What is so bad about cracked games?
Nothing. If you like that kind of thing. For many systems, they used to be the only way to play games on an emulator. The reasons we do not like them very much are: They frequently do not work. This may not be immediately obvious, but many cracks cannot be played through to the end of the game because they were cracked incorrectly or they introduced bugs into the game. They sometimes have problems working like read/write errors, graphics corruption and sound corruption. Features of the game are sometimes missing, i.e. they have been stripped out by the cracker. This was usually to allow enough space to hold the cracked version (since the AmigaDOS disk format is not able to hold as much data as many custom disk formats), but also to create space for the crack “intro”. Sometimes the developer credits or titles have been replaced, and apart from the obvious, it is unlikely that the copyright holders will be happy with these versions being distributed. The high-score table was usually popu
