Posted: 7/30/2019 3:40 PM
Post subject: Preferred versions for Linux games?
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BigBoct
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I have a substantial library of games on both Steam and GOG. All else being equal, which distribution would be best suited for TASing? The kneejerk answer is "Definitely GOG because they're all DRM-free," but what about if the Steam version doesn't implement any DRM?
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Posted: 7/30/2019 3:42 PM
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feos
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NES TAS of 2011
DRM-free is fine regardless of distribution, we handle both Steam and GOG games equally.
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Posted: 7/30/2019 3:45 PM
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EZGames69
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DS TAS of 2023 SNES TASer of 2022 SNES TASer of 2021 SNES TAS of 2021 Exotic platforms TAS of 2021 TASer of 2020 SNES TASer of 2020 Sega TASer of 2020 TASer of 2019 Sega TASer of 2019 Exotic platforms TAS of 2018
there are plenty of Steam versions of games that work just fine with libTAS, but some Steam games will not work at all. iirc it's almost guaranteed that all DRM-Free games will work more easily than Steam versions.
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