Apple game-porting-toolkit steps for Japanese software

game-porting-toolkit-jp-walkthrough.sh

#!/bin/bash

# not intended to be run as a script, some steps require GUI actions

# install Rosetta 2
softwareupdate --install-rosetta

# switch to i386
# using full path here to prevent Homebrew-provided zsh, which is only arm64, to be invoked and return errors
arch -x86_64 /bin/zsh

# install x86_64 brew and alias it for easier future use
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
alias brew_x86_64="/usr/local/bin/brew"

# install game-porting-toolkit (takes a lot of time)
brew_x86_64 tap apple/apple https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple
brew_x86_64 -v install apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit

# set up envvars and aliases for convenience
# WINEPREFIX can be anything you like at this point, and folder does not have to exist
export GAME_PORTING_TOOLKIT="/usr/local/Cellar/game-porting-toolkit/1.0"
export WINE="$GAME_PORTING_TOOLKIT/bin/wine64"
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/gameportingtoolkit"
alias apple_wine="$GAME_PORTING_TOOLKIT/bin/wine64"

# set Windows version to Windows 10 via GUI
# wine prefix folder is set up at this time
apple_wine winecfg

# download toolkit and copy binary libs to brew game-porting-toolkit formula path
# if wget does not work: https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=game%20porting%20toolkit
wget https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Game_porting_toolkit_beta/Game_porting_toolkit_beta.dmg
open Game_porting_toolkit_beta.dmg
ditto /Volumes/Game\ Porting\ Toolkit-1.0/lib/ $GAME_PORTING_TOOLKIT

# winetricks font replacement install
brew_x86_64 install winetricks
winetricks cjkfonts fakejapanese

# copy game files
cp ~/game_path/game.exe $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/crossover/Desktop/game.exe

# execute while setting LANG and LC_ALL to ja_JP.UTF-8 to ensure Japanese text is rendered properly
alias apple_wine_jp="LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 MTL_HUD_ENABLED=1 WINEESYNC=1 apple_wine"
apple_wine_jp "C:\users\crossover\desktop\game.exe"