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how do I get this to work on my Mac I thought cross platform would allow me to install I lost at this point
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I have NAM v.48 installed on my MacBook Air. I play SC4 through steam. I have issues with some NAM features not functioning properly, for example, some draggable features not working and only plopping on one square at a time. Other issues are with pieces not quit fitting together properly like with the highway pieces. Is it supposed to be this way or am I not using the features correctly? Or perhaps I don't have the mod installed correctly? I need help with this because I'd very much like to utilize all the tools to build the best cities.
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Need help with modding on M2 MacBook Air For context I got SimCity 4 deluxe on steam and am trying to mod it, but iv only seen guides for the App Store version so I have no clue on what to do. I have also tried to just stick the entire mudpack into the plugins folder but sadly did not work, so I would like some advices from any modders! PS: would like to also join the discord server if possible!
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The Future of SC4 Modding: The Matter of Digital vs. Disc, and Windows vs. macOS in the DLL Era
Ulisse Wolf posted a submission in News
In the link is the official statement on the issue of which versions of SC4 will be supported by the community. The decision was made as a result of discussions and on the development of the Mod DLLs that led has made this drastic choice. It is recommended to read the whole statement as the reasons and possible solutions are given so that you can get the versions compatible with the new community stardards -
Is there anyone that has a functioning and useable DAMN setup on Mac that could perhaps help me figure out what I'm missing (if anything)? I can install via SSPTools, add lots to menus, generate an index, and get the "link" and then separate menu window in the game, however nothing shows up in the DAMN window. I have it installing DAMN inside the app package, not just inside the SimCity 4 folder inside Steam's directory, which seems to be correct (I wasn't getting the separate menu window to show up when I had it installed in the folder instead of the app package). Am I missing something, is it just not possible to get it working on Mac, or do I have to go through the hassle of virtualizing the Windows version of a DAMN manager to get it to work properly?
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Traffic Brains 2 is a simulation game for traffic enthusiasts!
ShortStoryGames posted a submission in News
You will need to optimize traffic flow. Preprogram traffic lights patterns, place road signs to pert or block traffic, increase speed where is necessary, hit GO, and watch the traffic flow. You will have to reach the target TRAFFIC FLOW QUALITY. You are the traffic manager. You will decide which and when the traffic light should turn green. You will have to spot problematic places, where traffic jams occur and pert traffic using road signs. This is not a real-time action game. You will be required to decide and prepare traffic logic in advance and program it. Prepare green lanes for best traffic performance and throughput and watch it flow on its own. Program traffic lights patterns. Place road signs. Block roads to pert traffic. Cars drive around the city to the parking lots and back home. Buses drive on their route. Watch out for car crashes. 28 unique levels with beautiful cities. The game is available on iOS and macOS. Download game Watch trailer on the Youtube-
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So switching from iMac to Macbook Air M2. The game controls in the lower left will not work even though I can click on them. Like rotate, or game speed. I can use keyboard commands to do that, but seems beyond irritating. Everything still works fine on iMac (Intel) ... not so much for M2 and the Apple chip. Tried all different graphic settings and selecting "Get Info" option to run both setting options "Scale below built in camera". Also have tried full screen and window options. Seems to always play at full screen regardless. At a loss ...
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Hello all, Darth Ruth here. is there anyway to play SimCity 4 on my Mac with mods with the latest operating system??
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Hello, I am new to playing SimCity 4. I just recently bought the game on my Macbook. I was wondering if anyone that plays this game has found any success on downloading mods and nams on the MacBook. I was wondering where I can get access to SimCity 4 plugins folder. If anyone knows and have knowledge on how to download mods on this computer that would be great. Thank you.
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Hi all. Thanks to this excellent Forum, I've taken the plunge and got myself bac into SC4, with a copy from Steam (plus NAM44). I'm loving it (well, I was...) I'm on am M1 MBP and the install was pretty easy with no issues. I've been playing around and getting back into the swing of things, but yesterday I ran into an issue. I have totally lost the ability to click on options, play/pause, zooms, rotates etc - the controls in the bottom left. When I click on them, I just get the speech balloons. None of them click, so I can't save or get to settings. I've checked the manual and can't see any button I might have toggled by mistake? All other buttons work OK; just these bottom left. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling through Steam but no joy (I have a feeling it's not a full un-install though). I'm hoping it's just some newbie error on my behalf. So I was wondering if anyone had come across this before? Thanks in advance and apologies if it's a silly question.
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Hello there, Mac user here, Steam version of SimCity 4 I have downloaded .bmp and .jpg files of the attached map and, accordingly to other topic, I created folder Hong Kong in SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition.app/Contents/GameData/Regions/ directory where I put them. Nonetheless, they do not display in "Load Region" box. Why that? Thanks for help!
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I just wanted to draw your attention to my Winewrapper (x64) for macOS (10.15.4 and up) with SimCity 4 Deluxe that I made. maybe one or the other finds it quite useful. All you need is the GOG installer of the game. Just click install game in my "Game Config" app, select the exe and the rest is automatic. The wrapper already brings everything else with it. This also includes the 4GB patch (which runs automatically) or Java SDK if you want to install NAM. Basically, this Game Config app is almost the same (except for the mod management) as the SC4 Launcher for Windows. Mods can be installed/placed in ~/Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins. Download PS: By the way, I have a few other wrappers on my website (SimCity 3000 for example).
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Hi, I'm new to the forum and new to SimCity 4 Rush Hour on the Mac, I'm hoping you'll be able to diagnose my technical issue! I recently got hold of a copy of SimCity 4 deluxe from Steam - version 1.2.1 - and started with a couple of the tutorial cities to get aquainted with the mechanics. Generally speaking there were no issues though I began reading through Simtropolis forums and realised that getting the NAM (41) installed was an essential component. I've also gotten a couple of waste to energy lots, a couple of diagonal railway stations, the Opera House and Crime doesn't pay fixs. Everything seemed to be okay but now I'm lucky if I can play for a few minutes without it crashing to the desktop - it seems to be when I'm in the biggest tutorial city which now has 48,000 sims though I think the other one which has 38,000 sims may well have the same issue. I realise that it could well be a conflict in the plug ins folder but as I've been looking at the Mac forum I realise there may be other issues I was unaware of. I run this app on a 2011 27' imac with 24Gb of Ram under the High Sierra OS if that makes any difference. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Before I used Bootcamp I was annoyed that most of the dependencies I needed were .EXE which meant I couldn't use them on MacOS. I wonder why no one has ever put the original .DAT/.SC4lot files on Simtropolis.
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Hello - I am trying to run the NAM 41 mod, but I keep getting blocked on the .jar file with this warning: “NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version41.jar” cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Any solutions to this? With that being said, it is blocking many other mods, any work-arounds or a best mod list for Mac users? Thank you so very much in advance everyone for any help that you can provide! Best - Xavier
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I have the SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition for Mac, I am trying to get the Extra Cheats dll to work for it, as I have put it in Documents Plugins then i put them there, but nothing seems to work at all. Is there a place that I need to put it in for the Mac specifically? As I am a little confused, just changed from a PC to a Mac as tired of Windows and updates. Go Figure, so I now have a Mac and am happy with it, just trying to fix this annoying dll thing. How do I precisely get it to work? Does anyone have a good guide on how to get it working for Mac, as I have read the SC4 Injector or Mac Mod Loader project is dead.
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Things keep changing as Apple updates macOS - this process is the latest as of this post's date for Big Sur 11.4 and NAM 41. I will update this post with any changes affecting the installation if/as issues come up. Other bugs or quirks discovered in gameplay will be posted as a reply to this topic farther down. As of now this has been found: Immortal Lots. Unable to bulldoze lots/buildings that overlap a modded plop. Solution found. Installing Mods (NAM) on Big Sur for SC4 MODS WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NEW 64-BIT SC4 GAME FROM THE APPLE APP STORE. If you have it, forget about adding mods - Apple's configuration does not allow it. Delete it (and all its associated files) and get the Steam version. Steam's downloadable version is 1/4 the price (~ $5 USD) and the NAM installation actually works. Steps (in order) Purchase SC4 and download/install Steam (free, but Steam account creation is required with a couple of back and forth confirmation emails). Steam will not run on Big Sur without this adjustment: Copy this command: rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle , open the Mac's Terminal app and paste it, click Enter and close the Terminal app. Download the latest NAM package and unzip it. Open the folder to see the files to run below. Right-click (not double-click) to run and install the OpenJDK11U-jre_x64_windows_hotspot_11.0.8_10.msi file included in the package. MacOS may give you a hard time but there's a way in. Right-click (not double-click) on the NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version41.jar file in the package and select Open, continue past MacOS warning dialog. A window opens for the NAM installer. Click to agree to the usage terms at the bottom of the Welcome tab (do not change the defaults in the Files tab - they will not work), click on the Install tab, and click to Start Installation. A list of files will begin to fill the window for a while – keep scrolling to the bottom of the list until you see the notice that all files were loaded, then quit the application. Open two finder windows. On one search for the Network Addon Mod folder, right-click to Duplicate it, then drag the copy to your Desktop. Go to https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/index.htm to download the JDATPacker tool. Register and then click https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3140 to go straight to the item to download. Unzip the downloaded JDATPacker archive, then right-click on the JDatPacker-0.1.3.jar file, continue past the warning to open. On the JDATPacker tool, Source Directory: click Browse and scroll to find and select the Network Addon Mod copy folder that you dragged to the Desktop. Target Directory: Browse to find and select Desktop. Execute and close the tool. From Desktop select all the new .dat files just unpacked (including the NetworkAddonMod_Controller.dat file, which may still be inside the z_NAM Controller_RHD_4GB_Full folder), and drag to drop them inside the SimCity 4 folder's Plugins folder you previously removed them from. At the end of the process the folder contents should match the screen shot attached. You can move all the download archives and unneeded files to Trash. The files in the image below are all you need. Launch the Steam app to finish its setup and connect to your Steam account, then run SC4. Open a city and check the menus for new mods, and put some down and bulldoze them to be sure they work. Looks like the vast majority of people here [players and modders] are WIndows users. We few Mac users are usually just players so there's not a lot of tech wizards who know Macs well, although they are very helpful. Any time you can help with problem solving please pitch in.
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[Solved] Unable to get STEX Collection (Vol 3) to work on my Mac
PVK posted a topic in SC4 Mac Users
Hi, I have a mac with Big Sur operating system. I just received the 3 disc STEX Collection. I use Google chrome on my mac to do my internet stuff not Safari. I am following the instructions provided with the ISO Linkys Guide but I am still not able to open the Disc. I have tried several different ways and I am getting the message this is a windows product or see below. This is what I am doing: Download STEXDVD_03, then I save the file in my SimCity4 folder. I double click on the file and this is what I get (I have tried saving the file in Application but it still opens the same as the SimCity4 folder. Help what am i doing wrong! PVK -
Since I broke my previous computer, I use a Macbook Pro under Catalina (terrible for games I know), the problem is that I can't run 32bits games anymore and of course SimCity (2013) is a 32bits game So Is there any way to play in 64bits?
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When starting SC4, I get a popup to enter my AppleID and password because "SimCity was purchased using the App Store on another computer." This happens after installing the NAM39, industry multiplier, and radius doubler mods...then save a couple of cities in a region...then exit the game. After entering the ID and password, I get the "app is damaged" popup and the game won't load. I know Catalina update has been an overall problem/challenge...just curious if anyone else has had similar problems with the full version from the App Store.
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NAM on Mac not working when I put it in the plugins folder
TheMrApplesOne posted a topic in SC4 Mac Users
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A couple problems. Often I have trouble connecting a road or street (of any kind) to an avenue. Or avenue to avenue. Or whatever to whatever. Can't connect, is the message I get. Sometimes I can bulldoze the avenue, or flatten it, and try again, and it works. Sometimes not. Which streets go with which puzzle pieces? Now I know why they are called puzzle pieces. I think I will give up on flattening terrain, because all it does is push the dirt somewhere else for me to discover later. These puzzle pieces have many cryptic names and descriptions. The manual doesn't cover them. Oh, for a thorough manual. I'm baffled by how to transition from cities to highways and which highway to use. The puzzle pieces called "ramps" have mostly "deprecated" pieces. Other abbreviations and uses are baffling. What do all these terms mean? I'm working on New York. Again. Trying to put industry on one island, commercial and residence in another, with a bridge between. First I tried a rail bridge but they refused to take the train. Then I tried a road bridge but it get too congested. I tried an avenue bridge, but that may have been too expensive, and there were problems getting on and off. I tried a Real Highway bridge (RHW), but similar problems: congestion and transition between roads, highways, and bridges. I'm out of ideas until I learn this game better.
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Can SimCity 4 be played on a Big Sur Mac?
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Hello, Me and my sister has been playing this game since 2007 (or something) and share a region by syncing our files. For the last four years I've been playing on my mac via Windows XP in a VirtualBox (the best and most stable way even on win 10 imho, at leas if you own an old cd-rom version). However. My sister is now getting an arm-based mac so thought we'd both switch to the App Store version. Naturally I've got quite a few ctd issues but have started to patch the plugins from within win xp. My only question now is; what do I do with them? It feels rather bad to spend all this time tracking down and fixing plugins and then just keeping them to myself. However, I'm in no way owning the rights to these plugins so they are not mine to share, I guess. Can I upload them anyway? Only upload the fixed file and ask people to download the original (if still available) and switch them out? What's your thought?
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I haven't know you're an iPhone user. I thought you might be using an Android but you don't. Awesome facts today! Thanks for info.
