!!!Required tools:

Tools/programs you need before we continue further in the tutorial:


||Tools/programs
| Mktoolbox   
| Nitropaint   
| Wine   
| Steam   
| g3dcvtr   
| Blender   
| NNS plugins   
| melonds   


__Note: i will not be teaching you how to acquire or the basics of using your Linux distribution, that is up to the user to figure out or how to install blender, wine, Melonds or steam as the installation can completely vary from the distribution you are using, i simply will be teaching you how to generally use these programs within the environment.__

!!!Getting started:

With all tools installed, what first you will want to do is launch steam and enter in your steam account, if you don't then create your steam account. After that is done you will be greeted to the main screen. What you will want to do is go to the settings located here:

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You the will be greeted with this window, go to beta participation, for you it would be set to none, change it to __Steam beta update__:

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Afterwards just let steam restart and let it update to steam beta. Once you are back to the main screen again go to settings again and click on steam play:

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After you are there, Enable steam play for all other titles and set it to proton experimental.

Now that you have access to steam proton and will be able to run Mktoolbox and Nitropaint. But first we will need to add Mktoolbox and Nitropaint as non-steam games in our library. So go to the library tab in steam and click on __Add A Game__, then select __Add a non-steam game__:

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you will be greeted with a window to select any non steam game you have available, click on browse:

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__Note: Remember to have Mktoolbox and Nitropaint downloaded and extracted.__

Now simply select the mktoolbox executable and click open:

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Now that mktoolbox is selected, simply do the same thing with nitropaint. After that is done, simply click on add selected program:

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Now that we have the programs added to the steam library, right click on the program and select properties:

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You will be greeted with a new window, select compatibility and after that click on __Force the use of specific steam play compatibility tool__:

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__Note: you must do this with both mktoolbox and nitropaint.__

After that is done, you are finally done and can launch mktoolbox and nitropaint!!!