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horror movies: 👶 anti piracy screens: 👹

"How do we get people to stop pirating our games???" "Give 'em a seizure."

The Cuphead Anti-Piracy screen isn't real actually, the audio plays on the main menu only if you accept the devil's deal, it's not for anti-piracy Edit: I'm aware of the recent discovery regarding the Konami code, I made this comment when that wasn't known

Imagine if there was an anti-piracy dialogue that subtly brings you in a darker, different version of the game and you wouldn’t even know it

I feel bad for the players who bought Gold Rush or Kings Quest legitimately, only to lose the manual. Or bought the game used and the manual wasn't included.

If I made a game I totally would put in a scary anti piracy screen

Always unsettling when video games go a little bit wrong in a way they're not supposed to be.

Sega anti piracy:Sonic will never pirate games so kids don't pirate ok? Meanwhile Nintendo:You have 3 days until mario steal's your liver

Honestly I thought the BLACK HOLE one was the creepiest. Imagine playing a game at night being highly immersed and it just instantly cuts to that lol

Funny thing about the Serious Sam one: people liked it so much the some fans purposely went out of their way to pirate it to play that verison. I'm pretty sure it was added in later to the actual game as an alternate game mode. Same deal happened with Game Dev Tycoon's anit piracy.

If you don’t want people pirating the game then don’t make 99.9% of the game playable

The Zelda hair thing is so damn weird, but her leaving Link in the lurch is pretty damn funny

Actually, the Cuphead anti-piracy thing was never confirmed, even though the file exists in the game, noone found how to trigger it.

2:11 sorry, You're just getting confused. That's the BAD ending, and is only obtainable if you DIDN'T pirate the game but still gave up your soul in the finale. I remember reading it on the wiki.

I remember as a kid I was playing a pirated version of Age of Empires 1 and very rarely after opening the game you would see a very low quality footage of a horse kicking a man in the face. I think I only saw it a couple of times but it was enough to traumatize me.

3:50 the ultimate get back on an anti piracy I have ever seen. You can play the entire game... but you don't get the satisfaction of beating it.

Thanks for the heads up. I have epilepsy and I respect the hell out of KZfaqrs who give warnings.

these were so terrifying i could feel the anti-piracy coming inside me

“How do we stop people pirating our games?” Sony: “We tell them that piracy is wrong and make them buy the real game. Nintendo: “haha, seizures go brrrrrr”

The Gold Rush screen was honestly genius in my opinion, especially for an older game where they didn't really have anti-piracy screens yet.

Fun fact: cupheads anti piracy song is also used if you get the bad ending

These screens are legit more horrifying than modern horror games today

Out of all of these, Gimmick's anti-piracy screen scared me the most probably because I was watching the video in the dark.

I thought the Cuphead one wasn't real. The song is real, but I thought no one knew how to really trigger it.

I like how the song "libet's delay" by the caretaker is constantly playing in the background which kinda of fits the theme of this video

I don’t know why, but Gimmick’s anti piracy screen has to be the most unsettling to me. At any given moment, it just instantaneously cuts to black with those two words. It doesn’t help that it seems completely out of tone with the actual game.

Some of these I'd heard about. Anti-Piracy measures are really interesting! One in Dragon Quest actually turned the game into a demo.

There's also some anti-piracy screens in Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3.

One of my favorites is from Just Shapes and Beats where the developer talks to you and he is being really nice to you. I love that one

imagine if a child pirated a game, they'd have goddamn trauma

6:24 i like how just the words, black hole, apear on the screen. It's kinda funny...

This became a some sort of meme to the point i ended up forggoten that there's some real ones.

2:19 that distorted opening is actually the unused opening in reverse

I would totally have my anti piracy be a Rick roll

Wouldn’t it be cool to make this into a movie, like turns out your life is a lie and you obtained it illegally so the main character have to deal with all the strange and scary stuff going on.

This is a well made video. I’m glad you didn’t include any over the top scary and threatening ones, and kept it real

FYI, the OoT anti-piracy “feature” was apparently later revealed by the person who “found” it to be a prank on the folks at The Cutting Room Floor since there’s technically no code in the different versions of the game to cause such a thing to happen. As for how they faked it, you can pretty much guess the answer, given how accessible modding and emulating these old N64 games have become over the years. 🤗

Awesome video, no fake BS, and even gave credit to where he originally found the information. You sir are a rarity on KZfaq, and do have my utmost respect

Gold rushes anti piracy is really disturbing. It feels to harsh that you get hanged for pirating a game. Ocarina of times anti piracy is honestly really funny and great! I love how they make you not be able to beat the game right at the end. That creepy cuphead theme is not anti piracy. It’s just a really disturbing Easter egg. Also what makes this theme even more disturbing is that the audio file is named “666”

7:54 imagine giving someone a stroke just because they dont have money

I wouldn’t make an anti piracy screen, I would make the game slowly turn into complete hell, with the menu disabled and no way to exit what they were doing unless they close the game or turn off the system.

Don't know if it's been said yet, but Gimmick's 'BLACK HOLE' is a reference to the game 'Atlantis No Nazo'. Taking exactly the wrong path through the game would lead to a room with no floor and the words 'BLACK HOLE' as the background, where the player would immediately and repeatedly fall to their death until they ran out of lives. You know, one of those obnoxious old "Gotchas" from those early years of game design.

7:48 epileptic people: **chuckles*.I'm in danger.*

The cuphead anti-piracy music is in the files, and viewed in a spectrogram, the the first phase, transition, and final phase of the devil fight can all be made out. Makes sense to put it as an anti-piracy title song.

2:34 something that you forgot, in last boss battle, there's a screen, if you say yes, tha- that's Hella creepy

I love that ocarina of time let's you play the entire game and stops you from beating the game at the end

Wow - at least 3 of these anti-piracy screens I did NOT know about. And I've watched a lot of these anti-piracy measure videos. This makes up for the mistaken Cuphead one. Great stuff!

One time when I was younger, I sneaked downstairs at night to play Roblox on the computer and I got a lovely error screen that scared the living hell out of me.

I really like the Zelda one, but my favorite ones (off this list) are the not creepy ones, there just plain old fun!

8:36 be like: Whoops! Im gonna die now!

My ideal anti piracy in a game would be one that instead of kicking you out it gives you some more lore...like a more fcked up version of the game or somethin. As a ex pirate turned hoping to be a game developer when I get my life together I'd find it amazing. It could expand on the plot...like if a game has heavy plot then put some into the piracy stuff to make it amazing and then that might make pirates want to get the real stuff. My opinion of course.

Love that Oot just carries you up until the end and is just like, “Nope! :D” I love that

5:09 NO WAY! That's Rick Astley.

I was watching this at night and your narration makes it feel much better. Thank you😅

The cuphead pirated opening sounds like if the original was made by the caretaker

I had actually heard of DJMAX, and I was like, heck, I’m a stickler for rhythm games, so I got an iso file for Fever (it was only one of two for the PSP released in America, the other being Portable 3) and put it on my hacked PS3. Unfortunately, the way the game checks for piracy wasn’t actually able to be solved on a PS3, it checks if there is a UMD (the psp’s weird little disc format) was inserted. So I actually got that anti-piracy effect, and legit thought that it was the PS3’s shitty PSP emulation. Oh, and if you thought Fever’s anti-piracy was crazy, BLACK SQUARE’s anti-piracy was even crazier, mainly due to a big piracy problem with the last game, Clazziquai Edition. Not only does it have the glitchy mess that Fever had, but if it detected an ISO folder on your PSP memory card, it would delete save data for Clazziquai Edition. The thing that made this even more believable was that if you had a Clazziquai Edition disc, you could put BLACK SQUARE into a special mode where you could play all the songs from Clazziquai Edition along with BLACK SQUARE’s lineup. So someone could actually believe that it wasn’t the game doing it on purpose, but their PSP actually just glitching out. I actually play it using the PSVITA’s much more accurate PSP emulation now, and it’s a pretty good time. That first run in with the anti-piracy on my PS3 scarred me for life though. tl;dr DON’T PIRATE DJMAX GAMES, THEY FUCK YOUR PSP UP.

Imagine not paying 20 bucks for cuphead. Ngl it’s worth it (also all the music in Cuphead is great)

oh my god the california gold rush one was horrifying

"Any last words?" Me: "I can't believe you got me hanging"

Great video! I love to see more Anti-Piracy screen compilations! Please make more.

I would like to have a moment of silence for all the people who lost their manual

The "No, really, I'm Jesus!" pre-mortem line was hilarious. Doubly funny with all of that tension being built up, only to be defused by a cheeky witticism and anticlimactic end.

2:01 I once downloaded cracked Cuphead to check it out and I heard normal menu music.

Job simulator's Anti-Piracy Screen be like: Hello welcome to the void

Honestly man your content is amazing you deserve more subs, keep up the amazing work!

Cuphead is drm-free although the anti piracy music exists in the game files theres no way to trigger it

you should credit shadow-shana for super horror mario cause she said that "I know this is pretty late but I just wanted to say that it isn't okay if you just use my artwork and clip it in your videos or creepypastas or whatever you'd like to do WITHOUT giving me any credits... " on an update in the description of the artwork back in 2015

5:20 when I was a kid I played the original police quest pc games. Police quest 2 required you to have the manual to look up certain people and I always found it annoying. But now I know why LOL

Plot twist: ocarina of time anti piracy is the beginning of the fallen hero timeline.

It's so hard finding stuff about anti-piracy screens but it's a topic I find oddly interesting but almost every result is a creepypasta. Thank you for making a good video

as a person who pirates games, I never saw one of these

You should probably put a serious flashing lights warning on this. The glitching for the rhythm game even caused my eyes to hurt a little.

I like to think that OOT's anti piracy happening at the end of the game in the tall tower falling apart is meant to symbolise all what the player went through during their playthrough just falling apart as they will never be able to finish it

In loz link's awakening there is a mechanic where if you steal from a store most of the NPCs call you thief for the rest of the game, nintendo should of made of so that in pirated versions that your name will automatically be thief no matter what,

great video!

I think that the DJMax is a little too much... all these flashes could make someone seize

Someone should do a Bendy and the Ink Machine antipiracy screen. That should scare the pants off of people that copy video games or do a FNAF antipiracy jumpscare

Anti-Piracy Definition : Giving people eternal nightmares forever.

I love how you used an EATEOT song. It's so nostalgic and amazing. It goes well with some of the classic games shown here.

the amount of detail put into making those haha. but how you find out about them-

There's one piracy screen (Not really a piracy screen) i love and in it's in Earthbound's final boss, where when you get to phase two the entire game soft locks and when you reset your entire save file is deleted.

Funny thing about Serious Sam 3 is that people actually use pirated versions with the scorpion as challenge runs.

For the comment that claims the anti piracy Cuphead clip is false, there are 2 devil songs. One is when you end up making a deal with the devil (which is part of the game) and the other being the anti piracy screen shown here

1:13 this is what happens if you agree to the devil's offer im pretty sure

i downloaded cuphead from some piracy site and ive never heard that music in the title screen

Nice. Thanks

I love it when they let you get to the end and then they just stop you before you can finish and your just left there with like 10+ hrs wasted

I would make my anti piracy like every hour a GIANT TEXT which blocks every inch of the screen

The Cuphead one isn't real, it was confirmed by the creators that there is nothing actually stopping people from pirating Cuphead

“How do we stop hackers and pirates bill?” make them have a nightmare for 20 years

I would love if an anti piracy thing would just be the regular game but it feels just slightly off until it just turns into some creepypasta version of the game around 10 minutes into the game

0:13 automatically sees one of Nathaniel Bandy's videos

1:34 its NOT an anti piracy screen like i played it for free downloaded by utorent and look normal song! (Btw this audio file was just found in game unused lol)

In my opinion gimmick anti piracy screen was the most unsetting one imagine you are alone in a dark room playing the pirated version and this appears...

There’s actually a pretty scary one you forgot. It’s from a German Indie game called Gorebox, a sandbox game that’s pretty much just 3D People Playground. If the game detects cheats or an ad blocker (the only way the game makes money on mobile is ads), it will cut to a black screen with a grey player model in the center, except they have a distorted and bloody face that seems to be inspired by the image from the Creepypasta “Tomino’s Hell”. It will slowly zoom in on the face while red text reading “WHAT ARE YOU DOING” constantly is pasted over the screen. A few seconds after the screen completely has zoomed in on the face, the game crashes. Some would say it’s fake, but the screen is in the files, mentioned in multiple anti-piracy screen videos and, for a while, there was a command in the multiplayer mode chat that would trigger it (/Whatareyoudoing) that was used to test the screen.

Wasn’t the Cuphead song disproven to be from anti-piracy?

what if one actually tried and beat the game with the serious sam red scorpion

For Gold Rush, they did the same with Stunts 4D racing. If you didn't have it, you'd start the race and then it would just crash on you

With King's Quest VI, you don't 'fall into the pits of hell'. You just fall off a cliff. The death screen, that shows Alexander going into the land of the dead, plays after most deaths in the game.