Some of them that come to mind for me are:

  • FitGirl’s Escape from Tarkov repack that featured a single player mod

  • FitGirl’s Half Life Alyx repack that with the NoVR mod

  • Gnarly’s Tale of Two Wastelands repack that had everything ready to go after the install. No need to install both Fallout 3 & New Vegas and wait hours for things to compile

  • Phantasm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    For older games I always recommend checking out MagiPack repacks, all their games are tested to work on Windows 7 and 10 but, thanks to the series of patches they pre-apply, they happen to be a plug&play experience on Linux too (and I don’t need to go through the hassle of checking particular fixes a game needs to run on modern hardware).

  • nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    For me it was downloading Quarantine that i originally had in 1994 on 3DO. Not the game so much, just that i totally forgot copy protection was done via physical codes back then.

    here’s how it looked, for example the game would give you a Weight and MPH value and you’d have to supply the 3 digit number that corresponds

    https://archive.org/details/CopyProtectionQuarantine

    "This a scan of the “Red Card”, a copy protection scheme for Quarantine. This was black text on a deep red background that was hard to copy by black and white copiers of the era. Color copiers, which cost about a dollar a page had to be used. "

    • TechnologyClassroom@partizle.comEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      The copy protection for Quarantine was particularly interesting because it was thematic. Given the weight of a pedestrian and the speed of your car, how far will the body fly?

  • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
    152·
    2 years ago

    The LinuxRulez repacks sometimes include Windows games that work almost natively on Linux with some WINE magic.

      • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Unfortunately older games often have issues.

        I was trying to fix Capitalism Lab for a while, but still couldn’t manage it.

        It only redraws the rectangle around the cursor rather than the whole screen, it must be something to do with the clipper in DirectDraw and that conversion to framebuffer objects in OpenGL.

      • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Personally, I haven’t gotten a crack to work that wasn’t a LinuxRulez or Linux native repack. I can keep trying though. I know others have gotten it to work.

        • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I install all of my cracks through Bottles and I’ve only ever had a problem with SimCity 2014, which is notoriously incompatible with a lot of things.

          Just set up bottles, press “run executable” on the setup and afterwards bottles automatically shows the desktop shortcuts that would appear on a windows machine as a list of programs you can run. I’ve even had luck with running adjacent tools, for example VTOL for titanfall2 and my GTA mod menu injector.

      • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        In my experience a lot of cracks don’t work. I can’t get DOOM 2016 or Heavy Rain to work, for example.

          • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            So, here’s how I’ve tried to do this:

            • Running the vulkan executable via lutris with Wine-GE, DXVK, VKD3D
            • I’ve created a winetricks prefix called ‘doom’ with vcrun2015 ticked, and set it to use that prefix in lutris.

            Still just a black screen at startup.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I guess it’s not really the kind of notable that you’re looking for, but ages ago a friend of mine downloaded a copy of Counter Strike: Source, which played the Death song To Forgive Is to Suffer in the main menu. It became literally the only death metal song he ever liked, evidently due to a tenuous connection with Counter Strike.