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Linux Cracking Bible - The GNU Testament (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by yote_zip@pawb.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.)

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[–] YMS@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this called The GNU Testament, making it sound like it would be a core document of the GNU project, which put a lot of work and thought (including a couple of actually fundamental documents) into the development of a free and open operating system, and has plenty little to do with cracking games?

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, this guide is targeted at GNU/Linux users, so I thought I'd have some fun with that and make the title into a pun based on "the new testament" from the christian bible (since this is the second edition of this guide).