Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

when you download game files using limewire do they ever work?

ive tried to download game files before and they all either say they are corrupted or they download and just wont open or something like that...so will they ever work...or are they not like torrent files...or what!? im confused...

11 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yeah, they work I downloaded a couple. I even downloaded the regular way too.

  • 1 decade ago

    Barely. Limewire has become a breeding ground for spyware and viruses. I suggest only using it for music files. Even then, be very careful, use a firewall and Anti-Virus program. It's not illegal do download programs as long as you have the original discs for the game/application. You get in more trouble for uploading media and distributing it freely. If you want do download a game I suggest using a program called uTorrent. It's free at www.utorrent.com. To find game files to download I suggest www.torrentspy.com or www.torrentfinder.com. Note, this is only for use if you have the original copy and want to download the files because the game CD's are scratched or you want a backup on your hard drive.

    Source(s): Experience
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    People work hard to write the games, draw the graphics, produce the movies and write the manuals. Don't you think that they deserve to be paid for the work they do? Everyone complains that companies are outsourcing labor to developing countries yet they're not willing to support the domestic artists and craftsmen producing these games by paying for them.

    Stop being a common thief, go and buy a legal boxed copy of the game and it will work fine. You deserve to have your time wasted downloading illegal material.

  • 1 decade ago

    downloading off limewire will get you viruses. Whenever it says the file is corrupted, it either has a trojan, or it just is corrupted.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 1 decade ago

    If you own the game, and your just downloading them to play them on your computer, maybe what you need is an emulator

  • 1 decade ago

    Okay forget nvm Lime wires a pain buy the game you want so you wont have to deal with all the crap and nasty videos there

    Source(s): I
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    some of them do.just open the file and then click on a folder that says "set up".the game file is probably going to be a ziped folder.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    .exe is many times a self-extracting Zip document. yet test this inclusive of your antivirus application first. .rar is a winrar compressed document. in case you have no longer have been given it, get WinRAR. .zip is a WinZip compressed document. in case you're employing homestead windows XP, then this is equipped-in. yet once you're no longer, then get WinZip. whenever you unzip a document from a acquire, make particular to verify it inclusive of your anti-virus application. good success and happy Computing!

  • 1 decade ago

    I have downloaded a couple that worked, but mostly they do not work, or they are a different game altogether, or they are riddled with viruses and spy-ware.

    Let us know what you want, and we will see if we can find it.

  • 1 decade ago

    They don't usually work unless you download a rom and a emulator that matches.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.