ogyrggravy: Does anyone know how to install the patch in the Mac version of Normality?
01kipper: I know I'm replying to an old post, but I thought this information would be useful to any other mac users as well who come across this thread.
After downloading the mac version I put the patcher program in the same directory as NORM.EXE and tried running the patcher program with Wine but it did not work, because on the mac version there is no file called NORMAL.GOG which the patcher is looking for. In the mac version I believe it is called "D NORMAL.iso" instead and is in a different directory. I renamed it and moved it into the same directory as the patcher, ran the patcher, then renamed and moved all the files back, but still no luck. I tried downloading the windows version, running the patcher, then playing the game in both Boxer and Wine, but neither worked.
Ultimately the most complicated method was finally the one which got it to work on my Mac!!
How I did it:
1) download the patcher above (I had already downloaded it ages ago)
2) download the windows version of Normality
3) download the "Wineskin" app (if you don't already have it), this app lets you run Windows programs.
http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php 4) run Wineskin and select "create new blank wrapper". Name the wrapper “Normality wrapper” or whatever, it really doesn’t matter too much.
5) double-click the icon of the new wrapper you created in step 4 and select "Install Software" and then "Choose Setup Executable". Navigate to the windows version of Normality you just downloaded (setup_normality_2.0.0.5.exe) and let it finish installing.
6) now the windows version of Normality is installed inside your wineskin wrapper from step 4. Right-Click on this wrapper and select “Show package contents”, then open “drive_c”, then open “GOG Games”. Now you should see the folder “Normality”, drag this folder out to your desktop. You can now trash the wrapper from step 4.
7) open the “Normality” folder from step 6. Drag the patcher files from step 1 into this folder.
8) run wineskin again and create a new wrapper, this time called “normality voices” or whatever.
9) double click the wrapper from step 8 and this time for the setup executable choose “NormalityUsVoices_RunMe.bat” which is now in the “Normality” folder on your desktop from step 6. Let it finish running (be patient, it took almost an hour in my case!).
10) drag the two new files (NORM.EXE and NORMAL.GOG) from the Normality folder to your desktop. You can now delete the Normality folder and the “voices” wrapper.
11) download the mac version of Normality (normality_2.0.0.7.dmg), then double-click it and drag the Normality app onto your desktop.
12) right-click on the new Normality app from step 11 and select “Show package contents” > Contents > Resources > game > right-click and “show package contents” on Normality > Contents > Resources > right-click and “show package contents” on Normality.boxer.
13) drag NORMAL.GOG from your desktop (step 10) into Normality.boxer. There is currently a file here already called “D NORMAL.iso”, drag it into the trash (or rename it). Then rename “NORMAL.GOG” to “D NORMAL.iso”.
14) still within Normality.boxer, now open “C Normality.harddisk”
15) drag NORM.EXE from your desktop (step 10) to “C Normality.harddisk”, there is already a file there with that same name, so choose the replace the existing one with the newly created one.
16) *this step is only necessary if you have run the pre-patched Normality game app. Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.game.normality. The file here called "Current.boxerstate" is the save data from the pre-patched version, you must rename or delete it because it's not compatible with the patched version.
17) done (finally) :)!!! Now when you load the Normality game app (from step 11) it will have the US voices.
I get to step nine and run into some error, I hope you see this and are able to help!! Normality isn't the same without Feldman!! ):
I'm not super computer savvy (I've been Googling my way through this). But when I go to run the .bat file in my Normality Voices wrapper I get the following errors while it tries to run. Help, please!~
