In the old days, programmers primarily used Notepad to write code. The old days have long gone after the rise of more sophisticated coding tools for HTML and everything else, but despite that ...

As PC Gamer reports, the first Balatro demo (which emerged back in 2023) had an embarrassing hole in the code that meant the entire game could be unlocked using Notepad. Wout Van Halderen ...

And people would use all those 50 rounds, they played five to six hours … You could use Notepad to [adjust some code and unlock] the entire game." As you might imagine, this sort of frightened ...

Samperson says he did not speed up the footage or modify the Notepad code. Each frame is rendered ... Notepad only acts as a display while that actual game is running outside of the lightweight ...

And that's pretty much what happened, with a demo that lured players back into a version of the game that wasn't crackable by moving a few letters around in a raw text document, circa September 2023.