Anti-Piracy ROMs?

non-1337 · Post by **non-1337** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:36 pm

Good day again.
It's 3am in the morning here, but I would wish to know if this was already reported in: In the newer WIP, I had ROMs that just displayed a strange screen (on start-up) that seems to be related to an anti-piracy measure, or something. Super Bombliss (J) was the latest one to do this to me...

I'm using 10/24/04WIP and on an AthlonXP 1050 Thunderbird, nVidia TNT2 Video card (using latest drivers), on Windows XP, by the way.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:25 pm

could you please post a screenshot or something??

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 12:17 am

Joe Camacho wrote:could you please post a screenshot or something??

Yeah, please post a screenshot.

non-1337 · Post by **non-1337** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:14 am

So sorry, it was three in the morning here, and I got too lazy to post one. Anyway, here's a sequence from Super Bombliss (J).--startup to error message.

And the ROM info:
File: SuperBomblissJJAP.smc Header: Yes
SUPER BOMBLISS(J) TYPE:NORMAL
INTERLEAVED:No BANK:Lo CHKSUM:FAIL
VIDEO:NTSC CRC32:FC66B6CD

Oh, and one Kirby game did this too (I think it's the baseball Kirby game, I forgot):

The ROM info:
File: Kirby No Kira Kizzu (J) (NP).zip Header: No
KIRBY NO KIRA KIZZU TYPE:NORMAL
INTERLEAVED:No BANK:Lo CHKSUM:OK
VIDEO:NTSC CRC32:035265BF

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:19 am

non-1337 wrote: File: SuperBomblissJJAP.smc Header: Yes
SUPER BOMBLISS(J) TYPE:NORMAL
INTERLEAVED:No BANK:Lo CHKSUM:FAIL
VIDEO:NTSC CRC32:FC66B6CD

Bad rom. Try the rom that's in NSRT's database and see if the message is reproducible (if it is even a bug, can't tell since I have no idea what it says there.)

non-1337 · Post by **non-1337** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:14 am

How about the Kirby ROM? It's a good ROM, but had a similar message. I remember yet another ROM doing this in the WIP, can't remember it, though, have to check again. I'll have my Japanese teacher translate the messages.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:24 am

non-1337 wrote:

"Please remove the Mouse, Superscope, Multiplayer5, or any special controller and use a normal controller to play this game on your Super Famicom."

Pretty obvious now.. Config -> Add-on -> None.

non-1337 · Post by **non-1337** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:49 am

Yup, figured out just as much after seeing this on my Tetris & Dr. Mario ROM.:

But it was set on NONE, then I figured out that I had an extra controller config for a third player, so I removed Player 3. Thanks a lot for the replies

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 10:00 am

You're welcome.