Edit: Everyone is asking for the code, so here it is. Keep in mind, this code assumes a few things:

  1. You’d need to specify the virtual environment path for Python.
  2. You’d need to specify the directory for which the games are located.
  3. You’d have to put a “game_info” file in each game’s root directory.
  4. You’d need to have steamcmd installed.
  5. The format of the game_info file is like this (I use CS.RIN.RU):
build: 17601020
steamid: 548430
csrinru: https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=81377

Hope I’m not breaking any rules. This is my first post on Lemmy. I tried to post on garbage-ass Reddit but apparently being a new user means you can’t do fuck-all. So, I’m gonna try to make Lemmy a home.

Anyway, I pirate games. Mostly because I’m broke, and somewhat because I hate spending money on a game and then hating it 15 minutes into it. But anyway…that’s neither here nor there.

The entire purpose of this post is just to share this neat little thing I created. I’m not promoting it – it isn’t released. I just wanna share nerdy shit with other people.

The issue that I was having is that I figured, over time, my pirated game collection will get quite big. It will become increasingly more time-intensive to check back to the piracy forums for updated pirated versions of the game.

So I came up with a solution. Whenever I download a new pirated game, I will create a file called “game_info” in the directory which will include three little bits of data.

  1. The build number of the pirated game
  2. The Steam App ID
  3. The link to the forum topic about that game from the piracy site I go to.

I wrote a script that will scan my games directory for each game_info file. It will then use steamcmd to check SteamDB for the latest patches released and compare that to the current build number in the game_info file. Obviously if they don’t match – there’s an update. And it will inform me. This way I can quickly check if there are any updates available for a game, then I can go to the piracy forum and check to see if anyone has released the updated version yet.

I thought it was cool. Anyway, just thought I’d share some nerdy shit.

Feel free to degrade me.

  • solofroto@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    13·
    24 hours ago

    I thought about it, but it’s very specific. For instance, I only intended it for myself – so, you have to manually specify the games directory within the script, and you also have to manually propagate the game_info file. I suppose I could change that – but unless it’s going to be a widely used script, I don’t see the point. Kind of why I posted it here – to see if it could be useful to other people or if they’re interested.

    • Pyro@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      22 hours ago

      Thanks for adding your script to the post. I wouldn’t worry too much about it being specific for your setup, no one expects you to generalize it for everyone. It’s a great starting point for someone else to customize it for their system. The only aspect you should make sure is that it doesn’t leak any of your sensitive information.