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How do you save things using the cross over platform? Im just having a hard time getting max hud

I am unsure what you're having trouble with. You just install them in the same place you would on windows. Mods, maxhud, etc. I think the trick is just making sure you are in the base directory that wine is looking for. Basically it just makes these virtual C drives. But they are just directories in your home dir usually. Mine is just in ~/.wine/drive_c

Crossover tries to handle all this for you. But uses crappier versions of wine. But if it works, then great.

I'm currently having trouble with my controllers once I updated to Sonoma. They kinda work but the mappings are wrong and none of the SDL maps I've tried seem to be applying. So I've just been running bikes from windows for now.

That being said I had zero problems with any mods, paints, maxhud, etc etc. Even got reshade working. Again its exactly like windows. Just find the appropriate directory that matches what it would be in windows. ~/.wine/drive_c/Users/.../Documents/Piboso etc

I was able to install and play the game through your tutorial, but how did you manage to get the mods working ?

The same way you install mods on windows. Just copy the mod files to the Documents directory. The actual path should be something like this on your computer:

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~/.wine/drive_c/users/{your_username}/Documents/PiBoSo/MX\ Bikes/mods/

I think I even got reshade working. Just had to override the native dlls.

[MX Bikes on MacOS]

MX Bikes on MacOS

I managed to get MX Bikes working great on MacOS directly using wine. I have an M1 Max MBP. My controller works great (8bitdo ultimate 2.4ghz) via usb, 2.4ghz, and bluetooth. They all work. Online racing, mods, and even MaxHUD all work great. Just copy them to your wine installation and you are ready to go.

The only thing I haven't figured out yet is getting rumble to work in controllers. Rumble effects, I've read, don't work for controllers using dinput. So I am looking in to getting xinput to work. Wireless xbox controllers and ps4-5 controllers seem to work on Mac. You just need to look that stuff up. The 8bitdo ultimates I bought for this are actually way better in my opinion. But I'm not much of a controller guy.


Commands Run

1. Install wine

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brew install --cask --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/wine-crossover
Optional: Now would be the time to setup your WINEPREFIX to get wine to install where you want. But this is optional.

To be safe, you can boot wine manually the first time by running `wine64 wineboot`

2. Download MX Bikes from mx-bikes.com
I have always had the version from mx-bikes.com. So it's easy to just install that version because they let you download the installer.

This will also work if you have the steam version of mx-bikes. What you would have to do is install the windows version of steam using wine. Then when that runs, use it to install mx-bikes. From that point you could either try running mx-bikes through steam or just run it directly using wine.

3. Install MX Bikes

In the terminal, find the directory where you've downloaded the mx bikes installer and then run:

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wine64 wine64 mxbikes-beta18d.exe
The installer will pop up. Click through and install the game.

4. Run it for the first time

After the game installs it'll be in your WINEPREFIX. Usually that's just in your home directory under the .wine directory. In there you'll see

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drive_c/Program Files/MX Bikes/mxbikes.exe
So just cd to that directory and then run `wine64 mxbikes.exe`

Optional controller mapping
For me, I needed to add environment variables for wine/sdl so that it knew all of the available buttons and mapping for my controller. You may need to do the same for yours unless you have a super well supported controller.

Basically just go here: SDL Controller Database

Get the string that matches your controller. Then when you start the game from the terminal you would set the environment variable like this:

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SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="03000000c82d00001130000011010000,8BitDo Ultimate Wired,a:b0...blahblahblah" wine64 mxbikes.exe
Once you get it all working, feel free to make a shortcut or helper script to launch it easier in the future.

Yeah the overlays work as long as you alt-tab and focus simhub. So something in bikes is running in like "always on top" mode. I'm looking through the configs now to see if there's a setting or something.

I made a pretty cool animated bike overlay in simhub so I can see my pitch and suspension travel in first person. But alt-tabbing just so I can see it is a paaaain. Simhub is so cool though.