I wanted to feel nostalgic by playing some childhood NeoGeo games on Linux. I downloaded WinKawaks and tried running with wine

wine WinKawaks.exe

. But it didn’t run and no output was on terminal.

It turned out that installing Wine was not enough. I had to install Winetricks and then install Visual C++ Runtime 2008 (vcrun2008). Then it was running perfectly!

By the way, I’ve tested this using wine-staging 6.12, but the stable version (which is just wine) should work fine.