Likewise, but for different reasons: We had a [pirated] copy of the game, and thus didn't have the manual.

Down here in my city in Mexico that's basically how everyone played it, so most of us played only the first level.

At some point, I was tinkering with the "x tree gold" program and saw the "hex view" thing. I remember opening Prince's .sav file, which was a very small file that only appeared after you saved. After tinkering with the numbers I managed to appear in the next level .

It was my 5 minutes of fame at my computer class when I arrived and showed that I had passed the bottles room.

And I became fascinated by cracking at that point.