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What were some of the more interesting or outlandish forms of copy protection/anti-tamper for cheating in retro games? I know of Earthbound's incredible lengths to fuck with players if it thought it was a bootleg, but are there any others that are particularly noteworthy, either in what they do or how they preform their checks?

Pic related is a King Quest insert that came with the manual, allowing you to bypass the copy protection when starting the game.

>> No.5512663

There were tons of old DOS games with all sorts of type in the word from the manual/symbol from a card/etc copy protection schemes. It was very common back then.

Still better than Denuvo.

>> No.5512679

Leisure suit Larry featured underage protection lol
Lounge lizard VGA at least dunno about others

>> No.5512706

>>5512679
Did it work?

>> No.5512729

>>5512706
I can't really answer for sure because it can double as foreigner protection alright

>> No.5512734

>>5512729
/ourgame/

>> No.5512746

>>5512679
Press Alt+X to skip the questionnaire at the start (Ctrl+Alt+X in the VGA version)

>> No.5512919

>>5512706
If it did they could just use it on 4chan and the quality of posts would improve >9000x

>> No.5512939

>>5512706
>>5512729
Even if you were not american, it wasn't that hard to break. Just write down the questions and try the different choices until you find the correct one.

>> No.5513004

>>5512939
Or just look up the answers on the Internet.
IIRC it was like Trivial Pursuit: Baby Boomer Edition.

>> No.5513027

>>5512919
Keep on fighting those boogeyman, incel

>> No.5513165

>>5513004
>Or just look up the answers on the Internet.
>1991
>Spain
>Internet
You can pick one anon, but only one.

>> No.5513171

>>5513165
i dont think 1991 and spain are incompatible

>> No.5513182

>>5513171
Considering how backwards we were, I'm not sure. Alright, I fucked up but you know what I meant.

>> No.5513202

>>5513027
Keep on projecting kidlet

>> No.5513270

Spyro 3 fucked with the player a lot in the pirated version.

>> No.5513335

>>5512643
Best protection against piracy has always been to make an actually good game so people think the purchase is worth it.

>> No.5514070

>>5513165
The point is, even if you're 40 now, you wouldn't know the answers to who was the bandleader for some 1950s variety show, which is the kind of questions it asked. But even a 12-year-old can look that up today. It's one of those frozen-in-time relics of the retro era.

>> No.5514159

>>5513182
I work with a Spaniard. Can confirm that Spain went from 1990 to 1992, skipping 1991.
I tried to holiday in Spain in 1991. It just teleported you back to France

>> No.5514374

>>5514159
So what happened to the people living there at the time? Did it just grab them like some land-based version of the Bermuda Triangle?