I was trying to play this port http://macintoshgarden.org/games/grand-theft-auto-iii-powerpc-alpha-version since the second it came out. I got the now infamous "whitescreen then crash" error. By digging deeper, running the executable in Terminal, I got an idea of what is wrong. There is something called "casepath" that is supposed to seemlessly handle filenames/paths with different capitilizations. For example, re3 tries to load a file in the MODELS directory, and then a different file in the models directory later. On a case insensitive filesystem, this is fine. But on a case sensitive filesystem, this is really bad. The game can't find where to load files from because the capitilization is wrong and on a case sensitive filesystem it is enforced. So here is how I fixed it.
Get a USB drive or some other external storage you are willing to format.
Use disk utility to format as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". DO NOT USE "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) or any other option!
Download the port from the garden and unzip the app.
Copy the app to the external storage you just formatted and run it from that.
What does a proper fix look like?
The filepaths in the re3 source need to be written in the exact capitilization as a GTA III rip is in. I don't know why it is not like that already. OR the casepath thing needs to be adjusted for Mac OS X. I am willing to do the former but I need access to the current port's source.
By the way @pakra sorry for being annoying, I just felt like I was banging my head against the wall trying to play this and seeing some people getting it working and others failing in the same way.
Get a USB drive or some other external storage you are willing to format.
Use disk utility to format as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". DO NOT USE "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) or any other option!
Download the port from the garden and unzip the app.
Copy the app to the external storage you just formatted and run it from that.
What does a proper fix look like?
The filepaths in the re3 source need to be written in the exact capitilization as a GTA III rip is in. I don't know why it is not like that already. OR the casepath thing needs to be adjusted for Mac OS X. I am willing to do the former but I need access to the current port's source.
By the way @pakra sorry for being annoying, I just felt like I was banging my head against the wall trying to play this and seeing some people getting it working and others failing in the same way.
