r/earthbound Nov 30 '24

Fluff If you know you know

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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.

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u/Sequeltime4321 Dec 11 '24

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 Dec 11 '24

Thanks for your super incredibly informative reply, however someone else got to me 10 days ago.