ITT: Anti Piracy Messages or Pirated Changes in Video Games
Starting off with a classic
Your mom is so fat she its kids for breakfast and lunch.
Earthbound is infamous for its anti piracy, there are five lockouts but two really stand out.
>amount of overworld enemies triple, sometimes enemies that shouldn't even be in a area now appear
>upon giygas releasing from the devil's machine the game freezes and deletes your save data.
Immortal Scorpion from Serious Samuel Tress
>>342300640
Lmfao to bad for you I already pirated your moms pussyfoot might as well been free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0bHrfPa7uo
Skull girls had one that ended up having a few people out themselves as pirates on twitter, dont have the image though
>>342301693
nips take intellectual property way too seriously. what was that one company that literally spied on people who pirated and took screenshots and shit of your desktop? someone leaked the sourcecode for it
>>342300820
This sort of fuckery is what killed Titan Quest (along with hack'n'slash being a boring piece of shit genre).
>>342302316
It was your moms favorite game faggot
>>342300820
>try to view the image usingclover
>it crashes
whew
>>342302316
I think that was the School Days vn.
>>342302316
It was some shit eroge rape game
As if you weren't a degenerate enough to be playing rape game but also a filthy pirate scum
>>342300820
Why don't devs not do shit like this nowadays?
Is it just not possible?
>>342302585
i dont care about the content, that is just unforgivable
Liar
http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/220529/buy-it-or-die-pokemon-firered
>>342302741
costs too much money and dev time when instead they could just spend money on a drm service
>>342302741
What's the point? It's easily circumvented. Remember that 'Denuvo' shit? The 'uncrackable DRM'?
That anime sex game that posted on your facebook and their online website that you played an anime sex game
Playstation 1. If you had a modchip installed and Sony didnt like it!!
Happened with me when I first popped in Legend of Dragoon on release day. I was an upset child.
>>342300387
I pirated game dev tycoon and I remember getting a lot of messages in the beginning saying they were a small indie team and they would really appreciate the purchase.
It felt pretty passive aggressive, like they trying to make me feel bad for pirating it.
I don't know if that happened in purchased versions though.
>>342300387
In Game Dev Tycoon, pirated versions have a very ironic surprise for them.
A few hours into the game, you will start seeing messages about how your games are losing sales due to piracy. It starts off fairly harmless, but after a while you begin to lose so many sales from piracy that the game becomes practically unplayable. There is no way to circumvent the piracy, either.
This only happens on a pirated version, a legitimate game doesn't have this problem.
>>342305093
>steal a game made 5 years ago
>release it broken as shit
>add passive aggressive messages about muh pirate
>meanwhile you completely destroy any and all potential revenue, even from word of mouth, that the original creators deserved
>>342300387
kek is that actually programmed to show up if you pirate it? that's pretty funny.
>>342302741
Too many false positives. As with every piracy prevention measure ever, the only people who ever suffer it are the legitimate consumers, making pirates even MORE happy to pirate.
>>342302316
The Japs do indeed.
China doesn't give a shit unless it's something to do with something of the goverments.
Korea is really really lineament about theirs.
Not like China with it's knockoffs but more of they don't really a give a shit if someone else uses it.
Spyro 3
>pic related shows up on a pirated version
>game removes gems and eggs at random, making it impossible to 100%
>attacking the sorceress causes the game to freeze, your save file gets deleted
>super tight piracy protection, took over 3 months to crack
I think it was Megaman Star Force 2, but they had virus encounter rates set to 100. Basically the first frame of your walk animation triggered a random encounter.
>>342300820
Speaking of the Mother series, here's an interesting case of anti-piracy in a fan-translation.
This is the video mentioned at the bottom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuo-4PeDEo0
Wasn't there a game that made you wear a Pirate's Hat on your character for pirating that game?
>>342305505
apparently it's difficult to find a rom that has that message because most have all antipiracy removed
>>342306506
I remember one that had some altering antipiracy shit in it that caused people to post en masse on the dev forums about a bug and that it needed fixing...until the devs revealed that it was an antipiracy measure and all those niggas got caught pirating. I wish I could remember what game that was.
>>342306161
Buying the game sure ensured that high quality Spyro games would continue to be released, didn't it? Piracy is what kills franchises and not corporate greed, right?
>>342306765
It was a FOV issue, I think it was for Far Cry 4 or a very similar game.
>>342306289
that's fucking neato.
>>342306289
>we also implemented a simple system to see if the graphic data was altered
>a little bonus security measure to see if the disclaimer was removed or bypassed
See these things make sense. But how do AAA games tell when they've been pirated? They don't have screens like those, except things like the publishers, but pirated copies usually keep those in.
Or is this more of a question for /g/ or something?
>>342306983
No, it was something else that was far more fucked up than just FoV I'm pretty sure
>>342300820
>pirate game
>refer to Nintendo Game Instruction Booklet
>>342306765
Garrys mod "introduced a bug" for pirates that in the error console put your steamid and other info in the logs, anyone that complained about the bug got banned.
>>342306997
There are tons of available methods depending on hardware and level of protection, from checking a checksum of specific segments of the program to the anti-piracy program being self-modifying code which undoes the anti-piracy failure effects as it successfully verifies.
>>342307174
Haha, those pirates will never figure their way out of that one.
>>342306990
Tomato has a section on his website talking about his work on the Mother 3 Fan Translation, and it's crazy how much effort went into making it look as official as possible.
If you want to read more, the website is called legendsoflocalization. He also has sections analyzing the localizations of Final Fantasy IV, Earthbound, Zelda 1, and Super Mario Bros 1. There's also a section where he talks about what Japanese people think of AVGN.
>>342306506
Quantum break
>>342306161
Oh my god, after all these years now i know why i could never finish the game. Holy fucking shit. I remember replaying the gsme 5-10 times since my save file kept getting deleted at the final boss.
I was like 5-6 at the time too. Amazing game. I ought to play it again, for old times' sake
There was a crack on day one from an unknown group. With their own launcher picture, nfo, greetings and so on.
After a day or two, the fan boards were full of threads with people being stuck in a cave that should progress the game but just endet up in a dead end.
Some time later a working crack was found and the devs admitted that they released the first one.
>>342307609
>legendsoflocalization
>The Legends of Localization series takes a detailed look at how various video games have changed during the translation and localization
Oh shit, you've shown me something pretty good
>>342306289
>people still sell copies of the fan translation
>tomato and the others get nothing and never wanted anyone to make pirate carts of it
Fuck those guys who dump a rom on a shitty chinese cart and charge idiots $40 for it.
>>342306878
>>342301876
Please post now I'm curious.
>>342307768
Great website, sadly only tomato runs it I believe so updates are a bit slow.
I'm sure you know about it but just in case you don't check out the cutting room floor, that site is great.
>>342306878
Well, you can't pirate toysCan you?
>>342307832
>mfw I paid $20 for a patched cart
I just wanted a legit copy of the game...
>>342308214
Pretty sure there's a thingy you can buy that fakes Amiibo data, I wouldn't be surprised if something like that exists for Skylanders
>>342301693
>I gave actual real-world money to this kike ass bitch
>>342301693
I'm sorry people didn't want to buy your shitty waifu game.
>>342308175
>cutting room floor
I know nothing, thanks for these anon
>>342308510
Actually, that was a different anon you just responded to.
I was the one posting Mother 3 stuff.
>>342308627
Thanks to you both then. This stuff is certainly amusing nonetheless.
>>342305093
That's fucking rich considering they stole their game wholesale from game dev story
>>342306289
Hey, that's real neat. Mato/Jeff/whever else really poured their hearts into the translation.
>>342308227
Eh, I get it it just pisses me off that someone gets to benefit from the translation team's work. Typically if you wanted a real cart I would say either get a real cart (if you could read moon in this case) or get a flash cart.I own and beat my official copy of mother 3, payed $70. Don't know a wordof Japanese (:
>>342306765
GTA IV's antipiracy caused all vehicles Niko entered to start smoking and rapidly accelerate when entered, as well as locking the camera in permanent drunk-mode. Kiddies didn't realize this and posted on Steam and R* begging for help.
>>342305701
Exactly this. I've gotten fucked over 4 times because of this shit. What pissed me off even more is when EA insisted I had pirated the game even after I sat on the phone with them for 6 hours explaining I didn't pirate the fucking game.
>>342306765
Talos Principle?
>>342307368
>from checking a checksum of specific segments of the program
That's the same kind of thing as the screen though. And usually those segments would be some form of DRM though, right? Otherwise there would be no need to modify them.
So that begs the question again, how would these DRM segments tell that the copy is legitimate? Some form of public key encryption?
Sorry that I'm dumb. I only know a bit of basic programming and I've never really delved into compiling exes and anti-piracy measures or anything.
>>342308769
Yeah I honestly believe the cutting room floor is one of the most important gaming websites ever made. Very professional and the info is really interesting.
If you made a game, what would you add for piracy protection, or just to fuck with pirates?
Some ideas I had was to:
>Make everyone in the game call you THIEF (Like what happens when you steal something in Link's Awakening)
>Make any character that's wearing something skimpy more covered up
>Have a random enemy that can jump you at any time that's fucking nearly impossible to kill, but will give you a item called "Pirate's booty" if you defeat it
>>342306765
Sounds like Arkham Asylum (maybe City? I forget) with cape gliding.
>>342301693
Neptunia games are only worth pirating
but somewhere out there thousands of suckers keep eating shit up and spending real life money on them so much that each release gets a dub and a collectors editons jesus
>>342309398
Every single character has a super smug look on their face regardless of what happens.
>>342309398
If it was an rpg, I would let characters level up, but never increase the stats.
>>342309398
Every alternative costume is a pirate costume.
>>342309398
Honestly >>342300820 and >>342300930 are hilarious. The fact that earthbound deletes your data at the very second the final boss is revealed is brilliant.
>>342309398
Have the game crash to desktop with a jumpscare.
This only occurs at random intervals of time since the game was last started, so pirates are left guessing as to whether or not the crack worked.
>>342309398
a fucking screamer that might appear randomly, at any time.
>>342309626
Pokemon did something similar for Black & White, before people figured out a way around piracy pokemon would just stop gaining EXP from battles past a certain level. People tried to beat the whole game like that by just catching higher level wild pokemon but I believe a way around it was found before anyone managed to beat the game that way.
>>342309398
Depends on the genre. If I was doing an RPG I'd make the enemies twice as hard and drop a tenth of the gold. If I was making a fighting game I'd give the enemies the kind of hitboxes you see in bullet hell games for their body and the hitboxes of their weapons for their attacks. If I was making a shmup i'd make your hitbox the entire bottom half of the screen. shit like that.
or maybe i'd be lazy and have it lock up with a screen saying "hey stop stealing shit nigga"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEOo9EZwpxk
Surprised this one hasn't been posted. I'll be honest, I would probably shit myself if I saw this with no prior knowledge it existed.
Nightwolve and the whole Ys Oath in Felgana fan translation patch fiasco.
>>342302323
wait what happened with Titan Quest?
>>342309802
That sounds like a fun gimmick for a playthrough instead of nuzlocke shit for the thousandth time.
I think I'll try it out sometime.
>>342303090
Many denuvo games still aren't cracked
>>342310045
Is the little shit still at it?
>>342309919
>>342309649
>>342309578
>>342309626
These are funny but they're too obvious.
A pirate would just start the game, check for smug face/ fucked hitboxes/ pirate costumes and then go download another release.
>>342309721
>>342309748
Thanks for giving people cardiac arrest.
>>342309398
The first monster you fight maxes out your level and stats and forces the most powerful items and weapons into your inventory and equip loadout.
Each boss and enemy has their HP reduced to 1.
>>342307174
It's probably in case the warning's a false positive. Not like it matters since it's asking you to refer to the copyright laws.
>>342310231
It's not worth the effort to make anti-piracy that is actually meant to drive pirates away since they'll just crack it in two weeks tops anyway. May as well have some fun.
Really, if I was a game dev and I felt the need to add some kind of anti-piracy, I'd try to go a more classy route by having the game startup with a "Please support the official release" messageand make the "Special Thanks: You/Thanks for playing!" message in the credits not appear in pirated versions.
>>342310231
It's a hypothetical situation so it's fine. In reality, unless I gave up my job to seriously focus on releasing a game to support myself, I would release it under that "buy at your own price" model.
>>342302316
It's called osu!.
>>342310063
Devs had the brilliant idea to make pirated games randomly crash with no warning. Then they were surprised when the word spread that their game was buggy.
>>342310231
If an rpg I would make it so all equipment drops stats to 1 and nothing else. Game is fully beatable but I'm making it brutal.
>>342310519
>Spoiler
You bastard. I love it.
>>342310169
>Ysutopia last updated in April according to Google
Yep
>>342307737
That's awesome.
>>342310708
kek
wonder how long he'll keep it up for
>>342310519
>not making it sayYou just beat a pirated game, are you proud of yourself?Then have a screamer come up and crash the game.
>>342309118
The cart I have is an official cart, though. Someone just loaded the patch onto it.
>>342307737
>you will never be a game dev who releases a crack for his own game so you can ruse pirates
How does a game even check for piracy? If I wanted to release a Steam game and have a funny anti-piracy thing, how would I do it?
>>342307737
That's fucking genius.
>make game
>pretend to crack your own game
>make it unbeatable, constantly update it but add something else that makes it unbeatable each time
>other pirates won't try to hack it since you're already "working on it"
It's the perfect plan.
>>342301693
I'll stop pirating CompileHeart games when THE FUCKING RELEASE THEM OVER HERE!
They don't wanna release their other games because of SJW fags. So my ONLY OPTION is to PIRATE!
>>342311338
Have the code check for a certain value that would be edited by a crack and have it do X in response? I dunno I don't know shit about programming.
>>342311007
Dude I doubt it, actually copies are $60-$70 at the least so them selling it for $20 doesn't make sense. Also for them to replace the Japanese rom with the English rom would be a LOT of work. Have a picture of it by chance? For refrence here is a actual copy for refrence, most notable about is the glossy gold text on it.
>>342302741
I think Crysis did shit like this. As well as Arkham Asylum the first.
Crysis' trick turned all weapons into chicken cannons, that did little damage if at all.
Arkham Asylum fucked with the players by gimping Batman's ability to glide, making it impossible to progress beyond a certain point.
>>342311589
I think I just realized the source of both our confusion, alxipress, where I'm guessing you bought it, uses a sticker very similar to the actual one. Here is a picture of mine anon, I tried to show the glint which I'm sure if that sticker has. Most fan carts use a fan made sticker on the cart.
>Pokemon Black&White
No Exp on fainting Pokemon
>Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Siver
After a set number of event triggers, the game soft-locks
>Chrono Trigger (DS)
Infinite Script Loop after entering the 1st time portal to 200A.D.
>Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
After 15 Minutes "Thanks for Playing" Moogle screen of RAGE
SQUARE fucking ENIX likes to put lots of Anti-Piracy shit in their games. Chrono Trigger DS had over 50 or more I remember a cracker saying.
>Warioware DIY (DS)
The built-in NAND on the cart served as an anti-piracy measure (that was later patched) that prevented pirated copies from saving. (Games you made would appear to have been saved, until you power off/on your system)
>FUCKING EARTHBOUND
>Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Sure, you can board the train, but you sure as hell arn't going ANYWHERE! The controls disappear.
>Some Codemasters Games with the hard coded "Fade" Anti-Piracy
It made foes stronger, weapons and armor weaker, as you progressed the game. It was made aware to the player when the Anti-Piracy message appeared that says "Real games, don't fade"
>Undertale
Yes, Undertale. There's a dialog that was made, just for pirates.
https://youtu.be/mxu8PglD6Kg?t=45s
As if the game's 4th wall breaking shit wasn't already unsettling enough.
>>342300820
That is, if it doesn't just lock up from the start, which it should.
>>342303090
You mean the DRM that still hasn't been cracked?
>>342309398
At a point in the game there would be black bars framing the screen then something like this gif would happen, except faster and meant to be terrifying more than creepy.
Accompanied by the loudest horrifying shriek capable of being made.
I remember skullgirls spat out some weird garbage on screen if you pirated it. I remember someone complained about it on twitter I think and got BTFO
>>342309542
>wasting time on something you aren't even willing to spend money on
Maybe you should reevaluate your priorities.
>>342312327
>The built-in NAND on the cart served as an anti-piracy measure (that was later patched) that prevented pirated copies from saving. (Games you made would appear to have been saved, until you power off/on your system)
I'm retarded, but I just realized that my GBA Spyro games never saved because they were probably pirated. Don't know why it took me this specific one to realize it, when deleting saves seems to a pretty common anti-piracy thing.
>>342309398
I wonder if it would be possible to add ransomwear as the piracy protection...
>>342302323
What was TQs fuckery?
It's a good game though and didn't it also sell well?
>>342312327
That Undertale one is fake, several results show it's fanmade and even based on a comic.
>>342312609
It could also be possible that the battery-backed battery on your pirated cart is dead. Absolutely no GBA games have a battery-backed save.
The only games that have a battery in the cart is Pokemon Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald, and that's for the internal clock.
>>342309398
Have an unbeatable boss about 75% of the way into the game
>>342307959
>What is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad.
>>342311438
Except nowadays you would look suspicious cause you aren't part of the pirate scene.
>>342312624
I remember some Japanese dev put a trojan in the game that would activate on a pirated version of the game and take a screenshot of your computer screen.
>>342312624
I think that breaks some sort of FCC regulations.
Your software that's being sold as a consumer product must not harm someone else's PC from deliberately malicious code. You could face lawsuits up the ass.
Making it pop up a screamer on the other hand...
It's a VN, but back then I found it pretty hilarious. When Higanbana came out, the pirated version had the entire OST switched with one from a previous game. When people told that the creator he started freaking out, thinking there somehow was an error when pressing the discs.
Turns out the person who actually put up the torrent switched out the music to ruse pirates.
>>342306636
No, it's just that every emulator available passes it's shitty piracy check.
>>342312801
Fuck that just do the "unbeatable boss at the start of the game" thing but make it just challenging enough that you think it's possible, and make it hard Game Over when you die to him just so you won't think "oh well I'm supposed to lose here."
>>342312624
The problem there would be false-positives.
And then they would get into huge amounts of trouble.
>>342312115
Fuck me, you're right, I'm stupid. I got it on ebay though. Still worth it to play it physically, I guess. I'll buy a real copy someday, when I actually have money.
>>342313570
No problem anon. Hey if you got to play the game the whatever, just stop giving money to those assholes who make those carts. Also word of advice, gba pirate carts are rather infamous for deleting save data or having the battery die.
>>342312327
Kek, I wonder what Sun&Moon are gonna have now that Nintendo knows the 3DS has been blown wide open.
>>342302896
It's actually real, only in future pirated versions the bypass is good enough that it doesn't pick up that the copy is pirated.
>>342312782
>Absolutely no GBA games have a battery-backed save.
Are you retarded? Tons of GBA games (mostly the older ones) came with battery saves. GBA carts actually use a wide variety of save techniques.
Source: http://zork.net/~st/jottings/GBA_saves.html
>>342306161
Welp, now i know why i could never finish it
>>342314031
3DS games don't have any way to detect if the 3DS has been blown open though, since it's just running a copy of the normal OS off of the SD card.
>>342309398
The game sends you to the moon and keeps you there.
>>342314457
As some who finnally bought a non pirated copy this year and could play.
Fuck the yeti skate race, that should have been a earlier part of the game if you pirated it.
>>342309398
Save data "corrupts" itself at a random time. Guaranteed delete at halfway point
If there is an attempt to play again after the second delete then it will reload the first save and all music will play backwords and all text black barred. Closes itself after 10 minutes
>>342305093
>play the whole thing to the end
>wow they just lifted 100% of the gameplay straight from Game Dev Story
>only found out on the second playthrough there's original endgame content such as R&D, MMOs and shit
This is so weird, they copied another game verbatim, but also created new content. But put it on the very end of the game, where many might not ever reach it
>>342313036
>the person who actually put up the torrent switched out the music to ruse pirates.
that's nice
>>342314385
how do battery saves work exactly? does it just keep the state running all times?
>>342307609
>legendsoflocalization
Thanks! Looks like a very interesting site, going to check it out.
>>342306506
No Time To Explain.
It was an official pirated copy by the devs that gave the player a pirate hat and on the pause menu said a piratey message about buying the game if you liked it
>>342310904
It's called subtlety, anon.
>>342306161
Oh god this so much, it broke my heart so many times when iwas a kidand i didn't know this was anti piracy protection, but rather some retarded game mechanic that i didn't know of.
>>342309398
I would slowly, slowly replace lines of dialog with similar sounding lines from really shitty fanfiction, until eventually every conversation would sound like this:
"Butt sonic, hhes just a babie! Yu cant stik your penis up his but."
"im sorry airis i love sepiroth now."
I'd replace the soundtrack with shitty midis.
I'd have muffled doorbells or ringtones play at random in the background.
Halfway through the game, before an important plot point is revealed, it would just cut to the middle of one guy one cup and start screaming at you.
And I'd upload all of these as separate cracks over the first few weeks of release, as well as releasing some "cracks" that were just bundles of shitty toolbars and other totally not a virus programs I found online.
>>342316053
Oh, you mean this?
>>342309398
DRM information fisher please goI'd tell them thanks for trying my game, and that I'm sorry I didn't make a good enough demo for them. If they don't want to pay for it that's fine, because I've done the same thing to other developers, but if they want to support the developer to help create more games they're more than welcome to.
If the piracy went out of hand?No saving. Bricking at every point possible. No fun allowed. Game has checks on almost literally everything you do, and the wiping is randomized. The checks are also randomized, with the checks being written differently each time. Talk to an NPC? Check. Win a battle? Check. Try and save the game? Check. Try to remove the DRM checks? Check. Try to savestate save? Check. Eventually I'd put in code that would just completely brick the game I'd end up putting more work into the fucking DRM than the actual game. Any pirate dedicated to cracking it would get a bundle of a few hundred copies of every game I've released, and I wouldn't put any more DRM into future releases.
>>342309398
In the middle of the game, I replace one of the story flags with spawning in a mysterious white room. In it are hanging pictures of various video games and their average price on eBay. The more ridiculous the price, and the less reproducible, the bigger the picture.
For example:
>Here lies
>Panzer Dragoon Saga
>$300
>Source: N/A
Then, a mysterious man in a wheelchair comes up, presses his hand onto Cubivore, and approaches you. His message reads as follows:
>It's alright.
>This is not our place.
>We have no such worry.
>We'll probably be $10 by the end of the month.
>I know it's sad, but we'll be here.
>...
>Hey...
>Have fun, alright?
A beam of light removes you from the room, and you resume the game as normal, but with some stupid cosmetic change, like a purple belt.
>>342312327
>After a set number of event triggers, the game soft-locks
Ah yes, the perpetually spinning Pokeballs.
>>342316270
>you don't have to tell me why you pirated the game, but you do have to eat this.
>>342315612
Yes, SRAM holds its state indefinitely as long as it has power. The moment the power is lost the state is also permanently lost. The battery is wired to the positive and ground of the SRAM chip and probably in parallel to the console's power and ground.
>>342316417
>he's eating a bowlful of eggs
Shit, I didn't even think of that.
>>342310597
>Osu!
>pirating a free game
whatthe game really does that?
>>342318270
Yes. If it detects you're cheating it takes pictures of your desktop.
>>342318702
Wrong. Not Osu, it's a game called Summer Days that did that
>>342302741
Serious Sam 3 had an invincible pink scorpion follow you through levels.
>>342309398
put a creepy looking character that tells you you're playing pirated software in every important place.
or making him appear out of nowhere
>>342319264
>or making him appear out of nowhere
Like Watson in that one Sherlock Holmes game?
>>342318773
osu does it too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/4kyegq/regarding_osus_sourcecode_leak/
>>342312037
Arkham Asylum was pretty amusing, they made an area that required the ability to glide but they disabled the glide function on bootleg copies of the game. Apparently people were complaining about it on their forums and getting berated by the staff.
>>342313036
I remember this.
Good thing it was fixed within hours of the release
>>342319536
>The user spreading this code is trying to place a bad image on us by focusing on the "privacy concerns". This is not a valid argument as the code being distributed is outdated and possibly modified in a way to frame us as doing something we aren't.
"""""privacy concerns"""""
what a bunch of neckbeards you have nothing to hide?!/ it doesn't meatter!
>>342310481
This is fucking evil and I like it.
>>342318270
I always wondered something. Through osu you can get perfectly fine full versions of a number of songs, how does this look like from a legal standpoint?
>>342305786
It's called being the creative force.
>>342305786
Japan produces content worth protecting.
>>342312327
undertale one is fake
source: pirated undertale
>>342306878
There was an interview with ND about it. Apparently they were huge piracy problems with the Russian mob that they actually implemented this so that they could guarantee some sales in the region before the Russians cracked it.
>>342311528
where the hell do you live ?
>>342319536
All that disgusting dicksucking.
>>342313036
>When people told that the creator he started freaking out, thinking there somehow was an error when pressing the discs.
poor guy
>>342305701
Like that time when we had to put a CD into our CD drive. Dark times. God the hoops they made you jump through just to get your copy of the game going...
Not that I havent had issues with legit games authenticating nowadays- I have (Dragon Age Origins didn't recognize any of its DLC for me until several tweaks and a re-install later)- but it wasn't always like this.
>>342306161
still can't figure out how to patch a spyro 3 iso to not have that shit on ePSXe
or get normal music on spyro 1 for that matter
>>342309398
half the screen would be of me eating various food on camera
>>342303492
never seen this happening and I knew no one that owned a non-modded ps1.
Honestly you probably just had a shitty modchip
>>342309398
Just have a crying anime girl on the loading screens. It would break their hearts and they'd buy the game like 10 times to make up for it.
For every time the game is purchased, the anime girl gets happier and happier.
>>342319536
time to pack some of the songs and uninstall it then
>>342310045
What happened?
Someone explain how the game 'checks' you're playing the purchased version?
How does the game know your playing a pirated version?
>>342321457
That's like asking why is the sky blue, or how planes stay in the air. No one will ever know.
>>342316227
http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-the-Difference-Between-Subtle,-Subtly-and-Subtlety
Fucking moron.
>>342310652
This didn't happen
>>342321597
But people are able to get around the anti-piracy checks, so someone must know
>>342309398
Having the big bad appear and one shot you after an hour into the game and have him give a rant about how only the pure of heart can stop them. Just vague enough to make people ask on forums about what to do.
>>342321457
Not an expert but, some things the game just checks for that normal CD, disks, or cartridges just don't usually do. I'm guessing you have to code a lot of that stuff too. They probably also get ahold of the most commonly used pirating devices and programs(probably paying for it too) and code that in aswell. This is just my guess though.
>>342321457
As an example, DS games would pad their game cards with garbage data to fit a specific size. If the game detects that the "card" its playing on is not the size it expects, it is a pirated copy.
As another example, there are some files filled with some unimportant simple checksums, stored in a format that automatically changed when the enviroment the file is in is different. This lets the game know that something has changed in a backdoorlike manner.
>>342321457
Old cartridge based games could just test the cartridge itself in various ways. I remember reading somewhere that on game would actually attempt to write to the ROM chip(supposed to be impossible) that the game was on and if the write was sucessful the anti-piracy mechansims would turn on.
>>342309398
I probably wouldn't, I hate the idea that an uncracked game with drm would be unplayable in the future if nobody bothered to crack it.
>>342321457
Definitely depends on the game. Some check things like the file size of files that would need to be cracked to pirate the game, others might have had their devs "leak" modified versions of the game online so that they play differently than the real thing. Really depends.
>>342321457
you know how Wii U games have a glossy sheen?
>>342309145
if they did an anti piracy version that was just the Carmageddon mod I would pay money for it
>>342320995
Get a proper rip (the Spyro 3 found on Emuparadise is that garbage paradox hack last I checked), preferably verified by redump or something, that or rip a cue/bin image yourself. I was able to fully play through Spyro 3 on ePSXe with my own copy.
>>342302316
Yeah I think it was school days that took pictures of your desktop and posted them online. I believe the EULA type thing when installing was changed for the pirate version and said exactly what it was going to do.
>>342319536
Why linking to reddit isn't a bannable offense will always remain a mystery to me.
>>342323029
>i cant handle free speech, anyone posting what i dont like should be banned!
why are you even here?
>>342323029
a source is a source
>>342323029
shut up peppy
>>342323008
I heard it was summer days that had that. Did school days do it too?
>>342323151
Reddit is usually only considered to be "half" of a source here.
>>342314385
Which GBA games have which save techniques? Is there a list?
How long does a GBA Battery last? If it dies, will I lose all my save data? Will replacing it erase my save data?
>>342323519
if the source was linked in the post than that guy is an idiot, I will never know because im not checking that link
>>342302741
>Make pirated version much harder.
>Legit version was too easy for most players.
>Everyone plays the pirated version instead.
>>342322878
this one?
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/playstation/psx-isos/spyro---year-of-the-dragon-v11---redump/
>>342323469
I don't even know anymore, apparent Cross Days was posted online before the release but it was actually a Trojan that looked legit and posted user info online for everyone to see.
>>342323878
Yes, I guess.
I wouldn't really know since I can't be arsed to D/L it and check so check it yourself.
>>342309398
Depend on the genre, devs can do various thing to fuck with pirates, but in general
>make half of the screen black randomly
>config can't be saved, reset volume to 0 on every loading screen
>make loading time longer
>randomly spawn player character to room with nothing after loading game (can't save there)
>in racing game, make pirate's car top speed cut in half
>in RPG, make EXP req x10 for each level and less stat gained for each level
>in action game, make control unresponsive
>in shooter, make reload animation thousand time slower on purpose
>>342324587
A shooter where you cant reload your gun would be a pretty neat concept, always having to scavenge for new guns
>>342323029
being butthurt over something so minimal should be a bannable offense.
>>342323561
Never mind. Found it.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gameboy-advance-gba-games-requiring-batteries.322803/
>GBA games that require batteries for saving and other functions:
>Baseball Advance
>Boktai 1, 2 and 3 (JP)
>Bomberman Tournament
>Breath of Fire
>Breath of Fire II
>Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
>Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
>Dragonball Z Collectible Card Game
>Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak
>Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
>Krazy Racers
>Lego Bionicle
>Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
>MegaMan Battle Network
>MegaMan Zero
>Metroid Fusion (Only some use a battery)
>Metroid Zero Mission
>Monster Rancher Advance
>Monster Rancher Advance 2
>Pokemon Emerald (Not for saving, but for other game events)
>Pokemon Ruby (Not for saving, but for other game events)
>Pokemon Sapphire (Not for saving, but for other game events)
>Super Dodgeball Advance
>Warioland 4
>>342324716
Hotline Miami sorta did that.
>>342308214
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A GUNDAM
>>342323519
>>342323763
gaia online rivalry was more fun anyway
I even prefered it to 9gag
ALL OF REDDIT IS CANCER is just a low tier meme, every subreddit is a different community
>>342309398
>Have everything start off as normal, player goes on a few quests and stuff with a bunch of cheery teammates
>End up with a main story quest of catching a thief
>Player chases down said masked thief with his crew
>Cinematic scene starts in player perspective on the cornered thief
>Big, burly teammate says something along the line of "You had this coming."
>Whips around and decks the player
>Suddenly the players entire team each takes turns beating the player
>Thief removes the mask to reveal it's one of the developers
>Developer takes a moment to get all preachy about anti-piracy then the scene ends with the player staring down the barrel of a gun and suddenly a bang
>When the player tries to load the game or start a new game, it goes to a gravestone with "PIRATE" carved on it
>>342324813
Well it made sense with the Boktai games because those had a literal fucking solar panel in the cartridge that you can't really play without due to the main gimmick of the games
>>342324813
>The internal battery has run dry. Clock-based events will no longer occur.
>>342324813
>Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
>tfw my cartridge glitched and my double 100% save was gone
it was sad when i pick it up recently, playing it through was nice though, i breeze it in less of an hour, scored near two million points, and 30 minutes later i got extra mode unlocked
>wario land 4
pls not that one too
>>342309398
>pirate plays my game
>gets to the end
>finished game, message pops up, it's a code for 75% off
Lets face it, if you beat the game, you're probably not going to go out and buy it, at least this way some of the more moral pirates are going to pay something for the game.
25% is better than nothing.
>>342320778
osu!'s community is probably the worst I've ever seen. They're all fucking weebs in the worst way possible.
>>342325359
>Not having the game screen cut, then have you fight a standard battle as the thief getting BTFO by the party.
>Watch the adventurers walk away. Reloading the save always goes back to a brutalized thief groaning in an alley in his own blood.
>>342309398
Remove a fundamental basic feature from the options menu and watch the idiots complain online about how could the game be missing "______".
Never seen a single one of those. You people must suck at piracy.
>>342319536
Never planned on cheating but dropped that game like a rock when I heard about this
>>342324813
>castlevania circle of the moon
what an awful time that gave me
>>342323151
>>342323519
>a source is a source
>ribbit is only like "half" a source
There's definitely a TJ """"""""Henry"""""""" Yoshi joke here but I'm too lazy to think it up.
>>342319536
Wait, what's causing it to take screenshots? What do you have to do to trigger this to happen? I'm not familiar with osu at all but my friend plays it a lot, don't want him to get fucked over.
>>342309398
Loading screens come with life improvement tips.
In game dialogue has various 4chan "reality checks" inserted, of course with spoken dialogue and unskippable, it might also loop at times.
Examples:
>You have a massive crater in your CV.
>Your parents still delude themselves into thinking that you will turn out ok.
>Your old friends are getting married and moving on with their careers, you are playing pirated vidya.
>At night you tell yourself "tomorrow I'll fix it".
>At times you panic at your own stasis, knowing nothing is changing
>You often wonder where it all went down the drain so hard so fast
>You unjokingly have no true friends
>tictoc tictoc tictoc tic...
Normies don't pirate, so this will hit a nerve 70% of the time every time. They'll most likely not buy the game, but they paid a far heftier price instead. As game dev I would see it as paying ~40 dollars to make someone feel miserable, which is more than getting my money's worth.
>>342309656
>The fact that earthbound deletes your data at the very second the final boss is revealed is brilliant.
it's true, the devs knew their game was so shit that nobody would ever want to play it from the start again
>>342320294
it's surprising they don't get many DMCAs, but they do sometimes. Maybe companies are just getting lazy with it after having YouTube do all the work for them the past few years
>>342325834
Nice thought. But I would like the idea of having just a scene because usually some of the Anti-Pirate measures are so cool that the buyers actually feel left out. With just a cinematic, I could throw it in a scene viewer for players to see what the pirates would of got.
>>342300387
I love this shit
>anti-piracy measures on free games
who actually thinks this is a good idea
>>342325701
Good idea in theory but this would piss legitimate buyers off.
>>342306289
>all of the bullshit to stop people from altering their illegal hack
What if someone wants to make romhacks of that translated rom? Those people are fucked I guess.
>>342326494
https://archive.is/o/XVG2J/a.rfl.pw/kyihkudgie.mp4
>>342300387
I find amazing people were able to run into these. I played a lot of these roms mentioned in this thread back in the day and never ran into any anit piracy message or whatever. I just assumed whoever did the dumps would have already patched them out before they upload the game.
>>342320294
Completely illegal but nothing can be done unless a company issues DMCA's for specific songs. Some songs on osu! have been DMCA'd in the past but nobody really cares anymore because it's a fucking Chinese circle tapping game.
>>342300387
I hope this don't turn into a spooky tread...
>>342309398
Ransomware
Game does harmful thing XYZ unless the game is completed within the next ~8 hours (or whatever length would be a "good run" for your game). Along with a message in the spirit of "Let's play a game"
>>342327448
Thanks anon.
This screen popped up once when I turned on the game when I was a kid. I was just playing normally, and didn't have any cheat devices or anything.
Scared the shit out of me. I thought I was going to go to jail, or something.
>>342327271
>buyers are getting pissed of that someone who got the game for 100% free now decides to concede slightly and get it for 75% free instead
buyfags are the worst.
>>342327448
holy shit
I actually wanted to try out osu!
Fucking dropped
>>342300387
anyone remember that fucking wheel you had to use to get the code to play some football game?
>>342326595
Or it wouldn't matter because it would get deleted again and you'd never get the satisfaction of completing the game, smart ass.
>>342328179
Code Wheels were a common thing, apparently.
>>342323029
everyone agrees that you're a faggot
>>342309398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOy_38wF-I
This happens, but then pirate themed.
>>342302741
Super Robot Wars: Lord of Elemental for the DS did.
First, the game may not run at all. Get past that, then enemies start oneshotting allied units; get past that, then Shu will always oneshot units when he's required to lower hp to critical; get past that...well, the game may finally run normally, except the music and everything is in 16-bit quality rather than what the DS offers.
Players STILL found a way around, as these bugs are only triggered when the game detects it's being played on an R4 cartridge. It's incapable of detecting it if played on an emulator, thus the bugs never occur.
>>342328474
That's what happens when you get a massive reddit influx on this site.
>>342309398
>all text will now be "..."
>no music will play
>game cannot be saved
>weir textures will randomly appear
>eventually creepy ass looking enemy will appear and kill the player with ridiculously fast and hard to avoid attacks that deal small damage.
>>342307174
It's probably a message intended for game copier device attempts(I think it has more connections or something). A pirated copy shouldn't have this message if they match the cartridge hardware. Lots of games had similar screens for the same purpose.
>>342329057
>>342309398
I'd add an actual challenge mode and make purchased game easy as fuck. Seriously if my team had the enough time to code all that anti pirating shit then they sure as hell have enough time to code more gameplay elements. I'd also add cryptic shit to the game like deep hidden messages in the weirdest places.
>>342309398
Set the game to ultraeasy, regardless of what it says on the difficulty screen.
Enemy AI is downloaded on-demand from webservers(under the guise of achievement verification scheme), and so are loot tables. Loot tables also have story items.
Or just release a subscription based online multiplayer only arena shooter and call it a day.
I release a really good online game at a normal price, then threaten that if pirated copies go above X% the game will be hosted through origin.
On start up of the pirated copy Morgan Free man spoils the entire plot, starting with the most crucial plot tweests and such. Even if they patch it out afterwards the damage has been done.
