Saturn Region tool for Mac?

[tdawg]

Hello,

I've been scratching my head trying to find a tool to patch region using PowerPC Leopard OS X. I've burnt several games that were European region originally and patched a game on my linux box, but i can't seem to find a tool which is Mac OS/Darwin native.

It seems a lot of trouble to go to installing linux on this Mac, is there any way of doing it? Perhaps a linux shell script which will also run from command line on Mac?

Thanks, and thanks to Racketboy for this amazing site

[Hatta]

I think this script might help you. Mac is UNIX, so you should have a perl interpreter available. You can probably also find mpg123 and cdrdao in fink.

I looked at the code for region patching. It looks pretty simple. If you just want to do one or two, you can use a hex editor. If it's a bin/cue go to 0x50 and place a U. If it's an ISO, go to 0x40 and place a U. I haven't tried it on my saturn, but I checked out a couple ISOs and that appears to be how it goes. Hope that helps.

[tdawg]

I had a little trouble with cdrao on fink and Darwin ports was down.

To my shame, stayed at a friend's and ended up using windoze, region patcher and cue maker are great tools. In future will prob just patch on Ubuntu then burn on Mac.

Thanks for help

[Hatta]

If all you need is patching, you should be able to cut out the parts that use cdrdao. It's a pretty simple script.