Always annoyed me. For one thing I knew that any pirate would have a copy with all that hacked out anyway, and to me it felt that I was being punished for actually paying for the game.
Also I figured that the more complicated the anti copy protection the more it would be a trophy to hackers to circumvent it.
Mainly it was alright, I actively liked the Monkey Island ones - faces one and Mix Mojo but in some games you had a disc where it was Black on Black printing and little boxes that went round in a circlular disc, It was bloody awkward.
Do any of you have any memories of particularly difficult (to use) copy protection?
I remember one incident where I had a Microprose game - Think it was an aeroplane simulator (notorious for huge manuals) and you had to root in the manual to a specific page , line and word. Most of the time it didn’t work.
Some games even managed to get budget releases without the manual and had to be recalled/replaced.
Such artistically valuable ones like those code wheels you have mentioned are much nicer then other forms of copy protections (like looking up words in the manual).
They are nice for nostalgic reasons. But if you HAVE to use them they can be a pain. Imagine nowadays playing those games on your phone on the bus.
Also generally I am very against DRM in all forms although those above are very mild variants.
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I liked them too - until I played the game regularly. Even these copy protections are annoying. They seem to be a funny thing, but if you have to grab the wheel every time you start the game, you begin do dislike them.
Reminds me of Delphine Software. They used colours and shapes:
I’m wracking my brain trying to think of the one with black on black wheel and letters.
I think it was a Psygnosis game maybe Globdule?
It was the worst.
You had to hold it up to the light just to read the letters they were black letters and numbers on a black wheel.
With a thin layer of laminate your only chance to see what they were meant to be.
Yes, and this is what I like in this forum. The main problem, in my opinion, is the fact that each thread is presented “linear” - one post is put under the previous. In a WordPress blog for example the posts are nested/in a hierarchy. There is it much easier to separate the different discussions.
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