Oh I had no idea! Thank you so much for the guide. I did as you instructed and I just uploaded. Would you mind telling me if it worked?
1 year ago (+1)
Nope. I'm not sure what you did wrong, but I looked inside and the file structure isn't correct. See below. The top is the Game → Contents folder of my exported game. For yours at the bottom, Game → Contents has only Resources, and there is a separate Contents folder at the top level that shouldn't be there as well.
My guess is that you did something wrong around steps 5, 6 or 7. It looks like you downloaded the correct NWJS, but maybe you repackaged the folders incorrectly. I mean, how come there is Contents next to Game? I'll try it on my Windows machine tomorrow and see how it looks there.
I think you took Contents from the new NWJS and just put it inside the old one before zipping them. The correct thing to do is delete the whole NWJS zip folder for Mac, then replace it with the new folder you downloaded (following the instructions closely).
In step 6, you select both Credits and Game, then right-click → zip. Rename that new zip file as nwjs-osx-unsigned.zip.
It was def step 6 I did wrong, cause when I extracted the first time it had another folder above that, and that is what I zipped in the end, instead of zipping credits and game. Cause when you said zip contents inside folder, not folder itself. I was 2 folders above and wasn't sure if you meant the one folder within, or the credits and game inside that. Given your comment here I now see where I went wrong and will try again.
1 year ago(+1)
Hmm, it still doesn't work, but I don't think it's your fault this time. It might have something to do with Windows not playing well with Mac again. I'll look into it tomorrow (it's 2am here).
1 year ago(+2)
I think I’ve found the problem. It seems like you’re not supposed to unzip/extract osx-unsigned on Windows, as it ruins filepaths.
Here’s a different workaround, but it won’t work as the NWJS version provided is way too old. I might have to do that step for you and then upload the file. The steps are similar: edit package.json, download Normal NWJS (from me?), but instead of exporting the Mac version, you export the Web version instead, then place all your files into a specific folder in the zip without extracting it.
That’s a bit annoying. I thought MV only had a problem with newer Macs, but the Mac export button doesn’t actually work to begin with if you’re on Windows? I wonder if MZ has the same problem as well.
So I'm trying one more thing, then I can try the web version if that doesn't pan out. I had a cheapy laptop around I hardly use. I installed Zorin on it and B1 archiver. I just followed your instructions again, but this time on the linux OS and B1. I'm going to upload it now and see if it is any better.