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User:Konoko/Mac

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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/