Lemmings (PSM) license check

[lightwo]

Note, I am not talking about Lemmings Touch, but the other game released on PlayStation Mobile which has been dead for over a decade. Title ID: NPOA00025

This game, oddly enough, does an online license check on top of the fact a game license has to be present on the file system for it to run at all. I suspect this is because the game is freemium, because skipping it locks all but the first level. I never saw this check in any other game, so it caught me off-guard.

Either way, is there anything I can do about this? I don't fancy the newer Lemmings Touch game as this one seems to be based on original levels and has much less altered/cartoonified graphics in comparison.

 

[lightwo]

Hmmm... considering this looks like it would be trivial to work around by swapping files around, I can't imagine the actual protection is any better:

Edit: It wasn't going to be so easy.

Edit 2: I guess it would be a better idea to play the PSP version, as I discovered this is just repackaged Lemmings PSP with touch support...

Edit 3: Manifest has a <purchase> section? Whatever it may be, it is not something that can be invoked in the game, and PSM purchases have, again, been pulled a long time ago. This is the section:

  <purchase>
    <product_list>
      <product type="normal" label="SPECIA">
        <name>
          <localized_item locale="en-US" value="Special Level Pack (contains Special levels)" />
          <localized_item locale="en-GB" value="Special Level Pack (contains Special levels)" />
          <localized_item locale="fr-FR" value="Pack de niveaux spéciaux (contient niv. spé.) " />
          <localized_item locale="es-ES" value="Pack Especial (incluye niveles especiales) " />
          <localized_item locale="de-DE" value="Spezial-Levelpaket (mit den Spezial-Levels)" />
          <localized_item locale="it-IT" value="Pack livello speciale (contiene livelli speciali)" />
        </name>
      </product>
      <product type="normal" label="STANDA">
        <name>
          <localized_item locale="en-US" value="Standard Level Pack (contains Taxing, Tricky and Mayhem levels) " />
          <localized_item locale="en-GB" value="Standard Level Pack (contains Taxing, Tricky and Mayhem levels) " />
          <localized_item locale="fr-FR" value="Pack de niveaux standard (les niveaux Complexe, Ardu et Ravage)" />
          <localized_item locale="es-ES" value="Pack de niveles normal (los niveles Complicado, Exigente y Caos)" />
          <localized_item locale="de-DE" value="Standard-Levelpaket (den Levels Stressig, Knifflig und Chaos)" />
          <localized_item locale="it-IT" value="Pack livello standard (livelli Difficile, Complesso e Caotico)" />
        </name>
      </product>
    </product_list>
  </purchase>