Have you tried playing original commercial Steam video games for free and playing the Nexus mods for them 100% of the time without ever losing the ability to do so? Remember that cracked games are not original.
There’s no real nice way to say this, so I’ll be direct. This is one of the most basic questions you could ask in a piracy community, reveals a lack of effectively any attempt to read up on things and understand them on your own, and it is written like you don’t have a good grasp on English.
Of course cracked games aren’t original. Why are you specifying that as though it’s important?
There is no way to play a game protected by DRM without either buying it properly to allow you through the DRM legitimately, or using a cracked copy to remove/bypass that DRM.
You can see if there is a version sold on GoG, as all releases through GoG are DRM free. On that case you can just download the unmodified GoG installer from a third party and install the unmodified/original DRM free version.
Beyond that, you will have to deal with the DRM. We could get in the weeds about some of the specifics of how different DRM can be bypassed in different ways, but it will always involve at minimum an addition to the game’s files, and usually further changes to the executable to remove DRM related code. That’s not something you’d do yourself, you’d just get an already cracked copy from a safe source.
Ultimately, this whole “original, non cracked copy” is kind of a nonsense concern. There’s only a few mods on Nexus that do any sort of checking for if the game is a legitimate copy. Likewise for mods that claim to truly, absolutely require an unmodified copy of the game. Usually that just means that you shouldn’t use that mod on top of another mod. As long as you are downloading your pirated copy from a safe source, overwhelmingly you’ll be able to mod it with stuff from Nexus.
If you start having issues, just do your research before you report the issue to the developer of the mod to make sure it’s not a crack related problem. Most mods with that will be specific about it somewhere easily found. And don’t openly tell people you’re using a cracked version when asking for help.
Additionally, since you’re asking such a simple question, I’ll give some extra info: In general, you will not have access to multiplayer features with a pirated/cracked game. You absolutely won’t have access to Steam based features like achievements or mods from the Steam Workshop (if the game supports that).
that someone only answers my question without taking into account the part that says that pirated video games are not original Steam games.
There’s clearly a language barrier here. You still haven’t answered why that difference is important for you, and I’ve laid out why it isn’t in 99.9% of cases.
Please go read some guides, like the stuff on fmhy, or the main piracy community [email protected] megathread/wiki.
You’re not going to get much help if you can’t do any research yourself. Also if you can’t communicate in a way that doesn’t make us all wonder if you’re in need of medical assistance.
My question now is this: How can I play commercial Steam video games using a method of piracy other than cracking them and play Nexus mods for them 100% of the time without ever losing the ability to do so?
Your question was answered. You can’t.
Answer my last question considering a method that currently works, if there is one, because at the time, the method that worked best was the one in this link: https://github.com/turusudiro/SteamEmuUtility. Could you tell me what is the best method that currently works to replace that method?.
You’ve already been told.
Goldberg/GreenLuma work by effectively adding stuff to the game files at runtime. Technically the original game files are untouched, but you are still playing a cracked copy of the game. Goldberg and or GreenLuma are doing the cracking by bypassing the Steam DRM.
Because Goldberg and GreenLuma are trying to work for multiple Steam games, and are also trying to trick Steam into allowing you to use Steam’s Achievement and Cloud Save features for games you don’t own, they are in an almost constant state of cat and mouse against Steam. They don’t work consistently and break regularly. They also introduce significant risk of getting your Steam account banned.
You are much better off downloading a more “traditionally” cracked copy of a game from a “reputable source” (you can find them in the fmhy guide(s) or the main piracy community megathread/wiki). Those don’t interact with the Steam platform in any way, so they are not in a constant cat and mouse game where they will regularly get broken until the community figures out how to bypass Steam’s latest changes. Game specific cracks will keep working for the game version they were made for forever, as they aren’t aiming at the moving target of Steam. They also won’t get you banned from Steam as they aren’t interacting with it or its features in any way.
As already stated, Nexus mods work with cracked games. Cracked games stay cracked and stay working. That is your solution for keeping access to a pirated game and being able to mod it forever.
There is no requirement for the game files to be original and not cracked, unless you are requiring that purely to make things more difficult on yourself. If you insist upon that, you are stuck with the flawed inconsistent solution you were last using of Goldberg/GreenLuma etc. It will continue to fail at effectively random times for reasons outside of your control. Forever. There is no alternative for “unmodified game files”. The alternative that doesn’t require that which will meet your needs is what was told to you in my first comment (and in this one as well).
Lots of mods work on different versions of the game. GOG for example, which are original games and DRM free to begin with
You have to specify the game.
Different games are sold in different variants, and come with different modding implementations. Some, for instance, directly patch/hack executables, hence do need a very specific executable to even work. Others use APIs or scripting languages. Some have DRM free variants sold on 1st party storefronts, or GoG, but they may or may not work with the larger modding community.
It just depends. So tell us what you’re looking for.
If you’re looking for a more general “method,” there isn’t one.
What is the specific method without cracking for playing Steam videogames for free for every anti-piracy and/or modding method videogame?
I dunno.
Just as an example, with Rimworld, I am missing a DLC, so I use family sharing to get it and use it with my Ludeon, DRM free copy of Rimworld more conveniently. Mods work fine thanks to its XML modding API and the miracle that is Harmony C# patching.
Other games are more complicated. For instance, SKSE (AFAIK) uses hacks to patch some Skyrim code, and you run into trouble trying to do it on unsupported platforms.
Some Gamepass games have been problematic for me, others are perfectly moddable.
You’re not going to get a straight answer unless you specify what you want to play, as every game with a prolific modding ecosystem is quite different.
The game I want to play is Devil May Cry 5 with the Aggressive Enemy AI mod from: https://www.nexusmods.com/devilmaycry5/mods/2093. In that case, how can I play that game for free without cracking it?. Please tell me the best method to do so. Whether the best method is doing 100% pirated things, a mix of pirated and legal things, or a method doing 100% legal things.
The game I want to play for free is Strangers of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin with the latest content from all the content that cannot be played with the game at the same time and the rest of the content that does not have that problem and was released after the original release date of the video game with the CHAOS MUST DIE mod from Nexus Mods.
