How to install SPORE using Cedega

I try to use my Windows partition just for development for Windows applications (which I have been doing quite a lot) but today I have decided to take a day off and do some geeky stuff.

A couple of days ago I decided to by Spore and I used the EA on-line store. My Idea was to install the game on my OpenSuse installation where I have Cedega installed. I tried a couple of times to install the EA Downloader manager in my Linux partition, but there was no way… and I was not the only one:

• Spore Creator Full and Cedega
• Spore

I managed to get the game working on Cedega doing the following:

1. Download the game using the ea downloader on Windows. You can tell the downloader where to store the cached data, that is the data we need to install the game.

2. Copy the data in to you Linux partition, beware that the folder is more or less 3.5 gb.

3. Locate the Spore installer, you cache folder should be like this

   drwxr-xr-x 5 mandel users 4096 2008-09-26 15:27 .
   drwxr-xr-x 3 mandel users 4096 2008-09-26 14:07 ..
   drwxr-xr-x 4 mandel users 4096 2008-09-27 23:54 { 2268736493 }
   drwxr-xr-x 2 mandel users 4096 2008-09-28 00:54 { Anonymous }
   drwxr-xr-x 2 mandel users 4096 2008-09-26 15:27 logs
   -rw-r--r-- 1 mandel users 3682 2008-10-12 10:58 Prefs.ead
   

   The installer is in the spore_dd folder within the dir with {} braces:

   drwxr-xr-x 4 mandel users 4096 2008-09-27 23:54 .
   drwxr-xr-x 5 mandel users 4096 2008-09-26 15:27 ..
   drwxr-xr-x 5 mandel users 4096 2008-09-27 23:54 spore_dd
   drwxr-xr-x 6 mandel users 4096 2008-09-27 12:46 spore_scc_main
   

4. Start the normal installation process with Cedega.

You might get some errors when starting the game, I have ignore them and everything seems to go fine :)

In case you want to know my system is:

• OpenSuse 11.0 64

• Cedega Engine 6.1.0; GUI 000133