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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).
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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fitgirl repacks aren't scene releases, they're repacks. Actual untouched scene releases are usually fine on Linux.