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I've been looking for that Paradox Photoshop CS2 one for years. Great nostalgic memories.

I've always been in slight awe of these kind of teams/releases. Cracking (mostly) for the raw intellectual challenge and bundling it with demoscene-ish artistic expression - usually a unique UI and obviously a great chiptune. I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..

Really cool!

Wow, very nice! Interestingly, uses a completely different set of player libraries compared to https://chiptune.app (chiptune2.js and libopenmpt vs. libgme and libxmp, etc.) Also was started way back in 2015. And yet there are many similarities.

Related, there is a awesome online radio (it was born 2006) game music: https://rainwave.cc

"I've opened that site and the activate windows watermark on my desktop vanished."

I'm joking. I don't use Windows.

Ah, memories from when the internet was still good. Anyone know of any good writing about that time on the internet? IRC, FTP, USENET etc? There was a miniseries called "The Scene" which captured some of it. Some of it is just childhood memories, but I'm also convinced it was a special time that won't be coming back.

So cool! I used to collect the ones i came across too, they are always awesome

This made me remember my favorite cracktro from INC. Something about this song captures how I felt about the whole "warez" scene when I was a kid... cool, mysterious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9-5bQ4mSQI

as covered in this YouTube video : "The Soundtrack of Online Piracy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgcrdv8zpM)

Ha! Memories from 25 years ago when you had to run Windoze for your audio and sometimes chess software.

Didn't really understand what keygen music meant until I did a Google, clicked, outstanding archiving

Wild they still have a .tk domain, I paid for one and when renewal came up it was not possible to renew due to the Meta lawsuit. Wonder how much time they have left....

An album of keygen music covers and remixes: https://sgfr.highquality.rip/sgfr-0009/index.html

Great memories. "Keygen music" feels like a genre of electronic music... Are there people making electronic music that sounds like Keygen music but with modern instruments?

Seems to be missing one of my most nostalgic from Sony Vegas 9 cracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdprbBOMT8

This music was always great, but always played so loudly.

2621 is sa remix of Bubble Bobble II gameplay music.

mr spock's cryo-bed <3

SharpPlus Sqlite Developer v3.2.8.354 goes hard.

try Estrayk - Her Collection

I just wish it has a loop option. I absolutely love the design and varieties of the music.

I always considered this the real deal and authorative collection of chip tunes: https://ftp.modland.com/

Modland is over 20 years old at this point.

I forgot about this site! Keygen music is one of our unsung cultural treasures imo

Nostalgic xD

If you like this kinda music, check out 4champ and modizer on iOS.

Impressive collection, the although website is slamming my poor T8100 powered thinkpad to 100% at times listening to the collection.

Someone should gather up, curate, organize, and release a giant collection of keygens containing music as a torrent. (I doubt IA or elsewhere would host it for very long.)

That is awesome.

>There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens

Does this mean this site properly licensed these songs?

brought back lots of nice memories

The S3M modules which came with the BB demo from AAlib were magical.

This is amazing. Thank you so much to the authors for putting the time into this and sharing it. I would love a way to download a local archive of music like this.

Also, I hope this site doesn't disappear if/when the rather unpredictable .tk TLD operator decides to do something dumb.