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Cider Used to Pirate Games

At least, someone is able to play games using their technology.

Where are those promised titles already? 😛
 
I searched cider on a torrent site and there was a Battlefield 2142 port already...

If amateurs can do it, whats taking EA so long to release those games?
 
This is really strange for EA to not have this ready. In some ways, this reminds me of what happened to the music business. If you don't offer "x" product so that I can buy it then I'll download "x" product free. Mac users really want to play games on their Mac natively without running Windows otherwise people wouldn't bother with this wrapper stuff.
 
I was gonna get a few EA cider games but the more I hear about the problems with cider and lack of games, I'm not really confident that EA would waste their time and money to give me tech support if the cider emulator were to work incorrectly.

I think I'll just get the PC equivalents and play it on boot camp where the games will be cheaper, more tech support and patches, and it will run natively so it'll be faster and less likely to run into problems.
 
I'm really interested in this; not for piracy, but I would love to figure out how to wrap an app in Cider. I've got a couple Windows apps that are low-performance and run perfectly fine in Parallels (they even worked in Virtual PC) and I would love to wrap them in Cider and execute them to save me time firing up Parallels every time.

TheStranger55 said:
I was gonna get a few EA cider games but the more I hear about the problems with cider and lack of games, I'm not really confident that EA would waste their time and money to give me tech support if the cider emulator were to work incorrectly.

I think I'll just get the PC equivalents and play it on boot camp where the games will be cheaper, more tech support and patches, and it will run natively so it'll be faster and less likely to run into problems.
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Um, dude, this isn't a report about Cider problems; this report pretty much says Cider works so well that people are using it to run games it hasn't been optimized for!
 
I am also interested if just in reading what has to be done.

I tried searching on the Lord Google but found not much so far. This topic came up though. 😀
 
if you search for cider over at [please don't post ways to get there] a torrent for cider pops up. it's 33mb. it comes with the cider.app and a howto on how to wrap games or applications. you could always check that out.
 
Maybe it will show publishers there IS a demand for their games on OS X. It should at least open their eyes. The people making the games aren't out there to hurt anyone; they just want to play their favorite games on OS X without Windows--and if the publishers won't step up to the plate, they'll suffer the consequences. In any case piracy happens anyways and always will happen.

Steve
 
It's relatively easy to do, which is kind of sad. It's no wonder people found out how to do it. It's a shame that the technology was so easy to turn to the advantage of the pirates, but all the more power to the people.
 
Wait a minute, are you saying we can port our own PC games over to mac using this cider program?

I've got several older games that I know will never see a mac port and I'd like to play them.
 
On a french mac forum there is a nice list of what games work with the Cider hack (http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=224908)
petoncrochu on macbidouille said:
COMPATIBLE:
- Another World Collectors Edition GT
- Battlefield 2 (bugs contastés : texture manquante et bugs d'affichage dans les menus) X3
- Battlefield 2142 X3
- Battlefield Vietnam X3
- Colin mac rae 2005( voir au bas de ce post pour plus d'infos ) X3
- Company of Heroes version 1.7 (config : "PixelShaders" = "N") (bug constaté : souris remplacé par un carré blanc) X3
- Crazy Machines X3
- Cross Racing Championship 2005 X3
- Dungeon Lords X3 !NEW!
- F1 2007 X3
- Far Cry ( voir au bas de ce post pour plus d'infos ) X3
- FIFA 2003 (impossible d'afficher le jeu en 16:10) GT !NEW!
- Games Cricket 2005 X3
- GTA 3 (config : "VertexShaders" = "N") GT
- GTA Vice City (config : "VertexShaders" = "N") GT
- GTA SA (config : "VertexShaders" = "N") GT
- GTR 2 X3
- Hitman: Contracts (config : "VertexShaders" = "N") penser aussi à préciser la résolution directement dans le fichier HitmanContracts.ini si écran 16:10 X3
- Hitman2 X3 !NEW!
- Hot Rod Racing X3
- Jazz JackRabbit 3 (3D) X3
- Madden 07 X3
- NFS Underground (il existe des exécutables patchés pour les écrans 16:10 ou 4/3) X3 / GT
- NFS Underground 2 (il existe des exécutables patchés pour les écrans 16:10 ou 4/3) X3 / GT
- NFS Most Wanted (il existe des exécutables patchés pour les écrans 16:10 ou 4/3) plante aléatoirement... X3 / GT
- NFS Carbon (il existe des exécutables patchés pour les écrans 16:10 ou 4/3) ( voir au bas de ce post pour plus d'infos ) Des ralentissements dans certaines missions ... X3 / GT
- OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast X3
- Rallisport Challenge (impossible d'afficher le jeu en 16:10) X3
- Richard Burns Rally ( voir au bas de ce post pour plus d'infos ) X3
- Rome - Total War X3 !NEW!
- Shadow Force - Razor Unit GT !NEW!
- Sniper Elite GT !NEW!
- Terminator 3 - War of the Machines GT !NEW!
- The Settlers 2 - 10th Anniversary (config : "VertexShaders" = "N", "PixelShaders" = "N") (bug constaté : souris remplacé par un carré noir) X3 !NEW!
- Transformer - The Game GT !NEW!
- Worms 3D GT !NEW!

NOT COMPATIBLE:
- 18 Wheel on Steel Peda to the Metal
- ANNO 1701
- Bus Driver
- Call of duty 2
- Call Of Juarez (Java error)
- Cléopâtre - Le Destin D'une Reine
- Cold War
- Colin McRae Dirt
- Combat Flight Simulator 3
- Condemned Criminal Origins
- Conflict Desert Storm
- Conflict Global Storm
- Counter Strike
- Crazy Taxi 1
- Crazy Taxi 3
- Dead Reefs
- DeusEx
- DeusEx 2
- Driv3r
- Evil Twin
- F1 2006
- F.E.A.R.
- FIFA 1998
- FIFA 1999
- FIFA 2002 WC
- FIFA 2006
- FIFA 2006 WC
- FIFA 2007
- Ford Street Racing
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- Grand Prix 3
- Guild Wars
- Half Life 1
- Half Life 2
- Hogs Of War
- JetFighter
- Juiced
- Kawasaki MortorSports Racing
- Las Vegas Tycoon
- Le Seigneur des Anneaux: Bataille pour la Terre du Milieu 2
- Lock On
- MaxPayne 2
- Midnight Club Racer 2
- Moto GP3
- MotoTrax
- Neighbours From Hell
- Neighbours From Hell 2
- Nba live 07
- NHL 2006
- Oblivion
- Operation Flashpoint - Cold War
- Painkiller
- Panzer General 2
- Panzer General 3
- Prince of Persia the two thrones
- Prince of persia Warrior Within
- Pro Evolution Soccer 5
- Pro Evolution Soccer 6
- Red Alert 2
- Renegad PaintBall
- Resident Evil 4
- Risk 2
- Rogue Spear
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
- Shogun Total War
- Space Rangers 2
- Splinter Cell 2 😛andora Tomorrow
- Splinter Cell 3 : Chaos Theory
- Stalker
- StarWars Battlefront 2
- StarWars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
- StarWars Republic Commando
- Star Wars - Rogue Squadron
- StuntGP
- Super Bikes Riding Challenge
- Supreme commander
- SWAT 4
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Tiger Woods 2004
- Tiger Woods 2005
- Tiger Woods 2007
- Tomb Raider Anniversary
- Tomb Raider Legend
- Top Spin 2
- Trackmania Nation
- Trackmania United
- Wings of War
- World in Conflict Béta
- Worms Armageddon
- Worms 4 Mayhem
- Worms World Party
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GFLPraxis said:
I'm really interested in this; not for piracy, but I would love to figure out how to wrap an app in Cider. I've got a couple Windows apps that are low-performance and run perfectly fine in Parallels (they even worked in Virtual PC) and I would love to wrap them in Cider and execute them to save me time firing up Parallels every time.
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The problem there is that Cider isn't free, and it appears to be licensed per game. It may be possible to reuse Cider if you buy a Cider-based game, but I haven't read the licence so I can't say for sure.
 
Out of curiosity, I downloaded and tried Hitman contracts on my Mac (see sig) and it ran so fine I finished it. Kudos to the developers...
 
hi everyone.

I have nfs porsche, but could not work it out how this cider works. I followed the instructions, (first installed it on my friends pc, then copied to my mac) but it says that I have directx 3 and should install 7.

is there a solution?


thanks


edit: I tried again, and eventually it worked, but this time game covers the 1/4 of the screen and mouse does not work, pointer is stuck in the center of the game. again a directx problem?
 
i got hitman contracts and everything works except the people, it's weird. when i play it the actual bodies are transparant and invisible, anyone else experience this?

thanks
 
Nermal said:
The problem there is that Cider isn't free, and it appears to be licensed per game. It may be possible to reuse Cider if you buy a Cider-based game, but I haven't read the licence so I can't say for sure.
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You can DL Cider, people have uploaded it to the internet. Not exactly legal though.
 
almostaskater62 said:
i got hitman contracts and everything works except the people, it's weird. when i play it the actual bodies are transparant and invisible, anyone else experience this?

thanks
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hey almo, i just DLed the game and ive got the same problem as you, also, it runs smoothly but ive had 2 hangs so far. my macbook is new and it has 2gb of ram so it wasn't a very pleasant experience. have you managed to fix the problem? if so, care to share how?

thanks 🙂
 
hey, i haven't fixed it, i don't really know what to do or where to start.... being as there isn't much i can do

if you find anything lemme know
it seems as though it can be fixed though as someone above us said they finished the game
 
bloody hell. i'm having the same problem. the environment is fine, but i can't see anyone! just floating heads and guns!

here's a screenshot of it from the beginning


anyone know how to fix this?

i run an intel Mac Mini, 1.83Ghz, 2 gig ram
 
Anyone got Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth, Final Fantasy VII, or Star Wars Battlefront II working via Cider? I'm having some trouble, and I want to know if it's just me.
 
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