---
title: Running HOOT Sound Hardware Emulator with Wine on Linux
tags: blog, hoot, wine, winetricks
disqus: zeinok
---
# Running HOOT Sound Hardware Emulator with Wine on Linux
## Step 1. Get winetricks and HOOT
This depends on your distro, please pick a suitable method on installing winetricks.
[Tutorials on installing HOOT can be viewed here](http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/faq.php#hoot)
## Step2. Get necessary libraries
Run following commands to install Microsoft XML3 and Visual C++ 2015 runtime.
`d3dx9` and `msxml3` are for replacing Wine's implementation.
Wine's implementiation for DirectX can't render text correctly and XML parser doesn't really work well with japanese characters.
`fakejapanese` explans itself, it's for Japanese fonts.
```sh
winetricks -q d3dx9 fakejapanese msxml3 vcrun2015
```
## Step 3. Edit config file
Change `language` to random string to use english interface and make sure `display_method` is `1` which represents Direct3D.
```ini
display_method = 1
language = english.lng
```
## Step 4. Done!
Now you finished HOOT installation, just run it and you're ready to go :D