10 Most Ingenious Anti-Piracy Measures In Gaming

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR. So why steal games? Especially - as this carefully curated list proves - a lot of games will catch and call you out for your heinous actions. From Spyro's anti-piracy measures making the game almost unplayable, Mirror's Edge not allowing Faith to jump, Earthbound ramping up the difficulty, and GTAIV turning you into a mad drunk, crime clearly doesn't pay.
VO: Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Sharna Penny (@StrangePenny12)
Video Editor: Kieran Galaska (@beardburrito)
#Spyro #GTA #Earthbound
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[@coolklefkisarecool]

When you pirate Pokemon Black and White, your Pokemon can’t gain XP and it will freeze in random times. It’s genius

[@smartalecl4]

And in FR/LG, when you get to nugget bridge on a pirated copy, the guy at the end says "if you enjoy the game, buy it, OR DIE" Edit: I know this was fake

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

Sounds just like anything from Bethesda

[@k.kharles11037]

So thats why my pokemon game wasn't working This. Is a joke-

[@pros_0143]

It's just me or leveling up in that game is hard?

[@aquacat5552]

MY GAME DID THAT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS PIRATED JDJSJDJS

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Pirated copies of Skullgirls will occasionally put up an in-game pop-up with a gibberish phrase made to confuse pirates into asking the devs the meaning of it. Only for said devs to tell the pirates to buy a legit copy of the game.

[@toriakai9394]

What's the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad.

[@Dub-Bop]

@@toriakai9394 yup. Lol

[@jacobmoss1456]

@@toriakai9394 OK (It would appear after finishing the game. No credits)

[@Matsu_Suzuki16]

Me someone who doesnt pirate games. _w h a t_

[@bagel4943]

lol

[@TtEL]

If you pirate the Sims 3 and have your Sim do something that is censored, (ex. Showering, Using the toilet) then the blur will stay there and get bigger every time you do it until the blur covers the whole screen.

[@naxzed_it]

Sims 4*

[@chicken7471]

i wanted to download sims 2 but it never worked i would of bought it with my money but it isnt available and i wont bother getting disk version cause i dont have any computers with disk drives

[@alchemi845]

that only happens in the sims 4, not sims 3. I would know 😳

[@kibs5332]

That’s actually hilarious

[@juliusschultz2661]

I've pirated the sims 3 and that never happened to me

[@Welshy]

The sims 4 turn off pirates by releasing games with so little content it’s not worth the effort

[@MezzoForte4]

The game is so bad it's not worth pirating.

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

@@MezzoForte4 ikr why would you pirate Sims 4 over actually good games?

[@chicken7471]

@@MezzoForte4 exactly the sims 2 is way better

[@sakuraogami6885]

@@chicken7471 lmao no it isn’t. Fucking nasty potato faces almost as bad as 3

[@sakuraogami6885]

Y’all are being way overdramatic just to fulfill your hate boner for EA

[@JepMasta]

Probably the Michael Jackson experience replacing all of the music with the sounds of vuvuzelas and not allowing you to get any more than one star on any song if they detected the game was pirated

[@em_birch]

That sounds tear-inducingly hilarious.

[@CYBER_N0T]

My only problem is why anyone would pirate a game like that

[@Foxy02016]

Brian Henegar that was the Just Dance style game right? I played a game like that on the Wii and now I’m just imagining this

[@potatosalad9259]

I loved that game! most of my childhood was spent on it!

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

@@Foxy02016 yes since just dance was made by ubisoft

[@nidgithm]

im just gonna say, "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR. So why steal games?" is one of the most nonsensical sentences ive ever heard

[@astralmaster]

YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CAR. So why download games?

[@anonymous_gamer_2698]

You wouldn't game a car. So why download steals?

[@TsukiStuffs]

You wouldn't car a download. So why game a steal?

[@plushytv5295]

You wouldn’t a car games. So why a steal download?

[@gk9606]

Wouldn’t car why so a. Games you download steal?

[@tafua_a]

I remember playing a pirated copy of Spyro 3 when I was a kid (a friend of mine had no regards for copyright). You only scratched the surface, mate. It would also randomly change language if you played the PAL version, randomly remove eggs from your atlas (sometimes getting you stuck in a homeland because there was no vehicle to get out) and even disable your start button, so you couldn't save. It's the main reason why I decided to buy the game, so I could enjoy it in peace.

[@ProcrastinatorProductions]

My parents bought the game a long time ago when I was a kid, but apparently if the disc is scratched up enough the anti piracy message/mesures show up. I have 100% the game before, but the last time I played it I was missing two gems.

[@Hell_With_Perks]

Not to mention that, if you manage to SOMEHOW beat the sorceress, the game restarts, removing all your data and sending you back to the very start

[@jamiep0495]

when a pirated copy of YOTD said "Wachtmeister Byrd," i felt that.

[@tafua_a]

@@Hell_With_Perks Another fan fact, I'm Italian and the team that was meant to do the Italian dub of the game never did it for Zoe's anti-piracy message, even though it had been translated, so an unusually silent Zoe telling you to buy the original game added even more creepiness to the experience.

[@gioel4]

@@tafua_a I’m Italian too, but my pirated copy of Spyro 3 was entirely in English, so I've never had the opportunity to listen to the Italian dub, until the reignited trilogy.

[@Macephtopheles]

Pirated Batman Arkham Asylum versions had a thing where his cape wouldn't glide so he'd always die and Rocksteady publicly responded to someone complaining about it with the equivalent of "It's not a bug in the game code, it's a bug in your moral code." 🤣 And wasn't there one of the Sims games which used the pixelated showering thing and spread it throughout the whole game so you couldn't see shit? The idea there obviously being that pirates would go online to reveal the "bug" they'd discovered and complain about it.

[@ghostflxwer]

sims 4

[@sakuraogami6885]

@@ghostflxwer sims 3 actually

[@Vecchio_Rhosod85]

420th like!

[@Ag3nt-MC]

Did they ever confirm if it was anti piracy?

[@Macephtopheles]

@@Ag3nt-MC Well, yeah. It was the whole reason they done it. Someone had posted on the official forums asking why it was happening/if it was a bug, etc and the full response from an Eidos admin was "The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free. It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."

[@andersstensson]

Arkham Asylum has a funny one. Batman cant capeglide anymore which means that you cant progress in the story.

[@jdb2002]

And people that complained were told "It's not a bug in your game, but a bug in your moral code"

[@RandomGoldieStuff]

@@jdb2002 WOW

[@Josh-rf9qy]

I'm going to pirate a car and put it on the internet for all to download.

[@fockewulffw1908]

thanks

[@babydriver6473]

Can you do Bmw series5 2015?

[@Josh-rf9qy]

@@babydriver6473 where do I pirate that

[@madisonwheatley3306]

Be sure to use my favorite site: ILLEGAL SITE.

[@allixy5720]

You wouldn't download a car

[@n0t_UN_Owen]

Pirated version of Minecraft Java edition will tell you that you don't have a Mojang account although you have one, thus forcing you to buy the game

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

Yeah. Also unable to change skins or join in servers too.

[@maxwellmonzema]

Oh....so that's why that happened to me....LMAO.

[@joshuastoaac9572]

Pe doesn't have it

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

@@joshuastoaac9572 no but there will be a message pop up notifying that you got an illegal copy of the game and itll be the only thing you see and nothing else you can touch or click around which is a big brain move, idk how the code figured out whats original and whats cracked

[@joshuastoaac9572]

I have a pirated version of minecraft pe no problem

[@demonprincess9680]

That game dev tycoon one was brilliant. "Here, you can experience what gaming developers go through when making a business. And, as a bonus, you also get to experience what you put developers through by pirating their game. You're welcome"

[@noazil6890]

besides thats not what actually happens to pirated games

[@lordofthe6string]

Kind of ironic as they basically stole the entire game idea.

[@rgfdg4y46]

That was my favorite one

[@ArthurDraco]

The issue with that specific games method is that it only appeared in a specific copy of the game it's DEVELOPER put on the TPB to bait pirates. Other uploaded copies didn't had it. In fact, it's easy to know whether you got the good pirated copy or not. If you start the game for the first time, you get an achievement. If you don't get one, you'll get pirates in your game.

[@ryanwalsh5019]

Im not a fan of pirates, but damn that last one goes too far. Browser history is the online equivalent of public execution.

[@dred4dead551]

They should have bought the game. It's their fault.

[@ryanwalsh5019]

@@dred4dead551 crime doesn't fit the bill.

[@westhescrub]

@@ryanwalsh5019 they agreed to the ToS, however, so i feel no remorse.

[@suned3128]

Great!

[@metaljacket8128]

Agreed. People are seriously overdramatising video game piracy. It's no worse a crime than shoplifting or jaywalking. This is the equivalent of lining up purse snatchers in front of a firing squad.

[@Willinat]

Literally anyone that downloads ROMs for emulators: 1700s sea shanties

[@ghiobus4933]

me:

[@RandomTRandomReal]

me when dolphin

[@sushiibird7799]

"Of course I know him. He's me."

[@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur]

Thats me

[@suoquainen]

Of course. Ever used a C64? There's nothing more frustrating nowadays than changing everytime the disc and write "LOAD ... 8,1", waiting minutes to get the game loaded (if it's loading fully) and finding out the game is boring and have to start anew.

[@kevinstewart1874]

Can u imagine finally scrapping enough money to buy an affordable copy then as soon as u hit start gets rick rolled.

[@pelago_]

That mirror's edge one kills me, so good

[@cj.2eezy]

literally

[@queendarkri8754]

Yes, it does kill you

[@entity8019]

Didn't Garry's Mod give an error message that contained your Steam ID, and people didn't twig? Those that copied/pasted in the forums were then immediately shot in the face. Not literally of course.

[@thewitheredstriker]

Yeah it did

[@M3rk420]

I also heard that gmod had an error message when your game was pirated that said something like polynomial error or some shit like that

[@LilyMcFluffyButt]

It'd say "unable to shade polygon normals" which is not an actual error you can get unless you, of course, pirated the game. People would go to the Facepunch forums with this error and were immediately laughed at and banned.

[@Rawwr1ful]

I miss real game manuals :(

[@potatosalad9259]

same pall, same.

[@potatosalad9259]

@Jordan Tillman I did not know that... Thanks, man!

[@wittykittywoes]

Jordan Tillman they do!?! :D

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

@Jordan Tillman Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom comes with one. PS4 and Switch.

[@aylinfernandez7845]

3ds Virtual manuals: are all of us a joke?

[@callmestephanie1305]

As a kid I experienced the Spyro one first hand :p God it was awful, none of my family could read English that well to grasp what was happening, so we just thought "Oh well its part of the game" XD had all my worlds switching around, ending up in the last one with not enough eggs for anything, randomly transported to the bosslevels and even to the Sorceres-level herself, but Hunter wouldnt drop anything for me to tackle that witch, and after a while it just returned me to the first world, all the data GONE :p imagine the frustration as a kid lol I swear i will buy the remaster just to see it end and function properly :p You got us there Insomniac

[@tafua_a]

I remember loving the game so much even with the glitches that I was urged to buy a copy off eBay just to play it properly.

[@CAnAbrAvA2011]

Me too, I had a bootleg version, I think it was mostly patched, I had none of the problems listed in the video except the saving deletion. I managed to beat the first stage of the boss as a kid only to the screen go black and reset the game. I thought I had beaten the game and that was a glitch, but no. Only in 2020 I got a legit copy downloaded of the ps1 classics on the ps3 and managed to beat the game 100%.

[@Jo42O64]

The REAL reason Pirates go out of their way to pirate games is to see these messages, of course! They would never do it cause they are cheap 🙃

[@elisabonazzoli6836]

I think the og prince of persia had an anti-piracy system similar to monkey island where there was a puzzle involving potions and the solution was printed in the manual, making the game unbeatable for pirates

[@shadow_boy1251]

You ligit just gave away how----never mind.

[@plvto1]

@@shadow_boy1251 what

[@ftlo.w4090]

@@shadow_boy1251 what

[@akibutnotanalt6173]

@@plvto1 Basically he was about to say the person he's replying to basically gave out an entire hint of how to progress from those games if you had their pirated copies.

[@plvto1]

@@akibutnotanalt6173 manuals only come with the official game??

[@tractionals]

There was a funny one where if you Pirated a copy of Crysis:Warfare, your gun wouldn’t shoot bullets, but chickens instead. The chickens also did no damage to enemies. The chickens would make your frames drop drastically, eventually forcing you to restart the game.

[@danielribeiro9678]

Be thankful Minecraft Story Mode has no anti-piracy measures because if it did then it would be impossible to get the game on PC after last year

[@danieluranga6872]

That's the digital future for ya. Just look at PT, Flappy Bird and soon, Mario 35.

[@equestriangirl89]

I tried downloading Skyrim illegally once. Wasn't able to absorb dragon souls so I wasn't able to beat the game. I bought it legitimately though afterwards.

[@kristijansegi8089]

there is a way to bypass that, but yeah best idea is to buy it

[@th-zf6mi]

I'm a little late, but I think you're supposed to replace a dll or something relating to absorbing dragon souls, there's tutorials on YT for that.

[@kristijansegi8089]

@@th-zf6mi yeah

[@hummeryt5934]

PIRATA PIRATA PIRATA

[@zahkrosis666]

@@th-zf6mi If you're gonna through all that effort to tamper with the code to bypass anti-piracy, you might as well just buy the game for real

[@Pinkcircleguy]

If my family know my web history They will see a lot of obama and sonic kissing

[@reigenarataka5387]

OMG LOL so when I saw ur name its said 10 years ago and i was like wait the vids only 9 months wat? Until I saw it was from ur name

[@carlycarmine3858]

My mom would know I've been watching a lot of anime related stuff

[@mattshark7665]

Not seen this on a list before, but Hook on the Amiga (and probably other platforms) removed a single cup from the game when copied. The game became instantly impossible really even start as this cup was needed to finish the games first puzzle.

[@PseudoName.NotReal]

Video game pirates: arrrrrr we be pirates Goverment: so Video game pirates : we be video game pirates Government: that's illegal

[@Puppyface52100]

In Enter the Gungeon, if you get the mod, Mod the Gungeon with a pirated copy, you get 2 bosses while you have no weapons. If you somehow get into the room above, you get sent to the Steam page of Enter the Gungeon with a KZbin page of Lazy Town's 'You are a Pirate'.

[@kirbythepoyo4073]

That sounds like the funniest anti-piracy measure ever.

[@milo008_]

3:28 “See, even pirates are against video game piracy.” But it’s in their name- *visible confusion*

[@thehairygamer7481]

The one for me that jumps to mind is Don Bradman Cricket 14 (and maybe 17) where anytime you started a match it would rain in game so you couldn't play. A lot of people even went to the forums to ask what was going on and why their game didn't work.

[@obicamkenobi6511]

who in the right mind buys a cricket game anyway or even pirate one. How boring are these people

[@WhirlyBeepBoops]

Lol, that's so fitting

[@nyx211]

12:24 that's just evil.

[@sushiibird7799]

An eye for an eye

[@yanikcamm7639]

Holy Shit. I Had the dial-a-pirate wheel as a Kid for some reason. Loved to Play With it. Had never even heard of the Game. What an obscure memory this unburied.

[@JaggedBird]

Gotta say that Spyro, Undertale, the LoZ train without controls, codes in manual privacy messures, Earthbound's destroying save files, the irony of Game Dev Tycoon's in game piracy and of course, From Software's dark souls phantoms in all 3 Dark Souls games, are all fucking genius.

[@CYBER_N0T]

I’m not familiar with Undertale’s anti-piracy measures, what does it?

[@voidyt9939]

@@CYBER_N0T I am also not aware. Don’t search it up, as you might get fakes

[@CYBER_N0T]

@@voidyt9939 Yep. Especially not now lmao, with everyone making their own versions

[@ATK10155]

5:00 am i the only one who gets extremely stressed out watching the monster move around? Like i cant hardly watch it and makes me want to hide irl

[@Dezo365]

remember: PIRACY IS NO PARTY! PIRACY IS A NIGHTMARE!

[@Dezo365]

@@trueorfalsey i know

[@malmal2148]

POWER OFF NOW

[@GGamerLiam]

Tricker

[@daichitsukiji3057]

Borderlands 3. They made the actual game absolute dogshit to ensure no one would pirate it.

[@jacobc8036]

Daichi Tsukiji I heard it was good? I didn’t know it was the 76 of Borderlands

[@OhKoiFishy]

It only really gets bad once you get to the later levels and postgame. Most endgame enemies are literal bullet sponges.

[@jacobc8036]

@@OhKoiFishy thanks for clearing it up! i see now it is a grinding game...yeah not really my style

[@sleepingonyourroof]

Jacob C it’s not if you get good guns

[@sleepingonyourroof]

It’s a good game the story is where it’s bad and the dlc is great

[@HadiLovesToRock]

I heard that if you pirate the Arkham games, Batmans cape will glitch out making it impossible to glide

[@silent.one_8087]

Fun fact: A few years ago, the EU funded a study trying to show that piracy hurt sales of legitimate software/game/music/movie publishers and artists. The main purpose of the study was to justify the EU writing up some more extreme anti-piracy regulations. The results were astounding: With the exception of maybe the movie industry, piracy actually boosted legitimate sales and actually helped the original artists. The study was quietly pushed under the rug, since it did not help its funding agenda, but you can still read it on the official EU website. And let's not forget the anime and manga industry which exists because of piracy. edit:yes i copy paste a comment from other video

[@mariano1196]

Fr all this anti piracy is pearl clutching at it's finest. Most people pirate to: A. See if it runs on their machine B. Try the game before buying because playable demos are a thing of the past

[@damian101pcinstallationgui9]

Ive probably bought 80% of the games I've pirated

[@molotovbruddah8507]

If I made a game with an anti-piracy screen, it would be that as soon as you pressed play on the main menu it fades to black, but instead of fading to the game, it fades to an animation of one of the main characters saying: "Heya, kid. Listen. I know you were probably really hyped to play the game, but code stuff happened, and we came to the conclusion that your playing a pirated copy. You probably don't have the money to buy the real thing or are just saving up, and thats acceptable. Maybe you didn't even know this copy was pirated and just bought this from someone you could trust. We aren't mad, promise. Well, i'm not, that is. If your gonna be any type of pirate, though, next time, be the type of pirate that wears funny hats, talks in a cool accent, has an eyepatch, and sails the seven seas. Well, I think vikings are cooler, but thats besides the point. Buy the real deal whenever your ready. Thats all I have to say. Adiós--thats goodbye in spanish--just for now, i'm hoping." Then it would fade to black and a popup would appear saying: "if you did not pirate this game copy, please contact [anti-piracy phone service]. Close the app and turn this device off. If you did, however... never let us see you doin that again!"

[@scpcow1597]

Do It

[@DrCasey]

That's pretty wholesome and reasonable.

[@ichiro1083]

It's like Just Shapes and Beats, but slightly more harsh lol

[@rickdaniel3230]

Ben videos are always worth the full watch. Ben videos with Ben slapping Richard in Slo-mo are just a treasure. Edit: 13:52 for those who can't wait

[@mikesantini65]

My spyro disc was so scratched and would do it sometimes unless the Sony store sold me a pirated copy

[@legefy]

Yeah, sure~

[@jamiep0495]

legefy the way it tells if its pirated or not is "wobbles" in the disc. it was how PS1 region lock worked. different frequency = different region. if the disc is scratched enough, the PS1 wont be able to find the frequency of these "wobbles", so it assumes there is none and does what it would do for a pirated copy.

[@Isafell2001]

@@jamiep0495 and not only that, if your ps2 disc was badly damaged it would bring up the red screen of death, just automatically assuming it was pirated 💀

[@jamiep0495]

EmeraldCrossing01 red screen of death? never heard of that before. last week i found out theres a "blue light of death" with the ps4. only one i ever knew was the red ring of death, which is funny because ive never even owned an xbox 😂 i have to find out more about this!

[@Isafell2001]

@@jamiep0495 the red screen of death is just a nickname for it dubbed by ps2 fans, it’s basically just a pinky red error screen that was actually quite scary for young kids (like myself back then) due to the eerie sound affect 😂 you should look it up

[@nyx211]

Cyberjunk 2077 has ingenious anti-piracy measures.

[@Jo42O64]

Yes, it breaks for the game, framerate issues, the game crashes and more! It's clearly intentional

[@chadthundercockmasterbaite2187]

Cyberbug 2076 best game all games

[@barrywallace2744]

@@chadthundercockmasterbaite2187 The game is shit when it was released and it is still shit now. A awful awful game in everyway.

[@milo008_]

13:12 “A Trojan in the pirated copies’ code seized players’ personal information and posted their web history to social media.” *Id like to sue the developer of Cross Days*

[@somerandomcat7209]

@Dallen Franklin well, no one reads the TOS

[@ThatGenericName]

@Dallen Franklin Actually, just because something is in the ToS doesn't mean its legal, an extreme example being If you agree to this ToS, you forfeit your life to us. This obviously depends on local law and I don't know if this specific case is actually illegal for the developers to do so, and judging by a lack of any lawsuits they might be allowed to do so. The real concern however shouldn't be whether or not it leaks pirate's info but if it misidentifies someone who has a legit copy of the game as a pirate. edit: reading it on wikipedia, it looks like a rather than an anti-piracy system built into the game, it was a completely separate software that was distributed as or packed into the pirated game (separately from an unpirated copy), and so it would not affect any legitimate users as it would be impossible for them to actually get the trojan on their system

[@maxmercurythemm827]

In Japan, some things are taken much more seriously. A voice actor came close to committing suicide over a prank casting by fellow voice actors, for one. Either way, outing someone like that is illegal. All of that over 10 bucks.

[@carlycarmine3858]

I'm sure many people have tried

[@HandleThatIsNotTaken]

Funny how it’s practically impossible to find these videos now.

[@RetroGamer-95]

In Spyro 3 there's an additional effect if you're playing the pal version. It will randomly change the game's lenguage Also as soon as you enter the Sorceress battle in Midnight Mountain it'll send you back to the beggining and corrupt your data (this happens in all versions)

[@qu3646]

An anti-piracy measure If I ever make a game will be where the game starts normal, but every minute, the game becomes less and less enjoyable, with more difficult levels, losing hearts out of nowhere, controls inverted, and ultimately, the game crashing after 30 minutes, giving you a link to buy the actual game.

[@kingofflames6201]

The last one you can outsmart by playing never gonna give you up and then pirating the game so whoever sees your history will get Rick rolled

[@AnotherCamilo]

A DS game, Solatorobo, doesn't let you to pick any item, telling "you found nothing". And the first mission is to retrive an amulet.

[@Acr0Games]

so you are stuck

[@bryonyamada2620]

4:00 Code Wheels is quite an old item. As variation were used in the 80-90"s. Rocket Ranger from Cinemaware used a Code Wheel (with a red plastic) to tell the player how much fuel to use when traveling to locations. This could NOT be copied because the red xxxx covered the actual blue number underneath them (also there were at least 200 possible variables depending were you stated to your end location).

[@woodman811]

Thank you for the pirate voice at the start, it’s the only reason I watched the whole video

[@floatingf8783]

6:20 Killer Queen has already touched. . . EVERYTHING!

[@GhaztBoi]

I’ve seen a video about an anti-piracy measure for Just Shapes and Beats. The anti-piracy measure doesn’t punish you in a harsh way or anything. Instead, it’s rather a wholesome message from the dev himself about supporting the game by talking about the game.

[@Hugo_Tate]

1:19 lmfao that fart sound at the end was hilarious

[@dimwit2242]

Who knew hentai had piracy protection

[@iijel0e]

Always gotta use protection

[@tripthongUwU]

Some PSX games, all detected in pSXfin emulator: Tomba 2: Involuntarily brings you out from load and save screen, the game is still fine Threads of Fate / Dewprism (JP): any platforms, stairs not included unless jump is needed, jumped creates invisible barrier surrounds you upon touching the coordinate without touching it. Creates invisible barrier in Rue's prologue at Rue exiting someone or his house, makes he walks forever in place Beyond the Beyond: There's a change the screen will adjust incorrectly when you confirmed the hero name or after the save data loaded. Some or few dungeons, the forest after the border church and the forest to Jonovan, creates wobble effect then fades and the game crashed (the music is also frozen). Also your legitimate saves cannot be loaded in the pirated one vice versa Legend of Dragoon: Pretty smart, it only stop your game when you asked to change disc. You can avoid it by saving game but at some point in Disc 4 you need to revisit a forest to advance the story and requires to change to disc 3. Pops the usual inhibitory sign with message you can found in other modchip protected games after the "PLEASE WAIT" screen

[@Stormy2142]

Ironic how this list itself is pirated.

[@protectoman9150]

Piracy is no party

[@thatonepali0]

I was looking for this comment.

[@randaddly567]

the actual anti piracy is just like most other games, it crashes repeatedly or deletes your saves

[@foyse9415]

0:28 AMONG US REFERENCE😱😱😱😱😱😱😨😨😨😨😨😨

[@frog9524]

lmfao

[@OJ16ww]

Facepalm

[@frog9524]

@@OJ16ww guessing they’re being ironic nobody sane would use that many emojis

[@PainweedingPills]

Fun fact: In Game Dev Tycoon, there's an extra game mode where people pirate your stuff, and you can maks DRM's and stuff.

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

Considering a mature game that could give pleasure to players and feel the pain rightafter they got called out for doing smth they cant reverse or fix and they will face their embarrassment as their info being exposed from their wrongdoings. Smart move imo

[@christrontherobot4100]

its ridiculous and illegal

[@dinoblacklane1640]

funny thing is I have a legit copy of game dev tycoon, yet had the pirate thing happen to me its why I hate copy protection, it doesnt hurt the pirates that just patch that shit out, only the legit users

[@chicken7471]

i mean of course your (virtual) game can get pirated on a legit copy of the game because its something that happens with all games so it would make sense that it would go into a game like dev tycoon

[@Fran77]

That is still a regular feature in the game.

[@dinoblacklane1640]

@@bruhable9238 Thats really poor game design then, putting in drm into a game that is entirely possible to affect normal users.

[@dinoblacklane1640]

@@secoTheSonicFan Except for the fact that a lot of games dont have DRM and still sell well Cyberpunk is a perfect example of that

[@jsmith3946]

@@dinoblacklane1640 uh there was a switch you could toggle in the settings of the game the let you turn in on or off it wasn't even that hard to find it was in big letters and said the words pirate mode with the words on and off under it and cyberpunk drm was being a buggy shitfest

[@hurricanemeridian8712]

The last one is lowkey just a crime ngl Posting their names and the fact that they play the game: Ok But I think stealing someones private information and putting it out in the public is not a justified response to piracy. The game devs kinda overreacted there

[@KiishanJeyanayagam]

Who's getting this after all those fake anti-piracy videos.

[@alexleftthechat5764]

Me lol

[@hanasan4845]

I watched one, and also one other video about games that know you're cheating(though like only first few seconds, then I recalled that these creep me out, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm here for the comments) and here I am

[@voidyt9939]

Mario hames

[@Isafell2001]

me

[@pelziig]

P I R A C Y I S N O P A R T Y

[@flatP_]

and this is exactly why i only pirate movies and tv shows

[@ace_lz]

Good to know

[@IBagel2]

I mean there's no harm, I only pirate something if it's not available in my country because otherwise your chances of experiencing it is near impossible

[@ZVandatic]

U know it

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

@Frax All the effort to not give developers some money. If it ain't worth anything to them, why should they get to experience it? There are demo's out there.

[@RandomTRandomReal]

good thing wii games have no anti piracy

[@ggn3]

Missed out a detail with pirated Earthbound. If the player manages to make it to the final battle with Giygas in spite of the increased enemy encounters, the game will crash during the battle and delete all saved game data within the game.

[@Zeina107]

if you bought the game and someone you or someone destroyed it. you download a new copy, thats not piracy. you own the license to play it already

[@59garymajor]

Zeina107 sadly that’s not the case as the licensing is only for that copy not any others.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Nope, digital licenses never really protect the rights of the consumers, physical copies for life so you own your games, and take care of those physical copies so they don't get destroyed or even only so damaged that the authentication trigger is broken and the game thinks it's a pirated copy.

[@temmiethetem468]

“Those pirates are a clever bunch, they may be among us right now.” *(Looks side to side nervously)*

[@misterspiderthemagnificent9268]

Temmie is very sus

[@sweggy_eggy]

in a pirated copy of enter the gungeon it kicks you out of the game, opens two tabs in your default browser one is the game page to buy a legit copy of the game, the other tab being the lazytown song “you are a pirate” on youtube, best anti piracy ever

[@callumarmitage4828]

Deserves a like just for Ben's pirate voice

[@cjw419]

I seem to remember xwing vs tie fighter? on the earlier comps has a physical anti piracy protection that required something like a spy wheel and the game manual, you had to turn the wheel to the number the game generated then the wheel shows page paragraph and Xth word was the password required...

[@rodrial1234]

Man I wondered where Ben went! Such a funny guy!

[@originalkingdomhearts]

There is also the Mother 1 and 2 anti piracy that screws you over as well the pokemon sun and moon games which players got stuck in the wall and they outed themselves for pirating! XD

[@olaudio8493]

9:09 nice Dunkey reference 👀

[@planterbox]

if i ever made a game, i’d make the anti-piracy measure just change everything to pirate speak. you complete a level and instead of seeing “you completed the level” it says “arr, ye triumphed over the challenge” or something

[@scpcow1597]

Your just making the pirates have fun

[@yazidefirenze]

A the end, just make it say Congrats, me hearties! I've taken yer data, and there was one last boss to beat So suck eggs

[@CYBER_N0T]

There’s a game that did that but I can’t remember what

[@leungzinwang4188]

In Pokémon heart gold and soul silver if your copy is pirated a trainer battle will not begin and the pokeball will just spin forever so the furthest you can get to in a pirated copy is the first rival fight or maybe youngster Joey however most emulator or Roms already bypass the anti piracy check so most people can just pirate the game easily and can has his progress at mount silver or get the og starters so to all people who wants to enjoy the game please support the real deal by buying it even though it is 60 usd it really has a different feeling than playing pirated versions and it for some reason feels more satisfying

[@Kate_Hanami]

I had a partially-cracked version of the Spyro 3, which I did made a copy for my cousin my partially-cracked copy worked almost perfectly but if you did specific things the hackers didn't thoroughly tested, the game would soft lock, my cousin mentioned about did one of those, if you went complete around half of the 3rd realm, Hunter would be kidnapped in an attempt to impede your progress that was part of the story, so you need to rescue him in order to play his mini-games however, if you did not rescue him and went back to the second realm, your ship would become unusable, it would remove the first egg from every world in that realm, and since you don't have those eggs, the character which helps you fix that ship would never have done so, so you're soft-locked in the second realm (the first realm was fine for some reason) and my cousin did get that soft-lock on his copy, so I made a note to not leave the 3rd realm until I can get Hunter back in my party, but my cousin, the brat that was, he wanted to test if it would happen to me as well, and you guess it, he soft-locked my game as well, and that game auto-saves very time you go to a different area regardless of progress I still haven't picked up reignited from spite

[@sinmenon4347]

For a moment I thought you were going to say something like "(...) why not support the things you enjoy by having a look at our patreon and buying legitimate copies of games."

[@raithrover1976]

I remember that Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum had a colour coded cassette inlay with anti piracy codes on it. This was back in 1984 when you could copy any game on a standard ghetto blaster and when photo copiers were black and white. Of course, the software house didn't appreciate the general determination of a 10 year old boy with a set of felt tip pens who would happily spend an hour copying the code sheet by hand than fork out £7 for the game.

[@RobertTheFoxxo]

This hits different now

[@cyanine5188]

There is a game called Don't Sink an indie game but if u have a pirated version, The game constantly tells u have pirated the game and when u travel from an island to another a Level 100 Ship always kill you. So its impossible to complete a quest or even playing the game in general LOL

[@christmashake8968]

Wasn’t there a hilarious one from G.T.A. 5 where every car you get in explodes and kills you if you attempt to drive them on pirated copies?

[@DanielPerez-hh5sy]

I remember playing a pirated version of Spyro 3 as a kid. I didnt know anything about copyrights and that stuff, i just wanted to play the game. I absolutely loved it, but I didnt understand what was going on: gems disappearing, eggs getting restarted, money bags charging over and over again, complete levels getting reset, complete cutscenes missing, etc, lmao. After a lot of frustration, i finally was able to get enough stuff to fight the Sorceress (the final boss), but she defeated me, then the game send me all the way back to the very first level with all my data deleted. Brutal.

[@tjtourette5261]

At Settlers III a pirated version would cause the smelts to produce pigs instead of iron. So there's a very important resource theat you have to produce replaced by an overload of a common recource that you can find everywhere.

[@Unspotibleshadow]

Do I spot the manual of "Sin" at 3:40? I thought I played one of the rare games nobody ever knew.

[@adamnonrev6893]

Back in the 80s and 90s majority of games had some code or something in the instruction manual that it would ask you to answer either before loading or before letting you start the game.

[@yukkuri9144]

I once had a pirated version of earthbound but it didn’t have any of the disadvantages

[@peachy3.145]

yes because pirates get past it.

[@ZachAdams926]

This was before the new meme of making fake anti-piracy messages in video games and I love it

[@BesterP12]

In the states we call a spanner a monkey wrench you might need to know that for playing Monkey Island

[@ggn3]

Some more anti-pirate measures: -Witcher 2: All women in the game you have sex with are replaced with the character model of Marietta Loredo. -Alan Wake: Alan wears an eye patch throughout a pirated game. -Chrono Trigger: The time warp sequence at the start of the game will entrap the player in an infinite loop if they are playing a pirated copy. -Crysis Warhead: All guns used by the player in pirated copies will fire chicken bullets that inflict no damage to enemies, making the game much more difficult as melee attacks become the only means to harm enemies. -Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Pirated copies will lack any controls for operating the train, rendering the game unplayable. -Bucky O'Hare (NES): Legal copies of the game give the player a life bar where they can take up a number of hits before dying. If the NES detects a pirated copy, all attacks to the player during gameplay are set to inflict one-hit kills. -Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates: The game's built-in copy protection does a check at random points of gameplay to see if the player is playing a legit copy of the game. If it detects the player's playing a pirated copy, the game will abruptly end at a "Thank you for playing" message. -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Project: Pirated copies for the SNES make the game more difficult with the player taking more damage from enemy attacks and inflicting less damage to enemies. If the game's copyright code is changed, Super Shredder, the game's final boss, becomes invincible to all damage inflicted on him.

[@newajseyes]

The best is ubisoft removing the POV slider because it inadvertantly caused so many people to out themselves as pirates when they went onto forums to ask about it

[@JayAreAitch]

Oh no! I've been outed as a video game pirate! What shame! :|

[@metaloverlord99]

Kirby's Dream Course had a very similar one to Earthbound. If it's pirated and you bypass the Anti-Piracy screen, the game will boot normally, but it will become almost impossible to actually play. You won't regain any tomatoes from hitting enemies, you only regain one tomato instead of the normal amount when recovering from sleep, getting a Hole in One won't give you an extra life and if (or when) you get a game over, the option to continue will be greyed out, forcing you to quit. To top it all off, if you DO complete a course, the game will just straight up crash and delete your save files. The original Donkey Kong had a rather interesting one as well. If the game's pirated, it'll crash about four seconds in. Apparently, the reason this happens is because the game's copyright check is linked to the barrels, and because Donkey Kong always throws the first barrel downwards to ignite the oil drum at the bottom, the game performs a copyright check, causing the game to crash after four seconds.

[@lostbutterflycols]

Does anyone knows, what is the name of the song at the intro screen of the beggining of the video and where can I find it? I have been looking for it for weeks

[@thevioletskull8158]

I don't get why the Spyro one says the hacked version,hacking a game isn't technically illegal.

[@robsiddall9731]

Know its not one of your up to date tvids love ❤ you guys ,thankyou for so so many laughs 😃 never stop please

[@RandomTRandomReal]

there's one for cuphead where the title screen will play scary music and the timer for every level will always clock out as 6:66

[@TishieMcTashie]

I had no idea that this was a thing 😳 which is weird because I remember being a kid and hearing my dad talk about how our PlayStation and its games were "chipped" and I didn't come across any issues at all. Although I do remember there being a loud intermittent annoying noise whilst playing the very first Tomb Raider... Maybe that was meant to be a deterrent too? I just turned the volume down lol.

[@catherinemorrison1909]

Nice to see Babs there x

[@oxybrightdark8765]

Pirated versions of heart gold just doesn’t have the game corner and also can’t use the pokewalker

[@bigedwerd]

I saw a video of someone playing the pirated Spyro game getting as far as the final boss only to have it take you back to the beginning of the game if you were killed with everything reset.

[@hellqueendemo3637]

Actually pirates got around these issues now there are new patches and extra that make these games fully playable even if pirated. Unfortunately there's always a way.