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kadu 34 points 3 years ago
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nowayhosay 7 points 3 years ago

yeah when i downloaded mario golf super rush, the emulator runs and sounds like the games working but i get a black screen. spent 5mins dicking around with it before i gave up. was still impressed at the simplicity of it all though

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Gatsby 9 points 3 years ago

Switching the renderer to vulkan helped for me

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nowayhosay 7 points 3 years ago

thanks mate, solved it for me too

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mdwhite999 6 points 3 years ago

That's a really creative solution

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Phantasm 23 points 3 years ago
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CorrodedCranium 4 points 3 years ago

Useful for abandonware games like the first two Sims games

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zikk_transport2 3 points 3 years ago

Seamlessly on Linux? I am in! Thanks!

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nowayhosay 17 points 3 years ago

For me it was downloading Quarantine that i originally had in 1994 on 3DO. Not the game so much, just that i totally forgot copy protection was done via physical codes back then.

here's how it looked, for example the game would give you a Weight and MPH value and you'd have to supply the 3 digit number that corresponds

https://archive.org/...

"This a scan of the "Red Card", a copy protection scheme for Quarantine. This was black text on a deep red background that was hard to copy by black and white copiers of the era. Color copiers, which cost about a dollar a page had to be used. "

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TechnologyClassroom 7 points 3 years ago

The copy protection for Quarantine was particularly interesting because it was thematic. Given the weight of a pedestrian and the speed of your car, how far will the body fly?

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nowayhosay 1 point 3 years ago

about 3 fiddy. actually i have no idea don't tell anybody though thanks

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mambabasa 13 points 3 years ago

The LinuxRulez repacks sometimes include Windows games that work almost natively on Linux with some WINE magic.

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yote_zip 14 points 3 years ago

With the way you worded it, I just want to make sure you're aware that practically every windows game works on linux nowadays. You can install windows repacks/anything through lutris with minimal tweaking. Not only do cracks almost always work on linux, they sometimes even help compatibility by stripping out DRM junk.

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nivenkos 2 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately older games often have issues.

I was trying to fix Capitalism Lab for a while, but still couldn't manage it.

It only redraws the rectangle around the cursor rather than the whole screen, it must be something to do with the clipper in DirectDraw and that conversion to framebuffer objects in OpenGL.

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yote_zip 4 points 3 years ago

Yep, I just downloaded a copy and tried it out and it's definitely a weird one. Old games are quite hit and miss, even on windows. Oftentimes, linux will run older games better with its array of compatibility tools, but you can still get unlucky and come across some game programmed via punchcards and duck sounds.

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minimar 1 point 3 years ago

In my experience a lot of cracks don't work. I can't get DOOM 2016 or Heavy Rain to work, for example.

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yote_zip 1 point 3 years ago

Hi!

Doom 2016 has SteamDRM and Steamworks API protection, so you can crack it with Steamless + Goldberg Steam Emu. It additionally requires winetricks'ing vcrun2015 or it will crash on startup. I suspect the vcrun2015 part is why you were having trouble, not the cracks you were trying. I launched it via the vulkan executable

Heavy Rain has SteamDRM and Steamworks API protection, so you can crack it with Steamless + Goldberg Steam Emu. I was able to get this to work without any other modifications. When starting the game, there was a popup about steam controller configuration something or other, but clicking "cancel" let the game start normally.

My configuration for both games, if it matters:

  • Wine-GE 7-37
  • DXVK 2.2
  • VKD3D 2.8
  • Esync+Fsync enabled
  • NVAPI enabled

I wrote a guide for linux cracking here that might help in the future if you didn't see it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19693

Hope you get to play these games now!

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minimar 1 point 3 years ago

So, here's how I've tried to do this:

  • Running the vulkan executable via lutris with Wine-GE, DXVK, VKD3D
  • I've created a winetricks prefix called 'doom' with vcrun2015 ticked, and set it to use that prefix in lutris.

Still just a black screen at startup.

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mambabasa 1 point 3 years ago

Personally, I haven't gotten a crack to work that wasn't a LinuxRulez or Linux native repack. I can keep trying though. I know others have gotten it to work.

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yote_zip 8 points 3 years ago path: 0 195252 195412 204638 213396, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 1
mambabasa 3 points 3 years ago

I'd give you gold but I have no money and that's not a thing here. Cheers pal.

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themoonisacheese 1 point 3 years ago

I install all of my cracks through Bottles and I've only ever had a problem with SimCity 2014, which is notoriously incompatible with a lot of things.

Just set up bottles, press "run executable" on the setup and afterwards bottles automatically shows the desktop shortcuts that would appear on a windows machine as a list of programs you can run. I've even had luck with running adjacent tools, for example VTOL for titanfall2 and my GTA mod menu injector.

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mambabasa 1 point 3 years ago

Bottles is something I haven't looked into yet. Thanks.

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jws_shadotak 10 points 3 years ago

There was a DODI GTA4 repack that included a shit ton of mods. That was a really neat one.

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DigDoug 5 points 3 years ago

I guess it's not really the kind of notable that you're looking for, but ages ago a friend of mine downloaded a copy of Counter Strike: Source, which played the Death song To Forgive Is to Suffer in the main menu. It became literally the only death metal song he ever liked, evidently due to a tenuous connection with Counter Strike.

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CorrodedCranium 2 points 3 years ago

That does sound quite memorable

I'm not sure why but that made me wonder about other repacks like that and I wonder if someone has ever bundled the Star Wars mod for Call of Duty 4 together with the base game.

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Xanthrax 2 points 3 years ago

Did know about Gnarly's. I'm gonna check that out.

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thanks for using Leebra!

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