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By later times it seems this was tougher, I remember trying it with Ultima IX and utterly failing to locate a single relevant memory location after a solid week.
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Ya especially with DRM or multiplayer lockdown measures.

But there is still a revolution where most game files are JSON or plain text (like that build list from Star Trek Armada 2).

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Dwarf Fortress is like this too, in fact much of the game can be modded from such files. I like that, but I do understand the frustrations of the developer who not only saw their games cracked but also trained back in the day. It presaged what was to come heh.
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