- #BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 INSTALL#
- #BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 PATCH#
- #BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 SOFTWARE#
Minimum System Requirementsīelow are the minimum system requirements for FINAL FANTASY XIV for Mac. Users interested in installing the Mac version of FINAL FANTASY XIV can download it here. I haven't yet played around with a gamepad to get that working, but I'd suggest trying something like USB Overdrive and simply mapping the gamepad to the keys used by FF8 - I'll be testing that soon.
#BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 SOFTWARE#
Software mode doesn't look all that pretty, but hey, it's a fantastic game and is still 100% playable.There's no nice and easy way to exit the game, you have to simply quit out of CrossOver Games - just apple-q for us mac types - so that's a pain, but dealable.Now, either insert or mount FF8_Disk1 and run FF8.exe - or use the generated Play Final Fantasy VIII application. Launch FFConfig, and under the Graphics tab set the game to Software Rendering - I know, not quite as pretty, but the D3D renderer just plain doesn't work.ĩ. Check that they're coming up as, for instance:Ĩ. You don't need to tweak them, just copy/paste them in and then hit add individually. Open winecfg under Manage Bottles>Control Panel, and then under the Libraries Tab in winecfg, add all the dll's above. dll's into your system32 folder, you need to add them in winecfg. dll files from across the internet - just google the names of them, they're not hard to find - and copy them into your bottle's windows/system32 folder. However, music isn't yet working in the game, which naturally detracts a little from the experience, so we'll want to fix that.Ħ. iso of the disk - as the first iso you mount! - and then restart the bottle. Change the Data value for the 'DataDrive' registry key to D:Īt this point, Final Fantasy 8 will be able to run, assuming you either insert a disk into the drive and it's registered as D: (which it should!) or you mount an. Using Run Command, open regedit within your FF8 bottle (just type 'regedit' without the quotes) and navigate down the registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Square Soft, Inc>FINAL FANTASY VIII>1.00Ĥ. Copy the resulting files to your FF8 directory, overwriting those already there.ģ.
#BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 PATCH#
Download the Final Fantasy VIII 1.2 patch from Eidos (), making sure you grab the correct version - nVidia/non nVidia. When given the option, make sure you select 'Optional Game Data' - the game won't launch without it!Ģ.
#BEST EMULATOR MAC FINAL FANTASY 8 INSTALL#
Create a new bottle using win98, and then choose to do an Unsupported install into the bottle, using your FF8_Install disk. :)īefore I begin, here's the specs of the machine I'm using:ġ. Here's how I got the game to work, with just a little bit of help from our friends at WineHQ. Installing & Running Final Fantasy VIII on Crossover Games 8 (MacOSX 10.6.2)Īs it turns out, the medal rating at the moment isn't quite accurate - Final Fantasy 8 does indeed install and run very well in Crossover, it simply requires some tweaking and a bit of additional work.