Kind of reminds me of how pirates cracked the Rockstar games, but then Rockstar made their games so flippin difficult to deal with, due to drm. Rockstar began selling the pirated cracked versions of their games. ModernVintageGamer made a video on youtube about this. Irony.

Imagine being a corporate executive, just proving the poor decision of using drm. That even the original company cannot even deal with their own mess.

I'm not seeing any lick of proof that it was your code.

Besides which: you can't prove someone came up with exactly the same solution as you did. If you had published your work and copyrighted it... oh, the irony.

"I broke the law and I want a thank you/recognition for it!"

We really live in the dumbest timeline...

Are you 100% sure of all of that?

Can you prove all of that, or even any of that?

Is it possible that GOG could have done the same work that you say you did, independently on their own, and reached the same results as you say you did?

First off, it could just as well have been UbiSoft who did that before they submitted the game to GOG and secondly, if this site started to list in its game pages which cracking groups we can thank for having saved those games from getting lost forever, it could easily be seen by the publishers as an irrefutable proof of GOG promoting piracy, making it near impossible for GOG to convince them to release more of their games here.

The best you can get is thanks from the customers like me who refused to buy any legit physical copies before cracks had been released for them ever since the constant spin-ups and downs of playing a minimal install of Fallout broke my optical drive almost a quarter century ago.

So thank you for your service, you unknown person from an unmentioned cracking group!

Say what?

The OP willingly & purposely disclosing his own name and address would not be a violation of any privacy laws.

Sure, if the OP's goal had been to release as clean and efficient crack as possible, but if they were a part of the cracking scene back then, they likely would have added some extra bytes to the executable to sign their work.

There was https://www.gog.com/forum/revolt/revolt_temporarily_delisted_on_gogcom/page1 but that's rather the exception, presumably because it involved compatibility work, not a crack alone.

Why is this topic marked as a question?

It's the parrot in the room.

The answer to OP's question is: A bit slimy, has a salty after taste, and should only be used externaly