I’m convinced the vast majority of cracks have malware embedded in them
>most steam games just require you to replace steam.api with an emulator, yet the cracks of these games always have modified exes (compared to the legitimate ones) for no reason
>I’ve compared cracked exes with the original steam ones and they almost always ping IPs that the legitimate ones do not for no discernible reason
>many of them require admin access to launch for no reason, especially fitgirl repacks
>they often modify files and parts of your registry that they have no business touching
And yes I’ve exclusively torrented from highly trusted sites like 1337 and fitgirl. Maybe private trackers are more trustworthy, I’m not sure. At this point if I need to pirate, I exclusively get raw steam files from cs.rin.ru or from gog-games since their files are always unmodified. Maybe im just paranoid but I think the majority of pirates are retards who don’t know any better and aren’t willing to check what the exe they’re running actually does because the game works and that’s all they care about
cool story bro
Looking into it
trust the repacks chud
True
Big if
repacks in the first place
>And yes I’ve exclusively torrented from highly trusted sites like 1337 and fitgirl
l m a o
Name a better public tracker index for games. Those two sites are by far the most common sources for cracks.
rutracker
>for games
Yes.
Russian counterstrike forum. Get the clean steam files and then set up greenluma or goldberg emu yourself.
I mentioned that I use steam underground in the OP but I don’t blame you for not reading that whole essay
I’ve torrented about 10 of her repacks that don’t have 3rd party drm, compared them to the steam exe, and they’ve all been modified. Not to mention they always require admin privileges for some reason
>they’ve all been modified
not in my experience
>they always require admin privileges for some reason
the reason is that "she" doesn't know what bullshit does the games do with savegames or where do normies install their games so defaulting to admin solves a lot of potential problems, now this would be quite annoying if it didn't took a second to run them without admin privileges
>not in my experience
What exactly do you mean by that? Have you compared a game you actually own on steam with a repack from FG?
are you dumb? i'm going to spoonfeed you for a second in basic file browsing, get the pirated copy, get the clean steam files in the same version use a program to check if binaries match you can this way you can reverse engineer the binaries of the crack and proof if there's any unintended shit, you will do it? no because you are lazy mouth breather and probably black
no. i compared it to the same version available on cs rin because i'm not a retard and i know steam can change the exe whenever it wants
steamrip has pre-installed games.
Which is actually pretty good for modern games that weight like 100gb, as when an update releases, you can just copypaste the new download ontop of the previous one
really why isn't fitgirl trusted? post a single piece of evidence
oh you can't? almost like you're a easily manipulated retard
people who take the name too seriously and screech about trannies thats literally it
None of the repackers can be trusted, your favorite fat tranny included.
just download scene releases. is saving an hour on a download really worth wearing out your disk spending 4 hours decompressing?
When I pirated I rarely used repacks and got scene releases from 1337, they have the same issues I mentioned about FG
I’ve used rutracker and they have the exact same cracks as 1337. Literally identical files
Genuine question where do you get unaltered releases of scene cracks in the current time
I hate repacks
>inb4 just go to 1337minemalwarex.to
>4 hours decompressing
I've never had one take more than 30 mins
The scene released usually send to groups like FitGirl first. You can download scene releases directly. But a lot of them work with repackers regardless.
>wearing out your disk
man i have had a crappy toshiba ssd for like a decade and it’s seen more fitgirl cracks than a gym voyeur and it’s fine. if i was pwned then i’d know about it by now.
Denuvo and DRM in general is in the .ex file
That’s what I’m saying though. Games that don’t use 3rd party drm almost always have modified exes even though it’s not necessary at all
where? literally every single fitgirl repack without third party drm that i remember is just compressed game + sse steam api.
Because of SteamStub, maybe?!
developers no longer KNOW how to
1) develop actual games with available tools
2) know how to compress/use available assets to run/manage games
3) how to compress files to manageable sizes so you can have more than one game at a time(think less than 1 terabyte of space, yeah, AMAZING)
Now get ready for every triple A game to have Denuvo, further increasing bloat and throttling performance
>I’m convinced the vast majority of cracks have malware embedded in them
Your moms certainly does.
some older games have steam stub drm residing withing game .exe files so that needs to be removed hence why there is a difference in file structure
Are you claiming the same thing is happening with newer repacks even though stub drm is no longer used ?
Yes as recently as 2022. Elden Ring had this issue with both fitgirl and the scene release even though it only uses steam drm.
Then you've been downloading some crap, please download proper releases before making stuff up. Thanks.
This is true for scene releases on 1337, rutor, and repack sites. You can check for yourself. Unless you’re talking about private trackers, which I already said I’m not sure about because I have no experience with them. Compare any of the cracks to the clean files and I promise you they’ll be modified.
>highly trusted sites like 1337 and fitgirl
>Maybe private trackers are more trustworthy, I’m not sure
way to make all your credibility go down, retard.
If private trackers are the only way to get legitimate game cracks, that only further proves my point that the vast majority of people are installing malware when they pirate games. Have you even personally tested that scene releases from private trackers are different from the uploads on 1337/rutor?
Apparently only from private trackers, gl with that
You know this wouldnt be a problem if you just BOUGHT your games like a normal person
I do buy my games and I have for about two years. I got blackpilled on pirating around that time and I’m trying to spread the word (although I still think using clean steam files with an api emulator is completely safe)
>buy game
>don't like it
>wasted money
Explain to me how you get blackpilled on pirating. Don't tell me you have the iq of a grandma who clicks on everything. I have pirated a lot of games that I regret playing after seeing what it was like. No sunk cost fallacy to justify my regretful purchase.
back in the good old times, even "bad" purchases had some merit to them. A mediocre game could entertain you for hours whereas nowdays you'll simply dismiss it for being janky / unfinished / buggy
I'm the same these days, but it was different a decade ago
>Explain to me how you get blackpilled on pirating
Read the OP and thread retard. And you can still demo steam games by either using clean files + api emus or by just buying them from steam if they have drm and then refunding them in under 2 hours.
Because cracking/repacking is adversarial it's highly unlikely that a release with malware from a notable group stays unknown for very long. The other groups involved will use the opportunity to tear that group apart and they will quickly lose all relevance in the scene.
>he uses his winblows partition / PC for anything other than vidya
Lol!??????!!!?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????????????????
I literally don’t use my pc for anything but vidya. I’m not worried about keyloggers or someone accessing personal info, most modern viruses just minimally use your resources for a botnet to the point you won’t even notice.
you just reminded me to check Crackwatch for new stuff. Thanks, opie!
>Crackwatch
But that's been obliterated ages ago?
unless you're referring to another one besides /r/crackwatch, no.
>thinking someone is referring to reddit
Go back and stay there.
>thinking the old crackwatch website was any better than reddit
It wasn't reddit so yes it was better. Now get ye gone.
It was reddit, newfriend. Same community, same upboat system, same autistic retards spamming the same memes to farm score, same "howdy fellow gamers" moderators. have a nice day and go back to your favourite totally not reddit website
Did the URL contain "reddit"?
oooohh, i see where you're getting. hold on newfag, i have just the right website for you https://www.troddit.com/
don't worry it's not reddit. you'll fit right in, farewell!
Ywnbaw, trannoid
>a subreddit with a list of cracked games
>don't even have to read comments
>"HURRR DURRR gb2reddit"
Yes.
GTFO
This is Ganker everyone's a fucking idiot who doesn't know how to use tools available. If you say "use reddit like a search engine" everyone thinks you like a place that has ACCEPTED TWITTER THREADS.
Go back
I got a bitcoin miner from fitgirl directly from website
Fitgirl is so cute but i tried pirating some games from her recently, not all of them installed properly, played elden ring for a bit then bought the game and deleted the crack, but rn my pc feels a little slower and have some weird mini black screens for like .2s , could be from the cracks or something else
big conspiracies are behind her spoon, look out! fbi backdoor!
Sometimes the exe does legitimately need steamstub stripped or even worse encrypted app tickets patched, but you're correct that you're probably better off with the steamless+goldberg dance on an untampered dump from rinru or gog-games
And to add, if you own the game legally, you wouldn't know about steamstub unless you carefully examined the executable because if you own the game a steamstub packed exe will run fine
I got a whole HRT set delivered to me after I installed her games, they charged 500 dollars on my credit card, never again, I much rather buy my games, well...renting them until steam decides so
>cracked exes
Anyone who doesn't use a Steam emulator deserves all the coin miners they get.
Are you REALLY that much of a brain- / techlet?
That’s literally the point I’m making but if a game has 3rd party drm pirates don’t really have any other option
Does refunding a game affect this at all? Because I’ve ran refunded games with an emu without any issue. Also how would this affect cracks? I’m assuming crackers would have to buy the game on steam to have access to the game files in the first place
Refunds would make it not work. Also, what steamstub does is start up steam and relaunch the game through steam, so it's a separate thing from API emulators.
Also, I don't really like calling steam_api.dll "cracks" cracks because even Valve themselves call that platform integration and say it should not be used as DRM.
well then, if youre so knowledgeable why not post some proof
I stooped pirating most of my games because my backlog of games on humble bundle and game pass is way to huge.
SCENE is dead, when will you naggers learn? literally every sceBlackup nowdays are pajeets, ruskies, chinks that stuff releases full of btcminers, trojans, backdoors, snoopers, keyloggers and/or telemetry bugs that steal your data. the days of trusted torrent sites, and legit scene groups are long gone. i feel like most modern "pirates" are zoomers that finally discovered torrents and think they are cool cause they learned how to download something from tpb. you might as well use dc++ to download from somali naggers.
I installed 3 repacks yesterday from CHRONOS, PLAZA, and TENOKE. How screwed am I?
Yes
Also: No
Plaza was quite scary because they had music in their launcher and that frightens me
Haven't seen a PLAZA release in a while. TENOKE is lame, RUNE is alright but after hearing SUPER HOT for the umpteenth time I just disable the music, too
Where did you get tenoke releases
cs.rin link
uploader profile said "Moderator and Site Manager of SteamCrackedGames"
Somewhere that isn't made by russians like rutor and rutracker please, already have an account in the counterstrike forum but I refuse to use websites that disable search indexing if you aren't logged in (rutracker)
uh idk I used to upload torrents to piratebay in high school but that site seems finished
>the days of trusted torrent sites
(some) private trackers can be trusted. Sites like GGn have enough of a community that if something did have miners and shit someone would say so, and unlike the comments on TPB something would actually get done about it. And if people were reporting malware often enough across games, it would be noticed by the greater community, it would not go under the radar.
That doesn't happen often. Given the number of people, many of whom are far more technically knowledgeable than anyone in this thread let alone myself, it's simply not possible that a majority of cracks on the site have some kind of malware. Not impossible for a small minority, but it can't be every crack.
Given that GGn torrents are ultimately sourced directly and unaltered from less-trusted sites, that also means that the majority of cracks are safe. Of course, something like TPB has plenty of fake files that are nothing but malware, and those don't end up on sites like GGn in the first place, so you aren't going to be safe just downloading absolutely anything from anywhere.
I trust anonymous russian criminals with my computer more than AAA corpos.
Why did they add Fitgirl to the FNaF movie?
UOH
No UOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH due to the lack of long hair
Don't download from fitgirl.
Only get stuffs from IGG games or 1337
Do you personally benefit from misdirecting people?
if so, hook me up. I want to earn some easy money, too
> IGG games
That site is considered untrustworthy. Though mostly it's just because they put their watermark in the games, right in the main menu.
>block exe in firewall
wow that was hard
2888 comments until I saw this basic piece of common sense, holy shit is Ganker full of turboTARDS
>bro
>just disable all your antivirus bro
>ignore any warnings from windows its just a false positive bro
>give me admin access bro
>now let me use 100% cpu, disk, and gpu for hours bro
>trust me bro i do it for free
Zoomers were a mistake
have a nice day, now
always block game.exe in firewall
even with legit copy
>highly trusted sites like 1337
Isn't it the next best thing since rarbg went down?
if you're a homosexual yes
>Verification not required.
Is it safe to torrent movies and shows (.mp4 + .mkv)?
I've only got into torrenting recently, so sorry for being a dunce.
>torrenting
KYS
Jump off a bridge
Or building
Into a vat of acid
Or in front of a train
if the movie industry didn't have such inflated budgets, and you guys stopped charging so much for streaming subscriptions then I wouldn't be doing it
Stupid fucking homosexual, I criticized you for using the inferior method, not for pirating
Even more of a reason for you to have a nice day IMMEDIATELY
What's a better solution then?
don't listen to spergs and cia glownaggers, torrenting is the best solution.
>t. fourth world inhabitant
Given that Fitgirl posts on cs rin ru and is well respected there, you should rub your two braincells together and figure out what you're doing wrong.
Probably downloading from a fake fitgirl mirror, not implausible since you're stupid enough to think 1337 is trustworthy.
I have talked to her... she's a fantastic woman.
Just buy the games you disgusting thieves, you're ruining the economy and stealing.
the economy is already ruined, inflating artificial markets even harder is not gonna save you.
brb pirating ea games so the US economy crashes
>torrenting in 2023
Let me guess, you don't block seeding while downloading too.
Jfc. Normies and tards itt
vanilla qb you can't set your upload to 0, the lowest it can go is 1
>try to download game
>isn't on any obvious sites like 1337x, fitgirl or f95zaone
>can't find any links on my private trackers, on forums or on Ganker
>google "xgame full download free"
>find a rapidgator link in 5 parts
>skip through all the dodgy ad links and popups
>chrome tells me this site is unsafe
>click "Continue Anyway."
>download file
>virus spotted
>"Continue anyway"
>unpack on my desktop
>windows defender pops up
>disable windows defender
>unpack all files
>run exe as administrator
>it works
I haven't had a virus in like 15 years
Giga-based take,this is what i have been doing ever since the bay went down for good.
my man
>I’ve compared cracked exes with the original steam ones and they almost always ping IPs that the legitimate ones do not for no discernible reason
Sounds like concrete evidence that could be easily investigated. Choose one example, post the original and cracked binaries, post the IP(s) it accesses.
best post, sadly he won't as his claims are garbage
been pirating for more than a decade and never got a virus
dont be scared newfriends and zoomers, sail the high seas, life is expensive as it is, save your money for more important things
>donate some of your harddrive to letting me crypto mine bro. -fitgirl
I have no idea why fg is so popular. You get slightly faster download speed for a long ass decompression.
fg repacks great for thirdies with shitty internet
then you need to hour+ unpacking
Yeah but an average thirdie cpu will probably chug really hard trying to unpack their stuff. It just doesn't seem worth it to me.
in a third world country like the united states the average cpu is powerful enough to decompress the files quickly but no decent internet connection is available outside of big cities
eurotrash and/or macacos absolutely seething
Also less ratio cost on private trackers where that matters, plus less storage required for seeding it back. Depending on the game the install be significantly simpler as well, especially with lots of DLC though admittedly that's not very common.
For archiving.
I kept RDR2 repack around
>"yeah bro those cracks are totally malware"
>meanwhile has 5 different game launchers and ring 0 level """anticheats""" installed
>I’m convinced the vast majority of cracks have malware embedded in them
software is not magic
you need a conviction because you're a tech illiterate retard
ive been pirating forever and never had an issue, if anything i'm surprised viruses aren't more common
If you're patient, use common sense and let others be guinea pigs, you're basically fine.
>most steam games just require you to replace steam.api with an emulator, yet the cracks of these games always have modified exes (compared to the legitimate ones) for no reason
wrong. retard
fmhy.net/gamingpiracyguide
With the amount of people who use fitgirl, we would know if xhe was using malware. People like that value their reputation more than whatever they could gain by attempting to deceive thousands of people.
>value their reputation
even if he put malware in his shit, the simps would defend him
good for them, everyone else would stop using fitgirl repacks though
Why don't you guys just buy games like regular people
It's not like you'll break the bank by doing so
No.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
brother i make under 90 euro a day after tax. i have property, hardware, food, and drugs to pay for. software can get copied to my machine for free and all people can do is cope.
Too expensive
You're a retard.
>modified executables
That's Steam Stub. Devs can choose or not to add this Steam DRM to their games. Removing it is trivial, and there are tools for doing that. If you don't remove it, simply replacing the steam api files will have no effect.
>many of them require admin access to launch for no reason
Because retards love installing games in protected folders, which can break a few games if you don't give them the proper rights. More often than not you can just disable the setting to run the program as admin and it will run just fine if you didn't install it in a retarded place.
>registry
You most likely have no idea what you're even looking at.
>registry
OP is probably thinking the option for Fitgirl to redirect to the correct site (modifying the hosts file) is
>modify files and parts of your registry that they have no business touching
The answer is simple, though a lot of people wouldn't do it: have two computers. One can be a toaster really, and that'll be your main system. All your browsing, media usage, productivity, etc. Anything you care about goes on that one. If you've got the money to afford two decent systems, your legit purchases can go there too. Then you'd have your gaming computer, with no internet connection, that you copy every pirated game installer to after downloading.
You can go out right now and find the most malevolent video crack making tonnes of buttcoins for shady Algerian drug lords, and it's still not half as bad as what Windows does right now at this very moment on your machine right at this very moment as you are reading this. Go have a look at your outgoing log some time and come kvetch to me about pirates with a straight face.
Fitgirl is safe and you're retarded
wut i love about fitgirl is i can download games thats 30gb in 1H30mins with a 1mb/s rate xd
she encodes her game very well
its also good for archiving very lightweight games
>she