XP 30 day trial question...

Hello, I used to use a not-entirely-non-illegal copy of XP a while back, and I recently had renewed interest in the program. To my surprise, it said that my 30 day trial was up and I needed to buy and register the software.

Now, I'm pretty sure that I didn't download the official trial version, and I'm also fairly certain that I used it for more than 30 days when I first got it. Did Enterbrain somehow take control over all the illegally distributed copies of RPG Maker XP?

I'm completely baffled right now.

You're just not looking in the right places, probably.

no, my problem is that I downloaded what appeared to be the pirated version, which worked perfectly fine for months. Then recently I booted it up again and now it wants an activation code.

That's weird.

Odd, I was thinking that maybe it auto-downloaded a patch or something, but 1) I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist in RMXP and 2) I think the last patch was in 2005 somewhere.

...Unless you patched it yourself, of course.

Obviously, there's always the option of a standard uninstall/reinstall.

There is also one more option called keygen.

That there is, but we're not allowed to link to any form of "warez", or give an idea of where to find them. Discussion, however, is fine.