.dll
• cacert.pem

If there is a conflict between files in the original game folder and the unzipped files, you should overwrite the original files with the ones from the unzipped randomizer.

Finally, to launch the randomizer, you must use the command line interface (you can open the command line interface by typing cmd in the address bar of the Windows File Explorer). Here is the command line used to start the randomizer:

aquaria_randomizer.exe --name YourName --server theServer:thePort

or, if the room has a password:

aquaria_randomizer.exe  --name YourName --server theServer:thePort --password thePassword

Linux when using the AppImage

If you use the AppImage, just copy it into the Aquaria game folder. You then have to make it executable. You can do that from command line by using:

chmod +x Aquaria_Randomizer-*.AppImage

or by using the Graphical Explorer of your system.

To launch the randomizer, just launch in command line:

./Aquaria_Randomizer-*.AppImage --name YourName --server theServer:thePort

or, if the room has a password:

./Aquaria_Randomizer-*.AppImage --name YourName --server theServer:thePort --password thePassword

Note that you should not have multiple Aquaria_Randomizer AppImage file in the same folder. If this situation occurs, the preceding commands will launch the game multiple times.

Linux when using the tar file

First, you should copy the original Aquaria folder game. The randomizer will possibly modify the game so that the original game will stop working. Copying the folder will guarantee that the original game keeps on working.

Untar the Aquaria randomizer release and copy all extracted files in the Aquaria game folder. The extracted files are:

• aquaria_randomizer
• override (directory)
• usersettings.xml
• cacert.pem

If there is a conflict between files in the original game folder and the extracted files, you should overwrite the original files with the ones from the extracted randomizer files.

Then, you should use your system package manager to install liblua5, libogg, libvorbis, libopenal and libsdl2. On Debian base system (like Ubuntu), you can use the following command:

sudo apt install liblua5.1-0-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libsdl2-dev

Also, if there are certain .so files in the original Aquaria game folder (libgcc_s.so.1, libopenal.so.1, libSDL-1.2.so.0 and libstdc++.so.6), you should remove them from the Aquaria Randomizer game folder. Those are old libraries that will not work on the recent build of the randomizer.

To launch the randomizer, just launch in command line:

./aquaria_randomizer --name YourName --server theServer:thePort

or, if the room has a password:

./aquaria_randomizer --name YourName --server theServer:thePort --password thePassword

Note: If you get a permission denied error when using the command line, you can use this command to be sure that your executable has executable permission:

chmod +x aquaria_randomizer