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playing games with safe disc v2.

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi, I am trying to find out if there is a way to LEGALLY run a game that has safe disc v2 in linux, preferably under wine, but alternatively Code weavers cross over games,as a last resort I may look at cedega however I hear they no longer return any code. The game I am trying to run is 2001 vintage and the demo runs well It would be nice to hear from anyone who has had a game with this copy protection running under wine or one of its variants,or any other advice. Note: wine can legally run software with copy protection! Any help on this would be great. (Distributions)

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