6 Super Anti-Piracy Measures & Traps in Video Games! #5

[@metaloverlord99]

Fun fact about the Spyro one: A remastered version of Zoe's anti-piracy spiel exists in the Re-Ignited Trilogy, despite the checks not being present.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Brilliant!

[@strain42]

In Devil Survivor 2, one of the early game bosses is invincible and you can only beat him when one of your party members shows up and literally drives a truck into it, making it vulnerable. But supposedly if you're playing on a pirated copy that truck just never shows up, so you're just stuck in a boss fight against an enemy you can't damage.

[@maxmetalknight]

When I was a kid, the only PSOne games we could afford in my country were pirated copies from Russia, sold in markets, bazars... I remember owning a pirated version of Spyro, got incredibly scared, when Zoe told me with full voice acting that the game is pirated, not understanding how they got to know :D And didn't had much issues except not being able to fight Sorceress, spawning to beginning with auto-save

[@GondolicSily]

I wish I could find that stuff at a fleamarket

[@Caolan114]

Imagine If Ace Attorney Instead had the player on trial for pirating the game

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Ha :D

[@zamabo218]

Ngl, that would've be pretty damn cool

[@Morgil27]

Absolutely brilliant! And to top it off, there'd be no way to win the trial. The game would end and you'd get send to jail.

[@CYBER_N0T]

@@Morgil27 I've seen a fanmade anti-piracy for Ace Attorney that is exactly what you just described haha

[@Mito383]

What’s a good punishment for pirates? I know! Seizures!

[@killaken2000]

sadly many games aren't worth playing let alone bothering to pirate

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

A Special Shoutout goes out to rgb mew for providing the awesome DJMax Anti Piracy Measures ( Links Below ) KZbinr rgb mew - kzbin.info/door/m4RG_hL37mIa2IQf9Qtxgg Twitter rgbmew - twitter.com/rgbmew Website rgbmew - rgbmew.neocities.org DJMAX Fever's Anti-Piracy Measures (Original Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGqtlJyKg5p5hMU Various DJMAX Games' Anti-Piracy Measures (Original Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2GceaeIdqqbgrM

[@SirSlimeington]

Seeing Spyro and especially Spyro 3 always makes me super happy. Not only that but also the fact that you included that one small part that was in German. Man, I experienced this pirated version as a kid with the Paradox crack. Good memories.

[@Kevai_]

Wow, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would see DJ Max Fever featured on a channel like this. The DJ Max series is one of my favorite rhythm games of all time, so it was amazing to see this for the first time!

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

I think it's a bit much to possibly give someone an epileptic seizure for playing a pirated game but whatever lol.

[@dathotbox]

That DJ Max anti piracy measure is how hyperpop was created

[@anthonyamaya9644]

spyro year of the dragon was by far one of the best games out when i was young lol. i hated trying to hit the moles on the skateboard. hardest mission ever

[@grimm7001]

I'm pretty sure you mean lizards lol, however there was a mission with Bentley where you had to hit moles with his ice club.

[@anthonyamaya9644]

@@grimm7001 yes it is lizards but as a kid moles stuck in my head

[@grimm7001]

@@anthonyamaya9644 that makes sense

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

and Special shout outs go out to the following people ( Links Below ) Pokemon Fire Red Anti Piracy Message Discovered by Noah www.kirsle.net/by-the-way-if-you-like-this-game-buy-it-or-die pokemonbuyordie.ytmnd.com/ Spyro 3 Anti-Piracy Code 100% Playthrough Attempt kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIGvZp2qq51njMU KZbinr Proto - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIGvZp2qq51njMU How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5LUaqmim9R6pKM KZbinr GameHut - kzbin.info/door/fVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g Crysis - WARHEAD Chicken Glitch (Original Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3q7mJxvprytq5o KZbinr Toxcity666 - kzbin.infofeatured Fun with chickens in Crysis Warhead. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2HNk5mIiNR3j7c KZbinr Majorohminus - kzbin.info/door/S_raHqLcF4j7BB5BdJAhRQ

[@Tetra606]

I found an Egg for you Mr. Easter Egg Hunter, Video just uploaded to my now super full 1 video channel. I was playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction, and decided to go back through the tutorial to get it 100%. And I saw a little military-ish shed, so I thought maybe ammo or health might be inside. Now I had just gotten done breaking stuff in the gift shop just to watch the physics and how great it all is. (Except towers of cans) so I shot some stuff in the shed and there is a mirrior that was just begging to be "tested" and it looked great. Then a final shot broke it open revealing a strange baseball bat covered in razor wire and red "jelly" locked in place. I quickly shot the lock but unfortunately nothing happened. I tried to pick it up with the X button but got nothing. I'm sure there is more out to dicover, headed back in soon. Good luck to all you Operators out there, see you in the field and remember Leave No One Behind.

[@thepsychicgaymer9888]

I remember for the channel GRA with my mates, We did a Spyro 3 Speedrun race using an emulated version which was fine and worked but added the double jump patch which was an exploit in the 2nd game to it and it ticked the Anti-Piracy on. So while it was definitely a lot of fun playing Spyro 3 with double jump (Not much changed really) It was a good race against the clock that some of the faster Speedrunners in our video who did finish in time and were fine, There was myself and another friend who couldn't finish before it started taking away eggs, I got super close to 100 to fight the sorceress and it took the ability for me to go back to previous worlds when I landed in the 4th hub and wouldn't let me enter any portals. Was really interesting that my mate got different situations and was fighting it all the way up to when he was forced to stop but I got it right at the end. Was really fun though.

[@gameboy8425]

Gamehut is a very interesting channel. I think he deserves more attention.

[@escaperoutebritish]

Yes, some attention should be paid to his AntStream debacle, too.

[@moes95]

@@escaperoutebritish what's that about??,

[@HangOnThereSlick]

@@moes95 I am also curious

[@TofuSG98]

Haven't heard of it in aaaages.

[@Guitar-Dog]

What's this AntStream thing? AntStream is a bunch of arcade games

[@MichaelYT22]

Crysis Warhead anti piracy measure should've gone like this. PSYCHO: I wasn't planning on going solo. I'll need more munitions. What you got? O'NEILL: Well due to funding cuts. We had to make do what we got. PSYCHO: And what's that? O'NEILL: We got chickens as ammunition. PSYCHO: CHICKENS! What the hell kind of shit is that!?

[@KlyosXA]

Oof, I tried to endurance test the strobing lights. Not epileptic but damn did that hurt.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Yeah it's a nasty piracy measure.

[@Guitar-Dog]

You people are weak

[@doufmech4323]

Making "anti-pirate" measures for a no-cd patch is scummy by the developers in my opinion.

[@DR_REDACTED]

Why and how?

[@Juanguar]

@@DR_REDACTED basically makes the game unplayable nowadays because most modern computers don’t even have optical drives anymore

[@DR_REDACTED]

@@Juanguar Oooh. Ok thanks

[@brpadington]

I have installed no CD patches on many games I have owned. Especially on windows 10.

[@Karpaneen]

@@Juanguar The easiest way to circumvent that is to have a virtual disc drive.

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

Oh and for Spyro 3, the language change measure is only for European versions, since the US version has English, similar to most other retro games when they get a PAL release. US retro games rarly had a language select anyway, but I do wonder if some other games witch language selects have a similar measure too (maybe for English and Japanese options). For Ace Attorney Investigations 2, I guess the measure doesn’t really matter for English players anyway, since it’s a Japan-only title and only in Japanese anyway (I think there is a Fan Translation too, but I dunno) since some English speaking people can’t read or speak Japanese, well I guess they would not mind the measure.

[@Hank_Wolfman]

There is indeed a fan translation for Ace Attorney Investigations 2. It's an awesome game and the people who did the translation did a great job. I just wish they'd let us have a legitimate English version of the game as I actually think it's one of the better games in the series.

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

@@Hank_Wolfman Does the fan translation also remove the anti piracy or not, since WE don’t want an English game to have weird writing or different language.

[@Hank_Wolfman]

@@VideoGameJNPoop I had no problem playing it myself. No unexpected Borginian text. Whether that's a direct part of the fan translation patch I honestly don't know though. I'm not generally in the habit of being a pirate when it comes to games (I would've much preferred to be able to own and play an authentic English copy of AAI2 if it actually existed), so I don't necessarily know all the ins and outs of how the antipiracy was disabled.

[@Luigikid]

For one second I thought I made another Anti Piracy Reaction to those fake Piracy Screens and Measures lol Thank goodness it's you James, that is showing us some actual real stuff! keep the great work up!

[@Butterkix]

well i know that the "bye the way:" message from fire red is fake

[@moes95]

How do you have 750k subs 😭😭 scary thumbnails with sonic pasta nty 😅

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Haha thanks Luigikid :D

[@TSR_Akuma]

@@moes95 huh?

[@TSR_Akuma]

@Cat what are you going on about

[@Absolute_LUNA-C]

I had actually heard of DJMAX, and I was like, heck, I’m a stickler for rhythm games, so I got an iso file for Fever (it was only one of two for the PSP released in America, the other being Portable 3) and put it on my hacked PS3. Unfortunately, the way the game checks for piracy wasn’t actually able to be solved on a PS3, it checks if there is a UMD (the psp’s weird little disc format) was inserted. So I actually got that anti-piracy effect, and legit thought that it was the PS3’s shitty PSP emulation. Oh, and if you thought Fever’s anti-piracy was crazy, BLACK SQUARE’s anti-piracy was even crazier, mainly due to a big piracy problem with the last game, Clazziquai Edition. Not only does it have the glitchy mess that Fever had, but if it detected an ISO folder on your PSP memory card, it would delete save data for Clazziquai Edition. The thing that made this even more believable was that if you had a Clazziquai Edition disc, you could put BLACK SQUARE into a special mode where you could play all the songs from Clazziquai Edition along with BLACK SQUARE’s lineup. So someone could actually believe that it wasn’t the game doing it on purpose, but their PSP actually just glitching out. I actually play it using the PSVITA’s much more accurate PSP emulation now, and it’s a pretty good time. That first run in with the anti-piracy on my PS3 scarred me for life though. tl;dr DON’T PIRATE DJMAX GAMES, THEY FUCK YOUR PSP UP.

[@Robbie06261995]

Oh wow, I never realized they localized Ace Attorney for Borginia!

[@steebie1547]

As someone who struggles with focal epilepsy, thank you for warning me of bright visuals to come!

[@PKLuver944]

I don't struggle with epilepsy and I still had to eventually close my eyes during the latter half of the sequence! Clearly no-one on that development team had problems with flashing lights

[@Guitar-Dog]

@@PKLuver944 you had to close your eyes? Like what? it got flashy and you went 'oh I might have a seizure, even though I'm not epileptic, better close my eyes just incase'

[@PKLuver944]

@@Guitar-Dog It felt like my eyes were straining trying to look at it, so I closed them? I could have also looked away, closing them wasn't the only option. I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense

[@AssA2k1]

I remember a couple other interesting anti-piracy measures... Settlers 3 you were not able to smelt iron - you'd get pigs instead. and in TOCA Racing 2 there were invisible walls on the track iirc. older games definitely had a more fun way to deal with pirates.

[@jamiecroft1561]

I dont like the idea of them putting epilepsy inducing content in their anti piracy. Theyd probably get sued. "I know i ripped you off but you caused me to have an epileptic fit".. im not sure how this would go down

[@ChanceKearns]

I think it would be on the epileptic persons side, because thats just excessive.

[@jamiecroft1561]

@@ATOMIC_V155 i heard a story about a woman having her house robbed, the robber injured himself and sued the woman and won. Its a little like that. "I shouldnt be doing this but if i come to any harm while doing so i will sue you..."

[@jamiecroft1561]

@@ChanceKearns i agree it is excessive. They do have a right to protect their property but to go to the lengths they have is absurd and will most likely get them in trouble haha

[@YuyuHakurei]

Technically continuing past that point would be subject to their terms of services which probably has a piracy measure in them. Which most likely removes your ability to sue them altogether and liable to being sued by them. Which you signed by continuing to play.

[@jamiecroft1561]

@@YuyuHakurei thats a good take on it!

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Ahoy, Me Hearties!

[@itsabeaver6132]

Hi

[@lowercasen5876]

Ahoy!

[@vanilla_joe9258]

Ahoy! Always love to see a Easter egg hunter video in my recommended :D

[@GoblinDave152]

Ahoy! 😊

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@VulpisFoxfire]

I wonder if anyone has released buggy software and later tried to claim it was an anti-piracy measure?

[@daisybutinhertennisoutfit]

[while being hauled away] *”YOU ALL PIRATED THE GAME! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!!!”*

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

I feel like that has happened but I can't recall an example.

[@tunafissh]

spyro YOTD: oh no its pirated! it wont play normally as punishment! dj max: Hey bud, welcome to *H e l l .*

[@316whatupz]

Imagine sharing a backup copy of your game and taking the time to add in your own anti-piracy measure. Power move 10/10

[@ButterscotchMcBean1995]

Yes.

[@SeanTheOriginal]

"Buy it or die" Funnily enough, Pokemon is one of those game series that's almost piracy proof since people value having the actual Pokemon on the actual cartridges, especially shiny Pokemon. The only reason someone would really have for pirating a Pokemon game is BECAUSE they couldn't find it or to buy it used would be paying the same price or more than when it came out. A used copy of Pokemon White on Amazon is nearly $100. Shit cost $40 when it came out. Piracy makes sense there, since Nintendo wouldn't see a penny from a used game sale to begin with. You literally couldn't pay Nintendo even if you wanted to, since they never put it up for digital download. They don't want your money, so fuck 'em. Pirate away.

[@TruCloudGaming]

Nintendo not bringing their games to PC is honestly morally enough reason to pirate ALL of their games IMO

[@zyxaqc]

"How do we stop people from playing pirated copies of our game?" "How about we give pirates seizures? They can't play if they're too busy choking on their own tongues."

[@DaYoda191]

I'm always curious how devs pull this off. How does the game know it's a pirated copy? Very smart though and often hilarious too!

[@maximumbeans9310]

Modern stuff often uses online checks with official servers and stuff, but in the case of the old PSX games it would be code that would check the game was running from a CD and not a ROM, or that checked it was running on official hardware and not emulation. I think, anyway - I’m no expert myself 😅

[@tomysshadow]

I wrote up a whole long comment explaining this, but KZbin won't let me write anything of substance without simply deleting my comment. Shame.

[@CouchPotator]

There are many methods, but it boils down to this: the pirated copies need to be modified in some way in order to run when copied to a dvd/cd/any non-official retail version. The game will then check if it's code has been modified via hashing. If the hackers remove the code that checks, further checks could exist to check those checks. The more layers, the harder it is to remove all of the checks. Also, some devs will themselves release a broken version of the game to pirates.

[@tomysshadow]

@@CouchPotator Sometimes, it's even simpler than that, like it is accomplished by studying some minor detail of the hardware that should always be true. For example, are the files being read off the CD at a realistic speed for CD-ROM? If not, it's probably actually reading off the hard drive from a mounted disc image.

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

Modern Vintage Gamer made a pretty in-depth series answering that question. For each major console that's ever been cracked, he explains how its copy protection was implemented and subsequently broken. It often boils down to slight differences between the physical media of an official vs. pirated release: lockout chips, track "wobble", physical limitations, etc. These games are the ones, usually released after a console has been out for a while, that manage to detect the tricks used to bypass the console's basic security checks. Once you do that, you can easily check your own code (which is ultimately just more data, organized so the CPU knows where to find it) to see if it was modified to remove the first layer of checks, and so on... As a hobbyist programmer/game developer it is always fun seeing how it was handled at the hardware/firmware level, the creative tricks some developers used to augment these built-in protections, and the equally clever exploits discovered to get around both.

[@KimiOmega]

I don't know, a chicken gun sounds like a pretty useful weapon to me

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

well the chicken gun here was certainly fun just totally useless in combat :D

[@KimiOmega]

@@TheEasterEggHunter Haha! That was a great video, btw. I don't comment as much as I used to but I've been lurking for years and it's always a joy to see your videos. Never give up!

[@AFKei]

One, I didn't expect DJMAX to get an entry. Two, that... Was actually rather harsh on my senses. And kinda cursed too.

[@YuyuHakurei]

They were probably hoping someone would have a seizure so they could sue them. xD

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Yeah that measure is very silly to be honest. Stops you from playing yes, but dangerous for some.

[@YuyuHakurei]

They wake up realizing they had a seizure to anime girls twerking in the background. xD

[@Kaitri]

Yar hae fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright with me, do what you want cause a pirate ia free, YOU ARE A PIRATE!

[@Craxin01]

Shooting chickens out of your gun. Not sure that's exactly non-lethal. Can you imagine all those beaks and claws?

[@pickford3152]

Glad to see u back at it man..I was worried there for a bit lol 👍

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Thanks 👍

[@tb3411]

Thank you for finally putting Spyro 3 on one of these!

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

No problem! I am glad I finally got around to it.

[@colinchildress1251]

5:20 It looks like Gaster hates pirates too.

[@jasonjuneau]

I have epilepsy and I appreciate the hell out of KZbinrs who give warnings

[@slushguy8398]

I stumbled upon an anti-piracy measure in Mario Strikers for Gamecube a few days ago, i don’t know if you covered it here… In the cracked version, the computer will get 50 goals (in increments of 1 per second) during the last game a of cup battle / tournament without putting the ball in the net, making the game impossible to win. The stat tracker doesn’t work either. I thought this was funny, the game play as normal except for this part of the software.

[@sakiyoshida9872]

Love your content man!

[@NigerianPrince0]

I curse your profile pic.

[@grimm7001]

When I was younger my cousin had a copy of Spyro 3 that was pirated. Idk why he had a pirated copy, he told me he got it from a friend for free, so I guess maybe his friend pirated the game. So when Zoe told 6 year old me that my game was an illegal copy, I imeediatley shut the game off because I thought I was doing something wrong.

[@chillmushroom6016]

I fell like is harder to get pirated games then actually buying the game

[@YuyuHakurei]

Considering these get patched out of the hacks in like a week. It's not usually that bad. The Earthbound one is really bad though because the piraters probably didn't even know there was something more that needed to be done. xD

[@nickjonas4317]

I feel like randomizing control configurations every minute would be funny, or even inverting the controls for the whole game

[@Temmie4Life]

the inverting controls for full game seems a bit to nice.... the randomize every inute is a bit long make it 20 seconds :)

[@Pinkstarclan]

love seeing some more obscure ones!! was worried when I clicked they'd all be ones I knew but I only knew 3 of these :)

[@ucitymetalhead]

And everything was probably patched out of these, the thought of which makes me happy.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Yeah pretty much, although I am not sure about DJMAX? and at one point there was a problem with the GOG 32bit version of Crysis Warhead as it was triggering the anti piracy measure.

[@haydenmarshall2010]

Ahoy James! Hunting for more Easter egg Arrrrrrr ya?

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Ahoy Hayden! Hopefully have some new Easter Egg episodes out very soon ;) and I am really looking forward to Dying Light 2.

[@Dg-lp1vt]

Chicken guns. Honestly, that is better than bullets. Chickens are not to be underestimated.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Speaking of Jon Burton, he has a KZbin channel called Coding Secrets. He actually talked about Leander in one of his videos, which is how I found out about the game.

[@Not-TheOne]

There are 2 channels with the best theme music, Modern Vintage Gamer and yours. I'd listen to a whole library of it.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

That is so nice to hear! thank you so much for sharing your comment :)

[@turkeyman631]

Love your content! Great vid as always

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Thanks Turkey Man :D

[@newbiegamelover4767]

4:48-5:43 I don't know. I would think someone would be up to the challenge. Someone might even find it even more fun than the legal copy!

[@FizzleFX]

12:00 they should have set no limit to the chickens the more you fire the more it tanks your framerate - until your PC simply breaks XD

[@ls190v2]

As Joey Perlioni said: Piracy is no party!

[@AmigaRulez_parallax]

Good video. I also recommend the video 🕹 Echa Ekranu 🕹

[@Ayy-Lmao]

spyro one will always be the best

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Totally agree! its just so cruel, I love it.

[@Ayy-Lmao]

@@TheEasterEggHunter I actually watched that video of the guy trying to beat the pirated version too like its so convoluted but its incredible haha

[@Adventist1997]

I love the fact that they had you shoot chickens. If you asked anyone for help because they do no damage, everyone will instantly know you're a pirate.

[@nexus6100]

The chicken shooting one absolutely made my morning better

[@stevenwhuntva]

Take a drink every time James says "awesome".

[@elitefdc2171]

I remember when 1$ can get like 10 PS2 titles

[@TheOverachiever7]

Kinda fun how a music game has the most creepypasta esque anti-piracy.

[@QuestionBlockGaming]

That moment when you see YTMND referenced in an Easter Egg Hunter video, holy cow

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

I have been wanting to reference this website for the last 2 years, finally got there.

[@QuestionBlockGaming]

@@TheEasterEggHunter Honestly a 'YTMND references in video games' video would be pretty fun but combined with the site's relatively dicey history and the difficulty in finding those references, it might be pretty scant. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is in FF7 Crisis Core where the side character Kunsel tries to hype up the main playable character Zack and says "You're the man now, dog! All the ladies will be lining up for Vitamin Zack!" Still, the reference brought me back to a nostalgic earlier time on the internet, and for that I thank you!

[@Fonkyfouine]

Great video has usual ! But does someone can tell me what is the name of the very first game that we see in the chapter "Leander Anti Piracy Measures", the one with the character in futuristic armor with some Alien Xenomorph look like creature ? I suppose it's on amiga but what game is this ?

[@Fahmi4869]

I wonder if the Spyro anti piracy also exists in the trilogy remake version

[@metaloverlord99]

A remastered version of Zoe's spiel actually exists in the remake, but the anti-piracy checks aren't present.

[@polocatfan]

giving pirates seizures isn't the best look

[@seto9897]

Fun fact for Pokemon Black and White is that if your playing a pirated copy of it is your pokemon won't gain exp.

[@SammEater]

Good thing the pirates were pretty good because I've played all the games of this list pirated. lol

[@darrylsmith5148]

Yet another smasher from my man james

[@moonythespoonie9551]

Personally I'm a fan of the Skullgirls technique where you just throw in something confusing to trick pirates into outing themselves What *is* the square root of a fish, anyway?

[@austin8rr]

Dj max has that creepypasta fuel wtf

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

1st to pirate

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@geoffabbythomas7293]

how has no one ever thought of an anti piracy that just sends you to a rom of et atari

[@aryaa9900]

Alright, number 2 has way too much flashing. Could easily cause seizures imo

[@SensualChoc325]

Till this day I'm still happy I subscribed to this guy

[@VulpisFoxfire]

On Spiro 3, not entirely sure if the language setting is part of the anti-piracy, or part of a bug..I know it's a known bug in the Remastered version that cutscenes can have the wrong language...I know my copy (purchased on Steam, so it certainly ought to be legit) does that.

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

The language change is also the anti-piracy measure, but it only exists in the European version, since obviously US versions only have English.

[@LiEnby]

It's anti piracy thing only in the PAL version (that has other languages)

[@ChaseMC215]

You know, I give up on saying that you forgot Skullgirls again....

[@FoxAzureOfficial]

#4: Awww... That SUCKS!

[@jetrosison375]

Silly enough, i found this video while playing a fan translation of Ace Attorney investigations 2 so its really surprising to see the game have anti piracy measure

[@michaelnunley1555]

I remember watching you in middle school now im gonna be 20 soon videos never dissapoint 🙏🏼🙏🏼🤙🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@KefkeWren]

You know, number 2 might actually be illegal? While it's true that it should never be seen by a lawful user, the violent flashing presents a greater than normal potential to trigger photosensitive epilepsy (incidentally, this video should *_really_* have a warning at the beginning). When it comes to preventing other forms of theft, it's been determined that traps deliberately designed to cause harm are unlawful (at least in the United States and United Kingdom), regardless of the fact that they do not pose a danger to law-abiding citizens. So, one would expect the same to be true of digital traps. Since an epileptic seizure has a potential to cause serious injury or even death, deliberately including malicious code that can potentially trigger one would reasonably fall into that category.

[@pilotl1ght]

I mean the warning isn't at the beginning of the video, but it is still there at 3:06 before the flashing lights segment

[@adammcallister2260]

@@pilotl1ght I think they meant in the actual game, rather than this video.

[@pilotl1ght]

@@adammcallister2260 o I was replying to the part of their comment that said: "(incidentally, this video should *_really_* have a warning at the beginning)."

[@fluffy_preacher]

Lmao its those damn chickens again kcf invaded the game

[@TheGreenYoutuber]

Anti-piracy doesn’t really make that much sense imo

[@abilflorida]

i dont have epilepsy problem but holy shit lmao

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

I think the time stamp for Leander is slightly off, since it has a space in between 0 and 40. So it is like 0: 40 and not 0:40.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Thanks for commenting on this I just corrected it.

[@lumothus]

I have found a spongbob squarpants easter egg in a app game called deep loot. I have footage and photos of it if you need it

[@RJ-td6ic]

So I believe I have an anti pirate version of pokemon emerald I borrowed it from a mate back in secondary school and I still have it. The game seems completely normal (from memory) but after or just before you battle the elite four the game will shut off and completely reset you. Was so upset when it happened to me so I tried again thinking it was a bug and it happened again so I'm guessing it's programmed in.

[@AgentRikuOfficial]

God I love pirating, especially from shitty scumbag corporations

[@amyflakes]

based

[@AgentRikuOfficial]

@RockManLP_Radio Good, their corruprion and greed lead to their downfall.

[@ceneblock]

Part of the problem with the Fire Red thing is the location in hex. IIRC, it's in a location nowhere near other speech. So I consider it debunked as far as an antipiracy message and instead consider it a ROM hack.

[@LiEnby]

Yeah they changed a pointer to some text to some random unused area of memory, 100% edited .

[@pkmnlover3812]

these are fun to see

[@HorrorsofCody]

Happy New YearJames

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Happy new year mate!!! Hope you have a good one.

[@mrcookie2.046]

I kinda wonder if it’s possible to speed run spiro the hacked copy version

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

I'd like to see that.

[@FizzleFX]

Nothing beats Spyro losing your progress over n over... ouf

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Yeah that part is very painful.

[@altair6491]

What's the song right at the end of the video???

[@TubbyJ420]

The PC game XIII. at some point in the game the player needs to cross a bridge. The bridge doesn't exist if the game detects a bootleg. You die entering the water, cant cross to continue the game.

[@Guitar-Dog]

On PC could you not jist noclip

[@malockf6671]

How would one find the song that's playing at 10:35

[@contentcreations6810]

Woohoo the king is here

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Ahoy!

[@goom4689]

idk if there's any in this video, but people should start commenting timestamps for the small easter eggs they put in the videos

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

no Easter Eggs in this video but there are plenty to be found in my other videos.

[@goom4689]

@@TheEasterEggHunter love the channel, very surprised to see the response, thanks for the amazing content

[@legolasdf1]

What's the outro music at the end?

[@dasvinker4024]

Hi James!! :D

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Ahoy there!

[@takeohtyme]

Good mourning