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Can confirm it works as of 05/25/25. Used the video as a guide, but learned that you can do it faster. Guide for others and other games that have this issue. Double click/right click the original folder after unzipping, "new terminal at folder". This will open the terminal with the name of the actual folder you want to look in. Next type: Chmod +x (spacebar) the entire folder/game icon. You should have the folder in another tab to drag and drop into this command. Once done, click enter. It spits out random text. Show contents of the game icon with right click. Then drag the Mac OS game item(for when you did show contents and it shows the single file within MacOS) into the Terminal and click enter. It will give you permissions finally. I looked at other games in my library without this issue and they all the file as an executable(computer screen icon) and not that paper text icon. It will turn the paper icon into an exec and you can play as normal! Just allow permissions as normal.

 If you wanna try for other games, just "chmod +x" the base game application, then whole contents folder, then the contents folder, then chmod +x again for the MacOS(the whole folder) and then finally chmod +x the gamefile within the MacOS folder. It changes the icon and thats how you'll know it will work. This way for it to be on the safe size, just giving permissions for everything to execute lol. Just work your way from the outside to the inner most game app file lol, I just did it again with another game with more files.  I had to chmod +x for a total of 6x, but all I did was drag and drop the files. Once you get used to it, its easy. Hope this helps.