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Don't Buy This
Don't Buy This (1985)
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British Telecom's "Firebird Software" label, publishers of Don't Buy This, encouraged players to pirate the game, and had a competition where the players who sent the best hate mail would receive stickers and badges.
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Anti-Piracy, Complaint, General
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 29, 2023
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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Attachment If the game detects that its cartridge is a pirated copy, Zelda's hair will turn into a giant pentagon in cutscenes, fishing will always result in a hooked fish escaping after 51 frames of animation, and Spoiler:the exit to Ganon's Castle during the escape sequence will be blocked off to Link, as Zelda will run right through the bars, leaving Link behind and making the game impossible to finish.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month September 21, 2021
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Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga
Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga (2010)
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Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga has an anti-piracy feature activated if the game detects the PlayStation Portable's system firmware is illegitimate. During a match, the collisions for walls and some floors will be turned off at random points, occasionally causing players to clip through walls or fall out of bounds before respawning back at the starting location. Additionally, some bosses and enemies will not respawn if they fall off the map, making fights with them unwinnable.
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Anti-Piracy, General, Unwinnable
person Gaia Cube calendar_month April 5, 2024
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BeatStream
BeatStream (2014)
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eAMUSEMENT support for the BeatStream series ended on September 1st, 2017, with conversion kits for ノスタルジア (NOSTALGIA) offered in March the same year. However, unlike other discontinued BEMANI games, no offline patch was ever created, which is necessary for the game to be playable without an eAMUSEMENT connection.

This renders BeatStream completely unplayable in any official capacity.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person aa1205 calendar_month September 21, 2023
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Slam Dunk: Yonkyou Gekitotsu!!
Slam Dunk: Yonkyou Gekitotsu!! (1994)
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Attachment The game will detect for any piracy activity during most screen transitions in three different ways: by saving, by writing to read-only memory, and by checking if the game is played on a PAL-region console. Should the game detect itself as a pirated copy, the game will display a black screen with the Japanese katakana word "ビデオ" ("Video") on the top right corner of the screen, imitating the video input channel display on common television sets at the time. The text then proceeds to behave erratically, as if the TV had glitched. Presumably, this screen was designed to taunt pirates for playing an unauthorized copy of the game.

A variant of this screen exists in the game's sequel, From TV Animation Slam Dunk 2: IH Yosen Kanzenhan!, serving as the screen saver for that game's debug mode as well.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month February 22, 2023
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Pokémon Sword
Pokémon Sword (2019)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Shield (Game)
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In early 2021, a man from Nagoya, Japan was arrested after hacking and modifying Pokémon in his copy of the game and selling them to people. The Japanese police and The Pokémon Company felt this was in violation of the country's "Unfair Competition Prevention Act (UCPA)" and therefore illegal. The man was first brought to the police's attention after selling a modified Sobble for ¥4,400 (US$42), but he was eventually able to make ¥1.15 million (US$11,000) from various transactions before being arrested. It's suspected that the reason for trading these hacked Pokémon was due to the potential ability changes that hacking allowed which could provide easy advantages in the competitive scene without going through the time to catch them in-game.
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Anti-Piracy, General, Real Life
person PirateGoofy calendar_month December 23, 2022
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Rabi-Ribi
Rabi-Ribi (2016)
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To detect if the Steam version of the game is a pirated copy, the game registers a fake DLC ID with SteamAPI. If a Steam emulator unlocks all DLC, the game won't progress past the first chapter and will open browser windows to the Steam page of the game every frame, potentially freezing your computer for having too many tabs on your browser.

pack/database/stat.rbrb also contains this text about a popular Steam emulator. It's referenced in the exe so it's not completely unused, but if it actually triggers anything is unknown.

"steam_api.dll.ali123
ALI123.INI
- STEAM NOT DETECTED! RESTART GAME TO ENABLE STEAM FUNC! -"

As of 2.00 the game also checks the integrity of steam_api.dll and will softlock after defeating a boss in Chapter 2 by disabling your controls.
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Anti-Piracy, Console Difference, General, Update Difference, Version Difference
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month September 7, 2022
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Platform: PlayStation
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Although the PlayStation has extraordinary copy protection, many hackers, home-brewers, and pirates worked around it via the infamous "Disc Swap" trick which is possible as the console uses a lid in a similar fashion to a portable CD player. This trick involves swapping a regular PlayStation disc with a back-up or rewritable CD during the startup.

Likely because of this exploit, Sony created future numbered PlayStation consoles that use disc trays rather than lids.
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Anti-Piracy, General, Real Life, Suggested, Theory
person GamerBen144 calendar_month March 4, 2022
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Ace Attorney Investigations 2
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (2011)
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Attachment If the game detects the copy you are playing is pirated, all dialogue text will be replaced with the Borginian "language" font from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, making all the dialogue in the game unreadable, as the characters are swapped randomly. The game is still playable, but playing a visual novel without being able to understand the majority of the text is not intended for the genre. Various button labels, character names and evidence you collect have their text values intact, but the Organizer descriptions on the Touch Screen are replaced with several X's.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month February 28, 2022
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Pokémon Sword
Pokémon Sword (2019)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Shield (Game)
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Before Sword and Shield's release, nearly the entire game was leaked onto a Discord server by four users. The Pokémon Company decided to take action almost a week after the games officially released by filing a lawsuit against those four users. Perkins Coie LLP, the international law firm hired to represent The Pokémon Company during this case, believed that the company was “[harmed and disrupted in] its ability to market Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield” and issued subpoenas to Discord as well as the website 4chan where the leaks were also posted in an effort to try and identify the perpetrators.
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Anti-Piracy, General, Real Life
person PirateGoofy calendar_month September 17, 2021
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Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge (2008)
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In the PC version, if the game detects that the player is using a pirated copy, checkpoints will activate within the game. These checkpoints will start to affect Faith's running. She will gradually start to slow down once she reaches a ledge, making it impossible for her complete a jump. Because the first few sections of the game require Faith to parkour through the level, it is impossible for the player to advance any further thus making the game unbeatable.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person ShyanVixen calendar_month August 29, 2021
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Cuphead
Cuphead (2017)
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Attachment If the game detects that the game is pirated, a pitch-shifted and reversed version of the main theme song will play on the title screen. When this song is plugged into a spectrogram, the end of the song will form The Devil in the 3 forms of his boss fight - Regular, skeletal and giant face.
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Anti-Piracy, Easter Egg, General, Music, Secret
person KidDivinegon calendar_month May 1, 2021
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Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)
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There is anti-piracy protection within the Dreamcast version of the game. If the console detects that the game is running from a copied disc and not an official GD-ROM, Eggman will be locked in death cycle at the start of his section in Cannon's Core. He'll immediately start falling through the floor, dying and respawning in the same position repeatedly. It's still possible to reach the end of the level, but visual glitches and a fixed improper camera angle will hinder the player's attempts to navigate the level.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person ShyanVixen calendar_month August 6, 2020
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Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown
Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown (2001)
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The ROM for the game contains hidden credits. At the end of the credits is a very brief, but firm message about people who plan to pirate the game: Pirates leave no footprints.
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Anti-Piracy, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Credit, Secret, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Text
person GamerBen144 calendar_month June 2, 2020
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The Sims 4
The Sims 4 (2014)
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If the game detects that you are playing an illegal copy after a Sim finishes any action that uses the mosaic censor, instead of it disappearing as normal the mosaic will not only remain there but will grow until the entire screen is nothing but pixels.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person ShyanVixen calendar_month March 25, 2020
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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (1993)
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If The New Challengers release of the game detects that the cartridge ROM is too large or not mirrored correctly, which is usually caused by use of a cartridge copier, the game will completely black out the screen some time after starting a match.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person Regen-33 calendar_month March 25, 2020
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (1994)
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When the player presses Start at the title screen, the game checks for the string "© konami" in VRAM. If the check fails, a flag is set, making the game's final boss, Shredder, much more difficult to beat. If the player manages to defeat this harder version of Shredder, the game will restart at the beginning of the fight.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person Regen-33 calendar_month March 24, 2020
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3-K Trivia
3-K Trivia (1984)
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If the game detects a pirated copy, this message will appear upon booting up:

ALERT!!!

Pirated Copy!

But you're in luck. For
just $32.50 you can get
your own, unpirated copy
of 3-K Trivia!
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Anti-Piracy, General
person GamerBen144 calendar_month June 19, 2018
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (1991)
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As an anti-piracy measure, if the game is not an authentic copy it sets in a series of measures. The player's damage dealt will be decreased, enemies will deal double damage, and the Shredder will be immortal making the game impossible to beat.
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Anti-Piracy, General
person KidDivinegon calendar_month May 11, 2018
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Perihelion: The Prophecy
Perihelion: The Prophecy (1993)
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Anti-Piracy, General, Unused Content, Unused Text
person GamerBen144 calendar_month April 19, 2018
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