What are some examples of piracy protection implemented within

SMTII

I think serious sam had an unkillable enemy that chased you forever if you pirated the game.

Batman arkham asylum your cape wouldn't work so everybody that posted on various forums with : fix needed, cape bug

Serious Sam 3 with the invincible scorpion
Arkham Asylum's broken cape physics

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>>388669212
Not exactly piracy protection, but Alan Wake gave you a cool eyepatch if you pirated the game

in escape velocity nova some law enforcement fleet would try to shoot you down as soon as you left a planet

>>388669212
>If you like this game, buy it or die.

We all die eventually, Pokémon. Your threat doesn't scare me.

>>388669212
wasn't this proven fake?

>>388669524
Redditors stick out like a sore thumb. It's pretty amazing how easy they are to spot really.

>>388669321
FAST IMMORTAL SCORPION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91q5BtlxK0

In Deus Ex, you couldn't leave Liberty Island on the boat with a pirated copy. Every other topic on message boards and forums at the time were asking "HOW DO I GET ON TEH BOAT!?"

>>388669212
In C&C red alert 2 if you had a pirated copy.
The game would work fine for a few minutes but after a while all your units would explode.

>>388669601
I know right. I spotted one right here >>388669601

>>388669212
>erasing your savedata at the last boss.
lmao I played 99% of your game already retards

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>>388669850

>>388669791
The one from 2000?

>>388669850
Wow I really didn't see that coming. Incredible.

>>388670752
Salutations, reddit

>>388670526
Yeah. Was eventually cracked and fixed, but an early version of the pirated release wouldn't let you boat, essentially making Liberty Island your demo.

serious sam had a monster spawn unkillable he would spawn camp you into frustration uninstall

I can never enjoy these as somewhere in the back of my mind I know there will come a day when it will break legit copies on the and no one who owns the IP will bother to fix it. Worse yet comes a time when people 200 years from now can't play these games at all due to something the programs never thought of.

game dev tycoon...mentioned the games you are developing in game are being pirated and then started slow decay of your game company bank account because of piracy.

>>388672331
I'm pretty sure it's still possible to win on a pirated copy
Just hard because the chances of your game being pirated rises by 200%

dreamcast discs have a special wavey ring on the edge of the cd that ensured copyright protection somehow.

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Wasteland was neat

Another feature of the game was the inclusion of a printed collection of paragraphs that the player would read at the appropriate times.[7] These paragraphs described encounters and conversations, contained clues, and added to the overall texture of the game. Because programming space was at a premium, it saved on resources to have most of the game's story printed out in a separate manual rather than stored within the game's code itself. The paragraph books also served as a rudimentary form of copy protection; someone playing a copied version of the game would miss out on much of the story and clues necessary to progress. The paragraphs included an unrelated story line[5] about a mission to Mars intended to mislead those who read the paragraphs when not instructed to, and a false set of passwords that would trip up cheaters.

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Mirror's edge had you be unable to run in the start of the second or third mission, making you unable to progress.
It was especially funny since it affected a large amount of legit users at launch.

>>388672472
lol

>>388669570
Yes, it was added by someone who dumped the rom

Every Pokémon game since Gen IV will stop you from gaining EXP, make no Pokémon appear, freeze your game, or simply not load new areas randomly on pirated/emulated copies.

Of course, because of how popular they are, they get patched within a few days anyway.

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>>388669212
>game becomes ridiculously hard
>if you do make it to the end, it freezes during the final fight and crashes, then deletes your saves

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It was easy to bypass though.

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>>388669212
I remember pirating Mass Effect and the navigation map wouldn't work. I asked about it on a forum and everyone yelled at me for pirating and I didn't understand how they knew I had pirated it...

I remember some game that turned all the enemies into hardhats with feet. Also XIII let you play for a bit up to a part with a boat where you couldn´t progress.... until a better crack came out.

Oh and then there was that starforce thing with some games requiring hardware mods in your pc (disc drive iirc) to crack some games. That were wild times in the cracking scene

>>388669807
haha, never liked rts games so I missed this, but that sounds fucking hilarious

>>388672440
>>388671905
My pirated copy never had that problem and I sold closer to 7 trillion copies of my bestseller.

>>388669212
I think ARMA would have you turn into a seagull.

>>388672440
>to win against piracy you only need to make good games
Pottery.

>>388673880
It was pretty effective aswell since the pirates would be able to boot the game and they would think their job is done.
But if you tried to play the game you wouldnt get far

>>388669212
I remember in Airline Tycoon after about an in-game week a padlock would appear on the notebook you use to schedule flights.

>>388676769
Spyro 3 was a pain for this, didn't get cracked for three months.
I don't know if it counted cause it fucked me even though I actually bought the game but in MGS to get Meryl's number you'd need to check the Game case back for it. I just didn't think a game would make me look outside for the answer intentionally

>>388669212
>>388672959
Go back to >>>/vp/ you filthy furfags.

>>388673018
>your

>>388679005
>pirated version is better