About
Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche is a Korean role-playing game developed and published by Softmax, released exclusively for PC in Korea on December 28, 2001. It uses a turn-based battle system built around Turn Points (TP), with elaborate fantasy world-building and a story centered on war and political intrigue. It is the first entry in the Magna Carta series and the predecessor to the PS2 title Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata (released in the West as Tears of Blood). It was never officially localized for Western audiences, but a fan translation exists. This game is unrelated to the later Magna Carta 2 (Xbox 360) despite sharing the series name.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- C:/Program Files (x86)/SOFTMAX/MagnaCarta/MagnaCarta.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Pending not enough reports yet
⚙ Setup notes
Run with GE-Proton as a non-Steam shortcut (this game has no Steam release). The installer's default path is C:/Program Files (x86)/SOFTMAX/MagnaCarta/MagnaCarta.exe.
Disc/DRM: installation requires the original CD key/serial, and gameplay requires the Play disc (MC_PLAY) to remain mounted (a virtual mount works; the other discs are only needed for install). Provide your own discs/keys.
Locale: the game is Korean and shows garbled text without a Korean locale. Install with the prefix/system region set to Korea, and if text is still corrupted set LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 in the launch options or configure an EUC-KR locale via protontricks.
English fan translation by Talbain (Lakuuna), Sobodash, and Nejuf must be copied into the game folders (BGR, Fpb, Itm, Sgi, Abi) before launching — see the GitHub install guide. Setting the exe to Windows XP compatibility helps on the Windows side; under Proton this maps to the wine prefix Windows version.
This is the original 2001 PC-only Korean release — a turn-based RPG, and a completely different game from Magna Carta: Tears of Blood / Crimson Stigmata (2005, PS2) and Magna Carta 2 (Xbox 360).
The one thing to know
Not on Steam — runs as a non-Steam GE-Proton shortcut, so there is no ProtonDB tier. Supply your own discs and CD key: install needs the serial, and gameplay needs the Play disc (MC_PLAY) mounted (a virtual mount works). Apply the English fan translation (by Talbain/Lakuuna, Sobodash, Nejuf) by copying its files into the game folders before launching — see the GitHub install guide. The game is Korean: install with a Korean system/prefix region, and if text is still garbled add LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 or configure an EUC-KR locale via protontricks. This is the original 2001 PC-only Korean game — a turn-based RPG, completely different from Magna Carta: Tears of Blood / Crimson Stigmata (PS2, 2005) and Magna Carta 2 (Xbox 360).
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.