[W.I.P.] How to play Star Wars Battlefront II on Mac OSX 10.5.8 or higher

[Kit Fisto]

Yes! I'm actually going to make the tuturial now after putting if off.
Most of it will be copy pasting stuff from the SWBFI tutorial with a bit of editing but it will be complete. I will show how to install the game and get online to properly work and as a bonus I'll explain how to get Dark Times II and Marvel4's convo pack installed as well (optional of course).

This might not mean anything to you PC people but my SWBFI tutorial has over 2000 views and that's not from you PC people.


Expect it by the middle of august. I will edit this post adding things in a spoiler until the tutorial is complete.

Thanks!


For those who want to try and figure out how to install and get online to work properly you can download the port, download wine and refer to my SWBFI port on how to get the port to work properly along with online. They work the same way.

SWBFII Mac Port: http://www.mediafire.com/?f48lw3nw29n7cvw

Wine:http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/darwine/wine/wine-1.5.30-148-gd29f6c4%20.dmg

SWBFI port tutorial: http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?topic=5450.0






[spoiler]Here is how to install and play Star Wars Battlefront 2 on MAC OSX 10.5.8 or higher.

This is what you will need.
1) Star Wars Battlefront 2 PC copy. DVD or CD version will do. You MUST have an actual copy for this port to work.

2) The Star Wars Battlefront II port which you can download here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/f48lw3nw29n7cvw/SWBF2_Mac_port.zip

And Wine which you can download here:


Step : Place Star Wars Battlefront 2 into your Mac.

Step :
a) Open up your Star Wars Battlefront 2 disk.

b) Browse the contents of your Star Wars Battlefront 2 disk to: your SWBFII disk/ Gamedata/ setupBF2.exe.

c) Launch "setupBF2.exe"

See the picture below for a visual example.
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Step : Once you launch "setupBF2.exe" a window will pop up like this:

Click "GO"

Step :

a) Wine will start to run the .exe. A window will pop up prompting you to type in your CD-key found on your Star Wars Battlefront 2 case (or something equivalent). Make sure to type this in correctly.

b) It will then ask you if you want to do either Automatic or Custom installation. Choose automatic. Allow DirectX to be installed. Say NO when it asks if you want Gamespy installed. Say NO when it asks if you want Xfire installed.

c) Once the installation is done make sure to say NO to starting SWBF2 right now. Click "Finish." You may now quit the wine and X11. You may also throw the "Star Wars Battlefront.desktop" file away. (it will be located on your desktop)

Step : Navigate to: Finder/Wine Files/drive_c/Program Files/LucasArts

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