@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Yeah, Poland didn't have anti-piracy laws up until I think 2005? Or something like that, so it was a wild west of pirated games, cracks, unofficial ports etc.

One more example - hard drives were super expensive here, so you couldn't really install the game - it had to be running directly from CD. Crackers would replace all cinematics in the game with 1 second 10x10 px video to save space, so the game would be already installed on the CD. Often with cheated saves included