nonoche2/the-macos-games-fixes-repo

This project is not software you install or run. It is a plain text list, collected on GitHub, of known fixes for native Mac games that have trouble running on modern macOS or on Apple's own processors. It is meant as a reference for Mac gamers running into specific, common problems. One section covers picking an older version of a game on Steam when a newer update breaks compatibility, linking out to community discussions for games such as Garry's Mod and The Talos Principle. Another section deals with a common macOS security issue where certain games refuse to launch because of code signing problems. For games like Badland and Asterix and Obelix XXL Romastered, it gives a short Terminal command that re-signs the game's application file so macOS allows it to open, along with the exact steps for finding that file through Steam's local files option. A third section addresses game controller support, describing how to turn on a compatibility setting in macOS so a wider range of controllers work, and how to manually update a file called gamecontrollerdb.txt that many games use, through the SDL2 library, to recognize newer controllers such as Sony's DualSense. The instructions explain exactly where that file usually lives inside a game's application bundle and what to do if a game does not have one yet. The repository is honest about the limits of these fixes, noting that some of the listed games still have partial problems even after applying the workaround, such as missing sound or crashes on a specific level.