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How do i trick a game to think its 2020 on linux (feddit.rocks)

submitted 4 months ago by mariah@feddit.rocks to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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A game i downloaded wont save unless the date is before may 2020. How do i do this on fedora

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[–] Byter@lemmy.one 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can put the game into its own time namespace.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time_namespaces.7.html

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good bot

Are you really a bot?

[–] Byter@lemmy.one 0 points 4 months ago

Thanks for asking. Not sure how I toggled that on...

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't have an answer for you (other than outright changing the system time, but I'm sure you're after a more elegant solution). I'm really curious about these circumstances though - why would the developers do that?

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, before 2000 would make sense. Before 2038 would make sense. But specifically May 2020? That feels like an intentional choice to me... but why?

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right? That's a super arbitrary number that has to be intentional.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

A licence that expires?

[–] mariah@feddit.rocks 0 points 4 months ago

This is the gta iv dodi repack. I didnt have this problem with fitgirls but it errors when installing

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would have thought OP wanted an achievement in The Stanley Parable (5 years without playing), but they'd need to redo their math in that case...

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

This might actually make the most sense, or at least something along those lines.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

You can look up the man page for date. I'm not sure if that'll do, but it's pretty easy. Something like date --set="1 MAY 18:00:00" as root.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Time namespaces may be the best bet if you also need to run other tools with the same time configuration alongside the game.

For quick one-offs, there's libfaketime with the faketime command. I'm not 100% sure that this will work with things like Wine but it should be relatively easy to test.