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so I had to check if, playing Batman Returns in Nesticle as a kid, the copy protection getting triggered was due to the emu or a bad rom.

Apparently it had nothing to do with the emu, and after a quick google search I already found a rom of the game which had messed with the title screen (which is exactly what triggers the copy protection), pic related...

Anyway - I got the help for someone else who documented some shit and I was able to deactivate all six (!) anti-piracy checks this game pulls, and just to be safe; on top of this, the game hands out wrong passwords if it detects the copy protection flag being on so just to be safe I disabled that as well.

Now the question is, am I allowed to submit a hack like that on RHDN... I had to contact them to ask. It could be seen like the primary function of this hack would be to make chinese bootlegs (the real primary function is to satisfy
a personal grudge I've had for 20 years against this copy protection shit); but my hack could also help other hackers and let them modify the title screen of this game.

Also, among the anti piracy shit, there is a flag that doubles the amount of dmg dealt to the player. I wonder if I should make a hack that enables this by default, call it "hard mode", or if such a thing should belong in the gamegenie section of gamefaqs since that would have the same effect.