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Melon Mix is a melonDS fork to play the Kingdom Heart Nintendo DS Games

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Getting Started with Melon Mix

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The Basics

$HOME or ~ refer to your home directory. On a typical linux distro, the full path will be \$HOME/\$USER. On a Steam Deck, the full path will be /home/deck. When navigating using the file manager, the file manager may not be display the username visually in the full file path.

Directories with a . in front of their name, like $HOME/.steam, are hidden by default. In Dolphin (a file manager), click the hamburger menu in the top right and toggle on Show Hidden Files. The setting may vary depending on which file manager you are using.

$HOME/Applications refers to the Applications folder in your home directory. On a typical linux distro, the full path will be \$HOME/\$USER/Applications. On a Steam Deck, the full path will be /home/deck/Applications. When navigating using the file manager, the file manager may not display the username visually in the full file path. The Applications folder is not created by default. If you have not created one already, do so before following the steps in this section.

Melon Mix is available as an AppImage on Linux. This page will cover how to utilize and install the AppImage.

To download Melon Mix:

  1. Open the Melon Mix repository on a browser of your choice
  2. Download the latest MelonMix-appimage-x86_64.zip file
  3. Move the newly downloaded zip file to the $HOME/Applications folder
    • $HOME/Applications refers to the Applications folder in your home directory. On a typical linux distro, the full path will be \$HOME/\$USER/Applications. On a Steam Deck, the full path will be /home/deck/Applications. When navigating using the file manager, the file manager may not display the username visually in the full file path. The Applications folder is not created by default. If you have not created one already, do so before following the steps in this section.
  4. Extract the MelonMix-appimage-x86_64.zip file
  5. In the MelonMix-appimage-x86_64 folder, locate the MelonMix.AppImage file, Right click the application in question, click Properties, click Permissions, check Is Executable.
  6. Melon Mix will now be downloaded

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