Apparently, it really was the case that editing a game file in Windows Notepad could get you access to the full version, rather than the limited 50 rounds of play that the demo was restricted to.

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.

Yes, that Notepad. The one that comes with Windows, and that a million readme files are written in. Now you can use it to play an RPG—it's kinda astonishing. Backing up a little, And yet it hurt ...