Spyro Had One of the Coolest Anti-Piracy Measures Ever | Tech Rules
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I originally learned all this from an article on The Cutting Room Floor. Check it out for more detailed information on some of the payloads!
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Hey, everyone! Sorry if I sound a little weird in this video; I was recovering from being sick at the time of recording, but I didn't want to delay the video any longer than I already did. Feel free to correct me on anything I messed up on, and I'll add it to this comment!
EDIT: Proto pointed out to me that the random crashes were actually a problem on my end, not the crack protection. Sorry about that!
(And yes, I accidentally called the immortal scorpion an unkillable crab demon. Fight me.)
Tech Rules I haven't finished the video but I can already tell it's going to be great! Keep it up!
Great video!
You deserve so much more subscribers!
Nice vid keep doing good.
New video on minecraft please
That final bit of anti-piracy is so brilliant though... “The Adventure Continues” as it wipes your game. Oh yes, the adventure never ends.
*-Bravely Default Flashbacks-*
Its literally Mr. Bone's Wild Ride
Also Spyro gets dropped right over a gem just so you can see all your stuff is gone.
@@residentialraven7887 *THE RIDE NEVER ENDS*
I think Earthbound did that too
My dad used to crack games for me as a kid. Spyro was the only one that was store-bought and I can finally understand why.
Damn, amazing dad, actually knowledgeable about computers
Even your dad don't got time for that crap.
based dad
@@Fiufsciak What inteligent dad isnt skilled with computers?
@@gunarsmiezis9321 plenty. My dad is a mechanical engineer who graduated magna cum laude from a top 5 school. He isn’t super knowledgeable about programming.
10:15 the "saved successfully" is probably the biggest middle finger they could have given
”They even thanked the coders for giving them such a difficult challenge.”
I have to hand it to Paradox: they’re some polite pirates.
Paradox? Russian Paradox? Yeah they're great, I have a disk with Resident Evil 1 and 2, all-in-one
Oh yeah thats actually a common thing. Most of them aren’t the stereotypical villain that people portray. Most are just normal people but also really talented coders.
Not uncommon. Though you won't find it nowadays, as Denuvo has a monopoly and those w*nkers don't protect with ingenuity.
The gentlemen pirates
[squidboy13] To be fair, once they start distributing a crack of a game readily available at retail it becomes an active attack on the financial interests of the publisher. --- Just hacking it and demonstrating the result id relatively benign. However publishing the details in depth reaches into a gray area.
"I would enter a stage and end up in a comepletely different world"
OHHHH, SO THAT'S WHY THAT HAPPENED. MY MOM GOT ME A PIRATED GAME
Oof
I remember my mom downloaded a virus because she didn't want to pay 10$ on a video game
this was my computer.
she should've bought you it
Hehe, ma mom owned all 3 spyro ps1 parts, it was Love to play them =D, but she lost them, after this vid, i dont wanna try2use a crack
@Michael Persico I feel this comment on a spiritual level.
everybody gangsta til the penguin starts speaking German
I was a little bit confused about that, regardless of the fact that I am a German.
Penguin? That was a flying-capable bird. More importantly, Sgt. James Byrd!
Well played bro
best comment here
German penguin
I'm just surprised that Zoe actually voiced the hack warning. the devs took this piracy very seriously
The final reset has the same energy as when I once played a modded Skyrim, a random encounter had a mage challenge me to a wizard battle, and he said the phrase, "You call that magic? I'll show you real magic!" and then proceeded to CTD me and that save was now corrupted. It was by far the strongest mage I have ever seen. He rewrote the player out of existence as if I was someone in Yugioh GX season 4.
What does ctd mean?
@@unpersonableme1805 CTD means "crash to desktop"
Man sent you to the shadow realm
That's why I never finished Spyro. Had a copy like this and never understood why the eggs kept disappearing. Then I reached the final boss and boom... all eggs were gone and my save file erased. Never tried Spyro again.
Well not to be rude but play a legal version
Alien_Ghost_Gaming 909 umm maybe he was a child with no knowledge of pirated software and his parents got him that game
@@FAlRYERl Yeah, I was like 8 and didn't know better.
Hopefully you learned a lesson there lol
It was your parents fault
**adds pirate protection to discourage pirates**
**More people pirate the game because the pirate protection is so cool**
*SPYRO_YEAROFTHEDRAGON.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING*
*Dev.exe has stopped working.*
*CSX_Transportation.exe has stopped working*
Task successfully failed.
PLAYREALGAMES.EXE isnt responding
Imagine playing Spyro as a kid, unknowing that it was a pirated copy, and suddenly the characters start speaking German
Smile!
Sweet!
Sister!
Sadistic!
Surprise!
Service!
STUKA VERBAND IM ANGRIFF AUF BOLSCHEWISTISCHE PANZER UND TRUPPEN ANSAMMLUNGEN
Ja, ich denke, es wäre ziemlich bizarr, das Spiel als Kind durchzuspielen.
“KAMPFSTIEFEL!!”
-Von Kaiser 2009
German be like: Bh xd hu hi I vCard bhibh cvsihb. Vcshi high bfdi bh huighhiejhih j I hi. Hurt hui. Jhihfh
Got mit uns!
There’s something about most anti-piracy messages in games that makes them so terrifying, even when most games don’t use jumpscares to drive the message home. It just makes you feel hunted and unwanted. The game KNOWS you’re doing something bad.
There is nothing morally wrong with digital piracy.
Especially in the cases where it's justified.
@@nullpoint3346 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i'm not paying 100$ for a video game
@@nullpoint3346 lol, there's no, dev spend years of they life creating a game for everybody get the game free :p
@@glauberbispo8922 That just means there's a flaw in the reward system for people's efforts.
Namely that the societal reward system only values currency.
Currency that I must remind you has no value of it's own. A terrible waste of hemp paper and pigments, not to mention the systems designed to prevent fraudulent currency from circulating as real currency (fake money passing as real money is bad because it accelerates inflation).
@@nullpoint3346 what are u talking about lol, with currency that u pay food, a cool house and some b*tches lol.
What would u suggest that the devs should earn by they hard work.
And even if our reward system is "wrong" we still have this reward system, and if people don't pay by the games the dev will have no money :v
Yes, the rocket crashed in into the balloon. Took me years but I finally figured out that my parents bought me a cracked version
Oof.
F
:( that’s no fun
@@Vessick they BOUGHT a cracked.
They've been scammed.
@CoffeeDisk 64
...THEN WHY SHOULD THEY BE ARRESTED?
Imagine a young kid's confusion when they got this game for Christmas, having no real idea what piracy and chipped consoles really were, and all this started happening.
Yup. That's what happened to me.
feelsbadman
I know that feeling
Me too haha but still played this game all my childhood, and when i used to be send back to first level, i used to stay happy in playing all again
Did a penguin yell German at you?
@@uninspiringspoon9578 I can't remember if he did, but I do remember eggs disappearing because it made my OCD tendencies freak out. XD
Aaah.... so it's an anti piracy system... I remember when was I still a kid, I bought this Spyro game from one of a big PS game store. I and my big bro love Spyro games. So we bought it instantly without thinking too much. That time, I was still a pure little kid who didn't know that pirated disc exist. After a long fun run, the game reset itself around the endgame part. But what i did that time? Together with my brother, we *did it all over again* . We thought it just how the game supposed to run. We keep trying it again and again. More reset happened, and we gave it another run. I remember that we even reached a stage when we could complete the early to mid game part in just some hours.The loop continued until one day, our PS broke and we ere forced to stop. So yeah... we never finished it lol. More than 10 years passed, I got my hand on a PSX emulator. I downloaded the Spyro 3 iso, and challenged it with my emulator. And that time, I cleared it (since it's cracked properly lol). Sadly my big bro died from illness several years after our PSX broke. So I, alone, finished our revenge to the "Impossible to complete" game. You can rest in peace brother... I defeated our enemy!
Ok that's a cool story
Your brother in heaven: *furious clapping*
I feel you man, my mom passed way too soon and she was a gamer, me and her played FF7, MYST, DOOM2, Half Life 2 and many others. RIP our loved ones. Good story man
Sorry for your loss, I’m sure he’s proud
@@n646n I'm sorry but this is the saddest case of a Woosh I've ever seen.
"Unfortunately the final boss contains the most evil trick of all.."
TH-cam hits me with an ad lol. Nice timing
same 😂
Now you understand why 90's brazilian kids have trust issues
sure thing
I had this problem and tried to beat a lot not knowing that it was an anti piracy issue cuz I didn't know shit about english
I was lucky enough to have (what I presume was) the fixed final crack, because I've played Spyro 3 an absolute fuckton as a kid and hadn't had an original game until I was an adult.
😂
Good thing I bought the digital version on PSN and I able to remove from my life the fact that I didn't finish this game because of the pirate glitches.
I was one of the victims, I did not have access to a legit copy of this game whe I was a kid, literally all retails around my region had the cursed Paradox version and I had to push through all of the game's copy protection during gameplay while blaming the stores for making "low quality copies" as I'd call them. Unbeknownst to me was the fact that the game itself was trolling me all those years.
I remember clearly speaking to Zoe and seeing that dreaded text that I was playing an illegal copy of the game and that really scared me at the time, to hear a videogame character get out of role and break the fourth wall as if it knew what was happening in the outside world. Missing eggs, missing gems, having to rebuy characters or stuff to be able to access previous stages.... I never experienced the language switching problem though.
Oh boy so many things went wrong and I persisted every time just to have a shot at the final boss, see if I could beat her before the game decides to pull the plug and erase all my data. I used to remove the memory card when attempting the fight so that my save wouldn't get overwritten. But when I tried to load the save again there'd always be several things missing, including the freaking vehicle that you need to get across the other worlds would randomly disappear and I'd have to redo stages and hope that I could get it back.
I'll never forget when I somehow managed to glitch the game to send me into the super bonus stage, the final level you can go to when you beat the game 100%. I was never able to 100% the game due to the anti-piracy stuff so I really have no idea how I entered that place, but I only managed to do that once. When I turned the game off and loaded the other day I couldn't get back and again lost a bunch of progress.
My kid self deserves a medal for all of the persistence I had to go through all of this shit.
It was very rewarding when I played this game again years later with an actual working copy this time, I beat it 100% and closed this case forever. That shit felt like my greatest achievement in gaming history.
You and me both, parents couldn't be bothered to pay for the game and had burnt copies, I literally went through this game 20 or so times jut to try beating the final boss.
I salute you for your determination and refusal to give up. I went through exactly the same struggle you went through and did not know what the hell was with the game until I got the original copy and finished it 100% 😂
I played this game so many times that i managed to find a way to go to the bonus round anytime i wanted, that was sureal for a 9 yo to crash the game like that. Plus: my native language is portuguese, so at that time i couldnt get what was happening, thus never able to figure it out what that piracy message was about. Every friend who has attempted this game had a "trick" to clear the game, but none ever worked. One time i simply got tired of it and moved on, but this game, till this day, is one of the most memorable to me, and one that i have played the most at my childhood. Only as an adult i could figure why all of this happens
Oh God I feel so identified with this comment, even with the part of the bonus stage lol
Zoe scared me as well but I did realize that my game was pirate after that. I tried to complete it several times though
Feel you. Still, the paradox intro music was good
Terraria's piracy protection was genius. There was an achievement where you have to travel a really far amount by foot. But the game would lag as you walked since it would check every step. And the devs made sure you never finish the achievement by making sure it resets as soon as you close the game when you complete it.
@@Ashurion-Neonix wow, that's crazy cool
@@Ashurion-Neonix That’s impressive!
Genius until one person finds this out and talks online about it, then no one tries for that achievement lol
@@OhNoTheFace You don't get it. You are always getting it just simply by walking. What're you gonna do, not walk?
@@Zonic3451 fly :)
10:21 i love how you can tell you see the "1" and IMMEDIATELY open up the atlas because you know something is very wrong
This is gonna sound really dumb, but I've always been a little bit scared of these types of things. Like not SCARED, scared, but it's kinda spooky to me
Honey Bun wym? scared of what
I exactly know what you mean.. Back then i was really afraid of game manuals that said things like "Mario will walk by himself now". The thought of games being self-aware and self controlling is just creepy
DUDE I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND!
I had to take off my headphones to watch this because seeing a (usually polygonal looking) game punish the player makes me feel unsafe ._.
@@SugarViv_ they know. THEY KNOW WHERE THE CHIPDREN ARE.
Oh I was scared scared 😂
the "Software Terminated" screen gives me chills for some reason. Lol
Same, it looks like it's saying,
"Console Deleted
This console has been modified and is illegal to use now because of piracy and other reason. Please contact Sony Costumer Service."
It's like you're banned from using the console
I'm scared of the dark because of Chara
*🚫 SOFTWARE TERMINATED*
*CONSOLE MAY HAVE BEEN MODDED*
*CALL 1-800-GETREKT*
i dunno why. its probably because of the contrast between a colorful fun adventure and a cold, legitimately real reminder that what you've done is wrong. its like undertale or doki doki literature club but instead of a yandere ai or characters that remember your actions its a geniune disclaimer that pulls you out of the game world to tell you your own mistakes.
Spyro 3 normally: normal game
Spyro 3 anti-piracy: LITERALLY DARK SOULS DIFFICULTY
Original Spyro: easy mode 😎
Pirated Spyro: *HARD MODE ON*
Prepare to fly edition
Spyro 3 Legal Copy: Easy Mode
Spyro 3 Pirated Copy: SUPER DARK SOULS: THE LOST LEVELS MODE
There's a game even more difficult than Dark Souls...
The PS2 game "Terminator 3: The Redemption"...
Trust me, that game is so hard it will make you dig your eyeballs out in grief...
@@milesipkafuck you for tell ing me this game exists i no longer want to live I want to uno flip of a bridge
I remember when I was a kid, my dad got me a copy of Spyro Year of the Dragon. I didn't realise at the time it was that paradox hacked version and I was so confused because in my one, after fighting Spike (or losing should I say) it would take me straight to Midnight Mountain. I never got to experience Evening Lake 🤣
Welp time to buy the legal copy!
**JUST TO GET TO SEE EVENING L A K E**
Game:"I may not be able to stop you, but I can certainly *break you* "
It does *both*
"And then I will stop you, and you will know I could have all along"
“Pirates at bay” is the most underrated line in this whole video
I wasn't sure if it was intentional, but I still laughed.
cough cough piratebay haha
I came into the comments to say just that.
That line was intentional, but he most likely took it from the article title that showed up after that line, 4:57 . See the top right of the video: "Gamasutra: Keeping the Pirates at Bay"
Cough cough
I have a real cough
“Yeah, Anti-Piracy doesn’t sound like the most interesting topic...” That fact sure has changed!
True, exactly why he made another video about it!
@@tacokitten yeah I saw it and it was cool! (It’s the reason I watched this video)
I'm seeing some comments regarding people's experiences with their pirated copies of this game, and how they reacted when they suffered the fate that happens at the end. It got me thinking: the purpose of having anti-piracy in games is to motivate people to purchase the real copy. A lot of comments send pretty much the same message of "this frustrated me so much that I never touched Spyro again!". In my personal opinion, this frustration kind of defeats the purpose of giving it an anti-piracy; because not only do players fail to buy the real copy, but they don't buy any other past or future Spyro games. Sure, they may understand that those problems wouldn't occur if they had just bought the real game but the frustration and irritation they faced may continue to haunt them afterwards, thus discouraging them from buying it
That might be true. Especially for kids who don’t understand anti piracy. They might think that it’s just the game that’s too hard so they won’t play anymore. There are almost no warning that the game actually behaves that way because it’s pirated other than that one dialogue from the fairy. But people tend to ignore and skip dialogue so they might miss it.
@@lathifahdhiya723
Not to mention some regions were not so lucky with legal copies. In Russia pirates basically were the official distributors and every PSone was already hacked before being sold. So now imagine that you *paid* for a pirated version. Yeah no, I'm not paying again. Thankfully I did not have problems listed in the video, save for Moneybags wanting another payment for Sheila. But you could just ignore him
Yeah I don't understand why they did that. The logical thing to do should be to make the game stop with an anti-piracy message at different random points in the game and in different situations for the different checks. That would be just as hard for the crackers to find them all but it would be more "get the real game if you want to see what happens next" instead of "frustrate the player to make them hate the game". You should try to keep them wanting more, right?
Finally a sensible comment, thank you
@@Xezlec I think you may misunderstanding how cracking works - they're looking at the code and can check for such calls lol
That's why they also obfuscated the code by making calls within calls within calls lol
there should be a speedrunning category for this
I thought this same thing for drunken gta4 anti piracy
Too much rng
It would probably be called torture%
@@Mehwhatevr Still would be an interesting noncompetitive speedrun.
absolute madlad
meanwhile in the UK...
"hey look that guy has a quest for me!"
"Вы украли эту копию, так что теперь я вырву ваши глазные яблоки.."
@DJInferno "you stole this copy, now I'll tear out your eyeballs"
Blyat
Oh jeez-
@@Zelenayasmert ouch my eyes
@@MrBadAtThisYT I see you everywhere
i remember having a flash kart for my ds lite and a lot of the games had anti piracy that would just make the game stop working after a point
so my 10 year old self had the ingenious idea of running another flash kart shell through the base flash kart shell and for some reason that bypassed the anti piracy. games checked for the piracy but for some reason, running a game through r4 which was also running through an r4 clone just fooled a ton of games. guess they didn't think a proxy would work?
@Plumjet09 this guy to the game companies: *oof size mega*
This is actually kinda creepy in a way. Especially at the end when it just boots you to the beginning without anything.
7:50 I am german, so that confused me for a second, since that was actually a normal Text to me
Yeah, same. I was like "Didn't he say something about the language changing randomly? Why is it still german??" xD
Deutsch ist halt krass Näh XD?
German is still a hard Language that is Not very popular hehe
This is such a funny thing.
When your brain gets comfortable with both[ or more], languages it just kind of meshes them together like the merging of two streams.
When hearing or reading, you don't make the decision of word choice.
Since both words have the same meaning, your brain doesn't bother to check which language it is from. It doesn't effect you, so the brain doesn't use energy on an unnecessary task.
@@wideasriel ARTIKEL, der Albtraum für jeden Deutschlerner
@@thetrabantguy3934 LeL
Now I want to see 100% speedruns of the pirated version of this game.
one does exist on youtube! it goes for around 8 hours I believe
@@FrillWasTaken found it th-cam.com/video/2PL5jtv84Vc/w-d-xo.html it is 87%. Maybe 98% is possible but will be many more hours. it is not actually possible to 100% because it always kicks you out of boss room and resets everything.
The Sorceress fight will *always* reset your save file on a pirated version, so 100% (let alone 117%) just isn't possible.
haha yeah, I meant an 'attempted 100%' of the game, what a trooper
Same thing with the pyrated version of earth boud on snes, you cannot beat it 100% because of the same reason , that it will crash and erase all your save files, during the final boss battle.
I'm not really a Spyro fan but, I agree! The anti-piracy measures they put in place were really creative. Kudos to the developers for thinking outside the box!
“Ok, so Anti-Piracy may not seem like the most interesting thing to talk about at first glance, but here me out.” And now the TH-cam Algorithm is recommending a lot of us with Anti-Piracy videos and we are all really enjoying watching them. I guess that’s different than “talking” about it, but it’s got me interested.
Cracked Spyro seems like a challenge run that a streamer would do.
When you passed troughs this game many time that’s a challenge you would do.
Cracked Spyro still runs better than Fallout 76.
Probably true...
What doesn't run better than Fallout 76
More reliable too.
@@djpon3782 even big rigs EVEN DESERT BUS IS BETTER
@@gordonthickmanplays6048 agreed
My favourite is Garry’s Mod where it gave you a fake error message about the textures or lighting or some crap and then when people reported it they were exposed as pirates
That's a good anti-piracy trick!
It also had their Steam ID in there, so the devs could ban them from playing on servers.
@@nikkiofthevalley Oh wow I never knew that, that's actually really clever.
7:52 that is the best german penguin I've ever seen in a Spyro game.
when I was little my parents couldn't afford original PS1 games, so one of the pirate games I had was Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. The same version you played, in fact. Thankfully my game wasn't nearly as glitchy as yours was, but boy oh boy, do I still remember having to go back to allll previous worlds every single time I unlocked a new world to retrieve a single lost egg from all previous levels - my game only deleted the very first egg from all levels, and without the first egg from each level you can't move on to other worlds, which meant I was forced to go back if I wanted to play the levels in the new world I'd just unlocked - and even more vividly I remember when the game screen went black during the last boss fight and the save file was wiped. now, imagine this: a seven year old, an eight year old, and a six year old, all crying for all their lost progress, unconsollable; that was me, my sister and my cousin. MONTHS of playing. GONE. we LOVED Spyro, but that day we put it down and never played it again.
about a decade later I told this story to a friend of mine, and he explained what had happened - we didnt understand back then because english wasn't our first language - and then he magnamiously borrowed me his copy of Spyro. I spent my summer break trying to not only finish the game but also catch all eggs and gems, and it was soooo satisfying. like avenging my seven years old self.
Spyro is an incredible game, and even though it betrayed me the way it did, I still love it with all my heart. I read that article a few years ago, and honestly? it's GENIUS. what they did was amazing, not to mention hella creative, and although I still remember how painful it was losing all my progress I don't blame the devs for it.
TLDR: great video! sure brings back memories :')
"[...] The idea they came up with was simple, but *very* effective."
_it's a simple spell but quite unbreakable_
Some people pirate games, but not us.
not us.
But it wasn't simple at all, is the point.
doctor?
Ah Mr. Doctor, clever quote.
*Modern problems require modern soulutions*
Zoe: "I'm sorry, Spyro, but you seem to be playing a hacked version of this game."
Childhood Memories: [quivering] amigoingtojail?
“Anything causes a crash”
*breathing in paper Mario crashes the game*
You know, if developers really wanted to, they could use these features to make one hell of a creepypasta game
like surprise doki doki
@@leo79033 exactly
no thanks, as they would get a LOT of lawsuits
On a game mainly played by kids? I played skylanders (newer spyro game) on my ps3 when I was 8 or 9 and lmao that would have scared the absolute shit out of me.
I smell a lawsuit coming on.
Gamer: “All right, I reached the final boss!”
Game: “I’m about to end this pirate’s whole career.”
Game: "That's where you're wrong kiddo!"
Game: Sike!!! You thought!!!
Game: I'm afraid I've Got Some Bad News!!!!
Cough, cough, Earthbound, cough
Gamer:"Would've beaten it anyway."
After seeing this video, I'm incredibly glad that I had a legal and legitimate copy of this game and played it on a regular PlayStation with no modchip. I remember taking the game to my friend's house and not being able to play it there because his PlayStation had a modchip.
"you can still play, we just wont let you win"
"If that's confusing to you, think of it like morse code taken to the extreme."
It wasn't confusing until you said that..
Basically coding is a language, and the PS1 can convert the wobble into a language it can read. :)
@@joyeeverett6196 I'm trying to get into code, and before, I didnt know there were different languages.
I looked up a notepad+ tutorial and tried making a game on fucking html.
The scholastic book fair guides didnt help either
Morse is basically just binary with a unique charset
@@joyeeverett6196 Sony kind of did what hard drive disks do now. Instead of just 0s and 1s you have a line of 0s and 1s overlapping part of another line of 0s and 1s and both are readable and writable though another way they have tried though already replaced as it decreased not increased how much you can put onto 1 disk was making it have a non-linear line for 2 lines to be read at once instead of just 1 line read at once. The PS1 did take that and use it though due to other techniques and hardware error correction having a non-linear line is no longer possible for the disks.
So it was an idea but an idea that was to late to the game to catch on.
shoulda had skullgirls on the list of fun anti-piracy. that one is genius. pops a cryptic message up after you beat the game, about the square root of fish. people post it on forums or twitter like "whats this" and boom, busted.
Damn, that's a smooth and subtle way to bust a criminal
_-a smooth criminal-_
That's real clever
something similar happened with people playing the Batman Arkham games. In the first one, for example, you needed to use your grapple and it wouldn't work. So people would go to Steam to ask about it aaaaand BUSTED.
wHaT iS tHe SqUaRe RoOt Of A FiSh? NoW i'M sAd. :(
ÙwÚ what's this?
Garry’s Mod also had a similar fake error message
This makes me think there could be so many creative ways to troll people with anti-piracy measures. Just replace a needed key item with a regular item. Like in a cracked OOT, Zelda just throws the Fairy Ocarina to you in that cutscene. Have fun with that!
Internally, the Ocarina doesn't matter, only the Song of Time is required. That said, you could have the game replace the SoT Item with a Green Rupee, or just drop the cutscene entirely.
This is "silent but deadly" in action
a rare no likes verified comment
nice
3 likes lol.
Yall get me to 1k likes and that would be the coolest ratio on TH-cam
Imagine going to your friends like:
“Yo, did you get the new Spyro??”
“Yeah, I picked it up about two weeks ago.”
“It’s really hard! I’ve barely made it to Midday Gardens! Do you know how to get more health?”
“...”
“What, did you beat it?”
LMAO
LMAO
Lmao lmaolamoajshbsggbgdgdfvdvdbdhcbhf gh I’ve fight if fehh Ic
ive never played spyro, whys this funny?
@@rycegabrielmajor9847 A cracked version puts you at essentially 2 hp permanently, while you kinda just take hits and recover health with butterflies normally.
Doing hours of painful research for something nobody asked for?
Now _THAT'S_ a hero.
When you showed the clip of the reset mid-bossfight i thought the game had saved just as the boss attacked, so when you tried to reload your save you'd load in then die instantly
Chipped PlayStation with most games: Understandable, have a great day.
Chipped PlayStation with Spyro: *H O L D U P*
And eventually the game crashed so much that Spyro randomly turned into Crash Bandicoot
There's actually a secret crash bandicoot game at the menu of the original Spyro... Push a certain sequence of buttons and it comes up. Forget what ones but... Yeah it's there
@@Untrue64 Umm... Its not a secret game. Its a demo...
@@budal15 secret shhhh
Dracodracarys 233 lol you made it funny!!!
That pun *hurt*
After Zoe gives the message would be a perfect time to turn the entire thing into a horror game and make the pirates never pirate again tbh
You mean, like a creepypasta? I bet someone did it like that the'
@@creppersaurusrex2300 hmm, perhaps
I remember I actually turned off the console by unplugging the power source the first time I reached that message
Right? I wonder if there's a creepy pasta based on this out there
Ben drowned?
Someone: goes to the final boss
All the eggs he collected: ight I'mma head out
I'm still amazed at how high quality your videos were so early in your channel's life. You absolutely deserve the subs you have.
Now I know the meaning of Zoey's message...
I didn't knew english at the time so I thought it was no big deal :"^
I remember I started crying when my game was erased after the final fight with the Sorceress...
But here in Mexico it was very difficult to actually find a LEGAL version of any PS1 game insted of a cracked version, basically you had to buy your own games at street markets for less than a dollar (I think Year of the dragon costed less than 5 mexican pesos)
Now I feel a little bit frustated...
Good part is that with Reignated Trilogy I'm going to be able to finally complete Year of the dragon; legally this time!
Great!!!!!😄👍
@@DavidDumbedDown ?
@@DavidDumbedDown xenophobe
@@DavidDumbedDown racist
@@DavidDumbedDown Dude, what the hell?!
We used to disk swap to play different regions. Load a disc of your region (you had to play with the lid open, with the little "lid closed" button wedged or stuck down) during the orange Sony logo, quickly swap discs.
This video has just explained to me why that worked.
A similar mechanism must have been in place for the fantastic 'Freeloader' for the Gamecube - a bootdisc that was inserted and then swapped out for the actual game, at which point you could play as normal. It was well worth it to be able to play Animal Crossing years before it even got a confirmed release date in the UK.
@@MoonlitVibe I've heard about something like that. But didn't play my GameCube anywhere near enough to even think about it. Back in the day, I had to play ps imports in black and white as my TV had no scart socket!!
I used to use a spring to keep the disk spinning.
There was a cart you put in the back of PlayStation, I think it was an action replay type of thing, and a little bronze spring that fooled it into the thinking the lid was shut.... I remember playing metal gear solid with that... Good Times.
@@lfcnick1582 yep, also spring + action replay master race here
When I was seven, I was sent a PS1 by my grandfather. Of all the games it had, Spyro was my favorite and I spent hours playing it after school. I thought this game repeating was just because my PS1 was probably broken since my grandpa and my uncles used to play with it. Now growing up, I just realized how being a kid really is. You don't care about things at all, and I didn't remember being frustrated aside from being defeated by enemies or bosses. I only had fun.
This unironically gives me such a cool idea for a boss. It looked like the Sorcereress cast Spyro back intentionally to the very start. If a boss seemingly intentionally did that, thats both genius and infuriating
Tech Rules: plays a pirate game to review its anti-piracy system
FBI: wAiT,tHaTs ILeGaL
"Educational purposes"
@@sampleentry5253 Also, it is not illegal if you still have the copy of the original game AND is using it yourself, so you didn't send it to friend, etc.
@@TheCrash480 false. Piracy and theft are not the same. If you own a copy, you are allowed to make a backup of said copy. Downloading a backup is still a backup.
@@TheCrash480 and a lot of that "licensing" stuff got overturned in a washing machine case last year, and even more is still being undone from apple losing a lot of its cases.
You own what you buy. If you buy a game disk, you own that disk and what is on that disk. You cant resell it, but you can make as many copies or edits to it as you want
@@TheCrash480 example: sega master system, NES, SNES etc. are legally allowed to be downloaded. the catch is, as long as you own it and have the means to play it. think of it like this -- you bought a cd, and you listen to that cd at home and in your car (generalisation) your computer/console can't play that while the disc drive is being used for other things, so you're allowed to consume the product your bought by "ripping" the cd contents off and creating a digital file on your computer. that's all that he's done in this video.
emulators are allowed you know. hardware like a console (PS, XB, NES) is sold with the explicit instruction not to modify or change the data in the machine. when you buy a game/music/movie you are only obligated to keep that individual copy for yourself. you're not allowed to share it or redistribute it. like buying a large bag of Quavers full of smaller bags of Quavers or 4/8/12/24 pack of beer. you can't sell them or pretend you made the contents and redistribute it. the individual items are for personal use only.
i can't hook up my sega's, nintendos or my playstations because they don't have HDMI slots. i "steal" my console games because i own them and wish to play them. downloading them is no different to ripping them yourself. it's the same act.
the law isnt the same as regulation. the law doesn't know much about what to do with digital content. this is why gullible people are being suckered into buying loot boxes and "micro-transactions". no regulation, no law. if you're clearly pirating for profit, then yeah, you're a thief and should be treated as such. until the waking world notices what technology has been doing for the last 20 years, the laws wont be enforced any further than they have been.
*_Eventually, Spyro stopped thinking._*
Kars
Xeno X fun fact, i made a jojo reference before i even watched JoJo. help.
@@BeanieGoth if you have never watched jojo....you should watch it right now.
Xeno X bruh
my name and profile picture are both from part five
i finished parts 1-4 last month
and i don’t regret it one bit
@@BeanieGoth that shit fire right
Ive only seen part 1-4
Is 5 just as good?
Oh, so was cyberpunk just thinking every version of the game was pirated?
perhaps
This has endless potential for a lets play
0:15
That is the least intimidating thing I've ever seen, "the the levels" "your allowed to play"
The lighting of the letters still makes it a bit creepy to me
yeah it absolutely destroyed the impact. It goes from "oh shit I'm caught" to "haha alright sport I'll buy your little cartridge" in a matter of seconds.
Me: I mean sure eggs keep disappearing and its annoying going back but the games not that unplayable
German: Ich bin kurz davor, die Karriere des ganzen Mannes zu beenden
*die ganze Karriere dieses Mannes.
Haha, der ganze Mann...
@@agodawfulmspaintabominatio2631 A good example on why google translate is terrible at translating.
(I speak german and this translation is hilarious) It says "I'm gonna end the career of this whole man"
Nicht nur ein Bisschen des Mannes, nein, der GANZE MANN!
@@marlonoswald551 I'm gonna end your career with my superior German.
I know absolutely zero about anything related to spyro, and I still found this video incredibly fascinating.
It almost feels like a haunted copy.
I love this stuff.
It really does feel like a haunted copy😄, I love it too!
4:42 “Keep pirates at bay”
Intentional pun??
Ah, my favorite Gaming Shop
@@niclasneziru1854
It's like one of those stores that's always closing down!
Everything must go!
@@niclasneziru1854 That's why PC is always better than console... Free games! I never bought a PC game for like a decade.
@@narata1541 yikes dude. I kind of understand pirating a game if its region locked or something of the sort, but pirating every single game you want is pretty annoying to devs :/
@Narata Except the same thing happens on console so there goes that
Omg.. and my stupid young ass thought my disc had too many scratches xD
I basically struggled to the end.
Lost everything
And thought I won lmao
Same!
I edited this comment 'cuz yes.
@@sutibu719 Omg Wtf HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHHAAH
You actually played a pirated copy of this game
@@sutibu719 your english sucks
"keep pirates at bay"
I see what you did there.
I remember when I was in kindergarten and I had my dads ps1 and a cracked copy of Spyro 3.
the game ran fine and didn’t encounter anything unusual, until I got to the final boss, I remember getting attacked by what felt like an unavoidable attack which instantly put me on a loading screen and loaded back in the first area, was probably the first time I ever walked out of my room to vent lmao (I was probably 5-6 at the time)
I do remember trying to turn the ps1 on & off in hopes to recover my save, and I also remember asking my dad to get another memory card because I kept loosing my save file when I died on the last boss and blamed the card not the illegitimate Disc lol!
I found this video because I searched up “Spyro 3 anti piracy because I was curious if anybody else had any similar experiences from 17 years ago lmao.
Omg ! You made me realise after 20 FREAKIN YEARS that my game was a crack..... Thanks dad ! I actually tried finishing it about 6 times, and the same thing happens every time.
You are a legend but .... How did u get that cracked version of the game?
I just realised this too. Thought my game was legit.. Everytime I got to the last boss it would refresh my save! I tried 3 times!
Same here 😂😂😂
So, the fairy telling you you're game was an illegal copy didn't clue you in?
@@brianschaefer3851 Well i was a kid at the time, so i didnt really pay attention to the long texts. Just wanted eggs and gems
When my uncle bought me the pirated version, we had no idea it was pirated. Zoey wasn't there to tell us that. Everything was fine in the first world because we could 100% everything available to us at the moment... but things started getting weird starting from the second world. I couldn't get every gem in certain worlds no matter how hard I looked. I was even more confused when I unlocked Sparx's ability to detect gems and he couldn't find anything despite the menu saying that I didn't find all of the gems. I started to feel that there is something wrong with the game but had no idea what it was. And of course, when I went to battle the Sorceress, it didn't let me finish the fight and resetted EVERYTHING. I was so shocked that I remained speechless for a while. Losing all that progress was just... 💔💔💔
Ooof
It sucks seeing how many people got cracked versions from cheap parents who dont wanna pay.
I love all your videos! I rewatch them all the time, especially this video and the 3ds video. I find them so interesting
I remember having a pirated copy of Spyro cause it came with the playstation my parents got at a market when I was a kid, and ironically I actually kind of loved all the weird stuff that would happen in it. like the game plays like normal for the first chapter or so, and the save fairy is like "lol sorry spyro, but you're in a hacked copy of the game, shit's gonna get weird from here on out.", then some levels just have no music, now the textures for this cutscene model are all bugged out, then suddenly you're like halfway through the game, then you are suddenly fighting the first boss again, but they're green now, and whoops, now you suddenly have Moneybags blocking you from a level even after paying the toll, and uh oh, now you're stuck on this mega cursed silent loading screen and have to restart the game. but then every now and again it would just work like a normal copy of Spyro 3. it's weirdly nostalgic in a childhood trauma kind of way.
That's... hilarious.
When I was a kid, I tought that the game was supposed to run like this, and I literally completed the game Twice, When I was on the boss I took out the memory Card to when it reloads I didn't lose my file... In Brazil, pretty much every console was Modded, due to the prices, And it was so fun to go throught this, that when I played it the original way, I Tought that it was missing the mechanic LoL
We’re not worthy of the strength you have.
drama de todo BR na infancia, nunca terminar spyro 3 piratão kkkk
Who needs casinos, just buy a pirated Spyro 3 and hope it's the properly cracked one lmao
it was FUN to play through it like this? jesus christ marry me
@@crylune actually for me it was the intended way, so i thought that "oh! The game is hard, the boss is making me go through all the game again!" And it was an fun.
Me as a youngling playing year of the dragon for the first time: Hi fairy lady!
Zoe: I’m sorry, Spyro, but you seem to be playing a hacked version of this game. This may be an illegal copy. Since this copy has been modified, you may experience problems that would not occur on a legal copy.
Me: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAD YOU GOT ME AN ILLEGAL GAME!
"Unfortunatly the boss fight in question contains the most evil trick of them all"
*GETS AD*
I loved the cracked version of Spyro. The effects are hilarious to me, and yes, I made it to the sorceress.
Hold up.
This is your SECOND VIDEO?!
You sound like you'd have years of experience!!! That's so cool!
@@mr.serious707 He also had a lot of hand wringing at the start saying "I know this video might sound boring... and Spyro might not interest people..." which showed a lack of confidence to me, trying to justify this video's own existence.
@@DestroyedArkana If anything, it speaks in the favor of being confident rather than not being confident. You hear stuff like this from creators all the time, not everyone goes "Alright guys, I know you're gonna be excited about this one!". Him deciding to spend a VERY long time producing a video that he knows isn't exactly exciting because he knows the content is actually good enough to keep watching shows confidence
he got a lot wrong actually so im not surprised he is new
His pinned comment appears to namedrop Proto Mario, so wouldn’t be surprised if he has connections to some of the best channels on TH-cam...
This dudes done tons of videos... many of them are like 20 glitches you didn't know about... or 10 most creepy easter eggs etc. No idea about the channel. But the whole format of the video and voice is exactly the same... his old channel probably got highlighted by TH-cam for some reason and he struck a deal. I'll start a new channel if you throw me in the algorithms to help get my fanbase back up ;) rather than just a total ban, a reset, and a promise to follow the rules from now on
Dude played an entire video game just to make a video on it, now that is dedication
That's something else entirely in my opinion😒
.......that's... absolutely normal ?
TeeTaan Did you watch the video. The game is borderline unplayable and is 200% more frustrating.
You should check out Nitro Rad, he completes every game he reviews, no matter how shitty it is.
Man, I can't even beat a lot of games I love. For instance, I fucking love Mega Man 2, but *if* I hadn't seen others actually beat it, for all I knew, the final boss could have been Dr. Wiley *flying in a giant dick-shaped space ship.
*Edit
Jon, from the GameHut channel, pioneered this type of anti piracy scheme on the Amiga:
1. Simple copy protection to keep honest people honest.
2. Game detects more advanced attempt at cracking: allows crack as if normal, fooling pirates into thinking their job is done.
3. Game stops working halfway through.
Oh my god! Yes! All these issues you talked about, i had em all! I thought that my version was pirated by amatour, or its becouse of the trainer... This video brings so many memories, thank you!
"it eventually does always get cracked."
Handball 17 has gone uncracked for over three years now.
@mozamioo _ None of the cracking scenes want to put in the effort to crack it.
Honestly, who would want to put in the effort year after year to crack sports games? Think about it; every year there’s a new FIFA, Madden, NBA2K, NHL, MLB The Show, Handball, and more and more. It’s kinda pointless, especially when they’re all the same games every year
its just too hard. their anti-pirating methods are so elaborate that nobody can get in.
@@2tired2p15 I hope you're being sarcastic. It's just denuvo + lack of interest.
@@Ass_Blaster_Disaster_Master i mean yeah, i dont really expect for anybody to be bored enough or even know that game to actually try.
Cracked spyro loses the pause button, requires to get through the same areas over and over to beat a boss, becomes extremely difficult. Basically it becomes dark souls
but Dark Souls doesn't reset the game save data while you're in the middle of fighting the last boss. THAT is not just awesome, it's cruel.
Cracked Spyro is the Crash Bandicoot of Dark Souls.
"dark souls is soooo difficult!!!!!!!!"
found the scrub, git gud
@@RealMasterChief117 found the virgin
@@beriking Nope :) nice try though
Some 20-22 years ago, I had spyro on a demo disk and I played the absolute life out of that game. I was too young and my parents hated my existence so I never got to own the actual game sadly, and I never understood why my friends cracked games didnt work on my console. Thanks for sharing this cool info!
Hello TechRules! This video is an absolute classic and is extremely well made. I would appreciate it if you made a similar video on one of your favorite games with cool Anti-Piracy. Thank you!
I had a pirated copy of this Spyro game as a child, I remember making it to the second boss in the game but being intimidated to fight them, so I went back to the first boss to fight him again as a warm up. When I beat him the game acted as if I finished the game and I was sent to this bonus round with just tons and tons of gems. I didn't explore it much because I thought I'd be able to go back but I've never seen that bonus level ever again.
Some games have "bonus" levels like this that are actually routing around a game crash. You did something in a specific order that the developers knew about, but didn't have the time to fix, so have a bunch of gems for doing something unintended and good luck finding it again!
So what happened did you beat the pirate game
I think it was the bonus lvl that you unlock after you've found every egg and gem on the game.
Oh I think this is the Super Bonus Round which exists in the legit game
This channel has a long and bright future. Keep up the excellent work!
agreed!
these videos need subtitles
Indeed
Man's speedrunning youtube
+1
I remember having an issue with this game when I was a kid, I don't remember paying too much attention to that fairy's message, nor the glitches like spark's color changing to green, but there was some area with some astronaut monkey where the game was always crashing, and some odd random stuff were always happening until it hit the point where my save file got corrupted. So I guess I just had a pirated copy of the game.
This is one of the reasons why Insomniac is one of my favorite dev companies, alongside R&C: A Crack In Time being my childhood. Amazing work by them!
About 10 years ago my older brother got an emulator so I could play this game on our computer and I remember weird things happening like eggs disappearing and moneybags demanding bail money for characters that I already freed, but I struggled all the way to the end where my save was reset at the final boss. 6yo me wasn't smart enough to know what anti-piracy was so I thought it was normal and there was a time limit to defeat the final boss, so I proceeded to struggle through the game again only to reach the final boss and lose everything... again
@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster Nobody goes to prison for piracy, and emulators aren't illegal on their own
@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster Yes, massive companies that have caused lost revenue in the region of millions of dollars, not 1 kid, who downloads 1 game or 1 emulator
@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster you can't, it's not worth the cost to the law inforcement in legal fees. At the absolute worst, you'd get a fine
@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster I'm gonna download a spyro rom just to spite you honestly
@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster "Please make sure to mind your business next time boy" Well that's ironic.
seems like you were picked by the algorithm today. good luck
Tilly Law was thinking the same 😂
ikr i hope he makes it and if he does then me and a bunch of others will be og
This video is probably the reason I got recommended the Mario Party DS anti piracy videos
Annihilasian omg same