yes, you need to buy the game to do runs. if you join the discord it makes these questions a lot easier to answer
speedrunning a cracked version of portal wouldnt be legal anyway, ive personally played the games for 8 years so i own an actual bought copy of portal
Hi @DoodleSauce, have you heard about Proton? It's a piece of Valve software that allows running Windows-native games in GNU+Linux with a pretty high success rate. Portal runs natively on GNU+Linux with Steamplay, but you might be able to get Build 3420 to work as well with Proton and Wine. Even if you can't, you can still run the game on the current Steampipe version, though some tricks won't be available.
An update has been released for SST that adds the command sst_portal_resetisg. This command removes Item Save Glitch and is to be used in place of restarting the game. This is a temporary solution while a more robust and legitimate one is developed.
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