TWD Season 1: Unofficial alternative PC/Mac episode download options

DjNDB · September 2012

JBelin · September 2012

Could someone please post the mac files asap?

DjNDB · September 2012

JBelin wrote: »

Could someone please post the mac files asap?

Why don't you upload the .json files?

blackvulcan3 · September 2012

The mac files requested are in the zip file

DjNDB · September 2012

Thanks blackvulcan3. I added an automatic Download option to the first post.
I'll check the .json files now.

blackvulcan3 · September 2012

Great work DjNDB, big ups from the whole TT mac community!!!

DjNDB · September 2012

Just added the Mac files for manual download.

JBelin · September 2012

DjNDB, you're a star! Downloading now!

Carnzoid · September 2012

I downloaded the files for episode 2 manually and put them in the folder.
Here's what happend:

-First try, I go to the download content section, and press "get" on episode 2, it waits for a minute, then it says it's installed. So I go to the save game where I just finished ep 1, and press play.
The game crashes.

- Second try, I repeat until the pressing the "get" button part, it also waits for a while, but then starts to download....
I quit and check the folder where the files should be, and half of the files are erased because it started re-downloading. Silly me forgot to backup the ep 2 files so I have to download them again manually which takes ages with my connection

Anyone else with this problem?

Carnzoid · September 2012

Tried it again with ep2 now, and now it works again.
Haven't tried with 3 yet, but I'll be making backups when I try to start up that ep.

prman · September 2012

Okay, sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, but I cannot find the Telltale games folder on my Mac. Found Library and application support folders, but no Telltale games folder in there. Any ideas, or am I just looking in the wrong effing place!

DjNDB · September 2012

prman wrote: »

Okay, sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, but I cannot find the Telltale games folder on my Mac. Found Library and application support folders, but no Telltale games folder in there. Any ideas, or am I just looking in the wrong effing place!

You have the first episode installed, right?

JBelin · September 2012

It kinda works... all kinds of errors with save games though. Sometimes it saves and then i can't play the game again without the "GET" button coming back...

blackvulcan3 · September 2012

prman wrote: »

Okay, sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, but I cannot find the Telltale games folder on my Mac. Found Library and application support folders, but no Telltale games folder in there. Any ideas, or am I just looking in the wrong effing place!

If you have Lion installed the right Library folder is hidden. Go to Finder and press the "option" key while in the Go menu.

You should see Library appear in the drop down. Select that library folder.

prman · September 2012

Thanks for that Vulcan, your instructions are brilliant, even for a novice.
To TTG, if this guy is not on your payroll, make it happen. Seriously!
I know your CRM might be small, perhaps even non-existent, but I think the dedication, patience and persistence of everyone who has struggled with downloading extra episodes is testament to our love of the game and the world you are trying to create. Work with us, and we will work with you.
cheers

stetner · September 2012

So, for episode 2, the mac files are name like this?

0_98_103backpatch.ttarch
0_99_patch.ttarch
1_WalkingDead102_english_pc_data.ttarch
2_WalkingDead102_english_pc_voice.ttarch
3_WalkingDead102_english_pc_ms.ttarch
4_WalkingDead102_english_pc_tx.ttarch
5_WalkingDead102_english_pc_mesh.ttarch
6_WalkingDead102_english_pc_anichore.ttarch
7_mac_shaders.ttarch

Because although it seems to work, as in 'Get' seems to work and show episode 2 installed, the game shows textures all screwed up and controls do not seem to work. I can see a scarecrow (I think) but the textures are all pink.

Thanks for the update, but it is still not working for me at the moment.

Doug

stetner · September 2012

Now that I have restarted the game, I am back to having to 'Get' episode 2 and it starts the Internet download again. I kept copies of the files so will try again, but I don't think this is a fix just yet.

stetner · September 2012

Re-copied the files and now it starts up OK, although it just froze up on me after a minute of play. Sigh.

DjNDB · September 2012

stetner wrote: »

So, for episode 2, the mac files are name like this?

The filenames are correct.

Can anyone else give feedback on whether it worked for them or not, and whether that's PC or Mac?

I just fixed an issue with the python script. It was downloading all files to "WalkingDead102" instead of the individual folders. Sorry about that.

DjNDB · September 2012

stetner wrote: »

Re-copied the files and now it starts up OK, although it just froze up on me after a minute of play. Sigh.

Sadly i don't have a Mac, so i can't test it myself. There's a slight chance, that some of the files were corrupted during download. Can you post the MD5 checksums of your files?

stetner · September 2012

I verified the md5sums and they are as in the json file. It does seem to be working now after yet another restart. Hopefully I will not have to whinge about this any more.

DjNDB · September 2012

stetner wrote: »

I verified the md5sums and they are as in the json file. It does seem to be working now after yet another restart. Hopefully I will not have to whinge about this any more.

That's great to hear

Carnzoid · September 2012

stetner wrote: »

Re-copied the files and now it starts up OK, although it just froze up on me after a minute of play. Sigh.

Try it again a couple of times, eventually it will just work.

prman · September 2012

The files work fine on Mac. Had the weird pink textures when I first started it. Escaped, restarted, set all graphics to max and everything worked fine. Thanks for helping, it is muchly appreciated!

Carnzoid · September 2012

Small update on my part, I tried starting the game up after installing the ep3 files for mac, it freezes at the loading screen in the beginning.

EDIT

And it finally worked after a couple of ttries.
Pretty weird that it's impossible to get the files working fine right away.

heavymetalking · September 2012

its all to hard for serious novice. i cant even find the TTG folder in app support in library. even after i press the option button. money well spent. so annoying coz ep 1 was so good. given up

lidermanrony · September 2012

My episode 3 xml was called WalkingDead103.updated.json.
Since the script looks for WalkingDead103.json it doesn't work.

once i opened the python script with notepad and changed line 5 to:
json_name = name_base + ".updated.json"
everything works.
Thanks Djndb!

Vidar · September 2012

Massively dissapointed by this game.... Loved playing ep 1, worked perfect on my Mac Pro. Tries to download ep 2 and it naturally freezes on the magical number 99.55..

And the worst part is that ep 3 downloads perfectly!

Can´t get any of the fixes to work..

Seems like I wasted money on this game... Why can´t any working for Telltale reply on this forum? Scared?

It is getting more and more likely that i NEVER will spend any money again on a Telltale product.

EDIT:
I finally managed to get it to work...

The manual downloading of the files worked. Thanks for the help.

daddad111 · September 2012

You sir, deserve 5 stars. The manual download worked for my Mac, and it played just fine. Episode 3 is downloading as we speak.

LedFlava · September 2012

Why is this even necessary? Why can't we just click on the "get" and have it get the episodes? Mine won't download either 2 or 3 without supposedly timing out and losing connection.

I've followed your instructions and the TWD_Json_Downloader doesn't seem to be downloading anything. Certainly hasn't created any of the episode folders as suggested.

This seems a little bit ridiculous when we should be able to download the updates from within the game anyway........

Just frustrated as I'd love to continue with the next 2 episodes but this seems very broken IMO

DjNDB · September 2012

LedFlava wrote: »

Why is this even necessary? Why can't we just click on the "get" and have it get the episodes? Mine won't download either 2 or 3 without supposedly timing out and losing connection.

I've followed your instructions and the TWD_Json_Downloader doesn't seem to be downloading anything. Certainly hasn't created any of the episode folders as suggested.

It's just a workaround, which is better than nothing until there is an official patch.

If you installed python, and copied the .json files right next to the TWD_Json_Downloader.py, it should work.

I just updated the TWD_Json_Downloader.py to show error messages in even more cases.
It now also checks if the file is called ".updated.json" instead of just ".json".

Please download the latest version and try again. Should it still fail, please post the output/error messages.

LedFlava · September 2012

DjNDB wrote: »

It's just a workaround, which is better than nothing until there is an official patch.

If you installed python, and copied the .json files right next to the TWD_Json_Downloader.py, it should work.

I just updated the TWD_Json_Downloader.py to show error messages in even more cases.
It now also checks if the file is called ".updated.json" instead of just ".json".

Please download the latest version and try again. Should it still fail, please post the output/error messages.

thanks for the updated file. this one worked as it should have and created folders, and downloaded the episodes. There's one extra file in the ep 2 folder than the manually downloaded files. Haven't tried the episodes yet but i appreciate your help in getting this done

BenTheWater · September 2012

If I use the manual way, does this mean I have to constantly copy and paste it into the respective files of the particular episode until I start the game and the 'GET' icon changed to installed?

DjNDB · September 2012

BenTheWater wrote: »

If I use the manual way, does this mean I have to constantly copy and paste it into the respective files of the particular episode until I start the game and the 'GET' icon changed to installed?

You should only have to copy the files once, and then press the "get" icon.

BenTheWater · September 2012

DjNDB wrote: »

You should only have to copy the files once, and then press the "get" icon.

I did. And the first time it worked. But when i started the game, at the beginning at the previously on walking dead it had images, but slowly only voices. So i restarted. And when I on it back, it required me to click GET again. But this time it started to DL again.

DjNDB · September 2012

BenTheWater wrote: »

I did. And the first time it worked. But when i started the game, at the beginning at the previously on walking dead it had images, but slowly only voices. So i restarted. And when I on it back, it required me to click GET again. But this time it started to DL again.

I don't know why that is.
Are the files you downloaded and copied still in the right place?

BenTheWater · September 2012

I saw a previous comment saying the same thing by Carnzoid. Sadly, I did not backup too. So I trying again and hopefully as them, a few tries shall stabilize it.

DjNDB · September 2012

BenTheWater wrote: »

I saw a previous comment saying the same thing by Carnzoid. Sadly, I did not backup too. So I trying again and hopefully as them, a few tries shall stabilize it.

I don't know if it has any influence, but you can try if deleting the contents of
%userprofile%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\SyncFs\Temp
helps, if available. That's where the game downloads the files before it copies them over.

BenTheWater · September 2012

DjNDB wrote: »

I don't know if it has any influence, but you can try if deleting the contents of
%userprofile%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\SyncFs\Temp
helps, if available. That's where the game downloads the files before it copies them over.

Delete the whole folder?

DjNDB · September 2012

BenTheWater wrote: »

Delete the whole folder?

The files inside, if there are any.

BenTheWater · September 2012

OMG! It worked! Yeahhhhhhh! Thanks so much dude! Life saver!:p

TWD Season 1: Unofficial alternative PC/Mac episode download options

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