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I've noticed that some characters in Q3A are always accepted as the right cd-key. So I built a small CMD script for Windows operating systems over v5.1 (XP and above).
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Quake III Arena
First Person Shooter
Related Engines
id Tech 3
GPL
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Activision
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id Software
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Pretty funny that the keys seem to be accepted for online play. I guess the server no longer bothers to check if the keys are real or not and just accepts any seemingly valid key. That's one way to keep a decades old game alive I suppose.
The server only checks for the same keys on the same server. The key is checked locally for validity.
At that time i only came across this solution by accident. Out of frustration because i couldn't find my key, i entered a 1 everywhere. Then tried with the 2. When i had success with that, i just tried all the other characters. I also found out that combinations work too. So i came up with the idea of writing a script. And here we are... :-)