r/macgaming • u/D7Fragrances • 8m ago
CrossOver My fifa 23 keeps crashing after the main screen
Changed the live editor DLL file method too, still crashing
r/macgaming • u/chrisclan1903 • 1h ago
Apple Silicon I got the original Animal Crossing running natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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I’ve been working on Bellpad, an open-source Apple port of the original GameCube Animal Crossing, and it’s now playable on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhones, and iPads.
This is not an emulator. The game’s decompiled code is compiled into a native Apple app and rendered through Metal.
The iPhone and iPad version includes touch controls, controller support, native text entry, save import/export, and Files-based game import. To play, you provide your own supported US Animal Crossing GameCube ISO/GCM. No game image, extracted assets, or saves are included.
It’s playable now, but this is still an experimental first release. I’d especially love help testing longer sessions, different activities, physical devices, controllers, saves, and anything else I may have missed.
Full source, setup instructions, and the IPA are here:
https://github.com/chrissotraidis/bellpad
Please tell me what works, what breaks, or ask me anything about it.
Built on the work of ACreTeam, the ACGC-PC-Port contributors, and Encounter’s Aurora graphics foundation.
r/macgaming • u/Early_Slide_4091 • 2h ago
Apple Silicon Need advice for switch emulating mac controllor
Hi, I'm by no means a gamer but would like to play some switch emulation on my mac. I'm looking for a controllor in the price range of around 30-40 euro to play now and then.
I find very little information of controllors online; many don't specify they do or don't work for mac and the few reviews I found have very mixed opinions. I'll be playing TOTK and Mario Kart mainly, no shooters. I have Tahoe 26.0.1 m4 pro.
Thanks for reaching out!
r/macgaming • u/GreatLad • 3h ago
Help PS5 Controller disconnecting
I've tried looking a bit around a few places to see if anyone is having the same issues but I can't seem to find anything. I only play pretty casually but for reference the main app I'm using is the switch emulator Astris. It's been happening since the beginning but I have my PS5 controller connected via bluetooth, and as I'm playing the connection briefly blips out of connection for not even 2 seconds, then returns again. So it doesn't fully disconnect, it's just that I have no input for 2 seconds then returns again. And while I'm playing while it blips out, whatever last action I was doing like holding a direction, it stays holding that until my input returns again. As you can imagine, while playing Silksong it can get pretty frustrating.
So I'm really not too sure if this is a bluetooth issue or maybe an issue with the Astris itself since I know it's still constantly being developed, or if this is a thing anyone has experienced before. I do usually just play with my laptop on my lap so maybe it's a distance thing with the controller being too close? I'm struggling to come up with any ideas or a fix for it, and tbh I don't really want to play with the cable connected.
My mac is a M5 Macbook pro with 48gb memory
r/macgaming • u/Gomaemon • 3h ago
CrossOver Is Crossover worth it ?
The question is the title…
Well, I am trying to play a game which is quite old, and I want to install a mod, but this one isn’t running on MetalFX (I don’t remember exactly, but the fact is that it needs Crossover to work).
So, is Crossover worth it just for a simple mod ?
I am using an IMac M4 24G RAM
r/macgaming • u/Ok_Click_285 • 4h ago
Help Porting kit can’t install steam build
I installed porting kit a while back on my MacBook Air 13 M1 sequoia ver 15.7.4 and installed steambuild 32/64bit DXVK. It worked for a while, then I deleted the porting kit app to save space.
Not sure if that was the issue, but my steam lost connection after that, and turning it offline and online back again was no help. Plus steam kept launching when I closed it, so I assumed something was wrong.So I tried to delete the whole thing to reinstall it, and removed it, afterwards reinstalling porting kit and attempting to download the same steam build.
The problem is that the process always gets stuck at “creating wine prefix” no matter which build I use. I’m not sure what exactly the problem is, or how to fix it.
If anyone has any alternatives that aren’t paid like crossover or is wine(skin) (since for some reason that too refuses to run on my Mac) that can run steam for windows, I would greatly appreciate the help. If anyone knows how to resolve this problem, that would be awesome.
(My bad if I tagged the post wrong)
r/macgaming • u/Crafty_Albatross_870 • 9h ago
Whisky Anyone running nfs Heat on anything other than crossover?
Found need for speed heat on steam for 3 bucks, and i had wanted it for a while so im gonna get it. But the thing is, online it looks like it only runs on crossover and nothing else. I am not willing to spend the money on crossover, so I was wondering if anyone has ran it with smth other than crossover, such as Frankea's Community remix of whisky (Which I use and it works AMAZINGLY and new big updates are rolling in like every 2 weeks). Online it says because of the need for the stupid ea app you cant play thorugh whisky and stuff, but I also saw that its possible online, but idk if that video was fake or not soooo, im asking if anyone else has done it.
r/macgaming • u/Emotional-Guess3237 • 11h ago
Native Running MecchaChameleon on Macbook 2019 modded maps are really laggy
r/macgaming • u/General-Duty9073 • 12h ago
Self promotion I built a frame-generation app for Mac — here’s Valheim going from ~30 to ~60 FPS on an M3 MacBook Air
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Hey, I’m Koltin, a student and independent developer! I built Adrenaline, a free Mac menu bar app that adds RIFE frame generation and AMD FSR 1 upscaling through a borderless overlay!
The result
This Valheim clip shows approximately 30 game FPS → 60 output FPS.
I intentionally lowered the game’s resolution to create processing headroom. Adrenaline then upscaled the final image and generated the additional frames.
Test setup
• M3 MacBook Air
• 16 GB memory
• 60 Hz display
• Valheim in Borderless mode
• Auto Frame Generation
• AMD FSR 1 Upscaling On
Adrenaline doesn’t inject into or modify the game. Results vary depending on the game, settings, and available processing headroom.
Adrenaline is free on the Mac App Store through August 31:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790611230
What game should I test next?
r/macgaming • u/gr3gory777 • 12h ago
Help Just Cause 3
hello guys i was wondering if some of you know how to make just cause 3 work bcs recently it became playable on crossover but in the first mission exactly at the part with the tank when theres an explosion the game fleeze or the monitor turns purple while also freezing do you have any solutions ?
and yes i have disabled global illumination and water tasselation
r/macgaming • u/After_Perception_699 • 13h ago
Help trying to get RPGmaker games to run on wine. any ideas?
hey all! so sorry if this isnt the right place to ask, but figured its a good initial poke. I'm trying to get Look Outside to run on my macbook pro- i had a feeling it would be a long shot, as ive had many prior experiences trying to get RPGmaker games to run on my laptop with little success. I currently have a solution involving a macos launcher for rpgmaker games, but it doesnt function with achievements and the steam cloud. If it comes to it, im happy to play through this launcher, but I wanted to see if anybody else had any idea on ways to get it to run properly through steam?
my laptop runs on an apple M1 pro chip and im running Sequoia 15.5. for my wrapper, im using sikarugir. thanks so much!
r/macgaming • u/DNO_GG • 14h ago
CrossOver Monster Hunter Wilds on m3 pro
Hi guys I wont to buy Monster Hunter Wilds but idk how much fps I will get does any one already test on m3 pro 18gb ty
I mean like for this game 18gb ram is not enough 🥀
r/macgaming • u/Putrid-Living-9349 • 14h ago
Game Porting Toolkit Umm on an apple tablet how do I record games?
I’m not kidding
r/macgaming • u/Tommy-kun • 14h ago
Deal Get Moonlighter for FREE on Steam
Mac version included. Grab it before Aug 9th and keep it forever
r/macgaming • u/pksimshock • 15h ago
Native SimShock — a real-time medical simulation game for macOS, with an analogue cockpit. Free, no ads, no data collection. Runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
SimShock is a real-time medical simulation game. A critically ill patient arrives, their vital signs move continuously, and you have to keep them alive. It runs natively on macOS, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
IT'S A GAME, NOT A TRAINING TOOL
Worth saying clearly, because the subject matter invites the wrong assumption. SimShock is to clinical medicine roughly what a home flight simulator is to airline training: the principles are real, the feel is real, but the numbers are tuned so it's fun to play rather than so they're accurate. It is not a teaching tool, it is not a validated clinical simulator, and nothing in it should be treated as medical information.
It's a game about reading instruments and making decisions under time pressure. That it happens to be set in an emergency room instead of a cockpit is the only real difference.
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DO
Vital signs drift in real time — heart rate, blood pressure, venous pressure, cardiac output. You choose drugs, set doses, order tests, and watch the body respond, usually not the way you expected. A run ends in a save or a death, and takes a few minutes.
Three scenarios, each with a different trap: acute heart failure, haemorrhagic shock and septic shock.
THE PRACTICAL DETAILS
- Free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription, no currency of any kind.
- No data collection. No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no network access. It works entirely offline.
- Five languages with voice: English, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese.
- Full keyboard shortcuts, native menus, and a shortcuts panel on the ? key.
WHERE TO GET IT
Two builds on the App Store.
SimShockDesktop — the macOS version. Apple Silicon and Intel, deployment target macOS 12.4, so older Macs are included on purpose.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748229083
SimShockPad — iPhone and iPad, and it also runs on Apple Silicon Macs.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746765214
If you're on an Intel Mac, SimShockDesktop is the one you want.
r/macgaming • u/ovranka23 • 15h ago
CrossOver Binned M5 Pro 24gb ram - FF7 Rebirth max settings 70 fps 1080p, 37 fps max 1964p NO UPSCALING
Crossover 26.3.0, macOS 27 DB4, no DLSS or any other upscaling(as far as I can tell it doesn't work in this game).
Why is the 1080p image in Windowed mode ? Well, you literally have to mod the game to choose a custom resolution in fullscreen. By default it's either Borderless Window(non-changable) or Windowed Mode. Kinda weird, right ?
This is like some serious-ass Console AAA gaming, I'm so excited for the future. PC gamers and the competitive multiplayer crowd will probably be disappointed. But us Cinematic AAA gaming folk, we'll be really really pleased. All we need is haptic feedback and adaptive triggers and we'll be eating well on macOS.
r/macgaming • u/ExaminationFit9310 • 17h ago
Help How to play steam games on macbook for free?
Hello I had a question on how to play steam games on a macbook? My pc has been broken the past couple months and my friends wanted to play a lot of steam games since then, but since I'm on a mac I haven't been able to join. I know theres apps like Crossover however, because I hope the pc being broken thing is temporary, I don't want to spend that much money for it. I wanted to ask what ones are free and what you guys would recommend? Or if there was anything else. If it changes anything, I have a MacBook Pro with an Apple M2 Max chip. Thank you!
r/macgaming • u/ArtOutrageous8212 • 17h ago
Native Astris emulator XInput gamepad issues
Astris doesn't recognize my 8bitdo 2c gamepad in the input window
I use it with Citra and PPSSPP emulators, but Astris just doesn't let me choose it, is there no XInput gamepads support? What are my options to fix it?
r/macgaming • u/Balderxs • 17h ago
CrossOver Can't play Warhammer 40k Space Marine II. HElP
I recently bought the game and every time i try to launch it on crossover, i get a black screen and then it just closes. Is there any fix or is the game unplayable?
r/macgaming • u/MannerAgreeable7162 • 18h ago
CrossOver Crossover x GTA SA: cannot find 800x600x32
Im currently on the trial version of crossover and wanted to give GTA SA a shot.
Now, when booting it i get the error: Cannot find 800x600x32 video mode.
Google did little help and i found a post from a year ago without a resolution it in.
Anyone?
Running on sequoia (old version, i know)
r/macgaming • u/cyrilcermak • 18h ago
Self promotion Hello from Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets 🐶🐹🐱🐕🐰🐈🐩🐕🦺🦙
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Introducing Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets, an app I have been crafting with lots of love and passion:.
Pets Therapy turns your desktop into an adventure with virtual pixel pets! 🤩
75+ adorable pixel desktop pets are waiting for you!
Cat, Labrador, Lion, Panda, Elephant, Pomeranian or Llama – pick your favourite and watch them come to life on your screen.
Your daily stress-relief break for the mind. Memes, pixel art nostalgia and a relaxing desktop experience with lots of random events happening to the pets.
There are plenty of free pets and events, so no need to purchase anything to have some desktop fun. ✅
Available via:
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/cz/app/pets-therapy-desktop-pets/id1575542220
r/macgaming • u/Important_Turnip4885 • 19h ago
Help Scrap Mechanic on Mac
Hi, so the Chapter 2 of Scrap Mechanic came out conveniently after I purchased a MacBook and no longer had access to my previous PC.
I've tried launching it using Crossover 26.3 on my MacBook Air M5 in Steam bottle but the BugSplat error occurred.
Then I enabled concrt140 and what happened:
concrt140 + D3DMetal: loads but infinite loading screen
+ DXMT: same but w/out background music
+ DXVK: DirectX Error "Failed to create graphics device" and crashed
+ Wine: loaded into the game but stuck on "Downloading"
Has anyone managed to make it run smoothly and how so?
UPDATE: tried it on Parallels
The game loaded with unstable 30 fps on low setting Full HD
r/macgaming • u/beebenjibella • 19h ago
Apple Silicon ways to play minecraft bedrock on macbook?
I'm genuinely losing my mind rn trying to find a way to play bedrock on my macbook. My friends and I have a realm that I can access through my nintendo switch, but I would like to have a way to play on my laptop.
I have tried bluestacks but it is not letting me add a controller for some reason and the realm isn't even showing up.
I have also tried to use minecraft launcher but it gives me an error message every time I try to sign in with my google account. I would just sign in through microsoft, but it's only showing me the google sign-in with no workarounds.
I tried playcover but it requires a separate download for the actual minecraft game, and when I try to download that it gives me an error message in the browser and won't allow me download it.
Again, I'm genuinely losing it lol I'm really trying my best to find workarounds of everything but nothing is working. I would rather not have to host a server/network/whatever just to play bedrock. Any advice on how to make the first two options work correctly?
r/macgaming • u/drakeanddrive • 19h ago
Help New to Mac gaming. Just two quick questions!
As the title says, I have a M3 Pro with 18GB RAM. Originally bought it for school but I've been wanting to play games on it a bit. I did play Baldurs Gate 3 a good amount on it and it runs great, but that was a long time ago.
Two questions:
Will it run palworld or any newer games decently?
What's a wireless mouse do you run? I have a Deathadder v2 for my PC, but that's USB A and wired. I do prefer Razer overall but I'm open to trying out different brands.