Wait, they got Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan together, only to then shoot a anti-piracy commercial and NOT one of the greatest action movies of all time? Now THAT'S illegal.
The funny thing is that there is a movie with the two of them. The film is a joint Russian-Chinese production. I don't remember the name, but it's about a traveler on his way to China
One of my favorite anti-piracy measures was for enter the gungeon. This one wasn't built into the game itself, but there's a specific mod which when downloaded, would check to see if you were running a pirated version of the game. If for some reason you were, the mod took it personally. It would open up two pages in your web browser of choice: one was a link to the LazyTown classic you are a pirate, while the other was the steam page for the actual version of the game.
I would also like to add, when you do actually boot up mod the gungeon, you would be teleported to and impossible bossfight, and after once you died, then your web browser would open up the steam page and the music video!
The really funny thing about that Anti-Piracy ad that was shown at the beginning was that the song that was played throughout the PSA wasn't even approved for usage by the original artist, leading to a huge copyright lawsuit. It's quite ironic if you think about it, an ad made to spread awareness on piracy and help prevent it ends up doing just exactly that anyways.
“Why Anti-Piracy ad, you were the chosen one. You were supposed to destroy piracy not join it. You were supposed to bring balance to the DVD industry not leave it in darkness”
From what I've looked up it's not the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad but actually a different Anti-Piracy ad from Holland. Where the original ad was only intended for a film festival. After the festival however, the PSA was released to the general public. Meaning it took royalties from the original artist.
I’ll confess I did pirate a game on a laptop I owned years ago, but when I learned what I did was wrong I deleted it in a heartbeat. That laptop is no longer even functional however. I ended up physically breaking it on accident years later.
Arkham Asylum actually only disabled gliding, but a random grapple point would sometimes appear and when you grappled towards it you would be sent to the black abyss outside the map.
I Think inn arkham city they made 1 jump impossible to do as well. I remember pepole crying over it on different forums. I bet the developers were having fun during that time. Pepole who did buy the game just didn't know or understood. 😂
I distinctly remember hearing about one of the devs at Rocksteady telling someone who couldn't get past a mandatory gliding segment of Asylum due to pirating it, "it's not a bug in the game's code. It's due to a bug in your moral code."
@@russelldoty2743 Yeah, this one actually made it on BBC also. The quote has been attributed to Eidos community manager.. That reminds me.. Arkham Asylum was EIDOS game, god I feel old
Honestly, the Cross Days one is so hilarious because it's basically "Oh you pirated the game? OK. Well, here's the thing." *leaks their personal information*
There was one from a game called freedom planet that I really liked. It was kinda similar to shapes and beats in that the game’s main characters call you out on it but basically say ‘we’ll let it slide this time but if you like the game please consider actually buying it’
I mean... more developers shuld do demo's again. That way you could try the game before buying it. I know pepole pirate games to try the games out before buying them, but I also do know pepole also do it to not buy anything. 🤷♀️
Actually, that "anti-piracy" measure in Freedom Planet, I hear doesn't get triggered even if you pirate the game. And so, the audio files for it are just left in the internal files of the game. It literally has Lilac and Carol talk to the player about the game being a pirated copy, only for Lilac to say they're gonna led the player play the game anyways, and that if the player wants the sequel, they should fund the devs, and then Carol gets abit greedy in mindset. Lilac then says the URL to the page to make donations for the game. Obviously, the game devs did get enough funding even with this unused not really being "anti-" antipiracy measure, as a sequel to the game did get released.
The cross days one could easily be used to harm other people. Fill yours or the target’s desktop with shady perhaps illegal material. Download it, fully knowing what will happen. Fill in the target’s information and then they’re doxed and made to look like an awful person.
I find the Just Shapes and Beats one so charming. He would have fun making it and would just ask if you would talk about the game, you feel bad since he's just an indie dev. Also that Crossing Days one... jeez!!!
I'm glad you mentioned the Pokemon FireRed "buy it or die" being fake/added in by a cheeky ROM dumper. That one DidYouKnowGaming video led a lot of people to think it's real, when no legitimate ROM of the game contains that text anywhere in the code.
That infamous anti-piracy ad also committed piracy in and of itself by using a bit of music they commissioned for the ad, which the creator was led to believe was ONLY to be shown at a European film festival, outside of that festival in like a million places without the original creator's consent. I will never NOT find that bit of trivia funny as hell.
I can’t remember the name of the game, but at one point, it basically would repeatedly play the word “Pirata” slower each time along with a high pitched beep each time the word was said. Then it would turn off your console. Imagine all the kids who were legitimately traumatised because of that… Edit: catdude pointed out the name of the game is La Abadia del Crimel.
I gotta wonder if some old creepy pasta stories were some kids game accidentally setting off the anti piracy stuff and them not knowing what was happening and assuming "eh probably haunted"
School Days isn't memed for being a bad anime, it is pretty infamous for reverse character development and the protagonist getting hated for cheating and treating the girls badly. The reason it is meme'd is for its final episode being so unexpectedly violent that the japanese tv channels decided to pull the airing and instead show footage of a boat on a river for 30 minutes. It was later rebroadcasted heavily censored during the night. Since then people like to say "Nice Boat!" in response to censorship or other occasions. Aside from that, the game also had a minigame where chibi versions of sekai and kotonoha were going at each other with their prefered yandere weapons. This also got memed, parodied and referenced alot.
I only discovered your channel this year but you've quickly grown to be one of my recent favourites. Your videos just have a certain energy that keep me really entertained, looking forward to more great content next year.
It's nice to see one of these videos that focuses on actual anti-piracy measures and not cliche, hacky creepypasta BS. Also, that Cross Days bit... there's no fking way that's legal!
@@procrastination_productions Getting all of your personal information published online seems like a pretty harsh punishment for downloading a game without paying
You should have mentioned the DS version of Michael Jackson the Experience, because it had a funny anti-piracy measure. With the developers being from Brazil (the DS version was made by Ubisoft São Paulo), they put a really funny/annoying anti-piracy schtick. When played in certain flashcarts and emulators (I had no problem on my R4, but you can find some people with less luck), the sound of Vuvuzelas would be played along the song, and no prompts would be displayed on screen (the game on DS was a Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents clone).
Anti-Piracy screens and "secrets" were the best back in the day. Most of them were so mysterious and strange and slightly creepy, but also imposed a rule and force/feeling of doing something very wrong. Nowadays it's more based around impossible enemies and stats or mechanics locked away from you. (P.S. I'm mostly saying this because I LOVED the Sonic CD Secret Screen (the origin of "Majin Sonic"). Especially the US version with its creepy boss music.)
Okay, so I've watched through the entire video, and I was expecting something like Tech Rules' video (highly reccomend as well, goes in depth into some other games not mentioned) but this was, IMO, more informative. I haven't watched you in a while, but I'm probably gonna binge watch your content now.
I was one of those kids that had those DS cartage of every DS game. My dad got it for Christmas for me and my sister. So every month or so, my dad would tell me and my sister of what games we like and what games we wanted to replace. So if we wanted to replace a game my dad randomly pick out a game for us so just we would have variety, instead of just playing Mario and Sonic games all the time.
Piracy sucks but the way the gaming industry is moving forces me to look for "alternative" ways to acquire my games than what the companies intended for me to take. Most games I buy are cheap indie games.
Not just the gaming industry. TV shows, especially animated ones, are suffering to the point that piracy is one of the only ways to actually watch the show.
@@robbys5236 oh yeah I guess pirating TV shows is also big these days to me pirating shows is the default option because most streaming services don't work in my country or have heavy region locked content lol
@@lambybunny7173 Piracy is not a serious crime at least (victimless crimes can still be quite serious), and is easy to get away with. *I was just informed that it would be a tort not a crime and be decided in civil courts not criminal courts, if any*
Dude, your videos are always so entertaining. I'll have a minute or two left in the video and realize I'm already almost done watching in a 10-20 minute video. Keep up the good work.
If you wan't to experience the Serious Sam 3 unkillable scorpion, it's on the workshop as a mod. It is called "DRM Scorpions", so you can experience the pain too.
Freedom Planet 1 has a similar message to Just Shapes and Beats where Lilac and Carol (two of the main charatcers) ask you to support the game by donating to the devs and that none of the game's features will be restricted. I wish more people knew about this one.
The mirrors edge one was even worse than you made it sound because, as you would slow down whenever you go to the edge of a rooftop, it literally meant that you couldn’t get past the very start of the game so you were just stuck on the same building for the whole time.
Here's one that is slightly creepy and asshole-ish: in the Famicom/NES game Gimmick!, in one of the final levels the game checks for a sprite of a bug on a castle wall. If it isn't there then the game is genuine, but otherwise the game freezes you on a black screen that says "BLACK HOLE". Gimmick! is a very difficult game to play and in order to even unlock the last level and get the proper ending you have to go out of your way to find a treasure on each of the 5 levels, and then doing tricky platforming or solving a puzzle, or both. Imagine all the effort someone had to go through to get to the last level, only to be greeted with that screen.
I'm a game developer, and I can say from firsthand experience that anti piracy is waste of time. They'll always be cracked eventually, so the best you can do is make a spooky anti piracy so that people talk about your game
In mgs1 at one point you are intstructed to contact a character via codec by looking for her frequency on the back of the case. As in the back of game cd case. This however doesn't work anymore because we have the internet.
I'd like to point out that the DRM Arachnoid in Serious Sam 3: BFE is now a gamemode addon on Steam Workshop. Look up _DRM Scorpions._ It's a treat. It turns the game into this frantic horror, and the enemy is a skittering hot-pink blob with an arm-rifle.
_Pokémon's "Buy It Or Die"_ is a hack. The technical explanation is that there's a bunch of slack-space near the end of the ROM that's normally padded with bullshit or left blank, and the game wouldn't look there because that's just junk made to pad out the file-size. The _"Buy It Or Die"_ message was put there, and the original conversation was hacked to add a jump-and-return for that region. If it were a legit copy, that text would be in a nearby location contemporary to the rest of the conversation (which would make it harder for hackers to put there without significantly distorting the layout of the ROM code), not at the very end where you could put whatever the hell you wanted without fear of distorting the ROM and breaking something important.
I remember my dad getting one of those ds r4 cards, playing Pokémon white 2, seeing I got no exp. Many years later I just played the game and beat it while getting no exp
I know its a fangame but sonic gather battle has an insane and malicious and possibly illegal anti-piracy measure to prevent you from stealing the sprites. Sprites which where not the creaters which he just modified.
The sad part is piracy can never be stopped, No matter how hard creators will try as long as computers exist piracy will never end and it is sad indeed
Playing a game knowing it might be tampered with and maybe something werid or scary might just show up when I'm playing in the middle of night is my biggest fear by FAR
Damn that Nintendo DS cartridge takes me back. I had two of those, but they don’t work anymore, they’re operate for only a few years then commit suicide to leave nothing behind. Each one had like 30 games on them.
I am one of those kids who loved spyro, but for some reason never managed to beat the game, and never knew why. I remember trying so many times, because I loved it so much, but never managing to finish. Mind you, my mother language is not English, and when I was that young I didn't know what the little fairy was saying. I just knew that the sorceress was absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to beat, and that once I got to her my game would make me hate my life 😢 ONE HIT was LITERALLY game over, start from 0%. Absolute nightmare. p.s.: Now I have the reignited trilogy and it's so worth it; 10/10 would recommend (I have the original version though, not sure about the pirated lol)
No wonder I couldn't start a new game in "Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story." (Yes, I got a pirated version but, as soon as I found them in stores, I bought one. I highly recommend this title if you like RPGs )
The Earth Bound Anti -Piracy measure has to be my favorite, it lets you play through the whole game, with the difficulty increased, then right as you are about to beat it, Boom, it resets and all of your progress is just GONE.
I would much rather buy officially if I can. The only real justification for me personally is if the game isn't released in North America, or if the mods are considered piracy. But piracy is like underaged drinking. Would I do it? No. But will I report it? No, as long as they aren't driving
That brief clip near the beginning of the video of Nintendo 64 bowser shooting photorealistic fire and being revealed as a cutout... nightmares for days, thanks a bunch 😡
I heard that game dev tycoon game's anti-piracy measure was later added to the game as a sort of impossible difficulty mode, even for those who actually bought the game, possibly to allow non-pirates to mess around with this anti-piracy measure without needing to pirate the actual game
I actually do remember hearing about the Cross Days trojan virus! Apparently it did also effect other eroge/hentai games, it's just that Cross Days (which I heard the Days games were actually alright, the 4th game is even a visual novel tower defense game on 3DS!) turned out to be one of them. Honestly, I wouldn't be embarrassed to get caught playing an eroge. Now, my actual personal computer information getting doxxed, on the other hand... Also the Japanese Ace Attorney game is called Ace Attorney Investigations 2, and it has a fan translation so people CAN actually play it in a language they understand!
Theres a game with antipiracy that spooked me as a kid and that is the modlauncher for enter the gungeon, there would be glitched enemies that would just kill you bunch of times
Dark Souls 1 wasn’t staff invading with phantoms, they spawned 3 (I think) black knights in the dungeon with you at the beginning so it was nigh impossible to progress. I remember reading about it on Joystiq.
The invincible scorpion needs to be worked on a bit to be harder to avoid such having it spawn jump whenever Sam goes someplace it can't reach him or the ability to climb anything like the spiders.
I assume the friendly anti-piracy screens that don’t hinder gameplay and politely ask the pirate to support the game if they enjoyed it are more effective at actually stopping piracy.
Wait, they got Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan together, only to then shoot a anti-piracy commercial and NOT one of the greatest action movies of all time?
Now THAT'S illegal.
Its not the only thing they team up with.
To then get sued by (the song playing in the background) the song's creator for illegally using their song without consent
The duo we never knew we needed
Crap, now I genuinely wanted to see a movie where Arnold and Jackie team up together like a classic 80's movie.
The funny thing is that there is a movie with the two of them. The film is a joint Russian-Chinese production. I don't remember the name, but it's about a traveler on his way to China
One of my favorite anti-piracy measures was for enter the gungeon. This one wasn't built into the game itself, but there's a specific mod which when downloaded, would check to see if you were running a pirated version of the game. If for some reason you were, the mod took it personally. It would open up two pages in your web browser of choice: one was a link to the LazyTown classic you are a pirate, while the other was the steam page for the actual version of the game.
That's hilarious. What's the mod, if I may ask?
@@Kutomi1 unfortunately I can't recall its name.
@@Kutomi1 i believe it's mod the gungeon or something
I would also like to add, when you do actually boot up mod the gungeon, you would be teleported to and impossible bossfight, and after once you died, then your web browser would open up the steam page and the music video!
@@lobzoy thanks!
Correction for Earthbound's anti-piracy, it doesn't make the enemies stronger, it just cranks up the spawn rates to insane amounts.
To the point where the game slows down significantly
🤓
@@snoods1628 yes I am a big earthbound nerd, thank you for noticing
yeah and from what i heard the game just crashes if you encounter an enemy in some areas i think
@@snoods1628 Holy fucking shit. The joke is dead
The really funny thing about that Anti-Piracy ad that was shown at the beginning was that the song that was played throughout the PSA wasn't even approved for usage by the original artist, leading to a huge copyright lawsuit.
It's quite ironic if you think about it, an ad made to spread awareness on piracy and help prevent it ends up doing just exactly that anyways.
“Why Anti-Piracy ad, you were the chosen one. You were supposed to destroy piracy not join it. You were supposed to bring balance to the DVD industry not leave it in darkness”
While trying to prove Anti-Piracy is bad they Pirate themselves.
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From what I've looked up it's not the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad but actually a different Anti-Piracy ad from Holland. Where the original ad was only intended for a film festival. After the festival however, the PSA was released to the general public. Meaning it took royalties from the original artist.
You wouldn't steal a song
Without this video I wouldn't have known that piracy is, in fact, illegal. Thank you diamondbolt for this enlightening information
And crimes.
Dude I was pirating so many games until I saw this video, I have now deleted all of the games and am now turning myself into the police
omg hatty hattington
Funny how it’s illegal but a bunch of us do it all the time anyways
I’m not afraid of the police detaining me for being awesome
I’ll confess I did pirate a game on a laptop I owned years ago, but when I learned what I did was wrong I deleted it in a heartbeat.
That laptop is no longer even functional however. I ended up physically breaking it on accident years later.
Arkham Asylum actually only disabled gliding, but a random grapple point would sometimes appear and when you grappled towards it you would be sent to the black abyss outside the map.
The Batrooms
Thanks for the correction!
I Think inn arkham city they made 1 jump impossible to do as well. I remember pepole crying over it on different forums. I bet the developers were having fun during that time. Pepole who did buy the game just didn't know or understood. 😂
I distinctly remember hearing about one of the devs at Rocksteady telling someone who couldn't get past a mandatory gliding segment of Asylum due to pirating it, "it's not a bug in the game's code. It's due to a bug in your moral code."
@@russelldoty2743 Yeah, this one actually made it on BBC also. The quote has been attributed to Eidos community manager..
That reminds me.. Arkham Asylum was EIDOS game, god I feel old
"Crimes are illegal"
Well, there go my plans for the weekend
Only if you’re a coward 😎
Only if your chaught I heard pepole say?
What they don't know won't hurt them, and you-
only if you're caught
Honestly, the Cross Days one is so hilarious because it's basically "Oh you pirated the game? OK. Well, here's the thing." *leaks their personal information*
Ikr
not really funny at all lol
Thats not funny that's actually very scummy
@@NovaBoi7 be honest.... it's atleast a _little_ funny.
corporate want you to find the different between this picture (show cross road and a twitter user)
there the same picture
There was one from a game called freedom planet that I really liked. It was kinda similar to shapes and beats in that the game’s main characters call you out on it but basically say ‘we’ll let it slide this time but if you like the game please consider actually buying it’
The dev of jsab calls you out.
I mean... more developers shuld do demo's again. That way you could try the game before buying it. I know pepole pirate games to try the games out before buying them, but I also do know pepole also do it to not buy anything. 🤷♀️
Actually, that "anti-piracy" measure in Freedom Planet, I hear doesn't get triggered even if you pirate the game. And so, the audio files for it are just left in the internal files of the game. It literally has Lilac and Carol talk to the player about the game being a pirated copy, only for Lilac to say they're gonna led the player play the game anyways, and that if the player wants the sequel, they should fund the devs, and then Carol gets abit greedy in mindset. Lilac then says the URL to the page to make donations for the game. Obviously, the game devs did get enough funding even with this unused not really being "anti-" antipiracy measure, as a sequel to the game did get released.
The cross days one could easily be used to harm other people. Fill yours or the target’s desktop with shady perhaps illegal material. Download it, fully knowing what will happen. Fill in the target’s information and then they’re doxed and made to look like an awful person.
Yea it’s just a dumb revenge boner thing
This was probably made by Makoto Ito himself
yup
if they can't prove it was downloaded intentionally then they really can't do anything.
@@polocatfan Exactly. So this is extremly dangerous.
I find the Just Shapes and Beats one so charming. He would have fun making it and would just ask if you would talk about the game, you feel bad since he's just an indie dev. Also that Crossing Days one... jeez!!!
I'm glad you mentioned the Pokemon FireRed "buy it or die" being fake/added in by a cheeky ROM dumper. That one DidYouKnowGaming video led a lot of people to think it's real, when no legitimate ROM of the game contains that text anywhere in the code.
I imagine a child who loves pirates and gets an anti piracy screen and goes: “Hooray! I’m a pirate argg!”
That infamous anti-piracy ad also committed piracy in and of itself by using a bit of music they commissioned for the ad, which the creator was led to believe was ONLY to be shown at a European film festival, outside of that festival in like a million places without the original creator's consent.
I will never NOT find that bit of trivia funny as hell.
That classic ”Piracy is Illegal” PSA and those R4 DS cards just opened a memory in my Childhood
*Devs add a new challenge to the game to stop piracy*
Kaizo players: We call this a difficulty tweak!
"YOU CALL THAT PIRACY? WE CALL IT A DIFFICULTY TWEAK!" -the cloaker Payday 2
Oh man... that Piracy is a crime bit was nostalgic, I miss my old VCDs. Thanks for bringing it up.
I can’t remember the name of the game, but at one point, it basically would repeatedly play the word “Pirata” slower each time along with a high pitched beep each time the word was said. Then it would turn off your console.
Imagine all the kids who were legitimately traumatised because of that…
Edit: catdude pointed out the name of the game is La Abadia del Crimel.
I remember watching a video with that.
I'll check what it is and let you know if I can find it.
The game is called la abiada del crimel
I gotta wonder if some old creepy pasta stories were some kids game accidentally setting off the anti piracy stuff and them not knowing what was happening and assuming "eh probably haunted"
0:01 I mean, if stopping piracy meant I can spend time with Jackie Chan AND Arnold Schwarzenegger then I would definitely do that.
School Days isn't memed for being a bad anime, it is pretty infamous for reverse character development and the protagonist getting hated for cheating and treating the girls badly. The reason it is meme'd is for its final episode being so unexpectedly violent that the japanese tv channels decided to pull the airing and instead show footage of a boat on a river for 30 minutes. It was later rebroadcasted heavily censored during the night. Since then people like to say "Nice Boat!" in response to censorship or other occasions. Aside from that, the game also had a minigame where chibi versions of sekai and kotonoha were going at each other with their prefered yandere weapons. This also got memed, parodied and referenced alot.
I only discovered your channel this year but you've quickly grown to be one of my recent favourites. Your videos just have a certain energy that keep me really entertained, looking forward to more great content next year.
It's nice to see one of these videos that focuses on actual anti-piracy measures and not cliche, hacky creepypasta BS.
Also, that Cross Days bit... there's no fking way that's legal!
Neither is piracy
@@procrastination_productionsPretty sure doxing people is worse and more illegal than not paying for a hentai game.
@@procrastination_productions Two wrongs don't make a right, especially when there are a lot of legitimate reasons one could have to pirate a game.
@@procrastination_productions Getting all of your personal information published online seems like a pretty harsh punishment for downloading a game without paying
@@procrastination_productions I don't think leaking someone's fucking details is a good response.
8:30 I would argue this one could prompt a class action lawsuit by the people that got doxxed.
I remember the absolute BOP that was that "You Wouldn't Steal A Car/TV/Anything At All." AD. I vibes to it then just skipped it every other time.
I love how some of these games can still be completed, and even became speedrunning categories, with the anti-piracy measures!
"Did you know that piracy, is a crime!"
"And that crime, is illegal!"
"You wouldn't do a crime, would you!?"
You should have mentioned the DS version of Michael Jackson the Experience, because it had a funny anti-piracy measure. With the developers being from Brazil (the DS version was made by Ubisoft São Paulo), they put a really funny/annoying anti-piracy schtick. When played in certain flashcarts and emulators (I had no problem on my R4, but you can find some people with less luck), the sound of Vuvuzelas would be played along the song, and no prompts would be displayed on screen (the game on DS was a Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents clone).
Ahaha, I had that one in there initially but didn't like the segment so I cut it, but it's definitely one of my favorites.
Anti-Piracy screens and "secrets" were the best back in the day. Most of them were so mysterious and strange and slightly creepy, but also imposed a rule and force/feeling of doing something very wrong.
Nowadays it's more based around impossible enemies and stats or mechanics locked away from you.
(P.S. I'm mostly saying this because I LOVED the Sonic CD Secret Screen (the origin of "Majin Sonic"). Especially the US version with its creepy boss music.)
having mechanics locked away from you just feels like a normal experience today if you don't pay the dlc
Those Anti-Piracy PSA's Have Become An Odd Source Of Nostalgia For Me
I LOVE YOU DIAMONDBOLT
AYOOO
I LOVE YOU TOO RANDOM CITIZEN
Real
We all do🤣
GG
Okay, so I've watched through the entire video, and I was expecting something like Tech Rules' video (highly reccomend as well, goes in depth into some other games not mentioned) but this was, IMO, more informative. I haven't watched you in a while, but I'm probably gonna binge watch your content now.
7:40 god damn Garry is a legend
0:50 this honestly looks real. It fits the standard, but ANIMATED.
a diamondbolt update is better than any christmas present
9:23 twitter users when their darling celebrity of the week said a word that kind of sounds like a slur 8 years ago
I was one of those kids that had those DS cartage of every DS game. My dad got it for Christmas for me and my sister. So every month or so, my dad would tell me and my sister of what games we like and what games we wanted to replace.
So if we wanted to replace a game my dad randomly pick out a game for us so just we would have variety, instead of just playing Mario and Sonic games all the time.
Piracy sucks but the way the gaming industry is moving forces me to look for "alternative" ways to acquire my games than what the companies intended for me to take. Most games I buy are cheap indie games.
Not just the gaming industry. TV shows, especially animated ones, are suffering to the point that piracy is one of the only ways to actually watch the show.
Remember! Piracy is a victimless crime when it comes to giant companies doing stupid shit :D
@@robbys5236 oh yeah I guess pirating TV shows is also big these days
to me pirating shows is the default option because most streaming services don't work in my country or have heavy region locked content lol
@@robbys5236 Oof thats too real. Seriously if they just had like a bunch of specific anime or animated show on one streaming service we’d be good
@@lambybunny7173 Piracy is not a serious crime at least (victimless crimes can still be quite serious), and is easy to get away with. *I was just informed that it would be a tort not a crime and be decided in civil courts not criminal courts, if any*
Dude, your videos are always so entertaining. I'll have a minute or two left in the video and realize I'm already almost done watching in a 10-20 minute video. Keep up the good work.
If you wan't to experience the Serious Sam 3 unkillable scorpion, it's on the workshop as a mod. It is called "DRM Scorpions", so you can experience the pain too.
Stupid question, but does the scorpion kill other monsters that get in the way?
Freedom Planet 1 has a similar message to Just Shapes and Beats where Lilac and Carol (two of the main charatcers) ask you to support the game by donating to the devs and that none of the game's features will be restricted. I wish more people knew about this one.
2:52 I also like how it opens with the word "Boss", so I then read the rest of it in Revolver Ocelot's voice.
The mirrors edge one was even worse than you made it sound because, as you would slow down whenever you go to the edge of a rooftop, it literally meant that you couldn’t get past the very start of the game so you were just stuck on the same building for the whole time.
EarthBound’s Anti-Piracy is like Next Level evil because they prevent you from seeing the best ending in video game history.
Here's one that is slightly creepy and asshole-ish: in the Famicom/NES game Gimmick!, in one of the final levels the game checks for a sprite of a bug on a castle wall. If it isn't there then the game is genuine, but otherwise the game freezes you on a black screen that says "BLACK HOLE".
Gimmick! is a very difficult game to play and in order to even unlock the last level and get the proper ending you have to go out of your way to find a treasure on each of the 5 levels, and then doing tricky platforming or solving a puzzle, or both. Imagine all the effort someone had to go through to get to the last level, only to be greeted with that screen.
"You wouldn't download a car"
I would
I'm a game developer, and I can say from firsthand experience that anti piracy is waste of time. They'll always be cracked eventually, so the best you can do is make a spooky anti piracy so that people talk about your game
Awesome job with the video on talking about anti piracy in games
In mgs1 at one point you are intstructed to contact a character via codec by looking for her frequency on the back of the case. As in the back of game cd case.
This however doesn't work anymore because we have the internet.
I'd like to point out that the DRM Arachnoid in Serious Sam 3: BFE is now a gamemode addon on Steam Workshop.
Look up _DRM Scorpions._ It's a treat. It turns the game into this frantic horror, and the enemy is a skittering hot-pink blob with an arm-rifle.
Also, for _Alan Wake,_ the DRM gave Alan an eyepatch.
It gave Barry Wheeler (the comic-relief character) *two.*
That's bitchin'.
_Pokémon's "Buy It Or Die"_ is a hack. The technical explanation is that there's a bunch of slack-space near the end of the ROM that's normally padded with bullshit or left blank, and the game wouldn't look there because that's just junk made to pad out the file-size. The _"Buy It Or Die"_ message was put there, and the original conversation was hacked to add a jump-and-return for that region.
If it were a legit copy, that text would be in a nearby location contemporary to the rest of the conversation (which would make it harder for hackers to put there without significantly distorting the layout of the ROM code), not at the very end where you could put whatever the hell you wanted without fear of distorting the ROM and breaking something important.
That anti piracy ad terrified me when I was younger
My primary school had a CD, which had the anti-piracy advertisement of the start of it
2:00 i really appreciate that you stated that instead of not caring and regurgitating the same information
4:22
So that explains why i couldn't play BiS when i got that cartridge thingy when i was a kid. It was an anti-piracy measure!
Good to see you again, Bolt. Hope you had a merry Christmas, and happy New Year!
5:21 LMFAO, LOL. The devs did it manually!?
I remember my dad getting one of those ds r4 cards, playing Pokémon white 2, seeing I got no exp. Many years later I just played the game and beat it while getting no exp
How?
@@watching7721 never underestimate the power of three legendaries and a lvl 59 Azumarill
That one pokemon sailor guy has truly left an impression on me.
8:25 So we just gonna breeze past that
Happy New Years, Diamondbolt! Don't be a pirate! You've gained enough respect as it is!
8:17 that was essentially confirmed that the people who made the rom put it there because it shows their name in the space after the regular code
I know its a fangame but sonic gather battle has an insane and malicious and possibly illegal anti-piracy measure to prevent you from stealing the sprites. Sprites which where not the creaters which he just modified.
Good old anti-piracy. Always severely underestimating my willingness to download cars.
1:12 "nintendogs can only survive in legitimate ds cartridge's" wish that was real LMAO
The sad part is piracy can never be stopped, No matter how hard creators will try as long as computers exist piracy will never end and it is sad indeed
Playing a game knowing it might be tampered with and maybe something werid or scary might just show up when I'm playing in the middle of night is my biggest fear by FAR
Damn that Nintendo DS cartridge takes me back. I had two of those, but they don’t work anymore, they’re operate for only a few years then commit suicide to leave nothing behind. Each one had like 30 games on them.
You can set back the DS time to use it again, or replace the firmware files on the SD cards.
Damn Adam Diamond Bolt I didn’t know that crimes were illegal.
Happy New Year Diamondbolt, Thanks for making videos!!
I am one of those kids who loved spyro, but for some reason never managed to beat the game, and never knew why.
I remember trying so many times, because I loved it so much, but never managing to finish. Mind you, my mother language is not English, and when I was that young I didn't know what the little fairy was saying. I just knew that the sorceress was absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to beat, and that once I got to her my game would make me hate my life 😢
ONE HIT was LITERALLY game over, start from 0%. Absolute nightmare.
p.s.: Now I have the reignited trilogy and it's so worth it; 10/10 would recommend (I have the original version though, not sure about the pirated lol)
This was a funny informational video! Thanks Adam!
No wonder I couldn't start a new game in "Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story."
(Yes, I got a pirated version but, as soon as I found them in stores, I bought one. I highly recommend this title if you like RPGs )
I got the jackass number two unrated DVD and when I saw that Anti Piracy add I thought “wow, this is the most 2006 thing I’ve ever seen.”
0:12 OH NOO WAYY WHAT
THATS CRAZYYYYYYY DUUUUUUUUUDE
The Earth Bound Anti -Piracy measure has to be my favorite, it lets you play through the whole game, with the difficulty increased, then right as you are about to beat it, Boom, it resets and all of your progress is just GONE.
Merry Christmas bolt and everyone! 🎄⛄
Haven’t even watched trough the video yet since its only been a few seconds but this video is another classic diamondbolt W
I would much rather buy officially if I can. The only real justification for me personally is if the game isn't released in North America, or if the mods are considered piracy. But piracy is like underaged drinking. Would I do it? No. But will I report it? No, as long as they aren't driving
This video taught me about the spyro anti-piracy measure, and it's one of the funniest things to ever come from anti-piracy
Doxing's got to be a worse crime than pirating a game...
it is
Cause it is. Illegally downloading games is bad, but leaking someone’s name and home address is even worse.
It's brilliant though.
Doxxing may be illegal but in order to report them, you drop yourself into it too by admitting you are pirating.
That brief clip near the beginning of the video of Nintendo 64 bowser shooting photorealistic fire and being revealed as a cutout... nightmares for days, thanks a bunch 😡
I heard that game dev tycoon game's anti-piracy measure was later added to the game as a sort of impossible difficulty mode, even for those who actually bought the game, possibly to allow non-pirates to mess around with this anti-piracy measure without needing to pirate the actual game
I actually do remember hearing about the Cross Days trojan virus! Apparently it did also effect other eroge/hentai games, it's just that Cross Days (which I heard the Days games were actually alright, the 4th game is even a visual novel tower defense game on 3DS!) turned out to be one of them. Honestly, I wouldn't be embarrassed to get caught playing an eroge.
Now, my actual personal computer information getting doxxed, on the other hand...
Also the Japanese Ace Attorney game is called Ace Attorney Investigations 2, and it has a fan translation so people CAN actually play it in a language they understand!
I get so excited whenever you upload 😭
Theres a game with antipiracy that spooked me as a kid and that is the modlauncher for enter the gungeon, there would be glitched enemies that would just kill you bunch of times
Alan Wake: look you've got a eyepatch cause you're a pirate haha funny pirate goes brrrr.
Cross Days: 5322610864147043-
Why does the thumbnail have a picture from Sonic CD when that game has no anti-piracy?
Dark Souls 1 wasn’t staff invading with phantoms, they spawned 3 (I think) black knights in the dungeon with you at the beginning so it was nigh impossible to progress. I remember reading about it on Joystiq.
Merry Christmas Bolt! :D
Keep up the Great Work 👍👍
You know the anti piracy ad at the beginning of this video, the one that increased piracy?
Yeah, apparently it used pirated music.
J.S.A.B: It's okay man, you can support the devs with words if you can't do it with money
Cross days: fucking doxxes you
No Way!!!
Thanks For Using My Just Shapes And Beats Anti Piracy
The people self reporting that they pirated Spyro as kids is incredibly funny.
The invincible scorpion needs to be worked on a bit to be harder to avoid such having it spawn jump whenever Sam goes someplace it can't reach him or the ability to climb anything like the spiders.
During the 2010's, Spyro took a very different route for making people buy in order to play the game.
Happy 2022 Adam,and merry late Christmas!
I assume the friendly anti-piracy screens that don’t hinder gameplay and politely ask the pirate to support the game if they enjoyed it are more effective at actually stopping piracy.
Why?
If they could pirate, they would.
My favorite thing about the sims 4 blur measure is that the most popular mod just completely removes the blur...
Hey I’m a huge fan I just wanna say thank you. You were a distraction to get away when my mom had cancer thank you bro