Portal of Power on OSX

Shadows451 · 04-22-2019, 08:30 PM #1

Hey,

I was looking around the forums for help on how to set up the portal of power for skylanders on mac, but seemingly can't find anything. Im not sure on how to get the drivers and I have zero clue how to compile things on GitHub so I'm kinda stuck. I want to play giants (I own the wii version).

Any help is appreciated! Smile

**JonnyH** · 04-23-2019, 04:48 AM #2

MacOS ships with the drivers as part of the OS release - you don't (and even can't) install/update the drivers from those that they ship. Note that on MacOS the OpenGL drivers are pretty bad and don't support some extensions dolphin likes for best performance (and even warns about some missing when starting any games) - but the new development releases contain a Vulkan->Metal wrapper that can help, so make sure you're on the "vulkan" backend before worrying about performance.

And if you don't want to actually modify dolphin, you can just use the prebuilt images here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ - they include MacOS files, so should be easy enough Smile

**ExtremeDude2** · 04-23-2019, 10:39 AM #3

Are you trying to set up the portal or install dolphin in the first place?

Shadows451 · 04-23-2019, 06:38 PM #4

(04-23-2019, 10:39 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Are you trying to set up the portal or install dolphin in the first place?

I’m trying to set up the portal (the one where you put the figures...) to play the game, dolphin is all ready to go for the game

Shadows451 · 04-23-2019, 06:41 PM #5

(04-23-2019, 04:48 AM)JonnyH Wrote: MacOS ships with the drivers as part of the OS release - you don't (and even can't) install/update the drivers from those that they ship. Note that on MacOS the OpenGL drivers are pretty bad and don't support some extensions dolphin likes for best performance (and even warns about some missing when starting any games) - but the new development releases contain a Vulkan->Metal wrapper that can help, so make sure you're on the "vulkan" backend before worrying about performance.

And if you don't want to actually modify dolphin, you can just use the prebuilt images here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ - they include MacOS files, so should be easy enough

I think you are a confused or I was a bit unclear, the portal is a usb device you use to play the game as you need figures, however dolphin can’t see it and it needs drivers which are only on windows. I am trying to get windows on my system but to no avail. Thanks for trying to help though!

**JonnyH** · 04-24-2019, 02:12 AM #6

(04-23-2019, 06:41 PM)Shadows451 Wrote: I think you are a confused or I was a bit unclear, the portal is a usb device you use to play the game as you need figures, however dolphin can’t see it and it needs drivers which are only on windows. I am trying to get windows on my system but to no avail. Thanks for trying to help though!

Yeah, you're right - I didn't realise the "portal of power" was a usb device Smile