getting (old) iPatch patches to work in Leopard
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | technology
There are some no dvd or hardware check disabling patches for Mac OS X games that aren’t working anymore in Leopard, crashing on start if not launched with rosetta and failing the verification of SHA1 checksums for the files to be patched even if they are the correct version. Some examples for this issue are the patches for Civilization IV and Call of Duty 2 for Mac OS X released by… (argh i have to check this at home).
As I found out, in order to fix them download iPatch 3.7.1 from http://www.ipatch.org/US/index.html and then explore the package’s content. You will find under /Contents/Resources an app called iPatcher, explore that file’s content again by right clicking and find a nice unix executable-style file named, you’ll never guess it, ipatcher under /Contents/MacOS/. You’ll need to copy this file over to the /Contents/MacOS folder inside the patch application package, overwriting the old ipatcher (size 204 or 208 kb) with the new one (size 212kb).
Now launch the game patcher thus modified and voilá, it will happily patch away.
Thanks to the author of those patches whose name i will add here in a couple of hours.
14 Comments to getting (old) iPatch patches to work in Leopard
Well,the new ipatch’s execute file is named IPATCH and the olds is named IPATCHER.AND IT DOESNT WORK.DIDNT TRY TO RENAME IT
hi, when exploring the contents of the iPatch package (app) from the iPatch3.7.1.dmg, you need to navigate to Contents/Resources/iPatcher which is another app package. Explore the contents of that one and you’ll find the ipatcher file you need by going to Contents/MacOS.
The problem you encountered happens because you did go to /Contents/MacOS of the iPatch app package which was on the dmg.
hope this helps.
DanielNovember 25, 2008
Just great thanks, finally can play call of duty on my G5…
SarahFebruary 15, 2009
Hi — took your advice and looked into the patch for Knights of the Old Republic.. to get it to play no-cd on leopard. Under resources, the patch didn’t have the ipatch.. it only had it under contents/macos. suggestions?
Hi Sarah, the file under /contents/MacOS in the crack app package should be named “ipatcher”.
The resources folder you mention is in the iPatcher 3.7.1 package, the one you need to explore in order to get the new ipatcher to copy over the old ipatcher in the crack app package. Hope this helps, let me know if not.
DanielMarch 10, 2009
This worked perfectly. You gave me Doom 3 back thank you.
hoodieninjaApril 7, 2009
thank you soooooo much!!
i did the same thing sdf did but i got it figured out after a while
now i can play kotor
thanks again
bendizleApril 19, 2009
it wont let me move the iPatcher file…says that MacOS cannot be modified? suggestions?
zerospaceMay 7, 2009
Thank you! You are awesome!
GcarcassMay 9, 2009
It worked perfect! thanks.
SebastienMay 16, 2009
I found the ipatcher unix file. but it won’t let me put it back into the original contents/macOS folder. am i missing something? help would be greatly appreciated.
WilsonMay 16, 2009
so for original… you select ipatch.app
for checksum you select contents/resources/ipatcher/contents/macos/ipather
what do u select for modified…?
im having trouble replacing the old ipatcher in the crack with the new one
bugusnotMay 17, 2009
crack works fine with phikappa´s instruction BUT: app crashes while running when i try to store shots….everytime….any idea? sys: leopard
thanx
sebastien, make sure that you have write permissions on the crack app package. are you trying to modify it while the file is on a DMG image?
wilson: retrace the instructions carefully. all you need is the original crack application and the iPatcher app. You need to replace the ipatcher file you can find in the crack with the one you find inside another app package that is inside the iPatcher app
bugusnot: maybe the game you patched is not compatible with Leopard… that could always be the case.
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