Bypassing the launcher on the mac
reflecttheother:
Quote from: pet_peeve on 2009 August 30, 17:27:07
I wasn't doing it to avoid phone-homeage, since I have a legit copy - simply because the launcher is a huge, unnecessary mess and I don't want to see it.
I have a legit copy as well, so this phoning home thing isn't just symptomatic of arr'd copies. As Pescado just said, phoning home is bad so you might consider turning off your internet connection while playing the game or getting something like Little Snitch to protect yourself during general internet tomfoolery.
pet_peeve:
Oh, I'm in total agreement about the evilness of phoning home - I just wanted to make it clear that skipping the launcher doesn't have any effect on phone-home behavior, since there seemed to be a message implying that there was.
vagabondher:
Quote from: pet_peeve on 2009 August 19, 04:39:44
I was envious of this "why do you use the launcher?" stuff as a mac user, so I stumbled around in the directories until I found what controls how cedega/crossover starts up. It turns out to be really easy to change!
find the executable itself - probably in /(your hard drive)/Applications/The Sims 3.
Right click on it, and select "show package contents".
Open the "contents" directory if it isn't already.
You will see a file named info.plist. Open that by dragging it onto textedit. Don't move it out of that directory! You might want to take a backup first.
Scroll down to the line after this one:
<key>CedegaGameName</key>
Change the last part to read TS3.exe instead of S3Launcher.exe. Be careful not to disturb any of the rest of the file or mess with line endings. It's XML and an extra return shouldn't matter ... but you never know.
Save and quit textedit.
That's it - you will now launch directly into the game instead of going through the launcher. Note that this means you will not see the launcher again AT ALL unless you change the file back. But this is not a loss.
Still goes through launcher for me. Still says insert disc. I can't create an alias of the TS3.exe file, obviously, because...it's still .exe.
I've searched this forum for other solutions to this no disc thing, I have awesomemod installed and everything. I really want to play this effing game, so if someone could help me out with a solution, that'd be great.
Sigmund:
You either skipped a step or messed it up. The method described still works, as I'm using it right now on the macbook.
vorpal:
There is, however, one tiny thing that has not been mentioned in the first post. These directions are for base game only. If you want to bypass the launcher of an expanded game you will have to edit the latest EP's or SP's Info.plist accordingly and replace the Launcher.exe reference with the respective EP's .exe.
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