[Macgregor the Hammer]

I'll try the 4Gig Patch. I'm into simplicity.

I have SH4 (the out of the box) version in my Ubuntu partition. It's really stable but like you mentioned, anything more requires WINE. WINE is great - once you get it working. Yes it's not an emulator but an abstraction layer which is really picky with paths and file names. Steam has been invested with Proton. I played Proton games and it works quite well. SH3 and 4 work well with it. Proton has been a side port from Codeweavers, the Cross Over people.

There's a linux project called Danger of the Deep. It's pretty much dead. The last entry in the subversion site is 2011. I had contacted the development team about pitching a hand with development and I didn't hear anything. Too bad, it had a lot of potential.

I think once a program is developed to port Windows games into Linux, we're going to see a mass immigration into linux.