Boot disks, virtual machines, emulators, hardware upgrades, community patches, whole new PCs... sometimes we've jumped through a lot of hoops just to play a dang game.
Does buying a whole new PC count? When I started playing The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, it was on a PC that was already several years old in 2006. Oblivion ran and looked great and I was happy as a mudcrab in mud until I made the unfortunate decision to go to my friend's house where he had it on his Xbox 360 and hooked up to his TV. That's when I realized my PC was a potato, my monitor was a postage stamp, and my view distance in the game was maybe 15 feet from my character's face.
Even though I'd never played a Dead or Alive game before, I downloaded a VPN to convince Steam I was in Singapore. That wasn't enough though, and I also had to go into Windows' region settings to change that to Singapore, and then dig down into the system locale settings to change that to English as well so Steam would finally show me the English-language version of this horndog free-to-play gacha nonsense.
Well I was sold and thankfully I was lucky enough that the local Future Shop had a few. That was the fastest chip install cause I wanted me some MechWarrior goodness. The next few hours I spent tackling with all available settings in dgVoodoo2 and trying other versions of the game. All this to no avail. I was determined to get the game running on my hardware though, so I didn't give up. I used the compatibility mode in combination with many different dgVoodoo2 settings. It didn't help. I even tried mixing some files from dgVoodoo2 and unofficial patch. The result was even promising. No long loading times and no lags, but then...
Though when I was about 13 and made friends with the kid who moved in next door to us, we ended up just getting a really long ethernet cable and directly connecting our computers, running the cable over our balconies. Until the neighbours had their balcony renovated a few years later and the cable was cut during, but by then I think most games just worked fine over the internet.I don't guess I've gone to really any extraordinary lengths.
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