Hows it going everyone? ;)I was just trying to get RA2 to run on Wine today. This is exciting!
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It may not be important to 90% of you but I got RA2 happily running native in OSx with some help from the updated Wine, No boot camp or duel installs just boots right off the dock.
Again a lot of you probably don’t use Mac.. but since I’m pretty much a OSx only user it was somewhat important to me to finally get it running and package / Polish it up all nicely so anyone in future can fire it up with no difficulty. (Complete with Mac styling)
Still some tweaks and other bits and pieces I want to iron out before posting a download link but here is some screenies for you all
Suited for OSx Yosemite & El Capitan. May work on earlier software but I haven’t tested it.
Exact clean copy of Robot Arena 2 with 1.3 Patch & 1.4 Patch installed so no other notes to really add.
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Nice! I'm unfamiliar eith how OSX works but would this allow for easy "file browsing" to add stuff (mods, bots, etc.) as the standard Windows RA2 does? I'm taking "Ready to Run app" as being basically a single exe rather than the whole folder structure you get in Windows.
No problem, glad to see it runs okay on other macs :)Fullscreen seems to cause an issue where the game won't load upon quitting and restarting, and some of the text is missing. (Probably something to do with that font error that pops up.) Other than that, it runs great on my Late 2012 iMac. I'll try it out on my MacBook Pro eventually.
Okay thanks.. Ill look into it..Yeah, the fullscreen thing is probably something to do with having a 27" screen. I'll see if my MacBook Pro does the same thing. As for the font error, maybe I just need to install some Windows fonts. I haven't had Office on any of my current rigs.
I only briefly tested full screen but seemed alright.. could be a screen size thing though, I tested it on a 13inch Macbook, Where as im assuming your iMac was 24 or 27 inch.
Font one is new though.. cant say I ever saw that error.. Im wondering if its an issue I avoided by having Microsoft Office on my Mac's (since that does bundle a reasonable amount of windows fonts)
Yeah thats the main thing im thinking.. since 27 inch screens probably didn't exist at RA2's birth lolIn the events, when you get to the part where you need to do repairs, all of the damaged part names in the list are blank.
Can you remember what bits had text issues? RA2 uses its own font in places but occasionally it requests a system font
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Unless the game is trying to locate the XP fonts folder in which case I might need to see if it will like using one of its own fonts instead..
Okay, as a trial here is a font patch for the event repairs (a few parts of UI need patches but we'll test this first)Nope. Still get the error and blank text. I wonder what the font is.
It contains a modified repairs.gib and an alias to quickly drop it in the right spot (Providing RA2 is in your applications folder)
https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/0851RA2 Font Patch.zip (https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/0851RA2 Font Patch.zip)
Just wanted to say this is great and I have yet to experience any major issue.
However while on the subject of mods I've had trouble implementing my own. I've found the files we're all familiar with in Contents>wineprefix>drive_c>winebottler and I can add stuff to the Components folder just fine, but the game crashes when adding to the AI or Arenas folders (have only messed with those 3 so can't really comment on any other files/folders). Do you know of any other files/folders you have to edit to get it to work properly?
However while on the subject of mods I've had trouble implementing my own. I've found the files we're all familiar with in Contents>wineprefix>drive_c>winebottler and I can add stuff to the Components folder just fine, but the game crashes when adding to the AI or Arenas folders (have only messed with those 3 so can't really comment on any other files/folders). Do you know of any other files/folders you have to edit to get it to work properly?
Its happy enough to accept components in testing and edits to the UI...
Im yet to try any AI Packs, yet though.. the main focus has been porting the main games over first.
Let me play a little over the weekend and ill see what result I find
Let me know what specific packs your trying to install too?
Phew.. Ive had some drama's uploading such a big folder so ive switched over to google drive for this oneOnce again, I thank you for your continued efforts!
Robot Wars RA2 Mod is now available in the first post (1.8gb Approx.)
The next target im thinking of is the old AU Battlebots mod.AWWWW YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
So Ive done the AU Battlebots pack but its having some teething issues.. so in the meantime ive finished off Ironforge which is now in the first postYay, now I can finally see what this Ironforge nonsense is all about.
As always, let me know of any bugs I havent done a whole lot of testing with Ironforge
Next target is a DSL 2.2 patch :)
Downloaded it today hoping to give it a go but just opens and automatically closes. I'm presuming this is because I'm running Sierra rather than Yosemite? If so, any plans to get it to run on Sierra?
oh man i was asking for this years ago thank you you beautiful beast you
Downloaded it today hoping to give it a go but just opens and automatically closes. I'm presuming this is because I'm running Sierra rather than Yosemite? If so, any plans to get it to run on Sierra?
Hmm Ill have to look into it, It should support up to El Capitan at present, I am yet to update any of my Macs to Sierra so I dont have any test subjects at present to work on it
Does it do it at every launch attempt? It may search for some Wine plugin updates on your first ever launch (sometimes the app name above the icon in the dock says "Wine" as opposed to "Robot Arena 2" when its doing its setup related things)
Edit: Also just to double check, needs to be the admin account with full permissions too
Edit 2: Possibly have the app on the harddrive too, not on external usb's etc
Could you try to update dsl from 2.1 to 2.2 complete edition.please look at the dates between the last post and your post next time