Help with japanese visual novels on OS X

[RubyBoyz]

 At this point I'm kinda at my wits end with the matter stated above. I have tried setting the local language setting to Japanese and using wine but no matter how much I fiddle the damn thing it refuses to work. I appreciate the help and I do understand that this is might not honestly be the best place to ask this question.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Could you at least say what you're asking about specifically?  Is it translation, are the games not running, are you getting errors or gibberish?

 

[Hoboy]

Most VNs need to have the disk mounted using something like Daemon Lite, so it usually requires a PC to run. Haven't even tried to get these to work on a Mac - do not want to do a virtual windows environment and/or run Wine...too much bother for me...

 

[leonardodna]

I've tried to run games on OSX using wine for quite a while, and unless they run on Unity, I had no luck making it work…


In your case, I do recommend that you run windows inside a VM. Install Virtual Box (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and use it to install windows. If you don't have a valid windows key, don't bother looking for torrents, you can use a developer VM from Microsoft itself, that let you run windows for about 90 days: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ 


If you have 4gb ram, set the VM to use 2gb and close all other applications before starting the VM. If you have 8 or more, you can assign 3gb to VM and use the mac normally (unless you have chrome opened with lots of tabs, if so I recommend closing it before starting the VM)


You can't run a Triple-A game with this setup, but I use it quite a while and had no problem running visual novels or other games found in this forum, like rpg maker, java games and such


I hope it helps! o/