History of Hacking: Spyro 3, Year of the Dragon

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Hey, everyone! I hope this isn't too out of nowhere but I made a video on Spyro: Year of the Dragon's crack detection and thought you all might be interested in it:

It's mostly just already existing knowledge but I tried to make it as comprehensive as I could. Hopefully it's informative!
 

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Fascinating, eloquent and well-produced video! Kudos!

Didn't realise I'd already watched your 3DS hacking video in the past. You've got another subscriber from me!
 

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Okay, so the game was programmed to introduce random glitches and bugs if it detected it was a pirate copy. And so (presumably) make people stop playing and buy a legit version.
But wouldn't a lot of people just assume the bugs and glitches are simply bad coding and drop the game altogether?
Yeah I know there's the "your copy might be pirated and it might cause errors" warning, but still.
I mean, listening to the bugs you're listing, doesn't seem that much different than the bugs you encounter in launch day games today :lol:
 
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to be fair a legit copy shipped with bugs not allowing you to 100% the game (gems that can't be reached that spawn in clouds above the level, eggs that you can't get)
Seems they were probably a little to preoccupied to ap protection then bug testing, the bugs were fixed with a v1.1 disc release
 
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