Good games never run on my mac!

You can't usually just copy a game from one Mac to another, you'll need the original disc as it probably installs various files into the system/library folders.

You can copy it over perfectly fine. However first you will need to create an archive of it or a zip image of it. So what you will have to do is find the main game folder, right click it and either "compress," or create "archive" of it. Then bring that compressed file over to your new macbook. Let me know how that works.

jakeguy99 said:

You can copy it over perfectly fine. However first you will need to create an archive of it or a zip image of it.

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That doesn't make any sense, you don't need to zip it. But, it certainly wouldn't be a bad idea to reinstall the game from the original disc. That's one of the first things to try.

I would check that you Mac can run the game too. If the game is older, it might not be made to run on an Intel Mac and/or have problems with newer versions of OS X. Check to see if there have been any patches released.

Actually there have been problems transferring files especially games from computer to computer if you dont zip the entire folder. You can test it yourself. Send one game to your other computer unzipped and it will have the same result as he is describing. If you compress the entire folder and send it, the game will run perfectly fine.

jakeguy99 said:

Actually there have been problems transferring files especially games from computer to computer if you dont zip the entire folder. You can test it yourself. Send one game to your other computer unzipped and it will have the same result as he is describing. If you compress the entire folder and send it, the game will run perfectly fine.

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Unless you are doing some kind of ASCII ftp transfer over systems with different encoding, or the transfer is failing mid way because some file is corrupted, I can't see it happening
At most, you will get a faster transfer speed because of the overhead in packeting individual files, but once the files arrive to their destination, it matters nothing how the files were formatted (keep in mind we are talking Mac to Mac transfer over afp here).
If it doesn't run, it might very well be because of a preference file stored somewhere else in your computer. It will have absolutely nothing to do with the fact you compressed it first or not.

Update: looking into the problem a little deeper, it seems the game in question was last updated in October 2003, supporting up to OS X 10.3. Even Aspyr's Game Agent doesn't mention the game. Being this the case, there is a high probability that it won't run on an Intel Mac natively.

hi and welcome.

one of the problems you may experience is that if THPS 4 is the one that came with the computer you will need a certain config file in the system. and put that file in the exact place on the new computer.
that registers the game to that computer. because it was a game that came with the computer and not retail. if it's retail i have no idea sorry.

edit: just looked at the universal binary game list and it shows

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Aspyr PowerPC 1.0.2 Won't install on Leopard 10.5. Installer won't accept serial number.

but THPS 3 works

http://guides.macrumors.com/Universal_Binary_Games

jakeguy99 said:

You can copy it over perfectly fine.

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Have you tried it with this exact game? I've tried quite a few and many simply wont work just by doing that as the installer puts files in different place on the HD.

Im not sure i could be incorrect in my statement but it seems that whenever i try and run mac games that were not made to run on Leopard but for older Os X's such as Panther or Tiger they seem to not run as good as they would on older Os X's an example of this would be Halo: Combat Evolved. Im not sure why this is it may be a compatibilty issue between the new Os x's and Leopard Or newer Mac computers.

Snowfoe: do you have the Intel version? Because Halo is UB now.

yes i do

Odd. I've used both the UB and PPC-only versions, and the UB is definitely faster on Intel hardware than the PPC version is on PPC hardware for me.

Rodus said:

You can't usually just copy a game from one Mac to another, you'll need the original disc as it probably installs various files into the system/library folders.

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Mac games almost never do that. Most of them are drag'n'drop.

--Eric

Email the manufacturer and ask them what version you should download, then download it. The business is nearly always right.

where can I get halo

where do you get halo mac. cheap? Anything to make halo pc run on my iMac?

paricleman said:

where do you get halo mac. cheap?

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eBay.

Anything to make halo pc run on my iMac?

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Throw it in a Cider shell.

what?

...what's a cider shell? This is my first mac, so I'm used to all games working for my computer.

manmeet said:

Thanks for your reply but the same thing is happening but I think that you are saying to again copy by zipping it but I had to sell my emac!
So can you or anyone help me because I love that game!!!

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Install it from the CD

apfhex said:

That doesn't make any sense, you don't need to zip it. But, it certainly wouldn't be a bad idea to reinstall the game from the original disc. That's one of the first things to try.

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Actually you do, or at least I had to. I installed a new HDD on my iMac and it threw up an error when trying to copy my .app files from the backup drive to the new drive. I had to archive the file on the backup, drag it onto my iMac and then unarchive it. Or the quick route was to copy the files using Bootcamp and Macdrive.

OP be sure to copy both library folders over too.

It's the game's DRM that's the problem.