Editing a game file in Notepad unlocked the full version of Balatro, causing panic at the publisher - which responded quickly to the unfolding disaster. VIEW GALLERY - 2 Darren Allan ...

4] Edit the HTML code via Notepad. The final thing we’re going to do here is to edit the code. You must learn how to do this if for some reason it has failed to work correctly when opened in ...

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.

If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium' model.

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.