Has anyone managed to use 80_PA on Linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I wanted to play Test Drive Unlimited 2 multiplayer with the TDU World mod, but since I'm not one of the lucky few who owned the game back in the day (I was still a teenager when they shut down the game) I have to pirate it. Unfortunately, the tool required to do it while working with TDUWorld, 80_PA (https://github.com/Blaukovitch/80_PA ), doesn't want to work through Wine as it crashes immediately.

It's a long shot, but has anyone here used it?

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[-] Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If I'm reading this right, 80_PA is a keygen, and does not need to run on the target system. If it did, how would an android version be useful?

Install it elsewhere and follow its instructions.

Otherwise, if you're stuck with this as your only system (do you even phone?), it's VM time.

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The keygen generates a key based on your system's perceived HWID - this is sort of how Denuvo operates as well. Keys generated on one system won't work on another. I don't know why there's an Android version though.

80_PA running under WINE looks like this.

Edit: From a glance at their website it seems like this newer 80_PA is based (only?) around offline activation codes (Request Codes), where you can take a code generated from a Securom program, plug it into the keygen, and put the Unlock Code back into the program. This would work on Android/wherever as it doesn't directly rely on the HWID being visible. The older 80_PA version worked based off of system HWIDs, and generated keys without needing request codes. The older 80_PA does include some request code decryption tools but as far as I can tell doesn't directly translate a request code into an unlock code?