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A new editor for Baldur's Gate, based on Shadow Keeper. Sword Coast Keeper will allow people using custom items or spells to display or modules such as Dark Side of the Sword Coast to display properly their saved games and perform any change you may want to do. 50 Games like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for Mac OS, daily generated comparing over 40 000 video games across all platforms. This list includes Icewind Dale, Pillars of Eternity, The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition, Baldur's Gate II and 46 more.
Kidnapped. Imprisoned. Tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright. Can you resist the evil in your blood and forsake the dark destiny that awaits you? Or will you embrace your monstrous nature and ascend to godhood as the new Lord of Murder?
Continue a journey started in Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition or create an entirely new character in this isometric Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Running on an upgraded and improved version of the Infinity Engine, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition includes the original Shadows of Amn adventure, the Throne of Bhaal expansion, and all-new content including four new party members.
Key Features
The original Shadows of Amn adventure
Throne of Bhaal expansion
New Adventure: The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay
New Characters: The Blackguard Dorn Il-Khan, Neera the Wild Mage, Rasaad yn Bashir the Monk, and Hexxat the Thief
Native support for high-resolution widescreen displays
Improved multiplayer support with connectivity between all platforms
Hundreds of bug fixes and improvements to the original game
Note: All translations are text only. Voice-overs other than German and Polish are played in English.
What’s New
The 2.5 update for Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is finally here!
We’ve made over 500 fixes and features throughout the 2.5 Infinity Engine updates and now this much-anticipated update for Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is coming to the App Store!
New Localization:
Simplified Chinese
Korean
Russian
Polish
New V/O:
German
Italian
Polish
Top features:
Road to 2.0 community portraits added in-game
Tablet dialogue buttons added
Added the Priest of Tempus kit
'Take All' button added to containers
Improved multiplayer stability
Hexxat is now able to survive the final Throne of Bhaal encounter
Importing a ranger allows the selection of a Racial Enemy
Tenser's Transformation no longer disables innate spells
Check out the full list of bug fixes and features on our blog (please, note that this list does not cover the general Infinity Engine tickets, these will be published when the 2.5 patch series is completed):
http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/06/baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition-25.html
Now worthy of 5 stars
My originaly review from 2017 gave this this game only 2 stars because the developer was unable to provide the latest version of the game on the Mac App Store for years while updated versions of the game were available on other platforms (the MAS version was stuck on version 1.3 for 3 years while the rest of the world was enjoying version 2.5).
Lo and behold, it now appears the developer finally updated the MAS version. As a result, I can now heartily recommend Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition. This is a classic RPG that has been given new life. Fantastic, mythic storylines filled with drama, romance, humor, and wit, Badlur's Gate EE has nearly endless replay value. Well worth the money if you love a good story and enjoy solid imaginative D&D gameplay. Buy it!
(Original 2-star review included below for reference)
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It’s been 2 years since version 1.3 came out, and version for other systems and platforms have moved on past version 2.0 and then some. The developer has given nothing but non-believable excuses for why they can’t update the Mac App Store version of this game. I would have given this game 5 stars except for the fact that the Mac App Store version is seriously outdated, with hundreds more bugs than the current version available on Steam. There is no excuse for a failure to update of this magnitude. Do not buy.
Developer Response,
Good to hear!
An improvement on the classic
A great version of the classic. AppStore needs more games like these!
No hope for updates?
I’m adding my voice to the complaints about a complete lack of updates since 1.3. It’s as if Beamdog has abandoned the Mac App Store version of this game and that is severely disappointing. I’d say, “Lesson learned. I’ll just buy games on another platform from now on,” but how is that an acceptable outcome?
Such a shame, because while a number of aspects of the game are dated, it’s still a great deal of fun to get that D&D fix. (Especially when it’s hard to get a group of friends together for the actual tabletop game!)
Developer Response,
Edit: The new update is here!
Old reply: Hello! The 2.5 builds for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition for the Mac App Store are still with QA.
Future patches for the Mac App Store will have the same cadence as our patches for other platforms. We understand we’ve made our Mac App Store fans wait long for the 2.5 update, and we’re going to do better!
http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/09/september-14-livestream-recap.html
http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/09/september-07-livestream-recap.html
Information
OS X 10.8 or later, 64-bit processor
Baldur's Gate 2 Editor For Mac
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
Prerequisites
You will need:
1. Wineskin (http://wineskin.doh123.com/)
2. Copies of BG1 and BG2
3. A bootcamp partition on your Mac with a version of Windows installed
4. MacFuse (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/) and NTFS-3G (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/) should be installed on your Mac so you can both read and write to the bootcamp partition.
5. The latest version of Baldur's Gate Trilogy (http://spellholdstudios.net/ie/bgt)
Instructions
1. Create a new Wineskin wrapper. Name it whatever, but 'Baldur's Gate Trilogy' would seem appropriate. I used the WS8WineCXG10.1.1 engine, but ymmv. Try other ones if you have problems once you get to the end of these instructions.
2. Install your copies of BG1 and BG2 into the Wineskin wrapper.
3. Navigate to the Baldur's Gate Trilogy Wineskin app and right-click on it. Click 'Show Package Contents' and then navigate inside of 'drive_c' to the place where you installed your BG1 and BG2 installs.
4. Copy the BG1 and BG2 installation folders to a location on your bootcamp partition (e.g., c:temp).
5. Reboot your Mac into your Windows partition. From inside Windows, install Baldur's Gate Trilogy and any other mods you would like to install.
6. Reboot back to OS X.
7. Copy the original BG1 and BG2 folders from inside your Wineskin wrapper to a safe place (just in case you need to start over). Then delete the BG1 and BG2 folders that are within the Wineskin wrapper.
8. Copy the modified BG1 and BG2 folders from your bootcamp partition into the Wineskin wrapper.
9. Make sure that the Wineskin wrapper is set to launch BGMain.exe from the BG2 folder.
10. Launch the Wineskin wrapper and play Baldur's Gate Trilogy!!!
This is all working for me and I've got BGT plus a few other mods installed, including the Widescreen mod. Just remember to apply all mods over in Windows, because the Weidu that comes packaged with BGT and other mods doesn't like the Mac filesystem and will only install correctly on Windows.
In step 3, instead of opening 'drive_c', use the embedded Wineskin app's Command Line Shell to install mods; I used the list at http://www.gog.com/en/forum/baldurs_gate_series/newbie_guide_modding_bg1_if_you_buy_bg1_bg2_from_gog/ . (Ideally you'd be able to install the mods with .exe installers from the embedded app's Install Windows Software option, but most mods' Windows installers aren't compatible with it.)
The OS X drive is mapped to the z: drive. For example, if I downloaded EasyTutu_ToB.exe (the EasyTutu installer for those with the GOG.com-sold versions of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2) to ~/Downloads from OS X, within the fake Windows session I would type
z:
cd usersyourusernameDownloads
EasyTutu_ToB
Repeat this with each mod. After finishing, 'exit' the command line, then (assuming you installed EasyTutu) change the Windows EXE setting to point to the Baldur.exe in the newly-created BaldursGateTutu directory. Enjoy!
(PS - If you want a full-screen experience and still be able to use Spaces/Mission Control, when installing the widescreen mod set the Y resolution to the height of your screen minus 22 pixels. If you have a 1280x800 screen, for example, tell the widescreen installer you want 1280x778. This will leave room for the menu bar at the top, but the game will take up the entire screen otherwise. If you tell the installer to use 1280x800, when you run the game Wine will automatically assume you want 'real' fullscreen, which you can't use Spaces/Mission Control from within.)
But there have been some new releases of WeiDU and BGT since I wrote this and I think some things changed/improved compatibility. I know that Turambar over at Spellhold Studios and Pocket Plane did a lot to get BGT working with *nix systems, and the Mac experience got better as a result.
It sounds like you're using Tutu instead of BGT. That's awesome that it all worked straight out of the box for you! When I try to install BGT via the Wineskin command line shell I get some .bat script errors (Wine apparently doesn't handle empty .bat parameters correctly). It still installs, but it leaves behind some directories and whatnot that ought to be deleted, so it's a bit of a 'dirty' install.
On the bright side, I submitted a code-fix to WeiDU that should make it so you can run all the mods from within the Mac Terminal rather than the Wineskin command line shell. I'm hoping that will be available in a new WeiDU build sometime soon. The Mac version of WeiDU actually does a tremendously good job despite the one bug that I was addressing.
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In step 3, instead of opening 'drive_c', use the embedded Wineskin app's Command Line Shell to install mods; I used the list at http://wwww.gog.com/en/forum/baldur_s_gate/newbie_guide_modding_bg1_if_you_buy_bg1_bg2_from_gog/ . (Ideally you'd be able to install the mods with .exe installers from the embedded app's Install Windows Software option, but most mods' Windows installers aren't compatible with it.)
The OS X drive is mapped to the z: drive. For example, if I downloaded EasyTutu_ToB.exe (the EasyTutu installer for those with the GOG.com-sold versions of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2) to ~/Downloads from OS X, within the fake Windows session I would type
z:
cd usersyourusernameDownloads
EasyTutu_ToB
Repeat this with each mod. After finishing, 'exit' the command line, then (assuming you installed EasyTutu) change the Windows EXE setting to point to the Baldur.exe in the newly-created BaldursGateTutu directory. Enjoy!
(PS - If you want a full-screen experience and still be able to use Spaces/Mission Control, when installing the widescreen mod set the Y resolution to the height of your screen minus 22 pixels. If you have a 1280x800 screen, for example, tell the widescreen installer you want 1280x778. This will leave room for the menu bar at the top, but the game will take up the entire screen otherwise. If you tell the installer to use 1280x800, when you run the game Wine will automatically assume you want 'real' fullscreen, which you can't use Spaces/Mission Control from within.)
EasyTutu is JUST BG1, but played in the BG2 engine.
BGT adds BG1 to BG2 into one huge 'supergame' where you can start in BG1 and play all the way through to the end of BG2.
1. Create a new Wineskin wrapper. Name it whatever.
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2a. After creating a new wrapper (you can click Cancel when it asks about Gecko), when Wineskin Winery says 'Wrapper Creation Finished', choose 'View wrapper in Finder'. (By default new wrappers appear in /Users/yourusername/Applications/Wineskin.) You're now done with Wineskin Winery; everything else is done with the 'embedded Wineskin app' I mentioned in my previous post, which you get to by ...
2b. Right-click the new wrapper and 'Show Package Contents'. Double-click Wineskin in the newly opened folder.
2c. Click 'Install Windows Software'. Choose /Users/yourusername/Downloads/setup_baldurs_gate.exe.
2d. After installation finishes (don't launch the new game from the GOG.com installer itself; exit instead), Wineskin asks which of the newly created .exe files you want it to launch when you double-click on the wrapper. Choose baldur.exe, but you'll change this setting later anyway.
2e. With most games you'd be done installing, but because EasyTutu and BGT require both games, repeat 2c with setup_baldurs_gate_2.exe. This time, when asked the 2d question, Cancel.
2f. Now double-click the wrapper to try out Baldur's Gate. This is the vanilla, low-resolution, unmodified version the way people played it in 2000, but you'll get to see it in action.
2g. Exit the game and continue from my step 3.
Edit: I take back what I wrote. Didn't experiment long, but found that the newest BGT WeiDU script using the WeiDU for Mac 231 couldn't find the Baldur's Gate 1 installation in my wrapper; not sure if it's a script issue. Again, EasyTutu does indeed install from within Wine.
(If the above is gibberish to you, that's another advantage of EasyTutu over BGT; the current version of BGT is only available via .zip download from Github with no built-in installer so extant installation instructions aren't accurate for newcomers using any OS, while EasyTutu has pretty thorough instructions with considerably more handholding at http://usoutpost31.com/easytutu/ . Read it in conjunction with the GOG.com forum guide I mentioned in my first post in this thread.)
edit: and BGT works just fine as well :)
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Ive followed TWMNN's directions but when I try to run vanilla baldurs gate to test it, wine skin runs for a few seconds then crashes, no windows even pop up, I only see that the wrapper is running because of the top bar in OSX.. This stops me cold, as I don't want to bother installing baldurs gate 2 and tutu, if I can't even run vanilla BG1 correctly.
I have a few different circumstances that I THINK might be causing the problem.
First: I'm running OS X lion. Maybe it's not a big deal but it's caused serious problems with running other old games. (For example, the Weidu Mac client no longer works as lion doesn't support PowerPC etc.)
Second: I'm using a different wine engine, the latest one I could find. I'm going to test using the one that was posted in the OP, that might fix things.
AND LAST, I'm unsure as to how to 'use wineskin's embedded command line function'. I've looked around the wrapper but can't seem to find the command line thing and am unsure how to use it.
Anyway, those are my current issues. Any help would be fantastic. Thank you in advance.
Following TWMNN's directions, I installed baldurs gate 2 and downloaded EasyTutu ToB to /Downloads in Mac OS
Here is where the trouble happens. The command line shell, which I finally found, is giving me a hard time finding the file. It doesn't allow me to write the paths in the same format you did.
For example, you posted:
Z:
Cd /users etc...
EasyTutu-ToB
I can't hit return to start a new line after Z:, nor can I hit return to input the tutu file name after I point it to Downloads.
I'm typing from my phone so I don't have access to the forward slashes and other characters to type out the path I'm imputing, unfortunately. I realize that I misquoted your original path in this post.
I could really use some help with the paths to input in the command line. Do I lead it to the easyTutu folder? Or do I specifically point it to the EasyTutuManager.exe?
Thanks in advance.