Heyo, I recently posted some notes about cracking games on Linux. Those notes originally started as a reply to someone, but they evolved into more of a small treasure map for a lot of the important parts of cracking games on Linux. As I finished up the post, I noticed that it was almost exactly at the maximum length it could be on Lemmy (10k characters). I kept wanting to come back and expand just a little bit on something in that post but anything over 10k characters would not save. I eventually got so annoyed that one thing led to another and now I actually have a proper bible, this time at 100k characters.
The GNU Testament of the Linux Cracking Bible is located on GitHub: https://github.com/YoteZip/LinuxCrackingBible
A brief list of topics covered in it:
- Configuring Lutris
- Configuring Wine
- Sourcing clean games
- Discovering what DRM your game has
- Step-by-step guides for cracking each type of popular DRM using community tools:
- CEG (Steam Custom Executable Generation)
- Epic Online Services
- GFWL (Games for Windows Live)
- Origin
- Securom
- SteamDRM (Windows)
- SteamDRM (Linux)
- Steamworks API
- Uplay r1
- Uplay r2
- Xbox Live
- Some of my personal scripts for automated cracking
- Repacking games on Linux
My primary goals for this guide are to:
- Demystify cracked gaming on Linux
- Teach you to crack games by yourself, instead of relying on scene/p2p crackers
(Although it’s written primarily for Linux users, Windows users should be able to follow along fairly easily for the cracking guides.)
A very useful write-up, will definitely be adding these to my repertoire!
I’ve got all my 200+ games, mostly from Steam, working on Linux and have encountered many of the listed DRM but I mostly solved them using other groups cracks and mainly the Goldberg Emu.
This will certainly help me in the future, especially with some more obscure titles that don’t have many pre-cracked files flying around online, many thanks!