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Some of them that come to mind for me are:

  • FitGirl's Escape from Tarkov repack that featured a single player mod

  • FitGirl's Half Life Alyx repack that with the NoVR mod

  • Gnarly's Tale of Two Wastelands repack that had everything ready to go after the install. No need to install both Fallout 3 & New Vegas and wait hours for things to compile

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not the most interesting repack per se, but I always found it interesting how they got around games not released on PC or Epic exclusives with hard to beat DRM: they pack the Nintendo Switch version + decryption keys + Yuzu + config files. Some even include a custom shortcut directly to the game, and boot Yuzu in fullscreen.

That's how FitGirl repacks Tony Hawk's remakes, for instance.

[–] mdwhite999@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's a really creative solution

[–] nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switching the renderer to vulkan helped for me

[–] nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

thanks mate, solved it for me too

[–] nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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/details/CopyProtectionQuarantine

"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. "

[–] TechnologyClassroom@partizle.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I was going to write a quick reply with general linux cracking notes, and it turned into not a quick guide: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19693

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Saintzillla@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@jws_shadotak

Crazy, I'm 99% sure he just put out a GTA5 repack that is supposed to be an insane overhaul.

@CorrodedCranium

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