Warez Groups

[Tonberry]

Do you remember when you wanted to aquire a game the jolly way, and noticed that the games had these little tags next to them, like Reloaded or Razor1911?
I was too young to know what warez groups actually were back when I more actively torrented stuff, but I remember preferring certain names over others for reasons I probably didn't get (like if one had a simpler installer than other, or a cooler chiptune track in the launcher), like how I always wanted my GBA roms to be by Mode7 because I liked their cute little intro with the monkey eating a watermelon.

It's not as prevalent anymore, what with the rise of Denuvo and other factors that seems to have made cracks not as fun anymore, so there doesn't seem to be as many active groups dedicated to games anymore apart from a few more well-known exceptions

Do you have any particular favorites through the years, or maybe any weird anecdotes regarding this?

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

I member

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I remember how some of my favorite games had awesome ASCII graphics either within or somewhere on the accompanying files, usually placed somewhere you couldn't possibly miss them (like on the RAR description itself). I even remember the smoking leaf graphic a certain music piracy group used, and how some cracks and trainers were trippy AF.

Good times.

 

[ciro64]

like how I always wanted my GBA roms to be by Mode7 because I liked their cute little intro with the monkey eating a watermelon.

Bro I remember that monkey too. Popped every time I wanted to play Kirby's Amazing Mirror, and I played it a lot.

I member

 

[Tonberry]

Bro I remember that monkey too. Popped every time I wanted to play Kirby's Amazing Mirror, and I played it a lot.


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[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

Viruses were a thing back then but it seems like everything has a bitcoin miner in it nowadays.

 

[thecrow2313]

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

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There were plenty of dangerous rom dumps that would execute malicious code in the background as well, back in the day for example zsnes emulation era.

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[Clippy]

Oh man there were so many cool groups back in the Amiga days. Fairlight, Anthrax, Backlash, Paradox, Quartex, Infinite Perfection, Crystal, Prestige just to name a few names that are still rattling in my head. They all had those cute little intros with trainers and boards you could supposedly contact them on. The funniest bit when playing Amiga roms these days is seeing some petty drama from 35 years ago because some of those people liked calling each other out on the dumbest things and it was of paramount importance to them to include a diss on someone they didn't like in a cracktro.

The spirit of that scene lived on for quite a while in things like keygens for PC games but I guess the artistic side of things simply went legit and separated itself from the cracking. Not that there wasn't a legitimate scene before - the demoscene has been around for ages as well and some of their works are mindblowing.

I present to you the unparalleled masterpiece of logo design. Other groups had some cool ones too but none come close to this one imo. When I was a kid seeing that logo meant I was in for a good time.

 

[thecrow2313]

Oh man there were so many cool groups back in the Amiga days. Fairlight, Anthrax, Backlash, Paradox, Quartex, Infinite Perfection, Crystal, Prestige just to name a few names that are still rattling in my head. They all had those cute little intros with trainers and boards you could supposedly contact them on. The funniest bit when playing Amiga roms these days is seeing some petty drama from 35 years ago because some of those people liked calling each other out on the dumbest things and it was of paramount importance to them to include a diss on someone they didn't like in a cracktro.

The spirit of that scene lived on for quite a while in things like keygens for PC games but I guess the artistic side of things simply went legit and separated itself from the cracking. Not that there wasn't a legitimate scene before - the demoscene has been around for ages as well and some of their works are mindblowing.

I present to you the unparalleled masterpiece of logo design. Other groups had some cool ones too but none come close to this one imo. When I was a kid seeing that logo meant I was in for a good time.
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Skidrow, Reloaded, Revolt, PWA, Phrozen Crew, Myth, maVen, Hatred, Hybrid, Hoodlum, Deviance, CPY, Codex, CLS, VTY

 

[Morgana Veil]

My beloved

 

[dem6n dem6n]

I was still keeping up with the scene up until recently. My personal favorite group was Codex, RIP. God, I loved old keygen music.

I'll never forget installing daemon tools back in the day so that I can install Call of Duty 4. Now Windows just mounts .iso's natively, lol

 

[qw90700]

I remember the days they didn't ask money for the free service they provide just so people who cannot afford games can enjoy the games they loved, and while you install the game you enjoyed kick-ass music and after the install the setup said "buy the game if you liked it. We should support the video game companies that doing a good job bringing us these amazing games" or something like that.

Now my guy says "I need money because I'm hospitalized, Imma married so I need money, we have no couch at home I need money, I'm a girl so give me money, do you know the cost of running servers? Don't buy legit games, give it to me instead so I need money" lol and whatnot BS and earning money by selling pirated games, BS setup with bad music or no music at all, it takes ages to install just so my guy compete with other repacker for 2 MB, after you install the game it auto opens the website of the repacker. Decent repackers died with Corepack. RIP Corepack, I had a good time on their website. We were a family!!!! lol

 

[thecrow2313]

I was still keeping up with the scene up until recently. My personal favorite group was Codex, RIP. God, I loved old keygen music.

I'll never forget installing daemon tools back in the day so that I can install Call of Duty 4. Now Windows just mounts .iso's natively, lol

 

[otogirisou]

cracks not as fun anymore

It's still fun for me. The only downside nowadays is the lack of group tackling the denuvo DRM but most of those games require a high end PC which i don't have so it's okay.

 

[Clippy]

I'll never forget installing daemon tools back in the day so that I can install Call of Duty 4. Now Windows just mounts .iso's natively, lol

I still use some ancient version of Daemon Tools. I'm just so used to it and I see no reason to switch to any alternative since it does what I want it to do without any hassle. Just like Winamp.

 

[thecrow2313]

KeyGen music

keygenmusic.tk - tracker music player

Online chiptune music player. Charged with music from keygens. Streams directly in your browser

keygenmusic.tk

 

[Tonberry]

I still use some ancient version of Daemon Tools. I'm just so used to it and I see no reason to switch to any alternative since it does what I want it to do without any hassle. Just like Winamp.

Helps that Winamp looks like pure sexo

 

[Clippy]

I'm a girl so give me money

Leave EMPRESS alone

 

[Tonberry]

 

[qw90700]

Leave EMPRESS alone

Well I actually meant Fitgirl™ lol.

 

[thecrow2313]

keygenmusic.tk - tracker music player

Online chiptune music player. Charged with music from keygens. Streams directly in your browser

keygenmusic.tk

 

[Clippy]

I'm not sorry for doing this

 

[Tonberry]

I'm not sorry for doing this

Oh my!

 

[thecrow2313]

Oh my!

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Oh man there were so many cool groups back in the Amiga days. Fairlight, Anthrax, Backlash, Paradox, Quartex, Infinite Perfection, Crystal, Prestige just to name a few names that are still rattling in my head. They all had those cute little intros with trainers and boards you could supposedly contact them on. The funniest bit when playing Amiga roms these days is seeing some petty drama from 35 years ago because some of those people liked calling each other out on the dumbest things and it was of paramount importance to them to include a diss on someone they didn't like in a cracktro.

The spirit of that scene lived on for quite a while in things like keygens for PC games but I guess the artistic side of things simply went legit and separated itself from the cracking. Not that there wasn't a legitimate scene before - the demoscene has been around for ages as well and some of their works are mindblowing.

I present to you the unparalleled masterpiece of logo design. Other groups had some cool ones too but none come close to this one imo. When I was a kid seeing that logo meant I was in for a good time.
View attachment 88111

keygenmusic.tk - tracker music player

Online chiptune music player. Charged with music from keygens. Streams directly in your browser

keygenmusic.tk

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

Leave EMPRESS alone

I'm a dvde so give me gold in a suitcase like in Pulp Fiction

or I'LL PLURALIZE GOLD AS GOLDS n THE WORLD WILL TURN INTO FAXANADU DOST THOU HEARETH MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH