Like I said, I tried and failed... there's tutorials on here... the kicker is that I read this and it feels like "learn how to compress this yourself." This is only a thing on Mac compressions. The expectation on the PC side is a user downloads and wanks. On Mac for half of these games it's do it yourself.
Just kills me. For fun, imagine a scenario where PC users would need to do this.
My thing is that I'd love to compare 2 different popular games. One with a Mac ready compression, another with engine only files. I'd love to know the difference in downloads. To me, this does me no favors. It's a burden. So I just download the full version and delete. But this concept that engine only renpy builds "help" anyone is beyond me.
If someone is too busy to do it, just don't do a Mac version. We could have people who do Mac compressions do these games if the engine only compressors refuse to post a comparable Mac build. Half the compressors on here do a ready to go Mac compression. But they're not doing it when these 2-3 compressors post this noise.
Sorry to hear you're having a frustrating experience with compressed games on mac. For what it's worth I am on a mac too so I understand to an extent. But like I said, 95% of the time I find that using the PC version works so mostly I am pretty satisfied with things.
Just to clarify, did you try using the PC version with the Mac renpy launcher? From your post it sounded like you'd tried to build a mac version using the compressed engine files. I ask because the instructions i posted (to be clear what I outlined in my post, not in the link) are
not for building or compiling a mac compressed version yourself, but just require dropping the pc version straight into the mac renpy launcher and playing it like that. Doing it this way is very quick / straightforward in my experience. TBH I would say it's no more work than using an uncompressed mac version and often I even prefer to download the pc version (especially if I'm playing with a mod as it's easier to drop it into the folder than right click and show contents). This is what I do:
1. download and install mac renpy launcher (here:
You must be registered to see the links
)
2. download the
pc compressed file of game
.
3. unzip game folder.
4. put the pc version folder in the mac renpy launcher folder.
5. open the renpy launcher.
6. select the game from the 'projects' list.
7. press 'launch project' and then play.
Sorry for writing so much / especially if this is the method you tried. But I just wanted to check because if it
isn't what you tried I thought it could be helpful. For what it's worth although i personally played this update using the uncompressed pc version, I've just downloaded the compressed version and tried it and it's working on my computer.
Edit: I've added a few screenshots that hopefully help explain the process in case my explanation might still not be totally clear.
