Submission #8461: Randomno's MacOS Broken Breakout? in 00:20.10

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MacOS
baseline
libTAS 1.4.4
1206
60
1018
PowerOn
LinuxPlayer
Submitted by Randomno on 7/21/2023 6:27:05 AM
Submission Comments
Short itch.io game but pretty fun. You can read about my experience porting macOS games on the forums. The ported version of this game is here. To replicate:
  • Download Mac version. Unzip with something other than the Windows default, it doesn't work for some reason.
  • Make a new folder called Data in Broken Breakout Mac.
  • Go to Broken Breakout_.app -> Contents -> Resources -> Data. Copy all the contents there and paste it into the Data folder.
  • Download Unity 5.5.0f3. I use the Mac version of the Linux build support and open both the .pkg and the Payload~ with 7zip.
  • In the Unity folder go to Variations -> linux64_withgfx_nondevelopment_mono.
  • Move LinuxPlayer to the same level as the Data folder in the game files. Move the Mono and Plugins folders from the build support Data folder to the game's Data folder. Move unity default resources in the Resources folder to the corresponding place in the game's folder.
You might have to launch the game normally and choose 1024x768 resolution, I'm not sure. Launch in libTAS with command line option force-gfx-direct. If I'm bad at explaining, follow ikuyo's guide.
It's a bit of a buggy game. You can't complete a level till it's loaded all the way, or else you have to reset. In most of the levels I'm capped by this. Also, if you hit a red block before the level is fully loaded, it breaks the functionality of all the blocks and doesn't allow completion either. The last level is optimised for earliest final input. The game comments mention something about right clicking. I think it does something, but I can't really tell, and I don't think it could save time.
The game name might not contain a question mark. It's not consistent.

Info Teddy: Claiming for judging.
Info Teddy: Delaying pending issues with sync as detailed in the forum thread.
Info Teddy: Despite my best efforts, I wasn't able to get it to sync, but fsvgm777 was able to, and provided an AVI dump. Which is good enough for me.
The instructions for porting the macOS version to Linux are clear enough and seem to be unlikely to interfere with game content, and this is a short enough game. Accepting to Standard.
fsvgm777: Processing.
Last Edited by fsvgm777 on 8/7/2023 2:18 PM
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