Bitter sweet because I’m pretty this means we lost real one. RIP

It’s church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff away.

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    CD keys will be a problem for some of those. Were they on the paper sleeve, inside the jewel case, on a sticker in the manual? Who knows? Every publisher seems to have picked a spot at random and losing them makes old PC game collections a minefield of unplayable* discs.

    * Without cracks or No-CD patches. Obligatory reminder that piracy = games preservation.

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      Games shared on the Archive frequently have a working CD key in their descriptions. If you’ve got a disc with no key, it’s a perfect place to check first.

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      I feel like if it was popular enough, a cracker exists. Complete with awesome 8 but tracker tune

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        Some of the older ones wouldn’t even need a crack, just a keygen or even a single printed key.