Chrono Trigger DS tries to end piracy, but the Pirates… they are too strong!
Square Enix deployed a few methods in the game to try to prevent piracy of the ROM of this classic game. The company claims to be vehemently against piracy and will try to fight the problem as much as possible. The specific anti-piracy fix for this game happens when Chrono decides to go into the time portal or not, and the game’s script freezes the game. Even if you get lucky to get through this part, there is another freezing part around the time you get Frog in your party.
Square has done this before in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals, which made a freeze screen (promptly named by pirates as the “Moogles of Death“) and coders quickly created a fix for this within days of the ROM release! Score 1 for Pirates… Nice try Square Enix
Here comes round two! Square Enix deploys not only 1 fix, but multiple fixes in the game! Yet, coders were able to crack the fixes within hours of the release of the ROM! Score 2 Pirates, Try again Square.
I’m fairly sure that this fight against piracy is far from over, but as a subsidation for actually buying the game, Square enix is giving a few hundred copies of the game’s soundtrack with the purchase of a hard copy of the game in Japan. Sometimes it’s worth not sailing on the boat of eyepatched keyboard heroes.
-Ndroo
PSN Catches Up to Xbox Live
Sony recently announced that they have 14 million members registered to the Playstation Network. This number matches the numbers Microsoft announced last month at TGS. Of course, numbers like these can’t always be fully accepted as truth. PSN is free, meaning that people are more likely to go ahead and register to play or shop online. It also means that people are probably going to create multiple accounts on one machine. This can lead to inflated numbers. The fact of the matter still remains that PSN is a free service and Xbox Live is not. Being able to support the same number of people as a paid service for free is a testament to Sony.
Sony has definitely made some boneheaded mistakes in the past. The Playstation Network is, for sure, not one of them.
Internet Channel Will Get Update
So Nintendo will finally update their Internet Channel with three new additions the original browser. WiiSpeak microphone support will be added to the browser. How that will work no one really knows. Voice chat? Skype? Nintendo will finally join the firefox generation and add tabbed browsing to the internet channel in the form of a tab cube. Each side of the cube shows a tab. Seems pretty odd to me, but at least it’ll have the same functionality as my favorite browser. Lastly, you’ll be able to read your wii messages from inside the browser. As a cosmetic change, Nintendo opted to make the buttons on the bottom big and stupid looking. I have no idea who makes the decisions, but these buttons look real stupid.
New Rumor: Music Studio Coming to Rock Band 2???
Here is some hot off the press news that I know you all hope will come true. Dan Teasdale, the lead designer of Rock Band 2, and his buddies at Harmonix are exploring the possibilities of creating an in-game music studio that features an “authentic experience.” Dan believes that they have to go “all-in” if they are going to include a music studio in a future release and points to the limitations of Guitar Hero World Tour’s studio makes it a “half-arsed” effort.
What limitations? Well, Dan would do it this way:
“We actually want to find a way to for people to create music and express themselves, but when we do we want to make sure that people can sing, or the songs can be longer than three minutes, or that you can have more than 1200 notes, or that you’re not tied to some dodgy sample somewhere. We want to make sure it’s an authentic experience and it fits on the platform.”
Here’s to hoping that you find this informative.
Your Game Guru,
Jay Torres
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