http://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/antipiracy/
That was an interesting read. They check the SNES' PPU to check the region. They check to see if the game is on a (flash) cartridge or not. One makes random enemies appear more often and one erases the game's save.
Oh yeah, I remember reading about that.
The file deletion occurring at the end is pretty evil.
So is there any way around it?
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 15, 2010, 06:50:45 PM
So is there any way around it?
Yes, hacking the game like how every ROM you can download is. You can activate it with codes on an emulator.
I actually own a copy of Mother 2. Not EarthBound, Mother 2. The Super Famicom game.
It's hard to play an RPG in your non-native language.
Quote from: Tupin on October 15, 2010, 07:26:01 PM
Yes, hacking the game like how every ROM you can download is. You can activate it with codes on an emulator.
I actually own a copy of Mother 2. Not EarthBound, Mother 2. The Super Famicom game.
It's hard to play an RPG in your non-native language.
Considering you spend most of your time reading what items serve what purpose in RPGs, and reading the dialogue for the story, that should be expected.
...wait, what compelled you to play Mother 2?
Quote from: SkyMyl on October 15, 2010, 09:20:34 PM
Considering you spend most of your time reading what items serve what purpose in RPGs, and reading the dialogue for the story, that should be expected.
...wait, what compelled you to play Mother 2?
I assume (and I'm 99% sure I'm correct) that Tuppy is a collector, seeing how he posts all of these threads of systems we haven't heard of. I know when I buy a game, I want to play it. I downloaded and tried Etrian Odyssey looking for the track FOE was based off of.
Oh, I played it, or at least attempted to. I think I beat the first boss in Onett with the help of an FAQ before I gave up. The other files on it were all the way up to Gigyas, though.
I never beat it because of this. Still one of my favorite games though.
It should only do that for Mother 2. NoA is pretty much telling us to pirate Earthbound at this point, what else are we supposed to do? I think it's funny that after Smash Bros we have Fire Emblem, one of Nintendo's most Japanese games, but we don't have a rerelease of Earthbound, a game which is pretty much set in Ohio.
The difference between Fire Emblem and Mother is that Fire Emblem actually generates enough profit to justify western releases. The Mother franchise has never been a blockbuster series in japan, so the fact that Earthbound is the only one to get released outside of japan makes sense.
It also helps that Fire Emblem as a whole is generally good and Mother is not.
Quote from: Zero on October 19, 2010, 08:31:34 PM
It also helps that Fire Emblem as a whole is generally good and Mother is not.
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does this effect the game if you have an actual cartridge?
Quote from: Gwen Khan on November 05, 2010, 09:49:41 PM
does this effect the game if you have an actual cartridge?
Nope.
are there any other games that have this?
Quote from: Gwen Khan on November 27, 2010, 11:42:06 AM
are there any other games that have this?
I'm pretty sure that there are other games that have methods of preventing people who pirated it to play it entirely.
Quote from: Marisa on November 27, 2010, 11:59:13 AM
I'm pretty sure that there are other games that have methods of preventing people who pirated it to play it entirely.
as much as Earthbound?
Quote from: Gwen Khan on November 27, 2010, 12:13:53 PM
as much as Earthbound?
It depends what you mean by that, ze. If you pirated Chrono Trigger DS, for example, the game would keep working fine until you first went traveled through time, at which point you're stuck looking at a looping screen that never ends.
There are games that punish those who pirated the game, but in different ways.
Quote from: Marisa on November 27, 2010, 12:26:21 PM
It depends what you mean by that, ze. If you pirated Chrono Trigger DS, for example, the game would keep working fine until you first went traveled through time, at which point you're stuck looking at a looping screen that never ends.
There are games that punish those who pirated the game, but in different ways.
There was one game that did it maliciously. Basically, at the end of each level, it would ask you for a code, which would be located in the manual. Now, because the internet was NEW back then, there were no cheat websites to tell you what the codes were, so if you didn't have the manual, you were screwed.
Good. I love them even more now.