Anti-piracy in the Mother series

In Mother

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In EarthBound

EarthBound has many different ways to prevent piracy. The first and simplest one will check to see if the game is being played on a PAL console. If it is, the game will display a screen saying "This game is not designed for your Super Famicom or SNES." After that, the game will check to see if the part of the cartridge that holds save files has less than 8KB of RAM, since bootleg copies usually have more. If it does, the game will display an anti-piracy screen and then freeze. If the game is hacked to pass this screen, the game will display much more random enemies in an attempt to make the game less enjoyable. If the player manages to make it through this much harder version of the game, during the final boss fight with Giygas, the game will freeze and force the player to reset. When the player does, they will find that their save files have been completely deleted.

In Mother 3

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Hacking subjects
Doll (unused enemy)  •  Gang Zombie (unused enemy)  •  Crooked Cop  •  Alkaline Man  •  Tiny Forest Memo  •  Kindness  •  Debug Room  •  Debug NPC  •  List of glitch enemies in Mother 3 See also List of glitches in the Mother series • Anti-piracy in the Mother series