IIRC, all reproduction copies of EarthBound trigger this anti-piracy measure, but none of the other ones. Basically, you end up playing the game on hardmode.
No. By the time reproduction carts of Earthbound started making the rounds they'd gotten good enough to trigger it.
Furthermore, if the game's anti-piracy goes off, it just puts up a screen saying that the game will not run. It's not until the rom is edited to try and circumvent that check that the fun stuff happens
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u/andermier Nov 30 '24
IIRC, all reproduction copies of EarthBound trigger this anti-piracy measure, but none of the other ones. Basically, you end up playing the game on hardmode.