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Solved Is there going to be an installer for mac?

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DanielRTRD

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lol well idk what program my friend had but it was like the 'emulator' if you would for windows on a mac
the kind that you had to like hold shift or something before booting up

it was probably what you suggested though daniel
Or BootCamp.
 

DannyM93

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I've been trying to get it to run on Linux through Wine for a little while now, and I created a virtual drive on PlayOnLinux, installed XNA, and tried to get .net 4 on there, but it wouldn't go. I do have Mono-.net installed, but I have heard that Wine's mono implementation isn't quite up to snuff yet. Has anyone confirmed being able to run it through Wine yet?

Also, to all those people who want a Mac or Linux native version, that is likely not going to happen. I can't speak for Nils, but I do know that he's using all Microsoft proprietary APIs to write it, so getting a native port would literally require an entire rewrite using common tools.
 

Blase Zinck

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I could make a Offline Mac Installer for Poke3D, but I'm not sure there'd be much of a point until it's made to run on Mac :p
All it'd do is install the Windows version on Mac...

Wait... If there was a Mac version, it'd probably all be compiled into a single .dmg, meaning no offline installer needed...
 

DannyM93

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I suppose if the C# source code were compiled with Mono .net it would technically make a runnable binary for other platforms, but you'd still have the XNA dependency as an issue.
 

sal marciniak

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I got it to work in ubuntu 13.04, PlayOnLinux 4.2.1, Wine 1.5.28
Needs to be 32 bit wine.
Make a new virtual drive
Install dotnet40 xna40 d3dx9 directmusic directplay wmp9
Put the launcher in the virtual drive created for this
Than make a shortcut for pokemon3d ( most likely not needed, but will make launching it easier)
Let it download the latest version, than play it
than press M to mute it and it works for me

For mac users there is www.playonmac.com I have tried it at all
 

DannyM93

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Nice. I was using 64-bit wine, so that might be why I couldn't get it to work. I'm also on 12.04.2 but I have the official wine repo enabled so I have the latest version. Did you have to use wine mono for .net? Why does it have to be muted?
 

Darkfire

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probably needs to be muted because you don't have Windows Media Player?
I don't non windows all that well so....
 

DannyM93

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probably needs to be muted because you don't have Windows Media Player?
I don't non windows all that well so....
Does the sound actually go through media player to be heard, or does it just use the media player codecs? I wonder if you installed directSound in POL and enabled the microsoft sound codecs if sound would work. I think there is a way to install WMP9 with POL too.
 

Darkfire

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I remember a time when not having WMP caused problems but I am not sure if people have figured out the fix or if it was fixed from nilllzz's end
 

DannyM93

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I got it to work in ubuntu 13.04, PlayOnLinux 4.2.1, Wine 1.5.28
Needs to be 32 bit wine.
Make a new virtual drive
Install dotnet40 xna40 d3dx9 directmusic directplay wmp9
Put the launcher in the virtual drive created for this
Than make a shortcut for pokemon3d ( most likely not needed, but will make launching it easier)
Let it download the latest version, than play it
than press M to mute it and it works for me
I tried this using Ubuntu 12.04.2 and added dsound and wmpcodecs. Sound does work but it's a bit jumpy sometimes. Muting is optional however. But other than that, it works just fine, albeit a bit more laggy than on Windows in general, but that's to be expected.
 
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