This article is applicable to the following wrappers:

Re: Wineskin MAC The Sims Medieval. By Thegh0stm4n Thu 04 Aug 2016, 01:13 Mackinit wrote: YAAY I FIXED ALL ISSUES WITH WINESKIN AND SIMS MEDIEVAL I ALSO HAVE THE NOBLES PACK 33;D after 2 months of work.
What is Wineskin? Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later). The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose (that is the strategy used here).

Third-party tools include WineBottler, PlayOnMac, and Wineskin. There’s also the free Porting Kit, which makes installing classic games easy, and the commercial CrossOver Mac, which is the only application here you have to pay for. We’ll be using WineBottler for this tutorial, as it seems like the most popular option among Mac users. When someone asks if this or that game plays on Mac or M1, please don’t answer with stadia, xCloud or any other similar service. Those are not good answers as they are services that will require a decent stable always on internet connection and hypothetically can run on a smart TV. Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose. Best of all, its free!

• Technocoder’s Wineskin with macOS Catalina 10.15 support

This guide will walk you through how to install Technocoder’s Wineskin with macOS 10.15 Catalina support. It should also work on all other modern versions of macOS too.

Using macOS Catalina 10.15.0 to 10.15.4?

Warning

This section only applies to users who are using macOS Catalina 10.15.0 to 10.15.4

If you do not use macOS Catalina, or you are on macOS Catalina 10.15.5 or later, you can skip this section!

If you don’t know what specific macOS version you’re using, use this Apple support article to learn how to find out.

Apple recently introduced changes to how macOS works. New Macs come with System Integrity Protection.

Therefore, in order to run osu!mac on macOS Catalina 10.15.0 to 10.15.4 you need to disable System Integrity Protection.

Danger

While disabling System Integrity Protection shouldn’t harm your computer directly, you are sorta compromising the integrity of your system (hence the name ‘System Integrity Protection’).

Please be informed about the risks of disabling SIP. Consider updating your macOS instead.

You can learn more about SIP in this Apple support article.

These instructions are quoted from the Apple Developer documentation.

To disable SIP, do the following:

Restart your computer in Recovery mode.
- Turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold these two keys: Command (⌘) and R.
- Release the keys when you see an Apple logo, spinning globe or other startup screen.
- You may be prompted to enter a password, such as a firmware password or the password of a user who is an administrator of this Mac. Enter the requested password to continue.
Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu. It should be in the menu bar at the top of your screen.
Run the command csrutildisable.
Restart your computer. You can do so from the top menu bar (just like you would normally)

Once you have SIP disabled, you’re now set to start getting ready with osu!.

Warning

A newer Wineskin with support for M1 Macs (under Rosetta 2), as well as Intel x86 computers (on any modern macOS version) is now available. It brings new stability updates and bug fixes, and we’d encourage updating to this newer version.

You’ll need to use this new version if you want to play on any Apple Silicon computer.

Step 1: Download the Wineskin¶

Download the osu! Wineskin from Technocoder:

osu! forum thread:community/forums/posts/7560723
mega.nz direct download (468.1M):https://mega.nz/file/…

Note

To play osu! on macOS a compatibility layer called Wine is used. A Wineskin allows a preconfigured version of Wine to be bundled as one app so that you can get right into the game without messing about with the settings.

Once it has downloaded, extract the .zip file.

Move it outside of your Downloads folder, such as your Desktop. This is really important, as not doing so could lead osu! to be sandboxed.

We also recommend downloading Technocoder’s osu!macOS Agent program, since it’ll be used throughout this guide. In general, it’s a great tool that every macOS osu-stable player on Wine should have. However, this is optional (though strongly encouraged) and alternative instructions are provided for those who are comfortable with digging deeper.

osu! forum thread:community/forums/topics/1036678
GitHub download link (7.61MB):Techno-coder/osu-macOS-Agent…

Warning

On 12 October 2020 a bug was introduced with an update for osu!macOS Agent. It caused Wineskin.app to display a error that left the settings menu unopenable. You’ll need to download the newest version of osu!macOS Agent, which was updated on 23 January 2021. See Wineskin.app doesn’t open, even if osu! does / exec[number].bat problem.

Step 2: Repair the Wineskin¶

If you try to open the Wineskin immediately, macOS will say that it’s broken. Let’s fix that.

Open osu!macOS Agent
Click the Troubleshoot tab
Click Scan
Once the scan is complete, click Repair

If it was successful, you should see a Fixed indicator next to Quarantineattributeispresent in the log.

Alternative option: Using the Terminal

On the bleeding edge? You can also use the Terminal to repair your Wineskin.

Open Terminal. It should be in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Type the following command.

where ~/path/to/my/osu!.app is the filepath to your osu! install.

For example: if my osu!.app was in the Desktop, the command to enter would be:

Below are some helpful tips if you’re a bit lost, but if you know what you’re doing feel free to skim over them.

Note

For an application with the name osu!.app, the ! will confuse the Terminal window. Therefore, you must escape it by prefixing the ! with a (backslash) to form osu!.app. It is also recommended you enclose the filepath in quotation marks.

Note

You may be asked for your password. While entering your password the cursor might blink but you won’t see any characters appear on the screen - this is normal! Just proceed to type your password as if there was a dialog box there, and hit Enter once you’re done. (If you stuffed it up you’ll get another chance to retype it.)

Tip

If you get a Permissiondenied error it means you aren’t using an administrator account. In your Terminal window, type:

where administrator is the name of your system’s admin account. When the Password: prompt appears, enter your password for administrator (or whatever your admin account is). Then try running the Terminal command (or to do this automatically, type sudo!!).

If you don’t know which account is your admin account (like if you use a family computer), go to the Applemenu (top-left corner of the screen) > SystemPreferences... > Users&Groups and you should be able to see which account is your administrator

Wineskin Mac