Cider for Mac OS X 10.4

[Nick-nmycon]

Hey

 

I am new to the forums but have heard of Cider before. I recently completed Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 and am going to a wedding in Cape Cod in less than a week. I would like to take Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty with me to play (especially during the car ride). I was unable to install Windows XP on my MacBook due to the Boot Camp Assistant expiring and when I changed my clock back I still got partition errors...

 

...ANYWAYS...

 

...I decided to try to port them both to Mac OS X using Cider(MGS wouldn't work with Darwine or Crossover and I figured if you guys are porting 2006 and 2007 games I should at least be able to port 2000 and 2003 games)!

 

But I downloaded the newest version of Cider that somebody uploaded (that came with the Spore game) but unfortunately it can only be used with Leopard. I haven't upgraded yet and am still using Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11.

 

Can anybody point me in the direction of the most recent Cider that can still be used with Tiger?

 

Also, has anybody successfully ported either Metal Gear Solid or Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty to Mac?

 

Thanks in Advance!

 

Nick

 

PS. This may sound a little strange but could Cider be used to port PS2 emulators to Mac (such as ePS2e) so that I would also be able to play MGS3, which was not ported to PC?

[Espionage724]

As far as I know there is no PS2 emulator for Mac (although I heard that some guy on the forums had a lot of luck in compiling and getting PCSX2 to work).

 

I would assume that Cider wouldn't be able to emulate a PS2 emulator. You might have better luck using Crossover or VMware Fusion with XP.

[Nick-nmycon]

ok, i didn't really think emulating would work...

 

oh well, I figured it was worth asking.

 

I have the PCSX Emulator for Mac but it only runs at about 30 FPS so it is about 2x as slow

 

OK so i was able to find a newer version of Cider that worked with OS X 10.4

 

anyways, somebody had already modified it for GTA 3 so i thought if i just changed the directory names i would be fine.

 

Heres what i did:

 

Right Click on GTA 3 (file name) > Show Package Contents

Pasted Metal Gear Solid (that I took out of Program Files after installing in Windows XP) in Contents\Resources\transgaming\c_drive\Program Files\

Made the following changes in Info.plist:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>English</string>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>cider</string>

<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>

<string>GameTap 3.0.2</string>

<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>

<string>Icon.icns</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.transgaming.gametap</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<string>1.0</string>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>GTA III</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<string>APPL</string>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<string>0.0 Mac</string>

<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<string>APPL</string>

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>

<string>Viewer</string>

<key>CFBundleURLName</key>

<string>GameTap protocol</string>

<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>

<array>

<string>gametap</string>

</array>

</dict>

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>1</string>

<key>CedegaGameDir</key>

<string>C:\Program Files\Metal Gear Solid\</string>

<key>CedegaGameName</key>

<string>C:\Program Files\Metal Gear Solid\mgsi.exe</string>

<key>LSEnvironment</key>

<dict>

<key>InsufficientRenderers</key>

<dict/>

<key>MinimumSystemVersion</key>

<string>10.4.8</string>

</dict>

<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>

<string>10.4.8</string>

<key>NSMainNibFile</key>

<string>MainMenu</string>

<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>

<string>NSApplication</string>

<key>PrefsFolderName</key>

<string>GTA 3</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

And it didnt work, the icon appeared on the dock and bounced once and just stayed there. You had to go to force quit to get it to go away.

 

Also please note that i have ran the game in Windows before because i have heard of some directories not being created if you have not run the game yet.

 

Also here is an error log i get from running "Contents\MacOS\cider" in terminal:

 

Last login: Thu Aug 3 22:40:26 on ttyp1

/Users/nmycon/Desktop/GTA\ 3.app/Contents/MacOS/cider; exit

Welcome to Darwin!

nicholas-cooks-computer:~ nmycon$ /Users/nmycon/Desktop/GTA\ 3.app/Contents/MacOS/cider; exit

2006-08-03 22:49:11.054 cider[1452] Mac OS X 10.4.9 Intel

err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/Users/nmycon/Desktop/GTA 3.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/WINDOWS/F"...

err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load .so lib for builtin swift.dll: dlopen(libswift.dylib, 2): image not found

err:ddraw:SWIFT_VP_InitSWShader swift.dll not found

[Nick-nmycon]

i also tried running MGS1 in CrossOver but it freezes on the difficulty select screen, forcing me to Force Shut Down

[sonicjam]

try the newest ones and edit the min. to see if those will work. do you have crossover games ?. if you don't try that.

[Nick-nmycon]

whats "min."? minimum system requirements? if so how do you edit that?

[Nick-nmycon]

i tried crossover games today and the same thing happened as with the original crossover

 

man! cant get this to work.

 

would anybody be able to send me a modded cider on how to get it to work or explain what i am doing wrong?