Hi! The game is playable on the Mac OSX, but it requires some small work...to run game using WINE...so you don't have to install a whole windoze OS in a virtual machine...
Was able to run the VN in Mac OSX Lion, using WINESKIN (another free implementation of WINE for the Mac, google is your friend)…Using WINESKIN wrapper version 2.5.5, and WS8WineCX11.0.0 engine…sometimes WINESKIN gives an error and won’t run game at start, but relaunching the game in WINESKIN seems to go ok…
WINESKIN "wraps" the PC game, and creates a double-clickable MAC-LIKE app...!
Initially, I was able to run the game, see the title screen, hear the background music, but when starting the game, only black screen, subtitles, and sound/speech…but no video…
Eventually got the video working with these settings & installations from WINETRICKS…
a) Wine set to WindowsXP
b) Installed the CCCP codecs
c) Installed MSXML4
d)Installed Windows Media Player 10
e) Installed DirectX9
f)Visual C++ runtimes vcrun2005, vcrun2008, vcrun2010, vcrun6sp6
For “c” & “d” kinda came from the official WINE compatibility list, but it was for the original School Days, not the HQ version…but it was worth a try…and don’t think the YUV thingy on that page applies to the HQ version…
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9404
Not sure how many OSX gamers out there are using WINESKIN or other WINE implementations to play the mainly PC/WINTEL-only eroge games…there’s hope for playing VN/eroge on OSX. So, hope this helps, and hopefully we can hear & learn more about OSX eroge/H-games players out there, and how they are getting the games to work on OSX...especially some ILLUSION games...since the models seem to be broken in many games in WINESKIN...
Game seems to work, but I haven’t played enough to know…but it has all the ingredients of an excellent VN! thanks!