56 replies to this topic

[Franklint]

Porting Request:
I bought this for PC, but for some reason I could never get it to install. AppDB now has it listed as platinum, which means making a port should be possible. Yay!

Game Description:
Alice: Madness Returns is a sequel to the classic game American McGee's Alice (which is one of my favourite titles of all time). It switches between Alice's imagined version of Wonderland, and her home city of London. It's a third-person action-adventure, and Alice's second attempt to save Wonderland from danger.

AppDB Link:
http://appdb.winehq....ation&iId=13194

AppDB Rating:
Platinum

Wikipedia Information:
http://en.wikipedia....Madness_Returns

[DanIsTheMan]

why dont you give it a shot yourself? instructions seem very simple:


To run I've installed vcrun6 vcrun2005 (also installed vcrun2008 and vcrun2010, but don't know has it any influence on game) and xact with winetricks. Than _removed_ all dll overrides in winecfg.

To have sound working i switched to Windows 7 emulation mode, by the way, in Windows 7 mode game runs more faster.

[SouthTuna]

Oh, it seems terribly simple.

[Blinx 007]

I port it in bit i forgot this game looks fun

[REBOOT]

I see two WineHQ users rated GOLD in their test results with old Wine version 1.3.35 and 1.3.30. Sound like easy porting.

[Blinx 007]

Reboot, on 26 May 2012 - 08:41 PM, said:

I see two WineHQ users rated GOLD in their test results with old Wine version 1.3.35 and 1.3.30. Sound like easy porting.

ever think he has no clue what he's doing... even if he dose do what the directions say..

[REBOOT]

blinxfrost, on 26 May 2012 - 10:18 PM, said:

ever think he has no clue what he's doing... even if he dose do what the directions say..

I don't understand what you saying. Who is "he"? Do you mean Franklint or two WineHQ people?
I don't understand why you did quoted my post too. :/

[Blinx 007]

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[REBOOT]

Well, I think directions are very easy using EA Installer (Disc) or Steam (Download).  I am not sure.

Here are directions/locations:
PC version - C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Alice Madness Returns\
Steam version - C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Alice Madness Returns\

[REBOOT]

Franklint, Why not you try Wineskin? That's what DanIsTheMan said.

[Franklint]

Hi guys, sorry for the late response. I didn't think anyone would reply to this thread!

I've never really ported anything before, so I'd be willing to give it a go. The main issue, however, is that I am unable to install the game so that it is playable; installing it in Parallels means that it hangs when it is trying to do the legitimacy check, and so it won't run. If I could fix that, maybe I'd be able to make a wrapper for it, although I don't really know how to go about it. What tool do you use? Something like WineBottler?

Cheers,
Franklint

[bloodfang42]

I tried porting it about a year ago with a skidrow file, but forgot a no-cd crack and was too lazy to download one and retry. If no one else has ported this yet I'll try again.

[jafuuu]

I'll love a port working with the Skidrows files.. I've do everything I can.. but it still won't run

If it isn't bothering much.

Thanks.

[Tetsu]

When I played it on the PC I had to use the THETA crack so it wouldn't give me a "game has been tampered with and will now close" error.

[SouthTuna]

Yeah, the cracks are giving me some problem... And by some I mean a lot. Skidrow's original, Skidrow's crackfix, THETA's crackfix...
I tried all of them but it just won't run. D:

[REBOOT]

Skidrow is not easy on Wine for me... Just use DVD version with daemon tools or disk utility. (I will buy Steam version when it's on Sale Summer.)

[jafuuu]

well.. if someone can make this run with some kind of patch I'll be really really really grateful.. for reals u.u

[slavezeo]

As of today (July 14th 2012) Alice Maddness Returns is 4.99$ for Steam's Summer Sale I bought it and am going to try porting it over the weekend.

[cluthz]

slavezeo, on 14 July 2012 - 09:08 AM, said:

As of today (July 14th 2012) Alice Maddness Returns is 4.99$ for Steam's Summer Sale I bought it and am going to try porting it over the weekend.

It is "on sale" for a whopping €12.99 (~$16) in EU!.. Luckily I got Danistheman to buy it for me (it was only 3.74GBP (~$5))..

[gjoid]

I'm quite far with a working wineskin port, but I need some help with determining what the problem[s] could be, regarding this crash log.

The crash happens during startup and generates this log:

Spoiler

Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x7cf8c2a3 in 32-bit code (0x40017840).
Register dump:
CS:0017 SS:001f DS:001f ES:001f FS:1007 GS:0037
EIP:40017840 ESP:01a5eea8 EBP:01a5fec8 EFLAGS:00010246(  R- --  I  Z- -P- )
EAX:00400000 EBX:7b851851 ECX:01a5eea8 EDX:010179a0
ESI:300c2740 EDI:300c0000
Stack dump:
0x01a5eea8:  015894f9 7ffdf000 01589470 003a0043
0x01a5eeb8:  0050005c 004f0052 007e0047 00420046
0x01a5eec8:  005c0055 00410045 0047005f 0059007e
0x01a5eed8:  00480034 0041005c 0049004c 007e0043
0x01a5eee8:  0057004e 005c0046 006c0041 00630069
0x01a5eef8:  00320065 0042005c 006e0069 00720061
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x40017840 in libwine.1.dylib (+0x16840) (0x01a5fec8)
  1 0x7b851897 start_process+0x66() in kernel32 (0x01a5ff08)
  2 0x7bc64eec call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x01a5ff28)
  3 0x7bc6600a call_thread_func+0x89() in ntdll (0x01a5ffa8)
  4 0x7bc64eb2 call_thread_entry_point+0x11() in ntdll (0x01a5ffc8)
  5 0x7bc3e48e start_process+0x1d() in ntdll (0x01a5ffe8)
0x40017840: movb %al,0x7cf8c2a3
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (142 modules)
ELF        0-7bf03000 Stabs           <wine-loader>
PE   400000- 158a000 Deferred        alicemadnessreturns
PE 300c0000-3010e000 Deferred        awc
PE 40001000-40143000 Deferred        libwine.1.dylib
ELF 4019c000-401b6000 Deferred        version<elf>
  \-PE 401a0000-401b4000 \               version
PE 401cb000-401d4000 Deferred        libsm.6.dylib
PE 401d4000-401ec000 Deferred        libice.6.dylib
PE 401ec000-401fc000 Deferred        libxext.6.dylib
PE 401fc000-40200000 Deferred        libxau.6.dylib
ELF 40582000-405f3000 Deferred        advapi32<elf>
  \-PE 40590000-405db000 \               advapi32
PE 405f3000-405f8000 Deferred        libxdmcp.6.dylib
PE 405f8000-405fb000 Deferred        libxinerama.1.dylib
PE 405fb000-40600000 Deferred        libxfixes.3.dylib
ELF 40700000-4077f000 Deferred        shlwapi<elf>
  \-PE 40710000-40759000 \               shlwapi
PE 4077f000-4079b000 Deferred        libxcb.1.dylib
ELF 4079b000-407bf000 Deferred        imm32<elf>
  \-PE 407a0000-407ba000 \               imm32
PE 407bf000-407c5000 Deferred        libxxf86vm.1.dylib
PE 407c5000-407ce000 Deferred        libxrender.1.dylib
PE 407ce000-407d6000 Deferred        libxrandr.2.dylib
PE 407d6000-407e4000 Deferred        libxi.6.dylib
PE 407e4000-407ed000 Deferred        libxcursor.1.dylib
ELF 4265b000-427a1000 Deferred        user32<elf>
  \-PE 42660000-42759000 \               user32
ELF 427a1000-42872000 Deferred        gdi32<elf>
  \-PE 427b0000-42846000 \               gdi32
PE 42872000-428f8000 Deferred        libfreetype.6.dylib
ELF 428f8000-42999000 Deferred        winex11<elf>
  \-PE 42900000-42975000 \               winex11
PE 42999000-42ab8000 Deferred        libx11.6.dylib
ELF 42ab8000-42bf9000 Deferred        ole32<elf>
  \-PE 42ac0000-42bb5000 \               ole32
ELF 42bf9000-42c87000 Deferred        rpcrt4<elf>
  \-PE 42c00000-42c64000 \               rpcrt4
ELF 42c87000-42d17000 Deferred        gdiplus<elf>
  \-PE 42c90000-42cf2000 \               gdiplus
ELF 42dbe000-42e6c000 Deferred        windowscodecs<elf>
  \-PE 42dc0000-42e43000 \               windowscodecs
PE 42e6c000-42e91000 Deferred        libpng14.14.dylib
PE 65340000-653d2000 Deferred        oleaut32
ELF 7b800000-7ba51000 Stabs           kernel32<elf>
  \-PE 7b810000-7ba17000 \               kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bcd1000 Stabs           ntdll<elf>
  \-PE 7bc10000-7bc98000 \               ntdll
PE 90456000-9052e000 Deferred        ink
PE 90b65000-90c2c000 Deferred        libsqlite3.dylib
PE 9129b000-91306000 Deferred        metadata
PE 912ec000-912f9000 Deferred        opendirectory
PE 912ec000-912f9000 Deferred        opendirectory
PE 913e5000-91c9c000 Deferred        coregraphics
PE 91c0e000-91c30000 Deferred        speechsynthesis
PE 91c0e000-91c30000 Deferred        speechsynthesis
PE 91c9b000-91d03000 Deferred        familycontrols
PE 92036000-9203e000 Deferred        applicationservices
PE 92036000-9203e000 Deferred        applicationservices
PE 9236d000-92375000 Deferred        help
PE 92371000-9239a000 Deferred        cfopendirectory
PE 92371000-9239a000 Deferred        cfopendirectory
PE 923e5000-9240f000 Deferred        libresolv.9.dylib
PE 923e5000-9240f000 Deferred        libresolv.9.dylib
PE 92468000-92478000 Deferred        libkxld.dylib
PE 92640000-92656000 Deferred        opengl
PE 9264f000-926b8000 Deferred        passwordserver
PE 9264f000-926b8000 Deferred        passwordserver
PE 92ab4000-92abc000 Deferred        libcorevmclient.dylib
PE 92abd000-92ac2000 Deferred        trustevaluationagent
PE 92ac2000-92b13000 Deferred        libglu.dylib
PE 92ac2000-92b13000 Deferred        libglu.dylib
PE 92b6b000-92b71000 Deferred        audiounit
PE 92b6b000-92b71000 Deferred        audiounit
PE 92dc7000-92dd0000 Deferred        libgif.dylib
PE 92f0a000-92f55000 Deferred        ae
PE 93065000-931bb000 Deferred        libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib
PE 93065000-931bb000 Deferred        libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib
PE 93300000-93642000 Deferred        security
PE 93566000-93569000 Deferred        accelerate
PE 93567000-93573000 Deferred        iosurface
PE 93a49000-93b91000 Deferred        libfontparser.dylib
PE 93a49000-93b91000 Deferred        libfontparser.dylib
PE 93c75000-93c7d000 Deferred        coreservices
PE 93cad000-93cba000 Deferred        commercecore
PE 93ccd000-93cdb000 Deferred        commonpanels
PE 93cd4000-93cda000 Deferred        libradiance.dylib
PE 93d1d000-93d34000 Deferred        libsasl2.2.dylib
PE 93d2e000-93dc7000 Deferred        coretext
PE 93ddd000-93e08000 Deferred        libjpeg.dylib
PE 93f29000-93fe2000 Deferred        securityfoundation
PE 94106000-94118000 Deferred        carbonsound
PE 94111000-94127000 Deferred        netfs
PE 94160000-944df000 Deferred        foundation
PE 945fe000-946da000 Deferred        launchservices
PE 9469c000-946af000 Deferred        diskarbitration
PE 948ae000-94acf000 Deferred        imageio
PE 94ae0000-94c0b000 Deferred        libglprogrammability.dylib
PE 94c2f000-94c52000 Deferred        libpng.dylib
PE 94c4b000-94c92000 Deferred        libcups.2.dylib
PE 94e07000-94e73000 Deferred        navigationservices
PE 94e4b000-94e54000 Deferred        libgfxshared.dylib
PE 94f94000-94fa7000 Deferred        speechrecognition
PE 94f94000-94fa7000 Deferred        speechrecognition
PE 953b9000-953e4000 Deferred        imagecapture
PE 953cf000-954e0000 Deferred        cfnetwork
PE 9547c000-954fa000 Deferred        hiservices
PE 954d0000-955be000 Deferred        vimage
PE 95618000-95841000 Deferred        libsystem.b.dylib
PE 957c0000-957ec000 Deferred        openscripting
PE 957dd000-957f7000 Deferred        libgl.dylib
PE 957dd000-957f7000 Deferred        libgl.dylib
PE 9584d000-95880000 Deferred        libxslt.1.dylib
PE 95876000-958a0000 Deferred        opencl
PE 95876000-958a0000 Deferred        opencl
PE 9617d000-961a9000 Deferred        directoryservice
PE 96321000-9633e000 Deferred        libbsm.0.dylib
PE 96321000-9633e000 Deferred        libbsm.0.dylib
PE 9728d000-972d8000 Deferred        libvdsp.dylib
PE 9728d000-972d8000 Deferred        libvdsp.dylib
PE 980a8000-980fc000 Deferred        libtiff.dylib
PE 982cf000-983a4000 Deferred        qd
PE 98389000-98440000 Deferred        kerberos
PE 986cf000-986ee000 Deferred        multitouchsupport
PE 986cf000-986ee000 Deferred        multitouchsupport
PE 98a89000-99044000 Deferred        liblapack.dylib
PE 98a89000-99044000 Deferred        liblapack.dylib
PE 98a89000-99044000 Deferred        liblapack.dylib
PE 98a89000-99044000 Deferred        liblapack.dylib
PE 98f37000-98f70000 Deferred        libglimage.dylib
PE 98f9a000-99330000 Deferred        carboncore
PE 99346000-993a9000 Deferred        coreui
PE 99346000-993a9000 Deferred        coreui
PE 9938b000-994b5000 Deferred        osservices
PE 99581000-99590000 Deferred        print
PE 99589000-9963d000 Deferred        searchkit
PE 99589000-9963d000 Deferred        searchkit
PE 99619000-9973e000 Deferred        libxml2.2.dylib
PE 99776000-9989b000 Deferred        desktopservicespriv
PE 999ec000-999fe000 Deferred        libbz2.1.0.dylib
PE 999ec000-999fe000 Deferred        libbz2.1.0.dylib
PE 999fa000-99e35000 Deferred        quartzcore
PE 999fa000-99e35000 Deferred        quartzcore
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\EA Games\Alice Madness Returns\Alice2\Binaries\Win32\AliceMadnessReturns.exe
00000009    0 <==
0000000e services.exe
00000023    0
00000022    0
00000017    0
00000010    0
0000000f    0
00000014 winedevice.exe
00000020    0
0000001b    0
00000016    0
00000015    0
0000001c plugplay.exe
00000024    0
00000021    0
0000001d    0
System information:
    Wine build: wine-1.5.3
    Platform: i386
    Host system: Darwin
    Host version: 10.8.0

Here is the output log of wineskin:

Spoiler

err:service:service_send_start_message service L"clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32" failed to start
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32" failed to start: 1053
err:service:service_send_start_message service L"spupdsvc" failed to start
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"spupdsvc" failed to start: 1053
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x7cf8c2a3 at address 0x40017840 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

[Dragonessa007]

Please tell me someone has managed to get a port of this working!

[iveseenitall]

So "simple" but no one posts a port........... ^^

[gjoid]

iveseenitall, on 30 August 2012 - 10:41 AM, said:

So "simple" but no one posts a port........... ^^

well when you have the retail dvd i guess, the cracks don't seem to work in wine. so that makes in complicated

EDIT: I suspect the cracks don't work in wineskin. (skidrow, theta and reloaded)
what about a cider port, could 't solve the cracks problem?

[Dragonessa007]

Come on! Someone just needs to use their freaking retail version and port it and put it up so we can play this game!

[gjoid]

Dragonessa007, on 10 September 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

Come on! Someone just needs to use their freaking retail version and port it and put it up so we can play this game!

Dude, that's not the point, you will need the retail DVD version (or possibly steam version) to play the mac port. I made a port, i'm just not able to test it without the DVD. Just buy me the DVD retail so i can make and test a proper port. I will send it back and post the port here.
Or if you find me a good low prized version I will buy it myself. I will only spent my time in porting. Please help, not nag!

[hmtinc]

well its seems there is a demand for a simple wrapper . Fine i will make one . my internet refreshes tomorrow i will post a wrapper next week

[hmtinc]

Ok i just got this game and can tell you people on the forums that this game is now way near a platinum/gold rating . It requires way more effort to get running then i imagined . Idont know who tested the game in wine and what version they were using . But the steam version definitely does not deserve a platinum /gold rating .
Any i should have a port done by next week

[gjoid]

i tried to make a wineskin and a ciderX port using the dvd image. but I don't get the game running using the available nodvd k's.
maybe steam is the way to do it?

I was not able to test any of my ports, cause I could not test the game in the end. I send my wineskin port to Dragonnessa who claimed he had the retail disk to test it, but he just had the same dvd image as mine. dead end . . .

we need some more porting experience here That's for sure!

[Franklint]

I've got the retail disk, so happy to test whatever you'd like, gjoid. Let me know.

Cheers,
Franklint

[gjoid]

Great ! I'll send you my wineskin port first, because it's already up. check your PM and just unpack de first (of the two) with Ez7z