Very nice! Thanks GOG :-)

Tested on Gentoo Linx 64 bits. Works perfectly! Well done.

Yup. Sucks. I hadn't anticipated 42GB. I've completed 11GB so far :)
Good stuff! Thanks for the reply Judas.

All in all, I'm pleased with the change. Nothing is lost from the tarball downloads, and differential patching is gained. That's a real win in my books!

Judas, can these new imnstallers be accessed via the DLer links? I tried BG2 but can't seem to get the DLer to initiate at all.

EDIT: Deleted, reason: misleading/ wrong. Both md5/ crc don't match the zipfiles data.

Not working here either.

The galaxy links for linux backups do work however, so does lgogdownloader.

While I think leaving just the tarballs would have been the better solution, I can live with an unpackable installer.

I loving this!! :D

Really rather have the good ol' unpacking .tar.gz than some installer.. This ain't good news for me :\

Easy and fast way to cut out the original zip file:

--------- file: gog_cut.sh --------
#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "No file specified!"
exit 1
fi

POSITION=$(grep -obUaPm1 "\x50\x4b\x03\x04" $1 | cut -d: -f1)
tail -c +$((POSITION+1)) $1 > ${1%.sh}.zip

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Usage: ./gog_cut.sh gog_package.sh
example: ./gog_cut.sh gog_race_the_sun_2.1.0.4.sh

Explanation:
1. Check if there's a file supplied i.e. gog_race_the_sun_2.1.0.4.sh
2. find the magic header in hex notation (504b0304) - output it's position
3. cut it from there and output it to file.zip ie. gog_race_the_sun_2.1.0.4.zip

You can verify the output with unzip -t file.zip

In case anybody asks why "tail" and not "dd": it's faster.

Btw. it should be able to cut out any zip file out of any file, but you have to fix the file extension on the last line.
P.S. don't forget to make it executable first: chmod +x gog_cut.sh

As others have explained you can still unpack the installer.

I want it in a dang tar file so I don't have to go about unpacking it another way. What happens if they change installer system later on and say half of the games have installers this way and another have installers this way? I'm going to need to know how to unpack this installer format or this type. My whole library is backed up in .tar.gz formats now I'll have to manually go and configure everything when a new update comes along or something.

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