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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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[–] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

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

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Zips 7z and isos aren't repacks.

Uncompress time is bigger than download time.