Chrono Trigger DS tries to end piracy, but the Pirates… they are too strong!

November 21, 2008 at 10:44 am (Nintendo Company Ltd., Nintendo DS) (, , )

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

1 Comment

  1. Nathan said,

    March 16, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I unintentionally purchased a pirated copy of this game off of Ebay. It seemed a little funny to me at first but when I looked at the instruction booklet and found a review of the game instead of actual in instructions I knew I had been fooled. Also there was a Gamespot logo watermark on most of the images in the booklet. Oh well, the game works anyway. Great game.

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