Advanced Viewer for MR1DX by Soken

1. Be sure to download the MR1DX Advanced Viewer app, and save it to a location where you can find it later.
2. Launch MR1DX.
3. Launch the downloaded MR1AdvancedViewer.exe after the game has started.
4. Without a monster visible on the Town or Ranch you may only see very limited data.
5. Once you have a monster on the ranch, data for the specific monster should display in the app.

Credits: Sedori

Did you skip the Windows upgrade and now you're playing on Linux? You can still run Advanced Viewer alongside MR2DX. Here's how to most likely be able to get it to work:

1. Download and extract the Advanced Viewer files into to a folder you can find later (See above for Download).
2. First, make sure Steam is set to Force use of a specific Proton compatibility layer.
   • Right click on the game in the game list
   • Click Compatibility
   • Check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool".
   • Choose Proton and desired version
   • Test that the game launches as expected before proceeding.
   • It may take several Steam restarts, and several game launches before all the neccessary files download properly from Steam.
3. Launch the game from Steam
4. Create a .sh script (NOTE: You may need to change the paths and/or folder names for which Proton you're using!)
   Example Steam Proton directory paths:
   • $HOME/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/[ProtonVersion]/
   • /media/[USERNAME]/[SOMEDRIVE]/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/[ProtonVersion]/
   
   
   Sample Script: Installed in $HOME

   #!/bin/bash
   
   # Proton setup
   PROTON_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-9"
   PROTON="$PROTON_PATH/proton"
   APPID="1716120"
   STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/$APPID"
   STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam"
   
   # Advanced Viewer EXE
   VIEWER_EXE="$HOME/Monster Rancher 1 Advanced Viewer/MR1AdvancedViewer.exe"
   
   # Export required environment variables
   export PROTON_PATH
   export PROTON
   export APPID
   export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH
   export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH
   
   # Run the Viewer using Proton
   "$PROTON" run "$VIEWER_EXE"
   

5. The script makes sure that Advanced Viewer launches within the same sandbox as the game is running in.
6. You MUST be sure to edit the paths for the Steam files, and also Advanced Viewer!
7. With the game running, Run the .sh script

Installed on another drive?

#!/bin/bash

# Proton setup
PROTON_PATH="/media/USERNAME/drive2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton 10.0/"
PROTON="$PROTON_PATH/proton"
APPID="1716120"
STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/media/USERNAME/drive2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/$APPID"
STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam"

# Advanced Viewer EXE
VIEWER_EXE="/media/USERNAME/drive2/emulation/AV-MR1/MR1AdvancedViewer.exe"

# Export required environment variables
export PROTON_PATH
export PROTON
export APPID
export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH
export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH

# Run the Viewer using Proton
"$PROTON" run "$VIEWER_EXE"

Another thing to consider, if Steam games are installed on another drive:

• If the Script is not launching AV at all, double check that the Proton folders for the version you're using are in the SteamLibrary/steamapps/common folder.
• If the proton folders are not present on the other drive, Check to see if Steam installed them in the $HOME location for Steam.
• If they are present in the $HOME location, you can simply copy the Proton folders into the common to your other drive, and then attempt to run the script again.