Players who load up a pirated version of the game will be treated to a never-ending boat ride at the beginning of the game. At first it was unknown if the boat ride was actually a game breaking glitch, but Square Enix confirmed shortly after that it was included as a copy protection mechanism.
Unfortunately for Square Enix, modders have already found a workaround for the protection and the modified ROM dump for the game is likely floating around somewhere at this point. Nevertheless, Square Enix is attacking the source alongside Nintendo with a lawsuit aimed to stop the distribution of flash carts in Japan.
what Square need to do is completely control the distribution of the ROM. THey need to be the ones uploading the 'cracked' version onto ROM sites except that the crack only lets players get an additional thirty minutes of play time out of it. And just repeat this process indefinitely until filthy, unwashed pirates buy the game or just get bent.
what Square need to do is completely control the distribution of the ROM. THey need to be the ones uploading the 'cracked' version onto ROM sites except that the crack only lets players get an additional thirty minutes of play time out of it. And just repeat this process indefinitely until filthy, unwashed pirates buy the game or just get bent.
what Square need to do is completely control the distribution of the ROM. THey need to be the ones uploading the 'cracked' version onto ROM sites except that the crack only lets players get an additional thirty minutes of play time out of it. And just repeat this process indefinitely until filthy, unwashed pirates buy the game or just get bent.
You know that the warez scene has quality control systems where they "nuke" (i.e. take off the web) any releases that fail to function properly due to bad cracks or viruses?
There isn't any quality control system that couldn't be completely flooded with fake releases... :cool;
