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The [[Mother (series)|Mother series]] has a history of including [[wikipedia:anti-piracy|anti-piracy]] measures to discourage counterfeiting of the games. | The [[Mother (series)|Mother series]] has a history of including [[wikipedia:anti-piracy|anti-piracy]] measures to discourage counterfeiting of the games. | ||
==In | ==In [[EarthBound Beginnings]]== | ||
The unreleased American prototype of Mother, "Earth Bound", had its ROM dumped by Neo Demiforce, a fan translation group. In order to make the ROM image compatible with NES emulator Nesticle, the group had to alter a single byte in the ROM; doing so, however, caused a checksum to fail and activated an anti-piracy screen. Further hacks were then added to the ROM before its distribution became widespread, which included a means of circumventing this screen.<ref>[http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/09/earthbound-zero-prototype-info/ EarthBound Central - EarthBound Zero Prototype Info]</ref> | The unreleased American prototype of Mother, "Earth Bound", had its ROM dumped by Neo Demiforce, a fan translation group. In order to make the ROM image compatible with NES emulator Nesticle, the group had to alter a single byte in the ROM; doing so, however, caused a checksum to fail and activated an anti-piracy screen. Further hacks were then added to the ROM before its distribution became widespread, which included a means of circumventing this screen.<ref>[http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/09/earthbound-zero-prototype-info/ EarthBound Central - EarthBound Zero Prototype Info]</ref> | ||