A “cracktro” is a combination of a “crack” (piracy) and an “intro” (demoscene) – it’s a little movie or menu that plays at the start of a hacked / pirated game, usually with credits and simple visual effects.
A user in the Nectarine Discord brought an interesting question recently: they had some YouTube videos of cracktros from Playstation games, and wanted to know if anyone could identify their soundtracks.
Read more about the detective process in the blog post here and see an example in the video below.
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