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2023-01-22 18:53:51

A information for taking part in The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs

For those who’re on an M1 Professional/Max MacBook Professional or different increased decision laptop and the sport crashes on startup, comply with the directions CAREFULLY on this page to put in the widescreen patch. Strive numerous resolutions till it really works and is at a snug taking part in decision.

The very first thing you’ll want to do is obtain The Sims Full Assortment from here.
Please take into account the serial quantity that is on that web page. You may want it later.

Subsequent, we’ll want Wineskin Vineyard. To get this, we have to set up Homebrew first. This is so simple as working a single command. Get it here. Copy paste the command on that web page into your terminal after which comply with the directions in you terminal. MAKE SURE that on the finish of the set up course of you learn the directions in your terminal about find out how to add homebrew to your path! It ought to provide you with three instructions to run with the intention to add it to your path. For those who run brew later and it says the command was not discovered, that is why.

To put in Wineskin after we have now homebrew we merely run
brew set up --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/unofficial-wineskin

Open Wineskin Vineyard. It is best to get a window that appears like this:

Now click on the + button and add the engine WS11WineCX64Bit21.2.0 or regardless of the newest one is. Make SURE you put in a 64-Bit one. Click on Obtain and Set up.
Subsequent, once you get again to the primary Wineskin window, it’s best to see that the Create New Clean Wrapper button is clickable. If it is not, just be sure you click on “Replace” underneath Wrapper Model. After that is full it’s best to be capable of click on Create New Clean Wrapper.

When you click on that, it ought to ask you to enter a reputation for the wrapper. This would be the title of the app that you simply click on on to open the sport, so I like to recommend naming it The Sims.app. Click on OK. It is best to see the spinning seaside ball of demise for a minute or two, then you will note this:

Now that we have got the wrapper created, we have to set up the Sims sport right into a sandbox inside our wrapper.
Click on “View wrapper in Finder”. It is best to see a Finder window give you your The Sims.app in it. Double click on it and it ought to give you a Wineskin menu. Select Set up Software program. Then when the subsequent window comes up, click on “Select Setup Executable”. A file chooser window ought to seem. Go to the place you downloaded the Sims Full Assortment (which from right here on out I will name <tscc>), then go to Recreation Information/ and select begin.exe. As seen under:

It ought to give you a well-recognized display screen and play some nostalgic tunes:

Undergo the set up like regular and MAKE SURE YOU DON’T CHANGE THE INSTALLATION PATH. It ought to set up to both C:/Program Information/Maxis/The Sims or C:/Program Information (x86)/Maxis/The Sims and should you change this to put in someplace in your Mac, for instance, the sport won’t work. Hold this as-is. It’s a sandboxed path inside The Sims.app that’s meant to emulate the trail as it might exist on Home windows.

If you get to the serial quantity window, return to Previous Video games Obtain the place you bought the sport from and the serial quantity must be on there should you scroll down. (psst: it is EQMV-73XB-F8J4-GSLX-4M67)
Watch for the sport to put in, and when it will get to the tip, it ought to convey as you if you would like to register. Simply say no, after which click on End. It ought to convey you again to the language choice display screen. Choose your language once more after which click on “Exit”. Do not click on “Play” simply but, we’re not completed.

If you click on Exit, a brand new Wineskin window ought to seem, asking what must be this system’s executable file. Click on the dropdown and choose Sims.exe.

Now click on OK and shut all Wineskin home windows. However KEEP that The Sims.app window open, we’re not completed with it but.

Now all we have now to do is set up the No CD Crack in order that we are able to truly play the sport with out having to insert a CD into our non-existant CD drive.
Open two home windows side-by-side: in a single, it’s best to open <tscc>/Recreation Information/The Sims Crack. Within the different, open the place your The Sims.app file is. If you cannot discover it, it is in /Customers/<your username>/Functions/Wineskin/. Listed here are the 2 home windows side-by-side:

Subsequent, right-click (or two finger click on) on The Sims.app and click on Present Bundle Contents. From there go to drive_c/Program Information (x86)/Maxis/The Sims/ or drive_c/Program Information/Maxis/The Sims/. Drag the Sims.exe from The Sims Crack into this folder and change it.