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.

❤️

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.ukEnglish
    45·
    1 year 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.orgEnglish
      13·
      1 year 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

    • Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year 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

  • Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year 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.

    • null@zerobytes.monsterOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year 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.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
      31·
      1 year 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.

    • oldGregg@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      1 year 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
        4·
        1 year 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.comEnglish
          13·
          1 year 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.