User:Konoko/Mac

Using an old Mac Beta .app folder, I found an extra option in the Info.plist.

<string>C:\coh</string> <key>CedegaGameName</key> <string>c:\coh\cohupdater.exe</string> <key>CiderGameOptions</key> <string>-- cohupdater.exe -ps xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</string> <key>CiderBuild</key> <string>1941</string>

<string>C:\coh</string> <key>CedegaGameName</key> <string>c:\coh\cohupdater.exe</string> <key>CiderBuild</key> <string>2097</string>

That string helped me find the right options/arguments to use with the cider application.

For example

• /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contest/MacOS/cider -- cohupdater.exe -ps xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

  This seems to perform the same action as clicking on City of Heroes.app in the Applications folder.

• So I tried cider -- cohupdater.exe -cov and got the live updater, and after patching and launching client gave me a CoV skinned login screen.
• So we can launch from terminal, yay.

But what about the test server?

cider is a fork of wine. Wine uses a flat text file for the Windows registry.

So we open /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/Preferences/user.reg and find the /HKLM/User settings.

Turns out COHTEST and COH uses the same directory, C:\\coh

So if I launch Training Room from the command prompt cider -- cohupdater.exe -test it will overwrite my live directory with training room

... Ignore me ftp://client.coh.com/Test/US/