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Postby oldgamer » Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:25 pm

Games on that site are free full versions packaged with adware, mostly from Russian origin with English language. A lot of them are commercial games by alawar.com once or still sold. Other games are made with FPS Creator or Unity by some Russian amateurs.

Some games have different names than the commercially released versions and credits/developer information removed, maybe the game devs sold them to this site while the copyright is owned by the previous publisher. For example http://www.mobygames.com/game/air-force-missions - I have seen this game under many names since I first saw it on Reflexive Arcade.

With the tool "innounp" game installer files can be unpacked and the adware files can be completely avoided and removed. Put the good files into a ZIP container and you will have a fine full version for LegendsWorld.

For "www.myplaycity.com" I had written a Python script that is able to index and download all games but I didn't have the free storage (probably over 1TB now) - I can't find the script at the moment. Removal of the adware files is not generic and can differ slightly so this must be done by hand.
The site wants you make to load a downloader (adware) for each game, but by setting the URL manually you can download the real game installers (also with adware included) directly - instead of http://files.myplaycity.com/files/afmissions_setup.exe load http://files.myplaycity.com/303s1/afmissions_setup.exe.
Take care, some games are just clients for MMO games.

There are several of these sites, competitors or related I don't know. "http://falcoware.com" for example has partially the same games but they cannot be freed from adware that easily - there the clean full game EXE is embedded into their adware EXE which seems to extract in RAM only, like Reflexive Arcade did (and generic unwrappers from AR TEAM could extract the clean game EXE from all RA trial games back then :-)).
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