https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57557
--- Comment #17 from Vic836 vms368@hotmail.com --- I've tried wine 9 using a live usb stick with Xubuntu 24.04, in the same laptop.
The first time I executed winecfg then tried to install Synthesia and eMule during the live session, things went wrong as I couldn't end installing them and the wine menu entries didn't pop up, some errors were thrown by the terminal. But I removed .wine folder and next time it everything went OK running winecfg then installing and running both apps smoothly and the wine menu entries did appear OK.
So definitively this is not a problem with wine 9, but likely something is now "broken" on my operating system. Of course, I don't have a clue what could it be, as one day wine just stopped working properly here as I described in my previous comments, I didn't touch anything before that (so I thought perhaps it was due to an upgrade) and it can't be solved by removing .wine folder nor by uninstalling then reinstalling wine and these errors insistently occur even by using an AppImage version of wine. But it's pretty clear that any wine version won't work on my OS currently installed, and that it will work flawlessly again when I decide to format the partition and reinstall some Linux distro.
Regarding aMule for Linux it works just fine currently, but I tried several times along the past years on several Linux distros, and most times it was very unstable, closing unexpectedly or disappearing the names in the menus and in the buttons, etc. This is why I finally switched to use eMule with wine.
On the other hand, I also have tried to re-install Synthesia on Windows 11 and this time it also worked OK, without distorting sound nor needing to activate backwards compatibility. Also, I don't know why.
Computers have goblins, sometimes.