Anti-Piracy

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Super metroid anti-piracy screen.

Anti-piracy is an unofficial cartridge registration method that when detecting that the cartridge is illegal, the game freezes on a screen full of text saying that it is a serious crime to copy video games, the game will be seen on this screen until the user put an original cartridge, this also happens with the metroid saga and it was seen for the first time in super metroid, there are some anti-piracy screens that have the image of the screen of `` Game Over some examples are Donkey country 2 and 3, Super Metroid anti-piracy not only freezethe game also deletes all files permanently.

As you can see, the anti-piracy screen of Donkey Kong Country 2 & Donkey Kong Country 3 are influenced by the game over screen.

Why was it invented?

Nintendo has no mercy with pirates since it suffers many hacks and sometimes instead of freezing its game they make it practically impossible, as in Metroid:Zero Mission in which all the enemies become immortal and if samus dies a text appears in which it says that the space pirates achieved their mission and defeated the galactic federation thus giving a very dark ending where neither the federation or samus failed to stop the space pirates although this has not been confirmed for now.

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