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This paper examines community-developed "crack fixes" that enable Need for Speed: Rivals to run without EA's Origin client, focusing on technical methods, legality, risks, and mitigation. It aims to inform researchers, preservationists, and players about motivations behind such fixes, implementation approaches, and ethical and security considerations. A crack fix typically involves replacing the original