30 November 2017, 08:44 | #1 |
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Pirated games with glitches caused by the piracy?
As the title says it I'm looking for examples of Amiga games that somehow don't work correctly (even unplayable) due to them being pirated. We're planning to do a show concentrating on game glitches and one of the topics is glitches caused by piracy.
All examples highly appreciated |
30 November 2017, 09:03 | #2 |
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Hired guns. Impossible to save when the game is cracked.
Base jumpers. Impossible to jump after you failed protection check. Wiz n Liz. Extreme slowdown after you completed the game one easy mode, when cracked. These are not glitches, but clever anti-piracy protection. |
30 November 2017, 09:09 | #3 |
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T-Zero: inverted joystick handling and "PIRATE" written in the highscore list if game is not cracked properly
Kick Off 2: "random" crashes if game is not cracked properly Sleepwalker: impossible to finish level 1 if game is not cracked properly Fire'n'Brimstone: graphics trash due to screen memory used as MFM buffer in the cracked version There are many many more examples. |
30 November 2017, 09:16 | #4 |
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Galahad - but it was an intended piracy protection that made the game unbeatable if you pirated it. There was a platform where you can't jump over it if you didn't play from original.
Pang - no flying enemies. |
30 November 2017, 09:17 | #5 |
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Best off looking in the games that were badly cracked thread, lots of examples in there of protection side effects.
Killing Game Show - Liquid rises too quickly Sleepwalker - Barrel missing at start F-29 Retaliator - Plane drops out of sky with piracy warning Mega-Lo-Mania - Miss a copylock check and it plays a laughing sample and a piracy picture Battle Command - You can play one mission and then the game locks up Nitro - Miss protection check and after first race car skids uncontrollably So many more. |
30 November 2017, 09:18 | #6 |
Puttymoon inhabitant
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The same with Virocop - one platform in level 1 or 2, that was supposed to move, was stopped in cracked version.
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30 November 2017, 09:37 | #7 |
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Dungeon Master / Chaos strikes back : full party sudden death (after a while) or animation stopped (if too many checks while going thru stairs fail). DM can even be finished with a badly cracked version.
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30 November 2017, 11:53 | #8 |
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E-Swat - invisible wall in first level
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30 November 2017, 12:08 | #9 | |
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Quote:
Now should I try it again? |
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30 November 2017, 12:25 | #10 |
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The most Famous one "GODS" becomes extra hard.
Robocod the joystick is reversed. The WHDload version of sleepwalker AGA you can't get past a later level iirc because there's no giraffe but you can on the old JST install don't know if this is copy protection or what........ Last edited by Retro1234; 30 November 2017 at 12:35. |
30 November 2017, 13:10 | #11 |
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30 November 2017, 13:17 | #12 |
Lemon Curry ?
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Alien Breed Special Edition 1992, can't remember if it's Fairlight or Ministry crack.
There's a spot blocked by an invisible wall on one of the later levels making it impossible to progress, only way is to skip the level by using a level code. |
30 November 2017, 13:27 | #13 |
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Rogue - was much harder in the cracked version.
I only realized that many years later and got used to the new difficulty level. |
30 November 2017, 13:51 | #14 |
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Evil's doom - some game mechanics not working, blocking the player.
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30 November 2017, 14:28 | #15 |
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Obliterator's intro sequence has some glitching graphics iirc.
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30 November 2017, 14:34 | #16 |
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30 November 2017, 15:29 | #17 |
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30 November 2017, 19:03 | #18 |
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01 December 2017, 02:04 | #19 |
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Sinbad: disappearing ship.
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01 December 2017, 07:01 | #20 |
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