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

  • Phantasm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    For older games I always recommend checking out MagiPack repacks, all their games are tested to work on Windows 7 and 10 but, thanks to the series of patches they pre-apply, they happen to be a plug&play experience on Linux too (and I don’t need to go through the hassle of checking particular fixes a game needs to run on modern hardware).

  • nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17·
    1 year 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/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. "

  • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
    162·
    1 year ago

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

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
      151·
      1 year 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.

      • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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.

        • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 year 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.

      • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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.

        • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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.

      • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

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

        • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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!

          • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year 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.

            • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              The black screen on startup was happening for me until I installed vcrun2015, which solved it. Have you tried creating the prefix through lutris?

              • Add a lutris game as “Wine”, then type in a folder where you want the prefix to be created (doesn’t have to exist yet).

              • Fill out the rest of the lutris info, e.g. wine version, DXVK, etc, and then click Save.

              • Click the dropdown next to the wineglass icon (near the play button), and click “Open Wine console”.

              • It will take a second to create your prefix, then it will open a console. Just exit out of the console.

              • Go back to the wineglass dropdown and click “Winetricks”

              • Wait for it to load, then do “Select the default prefix wineprefix” -> “Install a Windows DLL or component” -> select vcrun2015 -> Click OK.

              • It will install it in the background, and it should reopen the winetricks GUI when it’s done. If it doesn’t open the winetricks GUI, it might have failed. Try again and hope it works

              • After it installs, fill out the rest of the Lutris configuration and try to launch it with that prefix.

                • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Very strange. You could try installing vcrun2017 or vcrun2019 to see if one of those works instead, but otherwise my wine’s configuration doesn’t have anything special going on. I specifically made a new wine prefix every configuration attempt, and installing vcrun2015 was reproduceably the step that allowed the game to launch.

                  I have an AMD card, though that shouldn’t matter. You can potentially check the lutris log for the game to see if anything useful gets printed there. In my experience it rarely prints anything useful.

                  To my knowledge, wine isn’t really that complicated - there’s only a couple important components that decide whether something’s going to run or not, and I don’t think it should really change on a per-system basis outside of maybe GPU drivers.

                  Did you get Heavy Rain to work at least?

                  Edit: Also I can at least say with certainty that if you’re using Steamless + Goldberg to defeat the DRM that that is not where the problem is. The game itself is having trouble running for whatever reason.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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.