Lego Star Wars (DVD) (Mac)
by Aspyr Media
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Product Summary
Brand: AspyrPrimary Contributor: Macintosh
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Platform: Mac OS X
Model: SSNOWPUS00
Publisher: Aspyr Media
Product features:
- Unique world of LEGO toys meets prequel eras of Star Wars universe
- Choose from 30+ Star Wars characters; solve puzzles using special abilities
- Use The Force; progress through game to unlock new characters
- Hidden levels and vehicles; free-play mode adds to game's re-playability
- Single-player mode, plus "drop in, drop out" 2-player co-operative mode
- Lego Star Wars Death Star II
- LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship
- PC Gamer (1-year)
- LEGO Star Wars Rebel Scout Speeder
- LEGO Star Wars Motorized Walking AT-AT
Video Game Reviews of Lego Star Wars (DVD) (Mac)
Customer Review: Workaround for problem with OS X install to non-admin users
Summary: 2 Stars
[Copied here from a blog post of mine as this will be of interest to any OS X user buying this game]
I really dislike buying desktop computer games. The software quality is poor, and the vendor support is usually lousy.
Unfortunately my 9yo prefers Mac games to Wii games, so when he's earned a big incentive for overcoming a real challenge, we end up with another OS X game.
It's just as well there are so few of them.
The latest problem came with Aspyr's Lego Star Wars (DVD) (Mac) (2005). After I'd installed it my son couldn't play. It started up oddly, with a long video loop. A key press produced a gray screen, then the loop resumed. Finally it crashed.
So what was the problem? There's nothing like this on the Aspyr site and the only update patch is a long delayed and apparently troublesome fix supporting native execution on Intel Macs. I was running the game on my PPC G5 Mac.
I suspected a security/privileges bug. Game vendors, who usually outsource development to very junior engineers in international markets, rarely bother with security models. They build to the usual XP assumption (everyone runs as admin) then port the game to OS X.
Sure enough, from my admin account the game worked. I suspect the game tries to write to the Application folder. That's a no-no. Non-admin users on my system, including my usual account, don't have write privileges in the global Application folder.
I could have reinstalled to the user-specific application folder, but then the other kid accounts on the family machine would need their own installs. Since Leopard gives more control over permissions, I could have installed in a folder that everyone could write to.
In our case though I have an external drive with open space. OS X doesn't enforce permissions on external drives, so after installing there everyone could use it.
PS. On my G5 the game defaulted to lowest resolution. I set it to the penultimate resolution and it worked find and looked MUCH better.
Description of Lego Star Wars (DVD) (Mac)
LEGO Star Wars blends the unique world of LEGO with the adventure of Star Wars, for unforgettable action and fun. Live the most popular moments from The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of theSith. Episodes I to III come to life -- and you can become a part of the story!All games
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