>defeats piracy with a simple trick instead of DRM bloat
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>defeats piracy with a simple trick instead of DRM bloat
>defeats piracy with a simple trick instead of DRM bloat
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until you rented it
Renting is piracy
jokes on you, i started called every codec number until i got it
Same, brute force dialed every number.
>pirates cd case
what now kosneedma
You can, obviously. The beauty of this DRM is that the bazaargay who sold you a pirated copy had no idea that there's anything relevant on it.
how does that affect anything?
most of my pirated ps1 games came with self printed covers
That's a legitimate form of DRM, though. Plenty of old games had code wheels or information in their manuals that you had to enter to play the game
back when devs put actual thought and care into their games and didn't just load it up with malware and call it a day
That's a fair point. Even though DRM has always hurt paying customers more than pirates, if only by being a pain in the ass that was hacked out, at least it wasn't bloatware or spyware
played this game when i was 8 and this shit filtered me HARD
I was playing it for the first time on the master collection and just thought it was a neat little feature that they included pictures of the box art. Also the electro shock segment gave me carpal tunnel
I played this game when I was 9 years old and I was so confused by this part because I thought the CD case was an actual item in the game and not the actual CD case because my mind did not comprehend 4th wall breaking yet.
Good thing Kojima had the decency to make it the sixteenth number you call if you go through them in order, like I had to do when I played a pirated copy on a modded PS1 when I was 9
>makes you reconsider emulating any game
So was that actually DRM or was it just a fun easter egg?
Like Psycho Mantis reading your memory card, or the game calling you poor for not owning a stereo TV, or Otacon telling you to put in Disc 2.
back then it's definitely a form of DRM, even if unintended. The moment internet went mainstreams though, it's more like an easter egg.
I'm asking if Kojima said he did that with the intention of it being DRM, or if it was simply one of a long list of the game's fourth wall breaks that, through sheer unplanned coincidence, fricked over rentgays.
Definitely intended, Metal Gear 2 (msx) had far worse "DRM" when it came to checking the manual for codes to get past a spot
It was not DRM. Why would a PS1 game need DRM. Its not like Ps1 piracy was know or accessible during PS1s life. Kojima always tried to bring the medium to higher ground by featuring all sorts of weird gimmicks. I dont even remember is the PC version had the codec on the case.
You get other ways you can break the 4th wall such as memory card reading and port switch with psycho mantis.
Boktai had a feature that used GBAs solar power to power your gun.
In MGS3 you could kill The End by waiting tok long or The end would get you if you waited a bit.
This kind of stuff has always been present on Kojimas games.
Metal Gear 2
PS1 piracy was extremely prevalent during it's lifetime, you are wrong and stupid.
>Its not like Ps1 piracy was know or accessible during PS1s life
Where are you from? I'm from Denmark and 9/10 people I knew with Playstations all had them chipped to play pirated games, so we could all rent games from Blockbuster and then burn to our own CD-roms and easily get free games that way.
zoomers, you need to stop
look up drm and spyro 3
It's not drm because if you simply call in enough times he does give you the code
I rented the game and thought this was a tremendous oversight, but then I found out that Japan banned renting because Nintendo cried about it in the 80s, so everything made sense.
With all the changes Blaustein made, I'm surprised he didn't remove this anti-rental shit.
>Hey is that morse code?
>No I recognize it. It's tap code used by American POW in Vietcong prison camps
>Try to decipher it, there is a table written down in the manual
If you equip the DISC and go into codec and call Campbell, Meryl's frequency will appear in your list in the codec menu afterwards.
>Mfw try all combinations.
>If you equip the optical disc, Meryl's codec frequency is available
neat