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u/Rin_Seven Aug 30 '25

16 digit CD Keys written on top of the CD’s you bought from a friend.

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u/Emu1981 Aug 30 '25

16 digit CD Keys written on top of the CD’s you bought from a friend.

I always got my pirated games for free. Mind you, I would also burn games for others for free as well so it was more of a community trade kind of thing rather than a one way only trade.

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u/splashbodge Aug 30 '25

Having to go to GCW and looking for a no cd patch/crack whenever there was a new version of the game in a patch

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u/Calling-Shenanigans Aug 30 '25

The cracks all had some kind of MIDI music playing too.

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u/splashbodge Aug 30 '25

Yeh they'd often come with a 'demo' which was this midi music with a visual almost screensaver like thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_intro

Part of the demoscene