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contdejocuri-ded said:
Does anyone remember that demo they listed for No Man's Sky? It was available for a limited time, it normally doesn't show in your library but on the game page, it says it's in your library. Has anyone tried it?
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Yes I tried back in time and it worked, I think it still works if you press play to install from game page.
 
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contdejocuri-ded said:
It's stupid that you can't play it anytime you want, I remember years ago before having Steam I was playing a mount & blade warband demo and enjoyed it
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well that game had...unique...circumstances, being the grand flop of all flops and then being re-released...still not sure if its a flop but I'm pretty sure thats the reasoning behind that move.

It would have been more respectful of the devs to put a new demo in its place (especially after that bomb), but who knows what happened...they might have pulled it in a rush and been unable to use the same app number 🤷‍♂️
 
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contdejocuri-ded said:
I was playing a mount & blade warband demo and enjoyed it
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That's a permanent demo from the devs. It has a level cap on the character though, so is pretty limited. Once you hit the cap you can't continue on that character. So either new character, or need the full game to keep playing.

I wonder if you can memory hack the level? I never tried, I just pirated the game. I remember playing The House of the Dead demo from a magazine. It had a two minute timer, but I froze the timer, and it was the full game. I completed it all the way until the end.
 
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ausf said:
I remember playing The House of the Dead demo from a magazine. It had a two minute timer, but I froze the timer, and it was the full game. I completed it all the way until the end.
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Nice trick!

Back when I had demo's I was a console peasant :LOL: but i've hacked around a few timers myself like Final Fantasy 0 which levels you up over a period of time, I kept setting my BIOS clock forward a day and reaping the rewards...I also use this to get some trials for years instead of weeks by setting the clock forward five years or some such ridiculous nonsense, installing, then setting the clock back.

They check for it online usually (block the programs), but other than that most apps can't check if you reverse the clock after installation...may work for games with a limited day count for playtime too...i've never been interested enough to try it on those or i'd just get the game if I like it that much.
 
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whatnitrus said:
Back when I had demo's I was a console peasant :LOL:
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My last console was a PS2. I did have the hard drive loader for most games, and also got it to launch from the memory card. The laser was pretty bad by the end, and it struggled to read DVDs. CDs were fine though.

I also had a SNES, and was offered a very expensive floppy drive that let you rip games etc. I never bothered, since other than SFII, I didn't like the other SNES games. The light gun sucked, and if you wanted to play the Terminator game with the light gun, the color pallete changed from the dark dystopian colors of the original, to pink and yellow. "Gaaayyyy" -Asian guy on Community
 
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ausf said:
My last console was a PS2. I did have the hard drive loader for most games, and also got it to launch from the memory card. The laser was pretty bad by the end, and it struggled to read DVDs. CDs were fine though.

I also had a SNES, and was offered a very expensive floppy drive that let you rip games etc. I never bothered, since other than SFII, I didn't like the other SNES games. The light gun sucked, and if you wanted to play the Terminator game with the light gun, the color pallete changed from the dark dystopian colors of the original, to pink and yellow. "Gaaayyyy" -Asian guy on Community
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I still have an HDD loaded PS2 (god knows if it works after this hell), with a bunch of ripped games on it, same deal except the laser actually still work(ed) fine, had some original games and alot of burns.

I didnt have any means of a hex editor until I was using burn DVDs and it kind of lost its purpose for any demo hacking kind of ideas :LOL:

I ended up giving the slim (dvd only) version away to a friend after ripping all the games to my console who gave me a nice subwoofer and speaker set for my PC room when I wasnt using my big stereo just to say thanks
 
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ausf said:
That's a permanent demo from the devs. It has a level cap on the character though, so is pretty limited. Once you hit the cap you can't continue on that character. So either new character, or need the full game to keep playing.

I wonder if you can memory hack the level? I never tried, I just pirated the game. I remember playing The House of the Dead demo from a magazine. It had a two minute timer, but I froze the timer, and it was the full game. I completed it all the way until the end.
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Yeah, it was for level 10, but I always started again.
 
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