Moving to Linux soon, and wondering how pirated games work with it. I know about proton with steam and lutris for most bought games, but how would I run pirated windows games over there?

  • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    39 months ago

    I’m so very confused.

    Vimm.net seems to be entirely comprised of emulators.

    I found it on c/crackwatch. It links to this predb site which prompts you to download a text file that has the same instructions in it as the website. The first instruction says “extract”. Extract what? It also says I have to change firewall settings so the game can’t connect to the internet and I’ve no idea how to do that.

    I don’t see Tony Hawk or any other games on that megathread site.

    All these torrent sites just seem to link back and forth to each other.

    Search results for a good place to find Torrents turn up nothing but VPN ads.

    • moosetwin
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      39 months ago

      vimm.net has emulators, but they also have Playstation 1 - 3 games under the Vault section.

    • @kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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      19 months ago

      vimm is for old console/handheld games. on the megathread link go to the games section, go to ones of the torrent sites in general purpose and look up tony hawk

        • @kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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          29 months ago

          If you can’t click 3-5 links within the megathread rentry link and search for one the game you want on lets say 1337, then maybe paying is more your speed

                • @kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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                  19 months ago

                  I don’t know what else to tell you, you go to 1337, search for tony hawk, select the upload that’s for the 1+2 remake and open the magnet link or torrent file with your torrent client of choice. that’s all the spoon feeding you’ll get.

                  • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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                    19 months ago

                    I don’t need “spoon feeding”. I just need a torrent site that doesn’t have literally every button redirect to ads.

          • moosetwin
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            19 months ago

            If you live in one of those countries that go after pirate torrenters, (i.e. the united states) then you either shell out money for a VPN or get rate limited by one of the shitty free ones.