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UNPACKED - team of UNPACKERS who love to share releases unpacked. Join us! (zerobytes.monster)

submitted 10 months ago by null@zerobytes.monster to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just letting you know of new site we are building.

https://community.unpacked.pw

Features:

For now we will mainly focus on PC games.
Sharing releases via p2p only (torrents).
Friendly community.
Sha256 checksums of release files so you can alway check the files are clean (no viruses, no malware).
You will find in our community only the UNPACKED releases! No zip, rar, iso, just unpacked files.
You can request releases.

❤️

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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 45 points 10 months ago

As a Linux user, I want to give you my sincerest thanks after going through so many broken unpackings from both FitGirl and Dodi

[-] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

PSA, FitGirl and Dodi setups do fail during installations on Proton and Lutris Wine, but if you were to run them using vanilla Wine they (generally) work perfectly. Just open a terminal in the downloaded folder and enter wine ./setup.exe. Just make sure you set the correct installation folder (e.g. Z:/home/username/games)

Update: the latest FitGirl setup for Cyberpunk 2077 didn't work on either

[-] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

The Dodi releases work almost every time on my Linux laptop using Bottles.

[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Please please prioritize Empress releases that usually work on Linux and on Windows, and a Windows user would not see the slightest difference.

I mean, if you go to Steamrip and download FH6 for SOME REASON it doesn’t run on Linux but on Windows, but if you download FH6 directly from the Empress Telegraph it works on both Linux and Windows, and Windows users don’t notice a difference

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

I'm not in the Empress telegram. Where can I find her releases? I genuinely haven't seen them much, and I mostly play old and/or indie titles because of lower resource usage.

[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

~~It’s not misspelled, it’s literally the Telegraph (not Telegram) of Empress. Search the pinned messages in the Empress chat.~~

Nvm, I'll DM you the link.

[-] dzervas@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

to me too please

[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It would be great some kind of sticker or banner by release that says "Steam Deck/Linux verified", maybe the users themselves are the ones who comment if it is compatible or not and the banner is added.

[-] lixus98@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Do unpacked releases need external cracks?

[-] null@zerobytes.monster 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Its normal scene releases but just unpacked (we also include UNPACKED.checksums to verify files was not modified), no rars, no zips, no isos.

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

So... do they need external cracks?

[-] null@zerobytes.monster 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Does scene release require crack? As i said its same releases as scene release, but just unpacked. So yes it require included crack.

[-] Witid@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

finally. depacks

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

I don’t get the point of sharing unpacked releases…

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 10 months ago

Without exaggeration I have had to download a zipped tar, that contained a rar split into ~100 parts, which contained an iso which contained a custom installer that extracted the compressed game files.

Seems to be overkill.

With an unpacked release I can pick and choose what to download, if it's on a newer patch level I can just point it at an existing folder and it will just download the difference. And of course I don't have to jump through the stupid installation hoops.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Sounds like this thing was redistributed multiple times before you got it lol

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

A lot of games will work on Linux but crash during unpacking.

I got in the habit of unpacking in a VM and transferring over after

[-] Aatube@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago

Unless you do one of these fitgirl-level things, Linux should have proper and error-free support for conventional formats such as ZIPs 7Zs and ISOs

[-] spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thats pretty much the entire point of this, they stated these are all scene releases. So fitgirl et al etc.

For some masochistic reason they sometimes come rar'd, iso'd, and custom windows based unpacker which is all really unnecessary and creates more points of potential failure for the linux gamer.

LinuzRules releases have linux .sh based unpackers, but even those arent guaranteed to work and can get stuck. I'd much rather just get the complete uncompressed files.

Tl;dr Scene releases use unpackers which often fail and multiple levels of unnecessary compression.