this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
142 points (93.8% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

54698 readers
491 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was looking for the new Steam game...

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

man I thought you meant the tony hawk games for the playstation 1 and 2

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

LOL no PS = Pro Skater

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

ones of the torrent sites

Great, thanks...

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I went to 1337 and literally all I got was ads.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

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