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In case no one has brought it up yet: FADEWikipedia posted:FADE introduces deliberate errors in some of the sectors of the disc (which resemble the errors a scratched CD-ROM/DVD-ROM has). When the disc is copied, the error-correction mechanism (both CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs employ error-correction techniques) will notice the errors and automatically correct them. When the game is launched, the game's executable looks for these errors, and if they are present then it is an original. If they are not available, then it knows it is a fake. There is no notification or error message that tells the player that a fake disk image has been detected, which makes it very difficult for software crackers to determine if their crack has succeeded in defeating FADE. FADE will introduce many issues in the game, rendering it unplayable, giving the impression that the game is simply "buggy". For example, in ARMA 2, FADE will begin by gradually decreasing the accuracy of the player's weapons, making it very difficult to hit a target. FADE might reverse the left/right controls of vehicles, or make them randomly start and stop moving. Eventually it will turn the player into a bird and display a message saying "Good birds do not fly away from this game, you have only yourself to blame".
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The Fins weren't exposed to The Beatles?
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shoeberto posted:The Fins weren't exposed to The Beatles? They put lyrics on music. Who the gently caress does that??! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y5VcH7iK3Q
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Volmarias posted:In case no one has brought it up yet: FADE this is actually really clever and the "gradually gets less accurate" bit is pretty funny
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snes earthbound's copy protection was pretty mean: http://media.earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/index.html tl;dr: added a shitload of random encounters, froze the game vs the last boss and deleted all your saves
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Volmarias posted:In case no one has brought it up yet: FADE respect
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batman arkham asylum disabled cape gliding entirely. so you could play for a bit but when you got to the part where you have to glide over joker gas you were stuck lots of posts in the official forum about that one too lol
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if you pirated alan wake on pc it would let you play the entire game but your character would be wearing a pirate eye patch the entire time. the character that already wears a patch would wear two
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:if you pirated alan wake on pc it would let you play the entire game but your character would be wearing a pirate eye patch the entire time. the character that already wears a patch would wear two haha just remembered that dan crenshaw photoshop
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serious Sam had a big crab that just followed you and attacked you non stop but you also couldn't kill it
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The only game i cared about loving with players of pirated copies was Lexi Cross because that game loving ruled and it was impossible to find a legit copy. (I bet I could snag one on ebay or whatever now but i don't have anyone to play it with anymore so vOv)
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:if you pirated alan wake on pc it would let you play the entire game but your character would be wearing a pirate eye patch the entire time. the character that already wears a patch would wear two that's incredible
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Wild EEPROM posted:serious Sam had a big crab that just followed you and attacked you non stop but you also couldn't kill it there's probably something existentially shaking for a video game character when a giant crab attacks you and you look but it doesn't have a glowing weak spot.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:there's probably something existentially shaking for a video game character when a giant crab attacks you and you look but it doesn't have a glowing weak spot. tfw you can't flip the crab for massive damage
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Touch the tip-top, get the snip-snop!
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eschaton posted:Touch the tip-top, get the snip-snop! American Male Sexual Health boiled down to the bones.
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Wild EEPROM posted:serious Sam had a big crab that just followed you and attacked you non stop but you also couldn't kill it escape velocity nova had a character named captain hector that would say hi during the early use of the game as shareware. if you played too long without registering he would start to attack you. he was pretty strong but you could still shoot him down lol
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Volmarias posted:In case no one has brought it up yet: FADE incredible also I figured I had already said this so copying: Hed posted:I also remember using CDRWIN for bin/cue files and if you tried to crack it, it would act like it worked then silently create coasters
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if you tried to reg GetRight (lol) with a key from an old keygen, it would tell you 'That feature isn't available in the cracked version'. be sure to use the latest keygen when pirating software, kids!
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the game developer sim that had massive in game piracy on cracked versions
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Pile Of Garbage posted:as i understand and from what i remember roberta williams had a huge input to that book. that "brings my games to life" quote really is an understatement. whoa, that makes a lot of sense, then! they're solid novelizations and I enjoyed reading through the kq games I'd already played as a refresher before playing the ones I had not Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:if you pirated alan wake on pc it would let you play the entire game but your character would be wearing a pirate eye patch the entire time. the character that already wears a patch would wear two l Jonny 290 posted:haha just remembered that dan crenshaw photoshop ol
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what did registering getright unlock, anyway? the shareware version basically did everything i wanted back in the day on my slow, unreliable dialup connection
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Crazy Achmed posted:what did registering getright unlock, anyway? the shareware version basically did everything i wanted back in the day on my slow, unreliable dialup connection tended to be the case with most good shareware utilities. expect you get way more paying customers calling it shareware with no downsides to being unregistered (a nag link or so maybe) than just begging for donations not least you could reasonably have your employer to buy licenses where you'd never get them to donate
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Wasn't that all mIRC did? Just a small nag at startup and that was it. Lots of people still paid because they legit liked it.
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Holy poo poo mIRC is still updated.
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shoeberto posted:Holy poo poo mIRC is still updated. and rufo's still cracking every new version lmao
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Crazy Achmed posted:what did registering getright unlock, anyway? the shareware version basically did everything i wanted back in the day on my slow, unreliable dialup connection can't remember, but probably something with retrying ftp servers on a timer, like try to reconnect every three minutes. it was a thing for semi-public pirate ftps that you were only allowed to try a connection every couple of minutes or your IP would be banned.
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imagine using irc in tyool 2021!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:imagine using irc in tyool 2021! In my last job I was doing Stripe integrations and you can get direct access to dev support chat from actual engineers via IRC. The chat room wasn't that busy so setting up IRC must be a pretty effective barrier.
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Mantle posted:In my last job I was doing Stripe integrations and you can get direct access to dev support chat from actual engineers via IRC. The chat room wasn't that busy so setting up IRC must be a pretty effective barrier. code:
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:imagine using irc in tyool 2021! its a major component of us military comms. irc is useful as gently caress at sea. much easier than any other form of communication.
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Volmarias posted:
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Mr. Nice! posted:its a major component of us military comms. irc is useful as gently caress at sea. much easier than any other form of communication.
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FMguru posted:it also lets the military do comms in microsoft comic chat i.e. the jerkcity universe i was considered a wizard because i knew how to skin mirc so everyone wanted me to teach them my arcane ways. little did i know that being 11 and jumping on irc in the mid 90s would have one day led to such great heights.
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MSN explorer. Idiot child me used that for years, and the internet tells me it still exists today wtf.
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Volmarias posted:
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infinite solutions
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what was that show on Nickelodeon where kids would be put into Sonic and have to grab rings and they always sucked rear end? like the kid was on a green screen and they used some tech to make it work with Sonic I wanted to be on that show so bad
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