Playing MTA with Wine / Linux on own server

[Tjong]

Well hello there it's been a while...

I just wanted to play around with some old servers I programmed back then (some may remember Neon Fun, United or Carball).

The problem is, that I am running MTA through Wine on Linux and it seems broken because of the AC4 detection which indicates the SERIAL CHANGE / SPOOFER message that also other Linux users already posted.
I got it at least working on my local server with a bunch of dirty IP address blocking / allowing. But now that I want to upload the scripts to a public server, it just wont work, because I get the error message from above.

I already tried all steps listed in the Wiki and other stuff (running local MTA server as root, disabling AC4, blocking all IPs except for the ones I want to join), but none of these worked.

Is there any way how this can be worked around or maybe even fixed by the MTA devs? It's really a shame that after playing MTA in Linux for like a decade just fine, it now broke and that there isn't even a workaround, that I could turn my OWN server in allowing me to just join it.

Any help is appreciated

Kind regards,
Tjong

Edited November 25, 2024 by Tjong

[tajm3r]

Hello friend! I am a player from Russia. I spent my entire childhood starting in 2014 on the Neon United server.We played Sumo Survival and Neon Fun modes with our friends every day. I've grown up now, and today I remembered about this wonderful server. I saw that it was closed in 2023 and was very upset. Is there any way to switch back to these game modes? I really want to get back together with my friends and have a great time. Maybe you have a hidden Neon United server, or something like that. I would really like to know his ip. I want to remember my childhood and enjoy this wonderful server. If there are no options to log back on the server, then is there any way to get the server files, I would put it on a hosting service and play there with my friends every evening. I apologize for my knowledge of the language and possible mistakes. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you, thank you for my wonderful childhood spent on the Neon server <3

[Tjong]

Hey, at first thank you very much for your kind words and sorry for the late response. I also read some YouTube comments that many would love to play on the servers again and I still have the Servers of Neon Fun and Neon United laying around. Unfortunately I can't test them at all, because of the problems with Wine / Linux described in my post. I already spent hours and days to try to get it working, but it seems that it's not of priority to have compatibility with Linux anymore.

So ye I will still try now and then to finally get my Client set up, but I can't promise anything. If anyone has a working solution to get MTA running on Linux, please tell me, I would be very glad to get that small part of MTA's history up and running again.

[-ffs-PLASMA]

Have you tried Bottles/Soda?
This is currently the easiest and most promissing way to get MTA running on linux.

 

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Client_on_Linux_using_Bottles/Soda_Manual