The legal status of No-CD patches is debated, though the consensus leans in favor of the user when used appropriately.
He’d found the disc at a flea market three weeks earlier: battered jewel case, handwritten label, “F1 2002.” The seller had shrugged when Marco asked if it worked. “Used to be my brother’s. Lasted ’til he lost it.” Marco had paid with the last of his cash and gone home cradling the little relic like contraband.
Modern dedicated graphics cards might not be recognized properly by default.