crack_guide.md

How to make cracked games look like you own them (Steam)

1. Go to your library
2. Click "Add a Game", then "Add a Non-Steam Game..." and then "Browse..."
3. Browse to the root of your cracked game and select the .exe
4. Go to https://steamdb.info/ and search for the cracked game you're trying to style
5. Select and copy the game description
6. Enter Steam, go to the page of your cracked game
7. Click "New Note", paste in the description and click "Save and Close"
8. Return to SteamDB, go to "App info", and go down to "Assets"
9. Now right click, and "Save linked content as..." for the "clienticon", "clienttga" and all of the "library_assets" (you can save the "library_assets" wherever and delete them after, you need to keep the "clienticon", and the "clienttga" tough)
10. Now, get any .exe (I recommend https://github.com/NotMedic/HelloWorld/) and add it to steam like in step 1-3
11. Get the app id from SteamDB
12. In the directory of the .exe create a text file called "steam_appid.txt" and paste the app id of the game in it
13. Run the .exe trough Steam
14. Now in your Steam library you will see the store page of the cracked game, click it
15. Now right click the banner of the the store page game, click "Adjust Logo Position" and change something just a tiny bit somewhere
16. Now right click the banner of the cracked game you added, change the background to the "library_hero.jpg", do the same for the logo, its name is "logo.png"
17. Right click the cracked game, rename it to the game name, click "Properties...", then click the icon and browse for one of the icons you downloaded earlier (the one that ends with .tga)
18. Click "Home" in steam and search for the cover of your cracked game, it should be blank with just the name of the .exe, right click it, hover over "Manage" and then click "Set custom artwork"
19. Go to [YOUR STEAM INSTALL DIRECTORY]\userdata\
20. Open the folder with the id of the account you want to add the game styling to, then go to "config" and then "grid"
21. Go back to Steam, right click your cracked game, hover over "Manage" and then click "Add desktop shortcut"
22. Right click that desktop shortcut, click "Properties" and copy the long number from the URL
23. Click "Change Icon...", click "Browse...", locate one of the icons you downloaded earlier and select it (the one that ends with .ico)
24. In this folder search for a file named [YOUR APP ID].json and rename it [THE NUMBER YOU JUST COPIED].json
25. Now restart Steam, and if you want to you can add it to a collection

You are now done, the game will now look something like this: