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It reminds me of the old "protection" in Settlers: when using an illegal game everything would work as normal except the iron smith would produce pigs instead o
by Boulth 8y ago
It reminds me of the old "protection" in Settlers: when using an illegal game everything would work as normal except the iron smith would produce pigs instead of iron bars. That'd be surely missed by early crackers but definitely not by users.
- MrEldritch 8y agoEarthbound had a particularly punitive bit of hard-to-notice copy protection - it would be exactly identical up until right before the final boss, and then immediately crash and delete your save. At which point it isn't so much copy protection, but copy ... karmic punishment?