San Andreas as in the one released on the ps2? You could play it with the PCSX2 emulator. You can install that as a runner in lutris, from the AUR (arch), flatpack, or app image. Then get the iso however you would.
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you can pirate the same way as you do it on windows
FYI:
"Pirate games" means games about pirates.
"Pirated games" is what you are trying to say.
Any recommendations on were I can pirated a good pirate game?
I heard there's this website called piratedbay.
I would use Heroic Games Launcher personally. You can add any game you want, and before it creates the prefix for you, you have the option of running installers on the prefix first. Then you can add the game executable. If the game requires proton fixes which it very likely would, you can search the game on SteamDB to find the AppID then make sure there's a file called steam_appid.txt next to the game executable with the game's app ID from SteamDB. That will tell Proton to apply any fixes that it has on file automatically.
If you're a fairly advanced user, you can also just look at what files are included on the game's SteamDB "Depots" page. For example, GTA San Andreas looks like it requires "DirectX Jun 2010 Redist". You can either download that from Microsoft or you can run winetricks (through Heroic, or through terminal) on the prefix to add d3dx9.
Heroic Games Launcher: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
Steam DB: https://steamdb.info/
I always use Lutris for that. Make a new wine prefix in the folder your games are in and add a new game to Lutris. Select the installer as an executable and the Wine prefix you created. Then launch the game and after it's done installing, change the executable to the game's one.
GTA San Andreas isn't a pirate game. Did you perhaps mean Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, or possibly Monkey Island?
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You use the same torrent client or web browser that you used on windows and download the game, then run the game with wine, set up the prefix and install the dependencies with winetricks. Or use Steam, Lutris or Heroic and have it do all the complicated stuff for a new user.
Search "dodi repacks" and it'll be there. It's safe.
Now, hear me out. I know steamunlocked.net isn't the best source out there, but it seems to be the only site to actually preinstall your games. What I'm trying to say is, if you download gta sa from them you just get the game folder with the game executable and you're instantly able to just install mods without any setup. I say this because when I was in the same situation as you (i think about a year ago) , I couldn't get past the setups for gta sa, and this just worked. However, it might be worth it to take the game from any other source, and just install using the setup on either a windows vm, or another computer. Just know I've personally never had an issue with the files, but about 2 years ago (I think). The host they use for the files slowed down downloads.
steamunlocked gets their games from igg which have been caught with malware multiple times. There are plenty of sources that don't repack their games that you can find in fmhy.net
Why did you down vote me? I said nothing wrong. I even gave him another option. Did you even read the comment?
The alternative is incredible long, unintuitive, and this is a space for linux and I can see some users down voting purely for anti windows sentiment.
The first option is palatable, but as pointed out by another user igg can't be trusted.
There was a time when you had to crack every non open source game that you ran on linux. CD-key just didn't work.
You can run them with wine. It's easiest to use Lutris or Bottles, but you can set it up manually if you want to.
Use a separate wine prefix for each game. That way you can't break one game while setting up another.
Be sure to do a virus scan before installing the games. Some windows malware can still screw up Linux if run on wine.
What AV would you even have on linux? Maybe to be on the safe side. Boot into a different system on a different drive or a qemu virtual machine
Maybe ClamAV?
That's the only one I remember hearing about when I started playing with Linux a few years ago.
I remember reading that it was good for scanning for Windows viruses before sharing files with Windowr users, so it might be perfect for this kind of situation. Combine that with VirusTotal and you should be covered.
I usually scan programs that are downloaded from less trustworthy sources on virustotal.com. It's all online, so I don't have to install anything. It checks the hash of the file first so it doesn't even have to be uploaded if someone's already scanned it before.
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Jc141 repackage games with scripts and then upload to 1337x a torrent site. I would recommend looking through jc141 github page for further instruction.
You can also.find links to they're matrix chat on github or when launching one of they're uploads.
Added word of caution, you may want to post this query to the piracy group, feels like 70% of users are on Linux so you'll get plenty of responses while incurring less down votes (if that's something you care about) and also not sure of the rules but this post might get removed but again I don't know.
I mean you can add non steam games to steam. And you can then run them with compatibility tools such as Proton. Just right click the game and I think in preferences it'll have an option to force the use of compatibility tools.