Recently I have been trying to play my old games (Worms, Sims, Black & White, etc…) on my Steam Deck.
I created an ISO of the various CD’s via the dd command, but I have noticed Crossover doesn’t support ISO. I needed to mount the ISO to a location.
This worked to install the game but fails copy protection. If I connect a USB DVD drive it detects the disc and works but this isn’t particularly helpful.
Does anyone know what I should be setting or doing so the game sees the ISO or ISO mount as the disc?
A lot of the games I want to play simply don’t have a steam version to buy
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While some software is capable of perfectly copying copy protection “tricks” 1:1 on a iso - it’s usually just better to crack the game with a nocd patch as mentioned above. It’s a quality of life improvement and can even improve load times (though modern hardware probably makes it trivial.)
Yeah I usually scan github or other gits usually find a repo with a crack available as long as you have the game already its just the exe and whatever files are needed