Getting PSOBB On Mac

[Junkskin]

I don't know if this is exactly related, but I am sure it regards some of the same subjects. I downloaded the game and got it all set up in Wineskin, and I even created a character. The problem lies in connecting. A few seconds after the connection screen appears with the movable star and the expanding light beams, the game crashes. It gives me an error file which I will copy below. I know this isn't common practice to fix, but if it can be done I would highly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xb5d70007 in 32-bit code (0x433978aa).

Register dump:

CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:100f GS:000f

EIP:433978aa ESP:00e8f170 EBP:00e8f1a8 EFLAGS:00010206( R- -- I - -P- )

EAX:038adb88 EBX:8876086c ECX:00e8f170 EDX:b5d6ffdf

ESI:00000000 EDI:038ad6c0

Stack dump:

0x00e8f170: 038adb88 00000000 00000000 00e8f1c4

0x00e8f180: 00000000 00000000 00e8f1ac 00ace2a8

0x00e8f190: 00000000 00000000 00e8f1b8 00ace2a8

0x00e8f1a0: 00000000 00000000 00000001 00839249

0x00e8f1b0: 0083923b 00839249 038ad6c0 00000000

0x00e8f1c0: 00c80000 00000040 038ad970 7bc4141b

0201: sel=100f base=7ffb0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-

Backtrace:

=>0 0x433978aa (0x00e8f1a8)

0x433978aa: call *0x28(%edx)

Modules:

Module Address Debug info Name (32 modules)

PE 400000- b65000 Export psobb

PE 407a0000-407a4000 Deferred dinput8

PE 42a90000-42a94000 Deferred advapi32

PE 42b00000-42b08000 Deferred ole32

PE 42c40000-42c6e000 Deferred user32

PE 42d90000-42d94000 Deferred gdi32

PE 42ef0000-42ef4000 Deferred version

PE 42f00000-42f04000 Deferred rpcrt4

PE 42f90000-42f94000 Deferred dsound

PE 42ff0000-42ff4000 Deferred imm32

PE 43010000-4311f000 Deferred shell32

PE 43210000-43214000 Deferred shlwapi

PE 43290000-4329b000 Deferred winmm

PE 432e0000-432e4000 Deferred msacm32

PE 43300000-43304000 Deferred ws2_32

PE 43340000-43344000 Deferred wsock32

PE 43360000-43364000 Deferred iphlpapi

PE 43380000-43384000 Deferred d3d8

PE 433c0000-433c4000 Deferred wined3d

PE 43500000-43504000 Deferred opengl32

PE 43620000-43623000 Deferred snmpapi

PE 436d0000-436d4000 Deferred winex11

PE 438f0000-438f4000 Deferred rsaenh

PE 43930000-43936000 Deferred crypt32

PE 44f90000-44f94000 Deferred mmdevapi

PE 45f10000-45f13000 Deferred winecoreaudio

PE 45fb0000-45fb4000 Deferred dinput

PE 47510000-47517000 Deferred oleaut32

PE 47a60000-47a80000 Deferred comctl32

PE 47b60000-47b64000 Deferred uxtheme

PE 7b810000-7b866000 Deferred kernel32

PE 7bc10000-7bc14000 Deferred ntdll

Threads:

process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)

0000000e services.exe

0000001d 0

0000001c 0

00000014 0

00000010 0

0000000f 0

00000012 winedevice.exe

0000001b 0

00000018 0

00000017 0

00000013 0

00000019 plugplay.exe

0000001f 0

0000001e 0

0000001a 0

00000020 explorer.exe

00000021 0

00000022 (D) C:\PSO\PsoBB.exe

0000002f 0

0000002e 0

0000002b 0

0000002a 0

00000029 0

00000028 0

00000027 0

00000026 15

00000025 0

00000024 0 <==

00000023 0

System information:

Wine build: wine-1.7.18

Platform: i386

Host system: Darwin

Host version: 13.4.0

[Soly]

Well... i think i can safely say we can't help you with that here lol... you might want to take it to the forums of said program... i was actually researching a bit and found a few games crashing too and i bet the list is bigger than what i found so yeah, i think it will be hard to get it running.

[Cyane]

Maybe using a virtual machine could help?

[Kolective]

The only thing I can find while scouring the forums is this: http://www.phantasystaronline.net/forum/index.php/topic/6844-psobb-mac-port-in-progress/

I hope it may help, but I think you may just need to run a virtual machine. And considering that would have a lower resolution with PSO already having a small resolution, you may have some difficulties... Whatever, good luck to you sir!

[serverus]

well in order to run wine with pso u have to add directx libraries visual c libraries and so much stuff it will took some time but at the end u can make it run with wine

[Trigunman]

Seriously consider the possibility of running dual boot with a WinXP or Win 7 partition on your machine or just on a separate other hard drive all together, MAC OS is just not for gaming, period, Win OS emulation is clunky at best in the Mac OS as you have experienced already. It will certainly take some headache out of your predicament IMHO. Good luck!