This one has been tricky. The eventual solution I found here:
https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=106.0
It turns out that all that is needed is the content of the Sshock2 directory. Put that on a standard Windows PC – not a WINE instance at this stage.
The get and run ss2tool on this directory.
Finally, copy the Sshock2 directory into a WINE location.
Everything should now work.
These are my notes from attempting to get some older versions of games working under WINE in Batocera.
This makes a win32 instance:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/userdata/roms/windows/SystemShock2.wine /usr/wine/wine-proton/bin/wine wineboot
Enable d3dx9:
batocera-wine windows tricks /userdata/roms/windows/CIV3.wine d3dx9
List all tricks:
batocera-wine windows tricks /userdata/roms/windows/CIV3.wine list-all