Mother 2 and anti-piracy

[Lotos]

http://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/antipiracy/

That was an interesting read.  They check the SNES' PPU to check the region.  They check to see if the game is on a (flash) cartridge or not.  One makes random enemies appear more often and one erases the game's save.

[SkyMyl]

Oh yeah, I remember reading about that.

The file deletion occurring at the end is pretty evil.

[Silverhawk79]

So is there any way around it?

[Tupin]

So is there any way around it?

Yes, hacking the game like how every ROM you can download is. You can activate it with codes on an emulator.

I actually own a copy of Mother 2. Not EarthBound, Mother 2. The Super Famicom game.

It's hard to play an RPG in your non-native language.

[SkyMyl]

Yes, hacking the game like how every ROM you can download is. You can activate it with codes on an emulator.

I actually own a copy of Mother 2. Not EarthBound, Mother 2. The Super Famicom game.

It's hard to play an RPG in your non-native language.

Considering you spend most of your time reading what items serve what purpose in RPGs, and reading the dialogue for the story, that should be expected.

...wait, what compelled you to play Mother 2?

[Lotos]

Considering you spend most of your time reading what items serve what purpose in RPGs, and reading the dialogue for the story, that should be expected.

...wait, what compelled you to play Mother 2?

I assume (and I'm 99% sure I'm correct) that Tuppy is a collector, seeing how he posts all of these threads of systems we haven't heard of.  I know when I buy a game, I want to play it.  I downloaded and tried Etrian Odyssey looking for the track FOE was based off of.

[Tupin]

Oh, I played it, or at least attempted to. I think I beat the first boss in Onett with the help of an FAQ before I gave up. The other files on it were all the way up to Gigyas, though.

[Homewrecker]

I never beat it because of this. Still one of my favorite games though.

[Cornwad]

It should only do that for Mother 2. NoA is pretty much telling us to pirate Earthbound at this point, what else are we supposed to do? I think it's funny that after Smash Bros we have Fire Emblem, one of Nintendo's most Japanese games, but we don't have a rerelease of Earthbound, a game which is pretty much set in Ohio.

[Zero]

The difference between Fire Emblem and Mother is that Fire Emblem actually generates enough profit to justify western releases. The Mother franchise has never been a blockbuster series in japan, so the fact that Earthbound is the only one to get released outside of japan makes sense.

It also helps that Fire Emblem as a whole is generally good and Mother is not.

[Homewrecker]

It also helps that Fire Emblem as a whole is generally good and Mother is not.

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[Gwen Khan]

does this effect the game if you have an actual cartridge?

[Tupin]

does this effect the game if you have an actual cartridge?

Nope.

[Gwen Khan]

are there any other games that have this?

[Jhen Mohran]

are there any other games that have this?

I'm pretty sure that there are other games that have methods of preventing people who pirated it to play it entirely.