snes copy protection?? check this out!

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popped in dk country for a few rounds n this popped up! anyone seen it before? i reset the game and it hasn't shown up since.




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Yeah that happened to me once when I went to play DKC 2.
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Me to but i am not sure which game it happened.
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It appears in a lot of SNES titles from around the mid 90s onward and as far as I know it only appears on Nintendo-made games. It is pretty common when you have a Game Genie inserted, that's why you needed to enter a set of master codes to bypass that copy protection screen. One game I know of is Super Metroid.
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The most famous version of SNES copy protection is Earthbound, where the game became hellishly hard for minimal reward, in the attempt to make it as un-fun as possible to play. This culminates in the game freezing right as you face the final boss, and then deleting your save files.
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My copy of Super Metroid once told me that I shouldn't pirate games. Every once in a great while you'll get such a message without using a Game Genie.
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AmishSamurai wrote:The most famous version of SNES copy protection is Earthbound, where the game became hellishly hard for minimal reward, in the attempt to make it as un-fun as possible to play. This culminates in the game freezing right as you face the final boss, and then deleting your save files.
what??? does this really happen or are you joking haha. sounds pretty effing epic :lol:
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ninjainspandex wrote:what??? does this really happen or are you joking haha. sounds pretty effing epic :lol:
It's true
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sgt.flanders wrote:My copy of Super Metroid once told me that I shouldn't pirate games. Every once in a great while you'll get such a message without using a Game Genie.
I wasn't using a game genie when it happened to me.
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ExedExes wrote:
ninjainspandex wrote:what??? does this really happen or are you joking haha. sounds pretty effing epic :lol:
It's true
That makes me wonder if that Earthbound cart I had really just had a dead save battery...or if it was actually a pirate. Hmmm....
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