- #FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MAC OS X#
- #FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MAC OS#
- #FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC INSTALL#
- #FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MOD#
I'm assuming for the following steps that you are not familiar with the Unix terminal.
#FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MOD#
Technically it shouldn't be hard to write a new mod launcher, it just needs to automate a few terminal commands. There are some tools floating around the internet, but I haven't come across any that still work (being Power PC apps). Mods work with the Mac version but you will have to use the terminal to launch them. Now try out your new native Mac version of unreal Tournament 2004! You can now throw the patcher and the installed windows version away. Right-click your game (the former Demo) -> Show Package Contents -> Systems.
Now launch TextEdit, create a new plain text file (not rich text, you can use TextEdit -> Format -> Plain Text), type in your key (with all the hyphens) and save the file as "cdkey" without any extension (seriously, no extension go to Finder Preferences -> Advanced and check the option to show file extensions, then make sure the file has none). Navigate in the registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Unreal Technology/Installed Apps/UT2004/CDKey. If you have a retail copy you know where it is, if you have the GoG version you need to find the key in the registry of your Wine setup, BootCamp partition or whatever you used. This will take a while but the patcher will finish eventually. Launch the patch application, say you will browse to the game's location yourself, do so and continue despite possible warnings. The official patch however adds Intel code, making the game run again.
#FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MAC OS#
The demo is a pure Power PC application and won't run on Lion or any newer version of Mac OS X. If a file already exists replace it with the full version. You goal is to replace each folder's contents with the full game's contents. You will see various folders related to the game. Go to Contents -> Mac OS and rename the file to the same name as the app itself.Īgain, right click the demo > Show Package Contents. Each Mac application is a bundle of various files. Right-click the demo and choose Show Package Contents to see the application's contents. Rename the Demo to Unreal Tournament 2004, you need to strip the "Demo" out of the name. Step 1: Renaming (yes, this is important as well) Don't worry if the Demo won't run on Lion or Mountain Lion, we will take care of that later Put the Demo and the patching application somewhere on your hard drive, the desktop should be good for now.
#FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC INSTALL#
Install the Windows version in any way you want, we just need the game files and we will need to be able to look into the registry. The version of the patch I used was 3369-2, which should be tha latest one to my knowledge. Get the demo and the patch from the internet, they should be easy to find with a quick google search. When you have everything ready we can start the procedure Personally I recommend Wineskin as you can just throw your wrapper away after you're done. Use a Windows machine, Bootcamp, a virtual machine, Wine, Crossover or Wineskin. You don't need to be able to run it, just to install it. The full game (retail or GoG, shouldn't matter, I used the GoG version), the Mac demo, the latest Mac patch for the full game (important!) and a way to install the Windows version. I'd appreciate if this thread got pinned.
#FREE UNREAL TOURNAMENT FOR MAC MAC OS X#
I can confirm that it does work on Mac OS X 1.8 Mountain Lion. The original guide can be found here, but I think it's a good idea to include it here as well so more people can find it. As it turns out you can run the GoG version of Unreal Tournament 2004 natively on Mac OS X by injecting the full game's files into the official demo and a few little tricks.