I saw a few posts on reddit about how the Steam release of Midnight Club 2 includes the cracked EXE made by the Razor 1911 cracking group. Since I've done a lot of reverse engineering on that game, I know a lot about that particular crack. In fact, I know a particularly silly fun fact about this particular crack.
Pretty far into the EXE (in one of the memory sections originally added by SecuROM), they included one of their common watermarks: "NSS*RAZOR1911: Sharper than a blade, or your money back!" However, they made a mistake, and used "then" instead of "than". It seems like it would be a simple 1-byte fix, but actually this message was used as a (rudimentary) encryption key for their payload, so changing this byte will prevent the game from launching.
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