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[@TechRules]

Hey, everyone! Sorry if I sound a little weird in this video; I was recovering from being sick at the time of recording, but I didn't want to delay the video any longer than I already did. Feel free to correct me on anything I messed up on, and I'll add it to this comment! EDIT: Proto pointed out to me that the random crashes were actually a problem on my end, not the crack protection. Sorry about that! (And yes, I accidentally called the immortal scorpion an unkillable crab demon. Fight me.)

[@rq3246]

Tech Rules I haven't finished the video but I can already tell it's going to be great! Keep it up!

[@gecgecgec]

Great video!

[@user-hn6tc9ot4j]

You deserve so much more subscribers!

[@nevillethedevilisyes2499]

Nice vid keep doing good.

[@futre8356]

New video on minecraft please

[@ChannelForRandomStuff]

That final bit of anti-piracy is so brilliant though... “The Adventure Continues” as it wipes your game. Oh yes, the adventure never ends.

[@juanantonioloreto1848]

*-Bravely Default Flashbacks-*

[@residentialraven7887]

Its literally Mr. Bone's Wild Ride

[@mauricesteel4995]

Also Spyro gets dropped right over a gem just so you can see all your stuff is gone.

[@combineshotgunsoldier7761]

@@residentialraven7887 *THE RIDE NEVER ENDS*

[@Entro9]

I think Earthbound did that too

[@redouble_]

everybody gangsta til the penguin starts speaking German

[@lordstronghold7189]

I was a little bit confused about that, regardless of the fact that I am a German.

[@MrTheBarintokyo]

Penguin? That was a flying-capable bird. More importantly, Sgt. James Byrd!

[@Mar1lynMon.r0]

Well played bro

[@itisfreak]

best comment here

[@MISSGNOMETF2]

German penguin

[@Synfinate]

Yes, the rocket crashed in into the balloon. Took me years but I finally figured out that my parents bought me a cracked version

[@AshtonSnapp]

Oof.

[@ErdnußRiegel6969]

F

[@SugarVivStudios]

:( that’s no fun

[@engineergaming7407]

@@Vessick they BOUGHT a cracked. They've been scammed.

[@BerdlyGaming]

@CoffeeDisk 64 ...THEN WHY SHOULD THEY BE ARRESTED?

[@Riggee3D]

My dad used to crack games for me as a kid. Spyro was the only one that was store-bought and I can finally understand why.

[@Fiufsciak]

Damn, amazing dad, actually knowledgeable about computers

[@Soulfin]

Even your dad don't got time for that crap.

[@thesovietduck2121]

based dad

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

@@Fiufsciak What inteligent dad isnt skilled with computers?

[@jbsc97]

@@gunarsmiezis9321 plenty. My dad is a mechanical engineer who graduated magna cum laude from a top 5 school. He isn’t super knowledgeable about programming.

[@Existent734]

"I would enter a stage and end up in a comepletely different world" OHHHH, SO THAT'S WHY THAT HAPPENED. MY MOM GOT ME A PIRATED GAME

[@blakecook9266]

Oof

[@thegamertamertm5355]

I remember my mom downloaded a virus because she didn't want to pay 10$ on a video game this was my computer.

[@kayleighmoore6951]

she should've bought you it

[@wideasriel]

Hehe, ma mom owned all 3 spyro ps1 parts, it was Love to play them =D, but she lost them, after this vid, i dont wanna try2use a crack

[@RustedStar]

@Michael Persico I feel this comment on a spiritual level.

[@ysquaredyobozo]

10:15 the "saved successfully" is probably the biggest middle finger they could have given

[@321blastoff6]

**adds pirate protection to discourage pirates** **More people pirate the game because the pirate protection is so cool**

[@thereallincolntakanashi]

*SPYRO_YEAROFTHEDRAGON.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING*

[@georgek4416]

*Dev.exe has stopped working.*

[@thereallincolntakanashi]

*CSX_Transportation.exe has stopped working*

[@liwo8998]

Task successfully failed.

[@wideasriel]

PLAYREALGAMES.EXE isnt responding

[@TheRedfieldWay]

I'm just surprised that Zoe actually voiced the hack warning. the devs took this piracy very seriously

[@FelipeDermann]

I was one of the victims, I did not have access to a legit copy of this game whe I was a kid, literally all retails around my region had the cursed Paradox version and I had to push through all of the game's copy protection during gameplay while blaming the stores for making "low quality copies" as I'd call them. Unbeknownst to me was the fact that the game itself was trolling me all those years. I remember clearly speaking to Zoe and seeing that dreaded text that I was playing an illegal copy of the game and that really scared me at the time, to hear a videogame character get out of role and break the fourth wall as if it knew what was happening in the outside world. Missing eggs, missing gems, having to rebuy characters or stuff to be able to access previous stages.... I never experienced the language switching problem though. Oh boy so many things went wrong and I persisted every time just to have a shot at the final boss, see if I could beat her before the game decides to pull the plug and erase all my data. I used to remove the memory card when attempting the fight so that my save wouldn't get overwritten. But when I tried to load the save again there'd always be several things missing, including the freaking vehicle that you need to get across the other worlds would randomly disappear and I'd have to redo stages and hope that I could get it back. I'll never forget when I somehow managed to glitch the game to send me into the super bonus stage, the final level you can go to when you beat the game 100%. I was never able to 100% the game due to the anti-piracy stuff so I really have no idea how I entered that place, but I only managed to do that once. When I turned the game off and loaded the other day I couldn't get back and again lost a bunch of progress. My kid self deserves a medal for all of the persistence I had to go through all of this shit. It was very rewarding when I played this game again years later with an actual working copy this time, I beat it 100% and closed this case forever. That shit felt like my greatest achievement in gaming history.

[@ratboy850]

You and me both, parents couldn't be bothered to pay for the game and had burnt copies, I literally went through this game 20 or so times jut to try beating the final boss.

[@KingOfDarkBah]

I salute you for your determination and refusal to give up. I went through exactly the same struggle you went through and did not know what the hell was with the game until I got the original copy and finished it 100% 😂

[@danielmarques5768]

I played this game so many times that i managed to find a way to go to the bonus round anytime i wanted, that was sureal for a 9 yo to crash the game like that. Plus: my native language is portuguese, so at that time i couldnt get what was happening, thus never able to figure it out what that piracy message was about. Every friend who has attempted this game had a "trick" to clear the game, but none ever worked. One time i simply got tired of it and moved on, but this game, till this day, is one of the most memorable to me, and one that i have played the most at my childhood. Only as an adult i could figure why all of this happens

[@argenis9518]

Oh God I feel so identified with this comment, even with the part of the bonus stage lol Zoe scared me as well but I did realize that my game was pirate after that. I tried to complete it several times though

[@javiper929]

Feel you. Still, the paradox intro music was good

[@dubstepmonsters7028]

“Pirates at bay” is the most underrated line in this whole video

[@inplaid]

I wasn't sure if it was intentional, but I still laughed.

[@deanshaw6588]

cough cough piratebay haha

[@silver.shoelaces]

I came into the comments to say just that.

[@thegamecracks1317]

That line was intentional, but he most likely took it from the article title that showed up after that line, 4:57 . See the top right of the video: "Gamasutra: Keeping the Pirates at Bay"

[@freevbuks9270]

Cough cough I have a real cough

[@ace-x6m]

the "Software Terminated" screen gives me chills for some reason. Lol

[@Stock_Junction]

Same, it looks like it's saying, "Console Deleted This console has been modified and is illegal to use now because of piracy and other reason. Please contact Sony Costumer Service."

[@Stock_Junction]

It's like you're banned from using the console

[@citrufruit]

I'm scared of the dark because of Chara

[@MrQuinnzard]

*🚫 SOFTWARE TERMINATED* *CONSOLE MAY HAVE BEEN MODDED* *CALL 1-800-GETREKT*

[@2tired2p15]

i dunno why. its probably because of the contrast between a colorful fun adventure and a cold, legitimately real reminder that what you've done is wrong. its like undertale or doki doki literature club but instead of a yandere ai or characters that remember your actions its a geniune disclaimer that pulls you out of the game world to tell you your own mistakes.

[@nalinea18]

”They even thanked the coders for giving them such a difficult challenge.” I have to hand it to Paradox: they’re some polite pirates.

[@steelbear2063]

Paradox? Russian Paradox? Yeah they're great, I have a disk with Resident Evil 1 and 2, all-in-one

[@pathetic_girl]

Oh yeah thats actually a common thing. Most of them aren’t the stereotypical villain that people portray. Most are just normal people but also really talented coders.

[@nettack]

Not uncommon. Though you won't find it nowadays, as Denuvo has a monopoly and those w*nkers don't protect with ingenuity.

[@jorgen7702]

The gentlemen pirates

[@jnharton]

[squidboy13] To be fair, once they start distributing a crack of a game readily available at retail it becomes an active attack on the financial interests of the publisher. --- Just hacking it and demonstrating the result id relatively benign. However publishing the details in depth reaches into a gray area.

[@B_dev]

there should be a speedrunning category for this

[@midas8877]

I thought this same thing for drunken gta4 anti piracy

[@deceit3786]

Too much rng

[@danielmaher1654]

It would probably be called torture%

[@Forestxavier20]

@@Mehwhatevr Still would be an interesting noncompetitive speedrun.

[@Liravin]

absolute madlad

[@honey-bun3976]

This is gonna sound really dumb, but I've always been a little bit scared of these types of things. Like not SCARED, scared, but it's kinda spooky to me

[@heavenscient]

Honey Bun wym? scared of what

[@Heruraza]

I exactly know what you mean.. Back then i was really afraid of game manuals that said things like "Mario will walk by himself now". The thought of games being self-aware and self controlling is just creepy

[@SugarVivStudios]

DUDE I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND! I had to take off my headphones to watch this because seeing a (usually polygonal looking) game punish the player makes me feel unsafe ._.

[@alarmy5211]

@@SugarVivStudios they know. THEY KNOW WHERE THE CHIPDREN ARE.

[@stevanthewise7240]

Oh I was scared scared 😂

[@sebtile4126]

meanwhile in the UK... "hey look that guy has a quest for me!" "Вы украли эту копию, так что теперь я вырву ваши глазные яблоки.."

[@Zelenayasmert]

@DJInferno "you stole this copy, now I'll tear out your eyeballs"

[@azurrayne4140]

Blyat

[@mackenziewoloschuk7375]

Oh jeez-

[@MrBadAtThisYT]

@@Zelenayasmert ouch my eyes

[@Sveta69420]

@@MrBadAtThisYT I see you everywhere

[@anachronist420]

Imagine playing Spyro as a kid, unknowing that it was a pirated copy, and suddenly the characters start speaking German

[@TrueFlameslinger]

Smile! Sweet! Sister! Sadistic! Surprise! Service! STUKA VERBAND IM ANGRIFF AUF BOLSCHEWISTISCHE PANZER UND TRUPPEN ANSAMMLUNGEN

[@radomiami]

Ja, ich denke, es wäre ziemlich bizarr, das Spiel als Kind durchzuspielen.

[@Mangle1218]

“KAMPFSTIEFEL!!” -Von Kaiser 2009

[@matthewadair4612]

German be like: Bh xd hu hi I vCard bhibh cvsihb. Vcshi high bfdi bh huighhiejhih j I hi. Hurt hui. Jhihfh

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

Got mit uns!

[@Chubbasaurus]

Imagine a young kid's confusion when they got this game for Christmas, having no real idea what piracy and chipped consoles really were, and all this started happening. Yup. That's what happened to me.

[@spartanwar1185]

feelsbadman

[@justsandwich]

I know that feeling

[@tapiocaferoz02]

Me too haha but still played this game all my childhood, and when i used to be send back to first level, i used to stay happy in playing all again

[@uninspiringspoon9578]

Did a penguin yell German at you?

[@Chubbasaurus]

@@uninspiringspoon9578 I can't remember if he did, but I do remember eggs disappearing because it made my OCD tendencies freak out. XD

[@1-Up87]

7:50 I am german, so that confused me for a second, since that was actually a normal Text to me

[@azura_011]

Yeah, same. I was like "Didn't he say something about the language changing randomly? Why is it still german??" xD

[@wideasriel]

Deutsch ist halt krass Näh XD? German is still a hard Language that is Not very popular hehe

[@hotaru8309]

This is such a funny thing. When your brain gets comfortable with both[ or more], languages it just kind of meshes them together like the merging of two streams. When hearing or reading, you don't make the decision of word choice. Since both words have the same meaning, your brain doesn't bother to check which language it is from. It doesn't effect you, so the brain doesn't use energy on an unnecessary task.

[@thetrabantguy3934]

@@wideasriel ARTIKEL, der Albtraum für jeden Deutschlerner

[@wideasriel]

@@thetrabantguy3934 LeL

[@Solesteam]

Game:"I may not be able to stop you, but I can certainly *break you* "

[@CaptianNarcotics274]

It does *both*

[@FlurryMainchin]

"And then I will stop you, and you will know I could have all along"

[@robibofbankshire4056]

The final reset has the same energy as when I once played a modded Skyrim, a random encounter had a mage challenge me to a wizard battle, and he said the phrase, "You call that magic? I'll show you real magic!" and then proceeded to CTD me and that save was now corrupted. It was by far the strongest mage I have ever seen. He rewrote the player out of existence as if I was someone in Yugioh GX season 4.

[@unpersonableme1805]

What does ctd mean?

[@audreyyale2363]

@@unpersonableme1805 CTD means "crash to desktop"

[@flyguydev2008]

Man sent you to the shadow realm

[@7tales311]

bro is outerversal. you just met a lich king.

[@TheLetterJ0]

Now I want to see 100% speedruns of the pirated version of this game.

[@FrillWasTaken]

one does exist on youtube! it goes for around 8 hours I believe

[@freedustin]

@@FrillWasTaken found it kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIGvZp2qq51njMU it is 87%. Maybe 98% is possible but will be many more hours. it is not actually possible to 100% because it always kicks you out of boss room and resets everything.

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

The Sorceress fight will *always* reset your save file on a pirated version, so 100% (let alone 117%) just isn't possible.

[@FrillWasTaken]

haha yeah, I meant an 'attempted 100%' of the game, what a trooper

[@johneygd]

Same thing with the pyrated version of earth boud on snes, you cannot beat it 100% because of the same reason , that it will crash and erase all your save files, during the final boss battle.

[@kinnikuchu]

That's why I never finished Spyro. Had a copy like this and never understood why the eggs kept disappearing. Then I reached the final boss and boom... all eggs were gone and my save file erased. Never tried Spyro again.

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

Well not to be rude but play a legal version

[@FAlRYERl]

Alien_Ghost_Gaming 909 umm maybe he was a child with no knowledge of pirated software and his parents got him that game

[@kinnikuchu]

@@FAlRYERl Yeah, I was like 8 and didn't know better.

[@lolom8772]

Hopefully you learned a lesson there lol

[@liwo8998]

It was your parents fault

[@gustavoolegario2027]

Now you understand why 90's brazilian kids have trust issues

[@pedrobui.669]

sure thing

[@buzzo018]

I had this problem and tried to beat a lot not knowing that it was an anti piracy issue cuz I didn't know shit about english

[@GuileOhio]

I was lucky enough to have (what I presume was) the fixed final crack, because I've played Spyro 3 an absolute fuckton as a kid and hadn't had an original game until I was an adult.

[@lucaspenna6009]

😂

[@TheSonicDBZ]

Good thing I bought the digital version on PSN and I able to remove from my life the fact that I didn't finish this game because of the pirate glitches.

[@envystar687]

There’s something about most anti-piracy messages in games that makes them so terrifying, even when most games don’t use jumpscares to drive the message home. It just makes you feel hunted and unwanted. The game KNOWS you’re doing something bad.

[@nullpoint3346]

There is nothing morally wrong with digital piracy. Especially in the cases where it's justified.

[@arizonagreenbee]

@@nullpoint3346 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i'm not paying 100$ for a video game

[@glauberbispo8922]

@@nullpoint3346 lol, there's no, dev spend years of they life creating a game for everybody get the game free :p

[@nullpoint3346]

@@glauberbispo8922 That just means there's a flaw in the reward system for people's efforts. Namely that the societal reward system only values currency. Currency that I must remind you has no value of it's own. A terrible waste of hemp paper and pigments, not to mention the systems designed to prevent fraudulent currency from circulating as real currency (fake money passing as real money is bad because it accelerates inflation).

[@glauberbispo8922]

@@nullpoint3346 what are u talking about lol, with currency that u pay food, a cool house and some b*tches lol. What would u suggest that the devs should earn by they hard work. And even if our reward system is "wrong" we still have this reward system, and if people don't pay by the games the dev will have no money :v

[@justawanderingoldman7699]

Aaah.... so it's an anti piracy system... I remember when was I still a kid, I bought this Spyro game from one of a big PS game store. I and my big bro love Spyro games. So we bought it instantly without thinking too much. That time, I was still a pure little kid who didn't know that pirated disc exist. After a long fun run, the game reset itself around the endgame part. But what i did that time? Together with my brother, we *did it all over again* . We thought it just how the game supposed to run. We keep trying it again and again. More reset happened, and we gave it another run. I remember that we even reached a stage when we could complete the early to mid game part in just some hours.The loop continued until one day, our PS broke and we ere forced to stop. So yeah... we never finished it lol. More than 10 years passed, I got my hand on a PSX emulator. I downloaded the Spyro 3 iso, and challenged it with my emulator. And that time, I cleared it (since it's cracked properly lol). Sadly my big bro died from illness several years after our PSX broke. So I, alone, finished our revenge to the "Impossible to complete" game. You can rest in peace brother... I defeated our enemy!

[@Roule_n_Scratche]

Ok that's a cool story

[@velvetsky3451]

Your brother in heaven: *furious clapping*

[@MaXaNoMaLoUs]

I feel you man, my mom passed way too soon and she was a gamer, me and her played FF7, MYST, DOOM2, Half Life 2 and many others. RIP our loved ones. Good story man

[@MrBadAtThisYT]

Sorry for your loss, I’m sure he’s proud

[@Sufersos]

@@n646n I'm sorry but this is the saddest case of a Woosh I've ever seen.

[@theriverstigs]

"[...] The idea they came up with was simple, but *very* effective." _it's a simple spell but quite unbreakable_

[@chillpitou]

Some people pirate games, but not us. not us.

[@firstlast-cs6eg]

But it wasn't simple at all, is the point.

[@Gone4Everx]

doctor?

[@timehunter9467]

Ah Mr. Doctor, clever quote.

[@JohnJohnson-fo5vl]

*Modern problems require modern soulutions*

[@degg7129]

Tech Rules: plays a pirate game to review its anti-piracy system FBI: wAiT,tHaTs ILeGaL

[@sampleentry5253]

"Educational purposes"

[@hitwalkhook3831]

@@sampleentry5253 Also, it is not illegal if you still have the copy of the original game AND is using it yourself, so you didn't send it to friend, etc.

[@duo1666]

@@TheCrash480 false. Piracy and theft are not the same. If you own a copy, you are allowed to make a backup of said copy. Downloading a backup is still a backup.

[@duo1666]

@@TheCrash480 and a lot of that "licensing" stuff got overturned in a washing machine case last year, and even more is still being undone from apple losing a lot of its cases. You own what you buy. If you buy a game disk, you own that disk and what is on that disk. You cant resell it, but you can make as many copies or edits to it as you want

[@swanclipper]

@@TheCrash480 example: sega master system, NES, SNES etc. are legally allowed to be downloaded. the catch is, as long as you own it and have the means to play it. think of it like this -- you bought a cd, and you listen to that cd at home and in your car (generalisation) your computer/console can't play that while the disc drive is being used for other things, so you're allowed to consume the product your bought by "ripping" the cd contents off and creating a digital file on your computer. that's all that he's done in this video. emulators are allowed you know. hardware like a console (PS, XB, NES) is sold with the explicit instruction not to modify or change the data in the machine. when you buy a game/music/movie you are only obligated to keep that individual copy for yourself. you're not allowed to share it or redistribute it. like buying a large bag of Quavers full of smaller bags of Quavers or 4/8/12/24 pack of beer. you can't sell them or pretend you made the contents and redistribute it. the individual items are for personal use only. i can't hook up my sega's, nintendos or my playstations because they don't have HDMI slots. i "steal" my console games because i own them and wish to play them. downloading them is no different to ripping them yourself. it's the same act. the law isnt the same as regulation. the law doesn't know much about what to do with digital content. this is why gullible people are being suckered into buying loot boxes and "micro-transactions". no regulation, no law. if you're clearly pirating for profit, then yeah, you're a thief and should be treated as such. until the waking world notices what technology has been doing for the last 20 years, the laws wont be enforced any further than they have been.

[@kackers]

10:21 i love how you can tell you see the "1" and IMMEDIATELY open up the atlas because you know something is very wrong

[@theTweak0284]

Cracked Spyro seems like a challenge run that a streamer would do.

[@laitdejabot9890]

When you passed troughs this game many time that’s a challenge you would do.

[@jjsponge1202]

Gamer: “All right, I reached the final boss!” Game: “I’m about to end this pirate’s whole career.”

[@Rebellions]

Game: "That's where you're wrong kiddo!"

[@BlueShadesWellz]

Game: Sike!!! You thought!!!

[@BlueShadesWellz]

Game: I'm afraid I've Got Some Bad News!!!!

[@UnknownSource3]

Cough, cough, Earthbound, cough

[@replicaknight2219]

Gamer:"Would've beaten it anyway."

[@MapleMilk]

Doing hours of painful research for something nobody asked for? Now _THAT'S_ a hero.

[@neilquiambao7463]

Terraria's piracy protection was genius. There was an achievement where you have to travel a really far amount by foot. But the game would lag as you walked since it would check every step. And the devs made sure you never finish the achievement by making sure it resets as soon as you close the game when you complete it.

[@theabirde]

@@Ashurion-Neonix wow, that's crazy cool

[@lathifahdhiya723]

@@Ashurion-Neonix That’s impressive!

[@OhNoTheFace]

Genius until one person finds this out and talks online about it, then no one tries for that achievement lol

[@Zonic3451]

@@OhNoTheFace You don't get it. You are always getting it just simply by walking. What're you gonna do, not walk?

[@metaparalysis3441]

@@Zonic3451 fly :)

[@hgpbm9572]

Imagine going to your friends like: “Yo, did you get the new Spyro??” “Yeah, I picked it up about two weeks ago.” “It’s really hard! I’ve barely made it to Midday Gardens! Do you know how to get more health?” “...” “What, did you beat it?”

[@GREYBOXFNAF]

LMAO

[@matthewadair4612]

LMAO

[@matthewadair4612]

Lmao lmaolamoajshbsggbgdgdfvdvdbdhcbhf gh I’ve fight if fehh Ic

[@rycegabrielmajor9847]

ive never played spyro, whys this funny?

[@tracyblanchard7663]

@@rycegabrielmajor9847 A cracked version puts you at essentially 2 hp permanently, while you kinda just take hits and recover health with butterflies normally.

[@quirkyturtle2625]

shoulda had skullgirls on the list of fun anti-piracy. that one is genius. pops a cryptic message up after you beat the game, about the square root of fish. people post it on forums or twitter like "whats this" and boom, busted.

[@spartanwar1185]

Damn, that's a smooth and subtle way to bust a criminal _-a smooth criminal-_

[@harmonytheoxnardfangirl8344]

That's real clever

[@DravenxEyeless]

something similar happened with people playing the Batman Arkham games. In the first one, for example, you needed to use your grapple and it wouldn't work. So people would go to Steam to ask about it aaaaand BUSTED.

[@tammywilson6392]

wHaT iS tHe SqUaRe RoOt Of A FiSh? NoW i'M sAd. :( ÙwÚ what's this?

[@danielgatmaytan7319]

Garry’s Mod also had a similar fake error message

[@periperiwinkle92]

when I was little my parents couldn't afford original PS1 games, so one of the pirate games I had was Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. The same version you played, in fact. Thankfully my game wasn't nearly as glitchy as yours was, but boy oh boy, do I still remember having to go back to allll previous worlds every single time I unlocked a new world to retrieve a single lost egg from all previous levels - my game only deleted the very first egg from all levels, and without the first egg from each level you can't move on to other worlds, which meant I was forced to go back if I wanted to play the levels in the new world I'd just unlocked - and even more vividly I remember when the game screen went black during the last boss fight and the save file was wiped. now, imagine this: a seven year old, an eight year old, and a six year old, all crying for all their lost progress, unconsollable; that was me, my sister and my cousin. MONTHS of playing. GONE. we LOVED Spyro, but that day we put it down and never played it again. about a decade later I told this story to a friend of mine, and he explained what had happened - we didnt understand back then because english wasn't our first language - and then he magnamiously borrowed me his copy of Spyro. I spent my summer break trying to not only finish the game but also catch all eggs and gems, and it was soooo satisfying. like avenging my seven years old self. Spyro is an incredible game, and even though it betrayed me the way it did, I still love it with all my heart. I read that article a few years ago, and honestly? it's GENIUS. what they did was amazing, not to mention hella creative, and although I still remember how painful it was losing all my progress I don't blame the devs for it. TLDR: great video! sure brings back memories :')

[@weebsquit347]

This is actually kinda creepy in a way. Especially at the end when it just boots you to the beginning without anything.

[@gabrieleriva651]

Cracked Spyro still runs better than Fallout 76.

[@k_plazo]

Probably true...

[@djpon3782]

What doesn't run better than Fallout 76

[@3ftninja132]

More reliable too.

[@gordonthickmanplays6048]

@@djpon3782 even big rigs EVEN DESERT BUS IS BETTER

[@djpon3782]

@@gordonthickmanplays6048 agreed

[@OtherSean666]

We used to disk swap to play different regions. Load a disc of your region (you had to play with the lid open, with the little "lid closed" button wedged or stuck down) during the orange Sony logo, quickly swap discs. This video has just explained to me why that worked.

[@MoonlitVibe]

A similar mechanism must have been in place for the fantastic 'Freeloader' for the Gamecube - a bootdisc that was inserted and then swapped out for the actual game, at which point you could play as normal. It was well worth it to be able to play Animal Crossing years before it even got a confirmed release date in the UK.

[@OtherSean666]

@@MoonlitVibe I've heard about something like that. But didn't play my GameCube anywhere near enough to even think about it. Back in the day, I had to play ps imports in black and white as my TV had no scart socket!!

[@chrismanning746]

I used to use a spring to keep the disk spinning.

[@lfcnick1582]

There was a cart you put in the back of PlayStation, I think it was an action replay type of thing, and a little bronze spring that fooled it into the thinking the lid was shut.... I remember playing metal gear solid with that... Good Times.

[@MattMillwardUK]

@@lfcnick1582 yep, also spring + action replay master race here

[@guadarramalealdaniela5714]

Now I know the meaning of Zoey's message... I didn't knew english at the time so I thought it was no big deal :"^ I remember I started crying when my game was erased after the final fight with the Sorceress... But here in Mexico it was very difficult to actually find a LEGAL version of any PS1 game insted of a cracked version, basically you had to buy your own games at street markets for less than a dollar (I think Year of the dragon costed less than 5 mexican pesos) Now I feel a little bit frustated... Good part is that with Reignated Trilogy I'm going to be able to finally complete Year of the dragon; legally this time!

[@Samorutt1324]

Great!!!!!😄👍

[@Youmeandthedud]

@@DavidDumbedDown ?

[@vaiirecti7873]

@@DavidDumbedDown xenophobe

[@xdgamerkid]

@@DavidDumbedDown racist

[@surrealbrain4227]

@@DavidDumbedDown Dude, what the hell?!

[@owenmcbride1]

Spyro 3 normally: normal game Spyro 3 anti-piracy: LITERALLY DARK SOULS DIFFICULTY

[@somlyseuen.6975]

Original Spyro: easy mode 😎 Pirated Spyro: *HARD MODE ON*

[@blingsing5383]

Prepare to fly edition

[@morshulinton4112]

Spyro 3 Legal Copy: Easy Mode Spyro 3 Pirated Copy: SUPER DARK SOULS: THE LOST LEVELS MODE

[@milesipka]

There's a game even more difficult than Dark Souls... The PS2 game "Terminator 3: The Redemption"... Trust me, that game is so hard it will make you dig your eyeballs out in grief...

[@thymecrafter]

@@milesipkafuck you for tell ing me this game exists i no longer want to live I want to uno flip of a bridge

[@nelsonthen884]

Hold up. This is your SECOND VIDEO?! You sound like you'd have years of experience!!! That's so cool!

[@DestroyedArkana]

@@mr.serious707 He also had a lot of hand wringing at the start saying "I know this video might sound boring... and Spyro might not interest people..." which showed a lack of confidence to me, trying to justify this video's own existence.

[@KingBarney]

@@DestroyedArkana If anything, it speaks in the favor of being confident rather than not being confident. You hear stuff like this from creators all the time, not everyone goes "Alright guys, I know you're gonna be excited about this one!". Him deciding to spend a VERY long time producing a video that he knows isn't exactly exciting because he knows the content is actually good enough to keep watching shows confidence

[@Xarai]

he got a lot wrong actually so im not surprised he is new

[@ravenwraith1017]

His pinned comment appears to namedrop Proto Mario, so wouldn’t be surprised if he has connections to some of the best channels on KZbin...

[@timscott5967]

This dudes done tons of videos... many of them are like 20 glitches you didn't know about... or 10 most creepy easter eggs etc. No idea about the channel. But the whole format of the video and voice is exactly the same... his old channel probably got highlighted by KZbin for some reason and he struck a deal. I'll start a new channel if you throw me in the algorithms to help get my fanbase back up ;) rather than just a total ban, a reset, and a promise to follow the rules from now on

[@ciaoitalo]

"If that's confusing to you, think of it like morse code taken to the extreme." It wasn't confusing until you said that..

[@joyeeverett6196]

Basically coding is a language, and the PS1 can convert the wobble into a language it can read. :)

[@hmmph2467]

@@joyeeverett6196 I'm trying to get into code, and before, I didnt know there were different languages. I looked up a notepad+ tutorial and tried making a game on fucking html. The scholastic book fair guides didnt help either

[@c0nc3pt]

Morse is basically just binary with a unique charset

[@yumri4]

@@joyeeverett6196 Sony kind of did what hard drive disks do now. Instead of just 0s and 1s you have a line of 0s and 1s overlapping part of another line of 0s and 1s and both are readable and writable though another way they have tried though already replaced as it decreased not increased how much you can put onto 1 disk was making it have a non-linear line for 2 lines to be read at once instead of just 1 line read at once. The PS1 did take that and use it though due to other techniques and hardware error correction having a non-linear line is no longer possible for the disks. So it was an idea but an idea that was to late to the game to catch on.

[@newmono7341]

This channel has a long and bright future. Keep up the excellent work!

[@minecruzer99]

agreed!

[@a177858]

these videos need subtitles

[@user-hn6tc9ot4j]

Indeed

[@MsNotorials]

Man's speedrunning youtube

[@Lia-gd2gd]

+1

[@FallenVampireTenshi]

I remember when I was a kid, my dad got me a copy of Spyro Year of the Dragon. I didn't realise at the time it was that paradox hacked version and I was so confused because in my one, after fighting Spike (or losing should I say) it would take me straight to Midnight Mountain. I never got to experience Evening Lake 🤣

[@somlyseuen.6975]

Welp time to buy the legal copy! **JUST TO GET TO SEE EVENING L A K E**

[@sheepsheep8542]

You know, if developers really wanted to, they could use these features to make one hell of a creepypasta game

[@leo79033]

like surprise doki doki

[@sheepsheep8542]

@@leo79033 exactly

[@vaiirecti7873]

no thanks, as they would get a LOT of lawsuits

[@Minceraft69]

On a game mainly played by kids? I played skylanders (newer spyro game) on my ps3 when I was 8 or 9 and lmao that would have scared the absolute shit out of me.

[@NeonWasInUse]

I smell a lawsuit coming on.

[@forfun126]

Omg.. and my stupid young ass thought my disc had too many scratches xD I basically struggled to the end. Lost everything And thought I won lmao

[@FelipeMannrich]

Same!

[@sutibu719]

I edited this comment 'cuz yes.

[@forfun126]

@@sutibu719 Omg Wtf HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHHAAH

[@psychobillynumbnuts1]

You actually played a pirated copy of this game

[@kiromi790]

@@sutibu719 your english sucks

[@enzoc123-x3o]

You've been blessed by the algorithm ¡Congratulations man!

[@Benjy1]

Its crazy that KZbinrs only get clout if KZbin itself allows it

[@namewarvergeben]

Maybe he...cracked the algorithm

[@GamebustersUK]

Right? what's the secret!

[@clxxxvii.]

I know right, I'm looking through his channel looking for past videos and I'm just like, why did he delete everything? Turns out it's just literally his second video.

[@stefssj1291]

Seriously I've been this in my recommendations for a week! So I was like screw it I'll watch it. Glad I did though

[@aceospades6570]

I'm seeing some comments regarding people's experiences with their pirated copies of this game, and how they reacted when they suffered the fate that happens at the end. It got me thinking: the purpose of having anti-piracy in games is to motivate people to purchase the real copy. A lot of comments send pretty much the same message of "this frustrated me so much that I never touched Spyro again!". In my personal opinion, this frustration kind of defeats the purpose of giving it an anti-piracy; because not only do players fail to buy the real copy, but they don't buy any other past or future Spyro games. Sure, they may understand that those problems wouldn't occur if they had just bought the real game but the frustration and irritation they faced may continue to haunt them afterwards, thus discouraging them from buying it

[@lathifahdhiya723]

That might be true. Especially for kids who don’t understand anti piracy. They might think that it’s just the game that’s too hard so they won’t play anymore. There are almost no warning that the game actually behaves that way because it’s pirated other than that one dialogue from the fairy. But people tend to ignore and skip dialogue so they might miss it.

[@steelbear2063]

@@lathifahdhiya723 Not to mention some regions were not so lucky with legal copies. In Russia pirates basically were the official distributors and every PSone was already hacked before being sold. So now imagine that you *paid* for a pirated version. Yeah no, I'm not paying again. Thankfully I did not have problems listed in the video, save for Moneybags wanting another payment for Sheila. But you could just ignore him

[@Xezlec]

Yeah I don't understand why they did that. The logical thing to do should be to make the game stop with an anti-piracy message at different random points in the game and in different situations for the different checks. That would be just as hard for the crackers to find them all but it would be more "get the real game if you want to see what happens next" instead of "frustrate the player to make them hate the game". You should try to keep them wanting more, right?

[@brunocaf8656]

Finally a sensible comment, thank you

[@3nertia]

@@Xezlec I think you may misunderstanding how cracking works - they're looking at the code and can check for such calls lol That's why they also obfuscated the code by making calls within calls within calls lol

[@maestropelon]

Duuude, I never knew what was wrong with this game until this video. The Spyro trilogy were my favourite games growing up, but my PS1 and all my games were cracked, so I had to suffer through all that you mentioned in this video... Since I loved YOTD, I played to the end so many times, hoping that I would eventually be able to beat it. And let me confirm your suspicion: No matter how many times you start over at Sunrise Springs, the game will ALWAYS delete your save file when you get to the Sorceress. In fact, in my case it wouldn't even let me start the fight, as opposed to the clip you showed in the video. I even tried removing my memory card before entering the fight so it wouldn't let the game save when it got me back, but the outcome never changed, despite the sheer amount of tries I did. It was pure hell, man.

[@aurum3747]

0:15 That is the least intimidating thing I've ever seen, "the the levels" "your allowed to play"

[@_pulstar]

The lighting of the letters still makes it a bit creepy to me

[@EpicMathTime]

yeah it absolutely destroyed the impact. It goes from "oh shit I'm caught" to "haha alright sport I'll buy your little cartridge" in a matter of seconds.

[@crocrock9505]

I have a feeling this channel will get big.

[@Adam-wo9ol]

I hope so, I've loved both videos they've put out so far.

[@oddbaum2163]

2 videos and already 28k subs

[@magtea3836]

Glad I was here for the start

[@oddbaum2163]

Same here

[@Cookie__XD]

It will! Definitely!

[@nutella1021]

I'm not really a Spyro fan but, I agree! The anti-piracy measures they put in place were really creative. Kudos to the developers for thinking outside the box!

[@pxldnky7749]

After Zoe gives the message would be a perfect time to turn the entire thing into a horror game and make the pirates never pirate again tbh

[@creppersaurusrex2300]

You mean, like a creepypasta? I bet someone did it like that the'

[@pxldnky7749]

@@creppersaurusrex2300 hmm, perhaps

[@Abbastraea]

I remember I actually turned off the console by unplugging the power source the first time I reached that message

[@raven3886]

Right? I wonder if there's a creepy pasta based on this out there

[@christianbrehm5398]

Ben drowned?

[@TheTrueChuckNorris]

I was a trial tester for the Sony office in foster city and we tested year of the dragon. I'm the reason the underwater tunnel is passable🤙🏻

[@EpicStuffMan1000]

thank you for your service sir.

[@MercurySG3M]

Dang that’s really cool man

[@karlandersson4350]

Haha cool. A small but fine piece of gaming history.

[@macybautista1301]

That's awesome! Thank you!

[@FireStarJutsu]

That's really really cool!! :D

[@BeanieGoth]

*_Eventually, Spyro stopped thinking._*

[@_xeno_x]

Kars

[@BeanieGoth]

Xeno X fun fact, i made a jojo reference before i even watched JoJo. help.

[@_xeno_x]

@@BeanieGoth if you have never watched jojo....you should watch it right now.

[@BeanieGoth]

Xeno X bruh my name and profile picture are both from part five i finished parts 1-4 last month and i don’t regret it one bit

[@_xeno_x]

@@BeanieGoth that shit fire right Ive only seen part 1-4 Is 5 just as good?

[@KonroMan]

“Yeah, Anti-Piracy doesn’t sound like the most interesting topic...” That fact sure has changed!

[@tacokitten]

True, exactly why he made another video about it!

[@KonroMan]

@@tacokitten yeah I saw it and it was cool! (It’s the reason I watched this video)

[@dbxvhero9006]

4:42 “Keep pirates at bay” Intentional pun??

[@niclasneziru1854]

Ah, my favorite Gaming Shop

[@tomoswalter]

@@niclasneziru1854 It's like one of those stores that's always closing down! Everything must go!

[@narata1541]

@@niclasneziru1854 That's why PC is always better than console... Free games! I never bought a PC game for like a decade.

[@quoteclone]

@@narata1541 yikes dude. I kind of understand pirating a game if its region locked or something of the sort, but pirating every single game you want is pretty annoying to devs :/

[@Ashurman666]

@Narata Except the same thing happens on console so there goes that

[@9Gorgon6]

Dude played an entire video game just to make a video on it, now that is dedication

[@TeamLegacyFTW]

That's something else entirely in my opinion😒

[@TeeTaan]

.......that's... absolutely normal ?

[@temcabbage1713]

TeeTaan Did you watch the video. The game is borderline unplayable and is 200% more frustrating.

[@realIanIANian]

You should check out Nitro Rad, he completes every game he reviews, no matter how shitty it is.

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

Man, I can't even beat a lot of games I love. For instance, I fucking love Mega Man 2, but *if* I hadn't seen others actually beat it, for all I knew, the final boss could have been Dr. Wiley *flying in a giant dick-shaped space ship. *Edit

[@TheQuang669]

Omg ! You made me realise after 20 FREAKIN YEARS that my game was a crack..... Thanks dad ! I actually tried finishing it about 6 times, and the same thing happens every time.

[@mr.z7928]

You are a legend but .... How did u get that cracked version of the game?

[@mikechriston]

I just realised this too. Thought my game was legit.. Everytime I got to the last boss it would refresh my save! I tried 3 times!

[@ShabaPk]

Same here 😂😂😂

[@brianschaefer3851]

So, the fairy telling you you're game was an illegal copy didn't clue you in?

[@TheQuang669]

@@brianschaefer3851 Well i was a kid at the time, so i didnt really pay attention to the long texts. Just wanted eggs and gems

[@RandumbDoomer]

I like how after it wipes your save file, Sparx picks up the gem after Spyro hops out of the balloon. I bet that gave the pirates a fright.

[@Hanin_Isa]

When my uncle bought me the pirated version, we had no idea it was pirated. Zoey wasn't there to tell us that. Everything was fine in the first world because we could 100% everything available to us at the moment... but things started getting weird starting from the second world. I couldn't get every gem in certain worlds no matter how hard I looked. I was even more confused when I unlocked Sparx's ability to detect gems and he couldn't find anything despite the menu saying that I didn't find all of the gems. I started to feel that there is something wrong with the game but had no idea what it was. And of course, when I went to battle the Sorceress, it didn't let me finish the fight and resetted EVERYTHING. I was so shocked that I remained speechless for a while. Losing all that progress was just... 💔💔💔

[@zsin128]

Ooof

[@rayxgun6340]

It sucks seeing how many people got cracked versions from cheap parents who dont wanna pay.

[@coffeetar5928]

I remember my uncle getting me a cracked version of the game when I was a kid. I actually played the game constantly, despite things disappearing and changing all the time. Watching this it all makes sense

[@polimenakos]

That video explains a lot. My father bought a ps1 from a friend together with this game. I did not know English back then so I had no idea what the fairy said about the hacked version of the game. A'm pretty sure I made it to the last boss several times, and then, as the video mentioned , all eggs and progress were gone. I kinda doubt this game can even be beaten. In conclusion , now that I finally know English and after watching this video, I have the answer on why this thing was happening back then. Keep up the nice work , great video.

[@skylible]

MY GOD, me too! I was so confused after I beat the final boss and my progress is gone. But in my city back then, no one sells the original copy of the game. I always bought games from CDs sold in the local market and I thought I was buying the original version back then. Poor me :(

[@LucasSantana-ws8po]

Completely, now I think that when kid I played this game cracked, of course - who would have a original game in Brazil in PS1 era? And never realized that the eggs went missing haha

[@rebb9890]

Same goes for me XD

[@friskdreemurrboy1404]

@@LucasSantana-ws8po Same Here

[@SlavicUnionGaming]

Sky Lible where rhe fuck do you live?? Samolia??? Get it?? pirates??

[@michaeldavis4092]

“Ok, so Anti-Piracy may not seem like the most interesting thing to talk about at first glance, but here me out.” And now the KZbin Algorithm is recommending a lot of us with Anti-Piracy videos and we are all really enjoying watching them. I guess that’s different than “talking” about it, but it’s got me interested.

[@DrachenYT]

I gotta give the developers credit for being mischievous with their copy protection. I'd rather wish they did that today instead of relying on ineffective bloatware like Denuvo. Great to see your channel, though! KZbin actually working out with its recommendations.

[@Jenner_IIC]

As much as I hate Denuvo, it's insanely effective as of now. Since it's newest version many games are still standing uncracked after over 2 months, a thing not really heard of since the times of dreaded SecuRom or StarForce copy protection. And honestly, the fact Denuvo fell was... luck on the side of crackers, majority of the work that pushed through it was done by a single person. God speed Voksi

[@Maddinhpws]

@@Jenner_IIC I don't buy Denuvo games. They fuck performance way too hard for me to use them. I don't crack games, but I won't play games with Denuvo.

[@profgamer1]

You just reminded me that Corepack had shutdown... RIP

[@kcamargopiano]

When I was a kid, I tought that the game was supposed to run like this, and I literally completed the game Twice, When I was on the boss I took out the memory Card to when it reloads I didn't lose my file... In Brazil, pretty much every console was Modded, due to the prices, And it was so fun to go throught this, that when I played it the original way, I Tought that it was missing the mechanic LoL

[@gregman642]

We’re not worthy of the strength you have.

[@lucaspenna6009]

drama de todo BR na infancia, nunca terminar spyro 3 piratão kkkk

[@renanmonteiro316]

Who needs casinos, just buy a pirated Spyro 3 and hope it's the properly cracked one lmao

[@crylune]

it was FUN to play through it like this? jesus christ marry me

[@kcamargopiano]

@@crylune actually for me it was the intended way, so i thought that "oh! The game is hard, the boss is making me go through all the game again!" And it was an fun.

[@TheMaraso1]

I would love to see speedrun attempt on an incorrectly crack version of the game.

[@chadoftoons]

Me too but i don't think speedrunners like random chance that can't be guessed and it would take a lot of work to figure out how each crash and loss of eggs is caused at what rates

[@Mstea0149]

@@chadoftoons Lol speedrunners are lame. It's like who can get on the bus the fastest after school when the bus doesn't leave til it chooses to anyway. What does sitting further back change? Nothing. Literally nothing. Just like finishing a game faster than anyone else. You're done and then you have nothing left to do. That's no fun. You want to speedrun through life and see who can finish it the fastest?

[@ChesterDaPanda]

@@Mstea0149 Thats easy. *BOOM* See you later sucker I win

[@johnritter9526]

@@Mstea0149 it's just racing lol

[@CalamityBaird]

@@chadoftoons I guess you've never watched RE randomized speedruns where literally EVERYTHING is random.

[@TrueJoeyBowie]

After seeing this video, I'm incredibly glad that I had a legal and legitimate copy of this game and played it on a regular PlayStation with no modchip. I remember taking the game to my friend's house and not being able to play it there because his PlayStation had a modchip.

[@Heycatchy]

I had a pirated copy of this Spyro game as a child, I remember making it to the second boss in the game but being intimidated to fight them, so I went back to the first boss to fight him again as a warm up. When I beat him the game acted as if I finished the game and I was sent to this bonus round with just tons and tons of gems. I didn't explore it much because I thought I'd be able to go back but I've never seen that bonus level ever again.

[@mDiyo]

Some games have "bonus" levels like this that are actually routing around a game crash. You did something in a specific order that the developers knew about, but didn't have the time to fix, so have a bunch of gems for doing something unintended and good luck finding it again!

[@pavy415]

So what happened did you beat the pirate game

[@Jonathan-zu7fd]

I think it was the bonus lvl that you unlock after you've found every egg and gem on the game.

[@profgamer1]

Oh I think this is the Super Bonus Round which exists in the legit game

[@griff1nz]

About 10 years ago my older brother got an emulator so I could play this game on our computer and I remember weird things happening like eggs disappearing and moneybags demanding bail money for characters that I already freed, but I struggled all the way to the end where my save was reset at the final boss. 6yo me wasn't smart enough to know what anti-piracy was so I thought it was normal and there was a time limit to defeat the final boss, so I proceeded to struggle through the game again only to reach the final boss and lose everything... again

[@nightfox1416]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster Nobody goes to prison for piracy, and emulators aren't illegal on their own

[@nightfox1416]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster Yes, massive companies that have caused lost revenue in the region of millions of dollars, not 1 kid, who downloads 1 game or 1 emulator

[@nightfox1416]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster you can't, it's not worth the cost to the law inforcement in legal fees. At the absolute worst, you'd get a fine

[@royalblanket]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster I'm gonna download a spyro rom just to spite you honestly

[@jde12]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster "Please make sure to mind your business next time boy" Well that's ironic.

[@Wandergirl108]

Resetting the whole save file when you reach the final boss is GENIUS!!! Oh my god that is amazing! That said, being so extra-cautious about preventing games from being played outside their region is SUCH BS! I am totally behind the idea of mod chips for that reason! Games and their consoles should be global, excluding people just because they happen to be from another country is just wrong on so many levels!

[@irrelevant_noob]

Resetting save files shouldn't work if the user is cautious enough to make back-up copies... ;) As for region-locking, there are reasons for it, even though IMO not for that Sony-style regioning of US vs Japan vs Europe... (Steam now has almost country-level regioning.) Not sure how else could income inequality be taken into account during pricing. :-|

[@oreochema7709]

I'm with you there. Region-locking content just prevents people from other countries from buying your game, which is really a profit loss. As long as the game isn't pirated, I feel that anyone capable of understanding and playing the game should be allowed to do so.

[@Wandergirl108]

@@oreochema7709 Right? For example, the best game ever made, Threads of Fate, never saw a PAL release because the critics couldn't be bothered to actually play through the damn game, though it did make it to North America, so people in Europe never got to experience its glory even though there is an English version of the game! And I can't just bring copies across the pond to share the wonder with them, because they won't work on European consoles. I mean, that's an extreme example, but still! As for +Irrelevant Noob I believe that's just what happens if you enter the final boss on a pirated copy, period, so it doesn't matter how many backup save files you might have. :P

[@El_Fabricio]

This was Sony's secrent plan to begin with. They want us to buy 3(!) consoles just to play all games. Something I am surprised is not happening anymore.

[@pinkclouds1292]

I believe games are region locked so that countries can dictate the level of censorship that gets to their consumers. Like how in some games Japanese gay characters are either made into uncomfortably close relatives in English versions or one gets genderbent. Because Lord knows Murica can't handle people loving each other without being able to make babies.

[@wittykittywoes]

“Anything causes a crash” *breathing in paper Mario crashes the game*

[@WakoDoodle]

Spyro kept crashing? Does that mean crash keeps spyroing?

[@reignitedgamer8929]

I Had The Same Thoughts.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Nah, he keeps Raymaning, its much more annoying

[@darkwyvernz2456]

@@thanosattorneyatlaw4062 Rayman keeps bombermanning

[@newbiegamelover4767]

HELP! HELP! PARADOXES RUNNING AMOCK! PARADOXES RUNNING AMOCK!

[@FullMetalKaliber]

No it Spiraled

[@pansy6664]

Me as a youngling playing year of the dragon for the first time: Hi fairy lady! Zoe: I’m sorry, Spyro, but you seem to be playing a hacked version of this game. This may be an illegal copy. Since this copy has been modified, you may experience problems that would not occur on a legal copy. Me: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAD YOU GOT ME AN ILLEGAL GAME!

[@Azlynnnnn]

that's wicked. from spyro to ratchet and clank, insomniac games has always been my #1 favourite developer. the fact that they haven't sold out to EA some giant by now even solidifies that. They're a great company

[@ghbutler]

EA will reel their degenerate head around Insomniac enough times for them to cave. It's unfortunately bound to happen.

[@healersinbound]

Not to mention Psychonauts which was one of my favorite games of all time for the PS2

[@joeyjoseph8837]

they also made Sunset Overdrive. a Very Fun game that didnt get the recognition it deserved

[@MrVukasino]

But spyro is in activisions hands..

[@zetadroid]

Cracked spyro loses the pause button, requires to get through the same areas over and over to beat a boss, becomes extremely difficult. Basically it becomes dark souls

[@davidmcfall9169]

but Dark Souls doesn't reset the game save data while you're in the middle of fighting the last boss. THAT is not just awesome, it's cruel.

[@VinMetal666]

Cracked Spyro is the Crash Bandicoot of Dark Souls.

[@RealMasterChief117]

"dark souls is soooo difficult!!!!!!!!" found the scrub, git gud

[@beriking]

@@RealMasterChief117 found the virgin

[@RealMasterChief117]

@@beriking Nope :) nice try though

[@exist_without_saving]

It would be great to see a Spyro Max% Incorrect Crack speedrun.

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

I'd watch it

[@supermasterfighter]

It’d be too unpredictable, not to mention it’s not legitimately beatable

[@subarublue2658]

@@supermasterfighter it doesn't have to be "beatable" it has to be a common end point... So in this case the end point would be a race to boss fight data reset... That would be considered the end goal, and beating the cracked version.

[@literatemax]

@@toad8840 projection much??

[@literatemax]

@@toad8840 because they used "..." twice? Maybe thats just how they talk and they wanted to represent that, or maybe they're indicating that they don't have much expertise in the area of speedrunning rules; leaving it open for us to spitball format ideas.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

This makes me think there could be so many creative ways to troll people with anti-piracy measures. Just replace a needed key item with a regular item. Like in a cracked OOT, Zelda just throws the Fairy Ocarina to you in that cutscene. Have fun with that!

[@Wiimeiser]

Internally, the Ocarina doesn't matter, only the Song of Time is required. That said, you could have the game replace the SoT Item with a Green Rupee, or just drop the cutscene entirely.

[@SaXor_the_Nobody]

Your 3DS hacking vid was so good I didn't even notice it was the first upload on the channel, keep up the great work my dude.

[@plbster]

Holy shit it was the first. This guy is going to blow up

[@kasuraga]

I had no idea either cause the quality was so great.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

Holy shit

[@MrMoofisAwesome]

Really? Dang. That's awesome.

[@pirateguykarl]

Welp heres to arriving to help his channel blow up! Cheers! *subs*

[@tillylaw7162]

seems like you were picked by the algorithm today. good luck

[@McColm2K8]

Tilly Law was thinking the same 😂

[@obsidianflight8065]

ikr i hope he makes it and if he does then me and a bunch of others will be og

[@drneotech7254]

My favourite is Garry’s Mod where it gave you a fake error message about the textures or lighting or some crap and then when people reported it they were exposed as pirates

[@doggolikestoclip6506]

That's a good anti-piracy trick!

[@nikkiofthevalley]

It also had their Steam ID in there, so the devs could ban them from playing on servers.

[@drneotech7254]

@@nikkiofthevalley Oh wow I never knew that, that's actually really clever.

[@cutelilscrafty]

My favorite antipiracy is "By the way: If you like this game, buy it or die." from Pokemon.

[@SenshiSunPower]

Isn't that from a modified rom?

[@jordanbarnes2218]

Not to mention the EXP block on Pokemon Black and White and newer games can't gain XP on any Pokemon so ideally no learning new moves and they stay at level 5 or whichever level you catch them

[@mattok101digitaltamer9]

So people with no money should go die?

[@brandonyoungblood1611]

@@mattok101digitaltamer9 not poor people, but thieves.

[@mattok101digitaltamer9]

@@brandonyoungblood1611 I mean, someone with no money might see that and be scared too much to buy the game, effectively ruining sales

[@hansypants]

Wait GTA IV had special anti-piracy measures? No wonder the screen was shaking so aggressively when I got the pirated version first.

[@LumpyHippo]

It makes you drunk

[@223KiMi]

Dad of the Year aka the wobbly camera

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Dad of the year my ass, a real Dad would buy the real thing xD

[@-Steven-]

I know, when I first played it I was smashed out my head so assumed it was me lol.

[@TheAdamisgay]

@@thanosattorneyatlaw4062 That game was what, 11 years ago? He probably wasn't a dad then.

[@Zyphon]

This is "silent but deadly" in action

[@ottofort]

a rare no likes verified comment nice

[@unfortunate4768]

3 likes lol. Yall get me to 1k likes and that would be the coolest ratio on KZbin

[@K3NnY_G]

I'm so glad to see more content here. Technology Connections on KZbin has a great video explaining the PSX's copy protection for anyone curious.

[@therealdutchidiot]

I was looking for this comment lol

[@Kalvinjj]

AAAHHH I always get triggered by the PSX instead of PS1!!! (PSX is actually a Japanese-only PS2 with DVR built-in and some other tricks, never sold outside japan, or even much there). Tho I do remember someone saying it's codename in US was PSX or something hence calling it that. Back to topic tho, yeah that video is pretty great, nice to see people liking (if at least in words) great content one to another.

[@Jackpkmn]

@@Kalvinjj Where i live people started using the moniker PSX to indicate you were talking about all of the original playstation line and not specifically the PS1 (original) or PSone (slim.)

[@SECONDQUEST]

Technology connections is the business

[@SECONDQUEST]

@@Kalvinjj Kalvinjj Also, tons of people used the name PSX BEFORE the PS2. Tons of people use PSX, so, sorry you're upset over nothing?

[@starfrost6816]

EarthBound would go insanely hard, and then...erase your save files at the final boss.

[@UnknownSource3]

Guess Pokey was done with your shit even from the start.

[@GuipenguinTheMaster]

@@UnknownSource3 you are a man of culture for your profile picture

[@peeblekitty5780]

When you showed the clip of the reset mid-bossfight i thought the game had saved just as the boss attacked, so when you tried to reload your save you'd load in then die instantly

[@YTPGOD]

*pirates a rom for an old game to demonstrate its anti-piracy measures* FBI wants to know your location

[@D3DREVO]

Wait, why would the FBI want to know your location? Downloading ROMS or any software such as games is considered a civil offense and not a criminal/Felony. Only piracy that is currently considered a felony is if you went into a move theater recorded the movie and uploaded it for others to see.

[@YTPGOD]

@@D3DREVO WOOSH

[@D3DREVO]

@@YTPGOD I know it's a joke, but it's a poor one and one that doesn't even make sense.

[@Ang3lic-P]

@@D3DREVO yeah that whoosh was a bit unnecessary because that joke would literally make no sense to anyone. Maybe except for people who have a really weird sense of humor but even then.

[@YTPGOD]

@@Ang3lic-P uwu yeah that uwu whoosh was a bit uwu unnecessary because that joke would uwu literally uwu make no uwu sense uwu to anyone. Maybe uwu except uwu for people who have uwu a really uwu weird sense of uwu humor uwu but even then. uwu

[@ethok6408]

Basically a randomizer but more infuriating.

[@metus_fin]

You mean a randomizer from TJ&E?

[@magiclapras]

Now I want to see that. A randomized Spyro 3 playthrough. Obviously with some measures to make sure you can't skip to the final boss.

[@10kz]

The part about PS1 discs totally changes how I feel about my childhood! Long ago in like 2006 I bought more discs off Ebay for Final fantasy 9 as the originals were very scratched (being like 11 years old..). I was disappointed to see the cover was different and assumed they were just burned discs being sold for cheap on ebay. Since you said they can't be burned, I went ahead and checked what different regions/versions disc covers look like. Lo and behold, I actually bought the squaresoft Greatest Hits version discs! The extra trivia you didn't have to add to the video really made a difference. Now I know that the discs are legitimate and mean way more to me.

[@Yushimasu1]

7:52 that is the best german penguin I've ever seen in a Spyro game.

[@ApexGale]

i remember having a flash kart for my ds lite and a lot of the games had anti piracy that would just make the game stop working after a point so my 10 year old self had the ingenious idea of running another flash kart shell through the base flash kart shell and for some reason that bypassed the anti piracy. games checked for the piracy but for some reason, running a game through r4 which was also running through an r4 clone just fooled a ton of games. guess they didn't think a proxy would work?

[@toothpasteman3400]

@Plumjet09 this guy to the game companies: *oof size mega*

[@geovai8943]

11:51It does that every time you reach the boss. After the first 10 times we started to remove the memory card before entering the boss. We used to be 9~10yo at the time and we were convinced that's how the game was. Must have done well over 100 tries between us(2 siblings). 19 years later, I ain't even mad. Good times!

[@Sephirothll]

And I thought back then that I was doing some Boss mechanic wrong, lol.

[@Tomix4k]

I think on my 11th try I got to her second face before the reset. We used to theory craft that you needed all eggs before being able to play the whole final boss, and other silly stuff.

[@matturner6890]

"OK THATS ALL THE LEVELS OF PUGGSY *YOUR* ALLOWED TO PLAY" My allowed to play? I'd steal this again on principle for grammatical stupidity.

[@lukabrasi001]

more like, "okay, I'll buy the game to fund your english exercises"

[@wayneyam1262]

it's actually 'all the the'

[@matturner6890]

@@wayneyam1262 AHA! I didn't notice that!

[@builttoscalevideos]

I remember having a pirated copy of Spyro cause it came with the playstation my parents got at a market when I was a kid, and ironically I actually kind of loved all the weird stuff that would happen in it. like the game plays like normal for the first chapter or so, and the save fairy is like "lol sorry spyro, but you're in a hacked copy of the game, shit's gonna get weird from here on out.", then some levels just have no music, now the textures for this cutscene model are all bugged out, then suddenly you're like halfway through the game, then you are suddenly fighting the first boss again, but they're green now, and whoops, now you suddenly have Moneybags blocking you from a level even after paying the toll, and uh oh, now you're stuck on this mega cursed silent loading screen and have to restart the game. but then every now and again it would just work like a normal copy of Spyro 3. it's weirdly nostalgic in a childhood trauma kind of way.

[@plant7371]

That's... hilarious.

[@vibrii6933]

They implemented sanity effect into spyro, holy shit.

[@aggroknight4259]

Vibrii Sanity effect?

[@SUPERLAME4]

@@aggroknight4259 In the game Eternal Darkness, a core mechanic is the sanity meter. As you play, the meter depletes when you get seen by monsters or other things, and the lower the meter, the higher the likelihood of getting a Sanity Effect, and the more severe it'll be. Some examples are watching your character die a fake death as their limbs systematically explode, getting a fake blue screen, or opening your inventory just to see it completely empty. Really awesome feature, with a lot of variety and thought behind it.

[@aggroknight4259]

SUPERLAME4 So what you mean, and what you think vibrii means is: The more you run into monsters and other hazards in this game, the more frustrating the game is?

[@SUPERLAME4]

@@aggroknight4259 I think it was more a reference to the game glitching out in different ways the more you played, except the glitches are 100% real in Spyro's case; your inventory really is empty, and that crash you just experienced isn't part of the normal gameplay.

[@aggroknight4259]

SUPERLAME4 That doesn't seem to explain what the so-called "sanity effect" is.

[@SidneyCritic]

"Saving to memory", more like "erasing your memory". lol

[@EmersonKeeling]

The raw fact that you played it through for the full research... my man you are amazing !!

[@hephsmith3738]

Chipped PlayStation with most games: Understandable, have a great day. Chipped PlayStation with Spyro: *H O L D U P*