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This is more common than you might expect.

The Windows port of Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents under Pressure being sold on Steam is the DEViANCE crack.

Open the game's exe in a hex editor and you can plainly see "DEViANCE".

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System sounds *.wav files were also produced with cracked software at some point (no clue if this is still in Win10):

https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/windows-uses...

I'm impressed both that you had a nearly 20 year old link ready, and that this URL still works.

I seem to remember hearing that wrt roms on at least one of the NES|SNES|PS1 Classic systems.

Yeah same, although I think it was the ROMs distributed in the Wii Shopping Channel?

Nintendo used the same file format as used for pirated ROMs, so people assumed Nintendo simply used downloaded ROMs. As it turns out one of the people working at Nintendo for emulation previously worked on emulators outside Nintendo, so it's likely that just the file format was reused. The Nintendo leaks showed that Nintendo has extensive internal archives and the likelihood of them needing to download ROMs of the Internet is low.

There was more than that.

> Apart from where mentioned above, filenames seem to match GoodSMS names (commonly found on the internet) with almost all non-alphabetical character removed. This suggests that all of the ROM images were obtained from the internet rather than from Sega's internal archives.

https://www.smspower.org/Development/NintendoWiiVirtualConso...

GoodSMS is a community/pirate naming scheme for identifying the different ROM dumps.

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