Thanks for the reply - it's hard being a SimCity lover on a Mac. Good luck! I hope you can get back to building soon
@FlabbaWokei - Thanks so much for the kind words, you made my week 🙂
@FlabbaWokei wrote:
And also, the file i copied was the 9a3b67c94bc96da0 file (part of the "Games" file)
That's the correct folder - make sure you copy all the contents, too. There should be a whole bunch of numbered folders inside; those are your region folders - which each contain your cities.
That top folder (9a3b67c94bc96da0) is named with a unique identifier for your copy of SimCity. If you have a different name for the PC folder, you could rename the copied folder to match it, just in case that makes a difference.
So... if the moving folders doesn't work, there is one more thing that you could try. It would involve a lot more work, but you could try opening a new region on the PC and then move just the individual city files from one computer to the other. My thought is if the regions are somehow corrupted, maybe you can salvage the cities. This Skye Storme video shows how to move a city from one save to another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5PYPRmRPs
There are a few options if you want to try to run SimCity on the iMac. You can read about them in This Post. I don't know anything about a 32-bit emulator specifically, but it sounds like it would work? This blog post by BluebellFlora gives very detailed steps on creating a bootable external drive to run your 32-bit apps, as well as some info on other options.
Please keep me posted - I really hope you're able to get them to transfer. Looking forward to Happy Building!
Hi @BlackjackWidow !
Sorry for the Iate repIy, extremeIy Iate haha. just got back into trying to get simcity back but i couIdn't ☹️ so i just went ahead and got aspyr instead RIP
Hi @FlabbaWokei - Good to hear from you, the past few months have been crazy, haven't they? I am sorry you couldn't get the old city back.
The Aspyr version works great on Catalina and is probably your best choice. Unfortunately, there have been many reports that it stopped working when people upgraded to Big Sur. I haven't heard anything recently, though. Are you running the Aspyr version on Big Sur? That would be fantastic news to hear. I hope they've figured it out 🤞
I've tried aspyr yesterday but it seems Iike, at Ieast for me, the graphics aren't as good as they were with the simcity through origin. So im trying to get a refund and if it works iII try getting an externaI drive to boot high sierra from. However, this wiII be deIayed because i dont have an externaI drive to back up my current OS first xD.
And yes im on cataIina right now, big sur is too IOS Iike for me.
Thanks for the reply - it's hard being a SimCity lover on a Mac. Good luck! I hope you can get back to building soon
