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famouswolfe: I actually did write up a guide! I posted it in a different thread though, but I'll go ahead and repost it here too :-)

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Ok everyone, I'm going to share how I was able to get Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BG1 using BG2 engine) successfully and relatively painlessly installed on my Macbook Pro with OSX Mavericks.

Step 0. Download the following files:
GOG Baldur's Gate 1 Complete Mac client
GOG Baldur's Gate 2 Complete WINDOWS VERSION (yes, Windows version. It's important later, you'll see why...)
Baldur's Gate Trilogy mod v1.18 (as of this writing), which can be found here:
shsforums (dot) net/files/file/54-baldurs-gate-trilogy-weidu/ (GOG forums won't let me post actual links for whatever reason :-P )

Step 1. Do a clean, full installation of Baldur's Gate 1 as you normally would. Launch the game like normal, then exit out from the main menu.

Step 2. In Finder, navigate to your Applications folder, then right click on Baldur's Gate 1 and click "Show Package Contents." You'll see a file named "Wineskin," open it. Click on "Install Software." Point the installer to setup_baldurs_gate2.exe or whatever it's called (should be in your Downloads folder inside a file called Baldurs Gate 2 Complete). Note: This is the reason I had you download the Windows installer, because it's super easy to install via Wineskin. Once Baldur's Gate 2 has installed, you'll want to run the game and go through the setup process. You can accomplish that by setting Wineskin to run BGConfig.exe (right click BG1, show package contents, open Wineskin, click on Advanced, then under Windows EXE click "Browse" and point it to C:/GOG Games/Baldur's Gate 2/BGConfig.exe), then click "Test Run" at the bottom. Configure BG2 to your heart's content. Launch the game (point Wineskin launcher to run BGMain.exe in your BG2 file), then exit from the main menu.

Step 3. At this point you should be able to launch either game (BG1 or BG2) just by pointing Wineskin to the appropriate exe file. If so, great. If not, please make sure you installed the games the way I've instructed you to. Next, you're going to take the Baldur's Gate Trilogy mod (BGT118 or Weidu 1.18 whatever it's called) and extract it. Now, take the 3 files it extracted and Copy/Paste those inside your BG2 folder (once again, in Applications right click on BG1 -> show package content -> C:/GOG Games/Baldur's Gate 2).

Step 4. Navigate to C:/Windows/Command (you should still be inside your BG1 app folder anyways). You'll see a file called "Start.exe" (without quotes). Copy it (command-key + C or at the top of your screen click on Edit -> Copy) and paste the file in C:/GOG Games/Baldur's Gate 2 (command-key + V or Edit -> Paste).

Step 5. Go back to the BG1 Wineskin program (open it, click on Advanced). Point the exe launcher to the "start.exe" file you just pasted in your BG2 file (make sure the box is checked that says "use Start.exe"), and launch it by clicking "Test Run." Wineskin will open up a command prompt showing something like C:/GOG Games/Baldur's Gate 2 >
Type setup-bgt.exe and hit enter, this will begin the patching process. Follow the onscreen instructions (just asks a few simple mostly Y or N questions) and let it do it's thing. Get yourself a sammich or something as this takes a few minutes.

Step 6. In the Wineskin wrapper, point the EXE launcher to BGMain.exe found in your BG2 folder (should be found in C:/GOG Games/Baldur's Gate 2/BGMain.exe). VOILA!! You're golden!! Do note that this will basically allow you to play from the start of BG1 to the conclusion of BG2 using the graphically-superior BG2 engine. There's even a scripted event separating the two games so you'll know when you're moving into BG2. Have fun!!
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Greynth: Ok I've followed these steps to a "T" but once I reach step 5 and type in "setup-bgt.exe" I get to the step where it says "Do you want to Biff all new resources?" When I type "Y" the entire process stops and says "Path not found"

What may be the problem?
I'm having the same problem :( Anyone know how get to past this?
Post edited January 02, 2016 by bryantheshrubber
I'm also getting the same "Path not found" result, whether I choose to "biff all new resources" or not. I've tried a few different things but still no luck :(
Thansk for this.
Post edited January 16, 2016 by 4p0c41yp53n0w
Actually, if the Mac version is simply wrapped in wine, what is the point in DLing the Mac version? Can't I just DL the windows version of everything, copy them to the wine app then just follow all the GOG windows instructions? Is there something else about the mac version that I'm missing here? Thanks.
Looks like the latest release of the mac version doesn't have the wine file when you "show package contents" but the game is "wined" as a wine screen does show up when you run the thing. But also there's no mac version of BGT, widescreen or large font fix anyways.

For Mac users it's probably better go with the Enhanced Editions or if you're worried about those being buggy like some experienced users have reported (even as late as December 2015), you can just download the windows versions and use wine to install them and any add-ons to your hearts content. Hopefully it's all good and stable.
Post edited January 16, 2016 by 4p0c41yp53n0w
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4p0c41yp53n0w: Looks like the latest release of the mac version doesn't have the wine file when you "show package contents" but the game is "wined" as a wine screen does show up when you run the thing. But also there's no mac version of BGT, widescreen or large font fix anyways.

For Mac users it's probably better go with the Enhanced Editions or if you're worried about those being buggy like some experienced users have reported (even as late as December 2015), you can just download the windows versions and use wine to install them and any add-ons to your hearts content. Hopefully it's all good and stable.
Quite honestly, I spent the extra $$ and bought BG/BG2/IWD enhanced versions so I don't have to deal w/ this lol. You probably could just download the Windows versions and use Wine, but that would require the extra step of downloading Wine/creating a Wine skin etc which for most people won't be a problem but I try to keep things as simple as possible. Also, I'm not quite sure about the whole "Biff" issue that everyone else is having, it never came up for me. Did anyone find a fix? Maybe it's something to do w/ OSX El Capitan?
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Greynth: Ok I've followed these steps to a "T" but once I reach step 5 and type in "setup-bgt.exe" I get to the step where it says "Do you want to Biff all new resources?" When I type "Y" the entire process stops and says "Path not found"

What may be the problem?
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bryantheshrubber: I'm having the same problem :( Anyone know how get to past this?
Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the same "path not found" error at this stage of the setup-BGT install in wine.