Giana Sisters 2D

Giana Sisters 2D

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Running Giana Sisters 2D under Steam in MacOS
By Ann Flores
This game was originally created for MacOS, but in the Steam only its Windows version is sold. In this guide I will describe how to run it in native MacOS
   
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Basics
This feature of the game came across by chance, when I wanted to search for music from the game in the folder with the game. Another coincidence is that my main computer is the Mac Mini, with the windows installed via bootcamp (needed for work) and Steam on both systems. Actually, as it turned out - in the environment of windows is a ready-made app file with a launcher attached to it the game's start. App is the main format of osx applications, in principle the game should work quietly and under MacOS (on the page of the game there is support only for Windows), while it can be installed on the MacOS with the tools itself, but it is crooked (I really do not know intentionally or no, on certain thoughts it leads to the fact that this game is sold in the App store, both for Mac and iOS with practically the same cost) eventually creates an empty folder and Steam can not start it. But - you can manually copy this very app to an empty folder on the MacOS - and - it picks it up quietly, you can play. Save is not really going to be transferred - I started again from the first level, but at the same time the score was not from 0 but the value on which I stopped under Windows. At the same time, some glitches have disappeared - for example, I have never been launched on a new level just passed (for wine it happened quite often), unfortunately the broken achievments did not work.

What should be done
1. Buy the game in Steam. No matter what you do it, the main thing is that the game was in your library.
2. We find a windows computer (if at hand only Mac, then you can install any virtual machine in it, for example VirtualBox)
3. Install the Steam, log in under your account and install Giana Sisters 2D.
You do not need to start.
4. We look, where it is installed, we copy there from a folder with the name giana.app
5. Boot into MacOS, log in to Steam (install it, if necessary)
6. We find in the library Giana Sisters, 2D, install - will give an error.
7. Look at the path to the game (it will be in the error message) - open this folder.
8. Copy it into the file giana.app
9. Done - you can run the game as usual from the incentive. Attention - the game will not be displayed in the list of games compatible with Mac, but it will nevertheless be displayed in the installed games and in games