How This Was Discoveredįor years and years, EarthBound ROM hackers were confused as to why there were apparently two types of EarthBound ROMs out there. ROMs are NOT affected, unless you’re using a crappy emulator or playing a ROM someone hacked as a prank. This copy protection targets bootleg cartridges and cartridge copiers.

The really important thing to mention first is this: In the case of MOTHER 2 (Japanese version of EarthBound), the programmers went the extra mile by including several layers of copy protection. Many Nintendo Super Famicom/Super NES games had some sort of copy protection in them – just from personal memory I know Super Metroid and Super Punch-out had copy protection that would go off on accident sometimes.

So I want to try to make things clearer here. Since then, they’ve really made the rounds, but not without a lot of people misinterpreting (or just not paying attention) to the info given. May 14th, 2011 EarthBound, Uncommon KnowledgeĪ few years back I posted a page on Starmen.Net about EarthBound’s copy protection and posted a video about it on YouTube.

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