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Diablo II is a dark fantasy-themed action role-playing game, with elements of the hack and slash and “dungeon roaming” genres. It was released for Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North. This is how you install Diablo II on linux, using Wine.

Installing Wine & Gmountiso

First you need to have wine which is essential to run any windows software. gmountiso is not required but i find it a real hassle to have to mount iso’s in a terminal. In any case for the sake of this tutorial just install it..

To install wine and gmountiso start a Terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal)

sudo apt-get install wine gmountiso mkdir ~/iso

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Configure Wine

Lets configure wine for a quick moment, in a terminal run: winecfg

Click all the tabs, and lets make a small addition to the devices tab. Add a new drive. It will most likely be D. Select it and click the advanced button. Set the drive type from autodetection to CDROM. Then change the location from:

/ to ~/iso
(~ = /home/yourlinuxusername)

Press OK when you are done.

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Installing

You can then run the gmountiso program from Application/System Tools menu. Start out by selecting the diablo 2 install disc and mount it in ~/iso Press the Jump To button afterwards. Double click the setup.exe and select Full install.

Enter your name & serial. It will then complain about needing a different disc. Unmount the current disc and then select the install disc, do not change the mount location its fine..(so mount the iso in ~/iso) Press mount and go back to diablo 2 installer and press OK. It should continue.

Keep swapping discs as described above.. i know you can do it! Once you have diablo 2 installed run the video test and skip the ReadMe and registering. Now mount the expansion disc (keep the mount location the same as always) Swap when necessary.

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Patching

We have set up this guide using patch version 1.12a there might be a newer one, but this version is fine. you can get it here:

Diablo 2 LOD - Patch 1.12 a (5.2 MiB, 14 hits) - Registration required.

Then run the patch (might require you to mount the expansion disc) The game should start itself up! Exit for now..

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NO-CD

Get the NOCD crack from the OS download section, here: Diablo 2 LOD - No Cd patch (22.7 KiB, 8 hits) - Registration required.

Extract the exe file into the Diablo 2 directory. Mount the expansion disc one final time. Jump to the disc and copy over the d2xmusic.mpq & d2xvideo.mpq place to the place where you installed Diablo 2 (if you are a sucker and let wine pick for you its probally ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Diablo\ 2/)

Finally run the D2Loader-1.12.exe from the Diablo 2 directory AND KICK ASS. Update your shortcuts on your desktop to point to the D2loader

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Summary

1. install wine & gmountiso
2. winecfg & add the a drive and set it to CDROM
3. start mounting isos with gmountiso in the CDROM location
4. Install Diablo2 (install.exe) and run the Videotest and dont bother with the ReadMe or Registering
5. Install the expansion disc by mounting it running the install.exe
6. Get the latest patch @ http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20758 Current 1.12a (make sure to click the expansion patch!)
7. run the patch (need to mount the expansion disc)
8. Get the NOCD crack from the OS download section
9. From the expasion disc copy over the d2xmusic.mpq & d2xvideo.mpq place them in the D2 dir unmount the iso
10. run the D2Loader-1.12.exe

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Hero Editor:

We have the best hero editor for you aswell, get it in our download section or simply here:

Diablo 2 LOD - Hero editor (5.1 MiB, 18 hits) - Registration required.