i just keep admiring the art direction in this game. it's old, but it doesn't look dated at all. it looks intentionally simple. the low res textures don't look blurry, they just look stylized (and pleasantly so). everything is just so well made and go together flawlessly. timeless art direction. kinda miss this stuff with newer games.
@schnek8927
2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say it doesn't look dated, because it certainly lacks detail in some areas and/or aspects. However, i say that as someone who absolutely *adores* this style! And i, too, very much miss this kind of technique to create games. It has so much style and life. Almost every single texture just *oozes* character! Rayman Revolution, the remaster for PS2, gets quite close to making it look truly timeless, with a lot of small details added to make some areas feel much more... well, detailed! (even if some areas got more love than others) Some areas really do hold up almost perfectly! I often replay some levels on an emulator with texture filtering turned off, just to appreciate not just the atmosphere, but even the textures themselves. The art really is fantastic! It's just not the same nowadays... And anyone who calls that "nostalgia" is simply blinded by their own rose-tinted glasses for the "new" and "modern"...
@lovofofo
Жыл бұрын
every now and again I come across an indie game with a certain quality to its art direction that makes me think 'these devs for sure played rayman 2 as a kid' 2D games like Donkey Kong Country and the console ports of Street Fighter 2 get a lot of praise for how good they looked within the confines of their respective hardware limitations and I think Rayman 2 is similarly on that level, untouchable by other 3D platformers of the era.
@lovofofo
Жыл бұрын
also the PS2 version is a great upscale/remaster that doesn't detract from the original's charm at all, in my opinion anyway
@literatemax
Жыл бұрын
Sphinx and The Cursed Mummy has aged similarly incredibly well
@AkatsukiBucko
Жыл бұрын
@@lovofofo the PS2 version is focused on combat to such a degree that it feel much less fun. The changes to level order/progression are annoying too but that might be just me loving the original version.
@Sledgex3
3 жыл бұрын
As many protections this game contains, I think they kinda missed the opportunity to make a specific one for Cave of Bad Dreams by removing the option "No Treasure for me!" and have only "I want the treasure!" available.
@kacpercicharski4193
3 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I was thinking
@redbird_studios
2 жыл бұрын
At least you could still run Treasure% in that case 😜
@MDLuffy1234YT
2 жыл бұрын
Rayman's face next to the health bar creeps me out. The normal one looks like he's gonna light my cereal on fire just because I didn't share. And the near death one looks like he's sorry for accidentally setting your placemat on fire after trying to light your cereal on fire.
@xelda1990
2 жыл бұрын
holy crap, this has been buggin me for 20 years! I had a perfectly legal copy of this game and the pirate face happened to me, every single time at the exact same point, me, my brother and my parents were so confused, we thought the game originally had 2 discs or something and we needed to switch, but we only had 1 disc, we even had a big fight at the store because we wanted our money back, because it made the game unplayable for 12 year old me, and we didn't had internet back then, so we didn't know about a patch, this is such a revelation to me, the big conundrum finally solved
@Konyad
2 жыл бұрын
Did you get the money back?
@xelda1990
2 жыл бұрын
@@Konyad nop we didn't
@schnek8927
2 жыл бұрын
@@xelda1990 Wow, that's disgusting... "What's that? Our product doesn't work...? Well you already paid so *f*ck you!!!"* And this is also why anti-piracy is such a horrible idea, because more often than not it only hurts the consumer... Which is *never okay.*
@duncanlavalle8689
4 ай бұрын
Same for me, everytime I entered Whale Bay. And today, I learn it could've been avoided...
@tggd8423
3 жыл бұрын
Really interesting that they put in so many lines of protection. Just making the first cage unbreakable would have been enough to stop any regular player.
@El_Fabricio
3 жыл бұрын
Unless you got a save file from somewhere an skipped the first mission. Only to download 200 more save files to finish the game at all. Nope. Rather buying the game. Or getting better xrack.
@huks.
3 жыл бұрын
I imagine the point was to make life harder for any hackers trying to circumvent the anti-piracy checks one by one.
@YamiSpyro2011
2 жыл бұрын
Break the game as much as possible when it knows its a fake Best anti piracy feature
@doctorletsplay
2 жыл бұрын
It's most probably not on purpose. The warning sign just dissable asset loading, so nothing loads at all. Thats why you cant do almost anything.
@charmedrools1
2 жыл бұрын
@@YamiSpyro2011 if you like this you should look up spyro 3's anti piracy :D
@JohnMiller-bs2ln
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine getting a pirared copy from a relative or something for your birthday when you where a kid without knowing it is pirated and getting relatively far into the game just to get stuck because of a missing platform you don't even know is supposed to be there. That must be so frustrating.
@arekrekas213
3 жыл бұрын
i mean, the pirate head would already be very annoying
@El_Fabricio
3 жыл бұрын
Then you still had a fairly good childhood. I used to play the pirated version of Spyro 3 as a kid. And this changed me as a person.
@byyykramermusic
3 жыл бұрын
for a regular player that part with the platform would have actually been impossible to get to lol. you need to break the first cage you encounter in order to access the hub world to get to that level. so there would have been no way to get there without hacking using a pirated copy.
@bluelightstudios6191
2 жыл бұрын
@@El_Fabricio OH SHIT!!!
@bugoyoutub
2 жыл бұрын
@@El_Fabricio I bought a Spyro 3 CD as a kid from this shady store and I was so excited because I have played and 100% Ripto's Rage. I was so mad because random eggs from different worlds would just disappear from the Atlas or freed characters would randomly be locked again even after freeing them. I played through it for a number of times each with different outcomes. Little did I know my CD was a pirated one :(
@torcnein
3 жыл бұрын
Crazy how they went through the hassle to modify parts of every maps. They really didn't want you to make ANY progress as soon as a copy was detected as pirated
@lukabrasi001
2 жыл бұрын
honestly i just think the game outright disables some entities and deactivates level stuff like triggers and events when the anti piracy check gets tripped, i don't think someone on the team went all their way out to put these irregularities in the game one by one
@EndlessDelusion
2 жыл бұрын
it's way easier to program something to not work than to edit the maps. Like if someone wanted to stop the headlights on a car working, it would be way easier to disconnect a wire that controls them both than to physical remove the headlights. So in a game, anything that is related to cages, just turn off the ability for cages to be destroyed instead of editing every cage.
@SimpleAmadeus
2 жыл бұрын
@@EndlessDelusion Several cages were destroyed in this video, though. And many of the changes were specific edits, like turning a platform into a wall. They really did go out of their way.
@ThinBear4
2 жыл бұрын
@@SimpleAmadeus I'd wager they went for a mixed approach. For the most part the anti-piracy protection probably simply breaks the scripts and game logic, but they also added a few things here and there manually for good measure.
@Eliminator1900
2 жыл бұрын
I dont think they went through each map to add anti piracy stuff to it. Certain things can be effected to all maps by tempering with the game's logic. Like the breakable cages, lvl/map exits, etc.
@AuToMaNiAk005
3 жыл бұрын
12:42 At least the web is working unlike in the 3DS version...
@HalfDuck
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I was wondering if these measures were what caused the web to break in the 3DS version, but I guess not. Also I wonder if they realised the anti-piracy was triggering on legit copies, so they added in the pirate head at the last minute, since to most people they'd think the game was extremely broken and buggy for no reason.
@chilldedede
3 жыл бұрын
3ds? I have n64 and playstation versions, I never heard of no goddam 3ds
@AuToMaNiAk005
3 жыл бұрын
@@chilldedede The game was released on lots of platforms.
@chilldedede
3 жыл бұрын
@@AuToMaNiAk005 ik like playstation, dream cast I think, n64, Gameboy advanced and more
@AuToMaNiAk005
3 жыл бұрын
@@chilldedede N64, PC, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, PS1, PS2, NDS, 3DS and iOS.
@OMGitzDEKED
2 жыл бұрын
Ironically enough as a kid I had a pirated version of this game and it worked fine, so its another case of developers going so hard on piracy that they actually hurt legitimate users.
@PixelNova97
3 жыл бұрын
8:28 Fun Fact that "Broken Purple Lum" it's the same model of Yellow Lum from PS1 version
@Knuxfan24
3 жыл бұрын
They really liked removing things from the SET Data for these measures didn't they? Jesus the fact that they were hiding traps all the way to the very end of the game. They REALLY didn't want pirated copies to be played.
@JuiceboxCE
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if I were paid/enabled to be this extra by my boss, I'd be living the dream lol
@RamblePrism
3 жыл бұрын
A very interesting video, I had no idea there was more than just the pirate head! Well done
@MegaDude10
2 жыл бұрын
You know what would've been funny? If the text below thd pirate head said a comical threat. Nothing scary, but something silly like "You are an inferior pirate! Surrender yourself now!" Or "Thd only pirates we want are ones of metal! Your flesh is weak!"
@moodysshuffle
2 жыл бұрын
i think an important thing to highlight here is why a team or someone on the team would go through this effort. a great game to compare to is spyro: year of the dragon, which had many layers of anti-piracy which pirates had to gradually peel away. it had the same tactic as this does; an initial "you pirated the game!" warning that was easily patched out. most games stopped there, so most pirate groups stopped there. they'd release the crack or copy, pirate players would get their hands on it, and it would become apparent in the course of a few days that something was wrong. but then there's the extra level of genius; for a while, it probably wouldn't be clear that these were anti-piracy measures. there would be bug reports, or users might not get the right info, or all they might say is "broken patch! fix it!" it probably wouldn't take long to figure this out, but that's not the point; the point then is for every additional layer to get gradually peeled back. pirate groups would have to dedicate significant time and energy to check for these problems, and inevitably, they'd miss some because of how insidious some of these changes are. it's not unlikely that some of the parts where you can still progress in spite of removed objects are unintentional; they might be there to give the pirates respite, thinking "okay, that level's got nothing, that's the last one" or even cause problems for users down the line and make the pirate groups have to scour some more. as you note in the description, a dev interview claims this kept a working crack from being made for ten months. that's dream territory for a big release like this; there's a common saying in the industry that games make the majority of their sales in the first two weeks. that's the target spyro and rayman 2 were aiming for, and both massively exceeded it. job well done on that front, i'd say
@TheGreenManThom
2 жыл бұрын
Okay, this actually solves one of my childhood experiences with the game since my dad just pirated the PC version. The Head never popped up and the only effect that triggered was broken exit #7 around 6:19 Naturally that was the end of my playthrough but it's nice to finally have closure on that.
@onevoltten6845
2 жыл бұрын
They likely wanted to prevent save sharing between a legit copy and a pirated. This is a very basic anti-piracy method which was defeated easily.
@ReesetYT
3 жыл бұрын
Weird that they made all these changes when the unbreakable first cage alone makes completing the game impossible.
@shroomy2549
3 жыл бұрын
Not if you have 100% save file that unlocks every level
@GraveUypo
2 жыл бұрын
kinda doesn't matter if you can't finish it if you you've played 99% of it already tho
@flumphflumph6021
3 жыл бұрын
Because normal security measures are usually cracked within a week and if you embed this kind of stuff into the game, it'll take longer to decode it or find an exploit to bypass it and it increases the number of sales by a small margin.
@lolmanyeah1
2 жыл бұрын
Nope. The fix to the pirate face is also the fix to every other security measure. And that's to trick the game into thinking you have the CD in. Try again.
@ieatthighs
2 жыл бұрын
bullshit
@Retrofuge
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's pretty interesting priacy measures beyond that small pirate head. It essentially breaks the game and renders it unplayable. I can only imagine long it could have taken to program. Since, everything must have been hardcoded. Well done on the video. I will look forward to see more like this in the future.
@robonaught
3 жыл бұрын
5:18 I know Robo Pirates can be zombies, but ghosts? This is ridiculous!
@Arctaris
2 жыл бұрын
20 years later and I stumble upon this and finally get closure. As a kid I simply didnt understand what was happening when the robot pirate head appeared. It was the reason I never could finish a certain level with the clark bossfight and had to resort to a cheat from a game magazine to skip that level. I'm tempted to go to GOG and get the game to finish it once and for all.
@petergriscom3431
2 жыл бұрын
That explains the missing web in the 3DS version. Also, some of those missing platform jumps that are still doable makes me wish they would've thrown in an optional hard mode.
@ultralowspekken
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same about hard mode. Yeah the 3Ds version is _unexplicably_ explicable after this...
@miymoto128
2 ай бұрын
I have the 3DS ver. (Got it when the 3DS came out) and never had any problems with the webs
@petergriscom3431
2 ай бұрын
@@miymoto128 Ah, maybe I misremembered. I think I saw a GameFAQs thread talking about it, but maybe they were talking about emulating it, or they just got unlucky with a faulty cartridge.
@TheUKNutter
11 ай бұрын
My copy never had this piracy bug, and could complete the game normally. Ironic, being that my dad would only let me have games if he wasn’t busy enough to pirate them. It just so happened that this game was one of the non-pirated ones - a present from my aunt.
@TheGiddyReaper
3 жыл бұрын
This happened to me as a kid during a boss fight midway through the game, It was the orange triangle head guy in the thorn level. I haven't played the game since, i haven't seen anything past that point in the game either. So Rayman 2 has just stayed in my mind as an unbeatable game for the longest time. I know that i could just buy another copy and finish it, but i just got hit by this super nostalgic memory of how i felt in the moment when i was a kid.
@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer
2 жыл бұрын
Same for me, I ended up finishing it the first time on the Nintendo DS port because of that.
@WakoDoodle
2 жыл бұрын
Oh so THAT is why my game bugged out on CD! I fixed itself when I reinstalled it but I think I got it when I was installing it and my pc died 1/2 way through; but counted it finished. It does explain why the Henchbots scared me as a kid; I didn't have any anti-piracy stuff appear as a kid so I didn't know what this was. Thought it was a scary game. (Then I got sonic CD with a bugged physical CD). Thanks for the video, I honestly thought I was being unreasonably scared of the game as a kid.
@bluz0r69
3 жыл бұрын
Why would they implement all this if the player can't see past the pirate head anyway?
@saraschmidt5612
3 жыл бұрын
Really informative and interesting video! I never knew Rayman 2 even had any anti-piracy protection.
@bjorn9087
2 жыл бұрын
thats were the Pirate Head came from! I had that bug in a legal copy and it ruined the game for me, it made me so sad
@Benjeta
2 жыл бұрын
When I was young (in 2001 to be exact) I've found this beautiful CD in a tabaco shop. (The one with a tiny figure) Rayman 2, cost me 15€, the game was beautiful, and after a while, I got this pirate head on the level with the whale. You cannot swim with this head on your screen, you can only play naturally but no swimming. I remember trying and falling in the "aquarium" to the right, I managed to complete the level with this head. Jumping everywhere and finding spot to exploit...I still don't know how i've managed to do this, that was one of the best day of my life. That was an orignal copy of the game, piracy have long day, trust me.
@anthonyoliver418
Жыл бұрын
When this game has more copyright protection from piracy than half of every game in existence combined!
@BAIGAMING
2 жыл бұрын
This game has it worse than Spyro! And you'd think that the pirate head and maybe just having 1 level exit being broken would've been enough to deter pirates. But look at all those small changes all over the place.
@ronbenatia6682
2 жыл бұрын
Watching this and remembering the soundtrack is FIRE!
@suqd674
3 жыл бұрын
6:28 2/0 cages?
@nelson6128
3 жыл бұрын
Bruh I picked this game up from a second hand store got about 70% through the game with all Yellow lums so far only to run into that bug. I was really confused and thought there was legit another CD I needed to finish the game
@miciso666
2 жыл бұрын
i remember my ''pirated'' spyro disc doing this. any portal you take after the first few gave infinite loading screens. i even used my real cd moved on. went back to my backup one. and it still did it. only the first 2 portals worked.
@admiralrazorbeard
3 жыл бұрын
Extraordinarily fascinating.
@mariopsmt
2 жыл бұрын
I really loved this game. I believe settlers 2 have similar protections where, for example, smelter is producing pigs instead of metal
@QckSGaming
2 жыл бұрын
They definitely did not make all those changes manually. The most likely reason for this is just that most of the dynamic entities are simply not loaded (gameplay layer of the level)
@stevebat2072
2 жыл бұрын
Most of these changes seem to be just the pirate screen disabling a vast majority of level progress, transition and platform movement triggers. Very clever
@reginaldcz6332
3 жыл бұрын
I am suprised that I didn´t hear about this yet, while we heard about similar DRM in games like Serious Sam 3 or Talos principle. But probably the reason is the big pirate head making us unable to see majority of our game screen. Anyway, thanks for showing us how the entire game looks in its impossible mode.
@Thrybald
2 жыл бұрын
Impressive video dude, every video you upload of Rayman 2 just makes me wanna do a full playthrough all over again. Lekker bezig man!
@Tuna989
2 жыл бұрын
this is what the game would be like on day one if ubisoft made it today
@aslightlystablefootsoldier9838
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine being the dev and the boss approaches you and says “Make our game unplayable”
@BombaiBeast
11 ай бұрын
I had a pirate, the ng64 non-save version and finally a ps1 original that was kindly borrowed from a friend where I finally completed the game 100% with everything. the pirate version I had was a n64 version rom modified to work in the pc, as a way to circumvent the pc version, it hadn't the skull over the screen, but had EVERY single bug showcased without fail, with a extra of crashing on many parts or missing textures in creepy ways enough to fuel a creepypasta, to the point that at time I stopped playing by being too scared (specially of unkillable zombie enemies), only getting back with the n64 version which forced me to basically speedrun the game daily to try do 100% without saving
@lazysmurf6472
Жыл бұрын
2:12 That sound effect in the music for riding the shell was later used in Pizza Tower when you hit the taunt button
@redbird_studios
Жыл бұрын
It's a very common sample on Roland keyboards! I've heard it being called "Philly Hit"
@lazysmurf6472
Жыл бұрын
@@redbird_studios INTRESTING
@HyperVegitoDBZ
2 жыл бұрын
Ubsoft back in the day was truly one of the top developers. Nowadays it's not even a shadow of what it once was in terms of quality.
@Rukalin
2 жыл бұрын
The anti-piracy protection also always happened on my legit copy. It always triggered on Whale Bay. I eventually tried playing despite the pirate but couldn't proceed cause of the lack of water physics.
@TabalugaDragon
8 күн бұрын
Thank you for the video. It's a shame such an amazing game had such a severe anti-pirate protection. In my country, I wasn't able to find the official release, so without buying a pirated copy I wouldn't be able to play Rayman 3, which is my favorite game of all time.
@---pp7tq
3 жыл бұрын
Feels like a demo version of each level in case of being accessible by cheats or 100% save game, forcing you buying the game sooner or later. Only if this piracy measure was really exploited commonly. Looks like the safedisc was beaten sooner and better than they expected I suppose, so it ended up completely useless so no game files modification was needed (probably except binary if it was safedisc but I think that some regional versions were only cd-check protected with big files inside).
@Battel-Matter
2 жыл бұрын
"hey you see what those spyro devs did? dave, do that with our game"
@CoolDudeClem
2 жыл бұрын
What I want to know i HOW games are able to tell the difference between a copied disc and the original. Does it somehow skip certain files or something?
@shanematthews1985
2 жыл бұрын
Ubisoft call this piracy protection, EA call this a game working as intended
@AitoJaOikeaNippeliFaktaa
2 жыл бұрын
Kind of similar with Spyro 3 where gamebreaking shenanigans would occur more and more as the game progressed if pirated
@Dr._Nicolas
2 жыл бұрын
there is a sense of evil justice here
@SoloWaggin
2 жыл бұрын
I love anti privacy stuff in video games this was never displayed in any of the lists I've been watching.
@ioasisyumich
2 жыл бұрын
As someone who used to pirate games before I could afford them, I loved these anti-piracy easter eggs. It felt like the devs gave us something special just for being an asshole.
@josh4601
2 жыл бұрын
one of the funniest things about this is... I pirated this game as a kid, and it never broke for me.
@MrDeothor
2 жыл бұрын
i remember i had pirated rayman2 when it was somewhat new and i guess i had proper crack already. Still couldn't get through the first "shadow snake" monster, cause i couldn't see the exit/escpae (which was to climb a tree). I was young and dying felt not just frustrating but traumatizing.
@Eliwood407
2 жыл бұрын
yup, never finished this game because I thought the toy store forgot to put a second disc in the huge box it came in. Couple years ago my friend told me this was anti-piracy triggered by a bug, I doubt the receipt would still be valid after 22 years
@Maxikang44
3 жыл бұрын
That's nice to know. Gladly i played the DS and 3DS version so it never happened to me
@DragonUltraMaster
2 жыл бұрын
This explains a ton to me. I had the same mysterious error as a kid. I even managed to beat one level (8:49) with his stupid face on the screen, I simply refused to give up. It was extremly hard but I managed to beat it. Sadly, a few more levels further ahead it happened again but that time I couldn't beat the level. (12:32). I could jump down there just fine, but I couldn't turn the cogwheels that's you supposed to. Perhaps it worked but I couldn't see if anything happened. I was devastated. I couldn't complete my favorite game. Not until many years later (Also on the 3DS many more years later, hehe) I still have that original CD, btw. It's in pretty bad condition though.
@mellamosteve331
2 жыл бұрын
The ps1 version I had not only worked fine, it also let you play a level of Rayman 1 after the credits until you ran out of lives. I remember the level having some metal dinosaur that breath fire
@joemama-zb9co
2 жыл бұрын
im unfamiliar with mist of these clips as i've only played the ps1 version, but this game will forever be a masterpiece
@PidgeyHowler
2 жыл бұрын
I remember trying to play Rayman 2 when I was like 5 years old. That was a terrible idea. Anything more complex than basic platforming and basic combat were overwhelming for me. I still think about the game a lot. Part of me wants to track down a copy and give it a fair try as an adult.
@redbird_studios
2 жыл бұрын
As a heads-up, the safedisc drm makes the disc version of the game pretty much impossible to run on modern computers. The best way to play the pc version is to get it from GOG, and use Ray2fix for a few quality of life improvements. The uplay version I'd not recommend getting, as it is pretty much broken.
@weegie3343
2 жыл бұрын
don’t worry, I couldn’t get past like the first few levels, I’m really bad at games for some reason
@alieneko_nyo
10 ай бұрын
They really took their time to prevent you from playing the game, huh?
@zawaro
2 жыл бұрын
I got that pirate head as a kid and didn't know what it was back then, but still nearly managed to beat the game. Last boss was just too hard with just the keyboard...
@zawaro
2 жыл бұрын
Just to clarify, it didn't appear in all levels, only in some and it went away after rebooting the game and playing another level
@redbird_studios
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, I speedrun the game with keyboard because I've gotten used to it ^^
@mandret1996
2 жыл бұрын
I got this gem of a game as my first PC game and it was awesome. Times when Gamepads weren't like nowdays with Bluetooth and adapters. I got a very crappy, cheap Pad so it was very difficult
@Doodle128
2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, I think they should have made it run as if it was corrupted, now that is unplayable
@-Winter-Lover-
29 күн бұрын
Whenever i play the corrupted version after i escape from the ship it kicks me out and it s from gog
@Sleepkirby6472
2 жыл бұрын
HOW IS THIS NOT ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR?!
@sidthekid1061
2 жыл бұрын
I swear seeing some of these issues like this randomly in the 64 game
@Alexdrakohoshiko
9 ай бұрын
That big face really scares me
@ninjawithnobalance
2 жыл бұрын
i wonder how my digital version from gog is not being flagged by the game files as being pirated. I played it as a kid and bought it to retry as an adult .
@lis6502
2 жыл бұрын
answering to the end question: "why?" just imagine how much developers and studios were loosing due to piracy. Then, take a moment to look at 1987's Dungeon Master's antypiracy measures and simply enjoy cleverness of devs.
@jodisredwyne378
2 жыл бұрын
Dang, I never knew what that was! 0:40. I had a legal copy, but our pc wasn't the greatest, and so the letters were just blocks so I had no clue what it said.. :O
@dieusama1798
2 жыл бұрын
Weird, I had a burned cd copy of the game back in the day . . . it worked perfectly, none of these protections appeared. It was the french version, maybe it's the reason ?
@chilldedede
3 жыл бұрын
In the canopy, does globox do his rain dance? (rain cloud when globox dances)
@redbird_studios
3 жыл бұрын
5:08 he doesn't here, he does do it at other points if I recall correctly.
@nejch1568
2 жыл бұрын
Anti-piracy measures are not anti-piracy if they ruin a paying consumers product. They are an anti-consumer measure instead.
@Ebbzzor
2 жыл бұрын
Oh damn. My original CD was also covered with a pirate face. But only when I arrived to the moving chair level. Up until that point it was all normal. I was always so sad about that :(
@kon_radar
2 жыл бұрын
I had the bug in the game that I couldn't dive in the water in the whale level. The water was like normal air.
@DevJeremi
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that in my version this was broken, I had original game, but for some reason in level where you ride chair pirate head appear.
@phantom1350
2 жыл бұрын
I played a pirated version of this game as a kid and never experienced any of these. Great game though
@uwucky
2 жыл бұрын
I think someone had a bit of fun
@LU_kasjer19
4 ай бұрын
Glad in Poland we get patched version of Rayman 2 in some games magazine, so never of this protection happened to me
@lordcola-3324
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like this video would have greatly benefited from some narration.
@golarac6433
2 жыл бұрын
So let me get this straight. Ubisoft made it so that if the DRM detects you are playing a pirated copy it will alter the game a bit and display that graphic, but because their DRM sucks and was triggering false alarms on legit copies they removed it in a patch, right ? Cuz I had this game from a magazine in 2003, legit copy but it had no DRM, you could just copy it.
@din6675
2 жыл бұрын
Ubisoft the true pioneers of DRM.
@MarioTheGre
2 жыл бұрын
They missed the opportunity of making the final boss super unplayable/impossible to beat by having them say "Sorry, Rayman, but criminals like _YOU_ don't deserve to get a good end. This is the end of the road for you. Goodbyyyyyeeee..." and then Rayman is auto set to 1 life (or 0 extra lives) and after Rayman dies, the game auto crashes and deletes all save data, including all backup and restore data and removes ALL progress what so ever. Even if they _do_ beat the final boss (Which should take 5x the hits and attacks more often), they'll say "You think you have won... but your PC will blow up in 3... 2... 1!! *missingtext.data.antipiracy* " of which will again, deletes all data and will force the PC to Blue screen and tampers the settings to make it more pirate like and un-changeable and every tab opened is "You are a Pirate" and even editing the search will still lead there, but it can be undone, but requires *EXTENSIVE* amounts of work to do. They knew what they were doing when they knew piracy.
@WitheringAurora
2 жыл бұрын
Fun thing. I bought this game from gamestop a couple years ago. turns out it was a pirated version.
@purpleplasma4824
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine pirate face speedrun.
@MattJerkhole
2 жыл бұрын
I had gotten this game for Christmas as a kid and loved the shit out of it but the faulty legal protection always popped up consistently during one of the later levels, the one with big underwater sections. I think it also messed up the swim physics, so you'd just fall through the water onto the ground, making the level impossible with or without the pirate picture taking up the screen. I believe wie did have a No CD Patch from somewhere but it never worked. So, I never actually got to finish the game even though I spent a ton of time with it growing up. At some point I did end up using a cheat code to simply unlock everything, so I was at least able to skip the broken level and see what I missed. Still never properly beat the game regularly. Had no idea until now that this was a common bug with legal copies.
@Manavine
2 жыл бұрын
To think this went under the radar because of how easy it was to just break the anti-piracy.
@rorychivers8769
2 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone even want to pirate Rayman 2? I really hope the Anti-Piracy protection in Rayman 2 prevents future generations from ever playing it.
@marqimoth6987
2 жыл бұрын
can you beat the game on "pirate" mode? maybe there's really broken glitches to help you get past the obstacles
@bakedveal2624
2 жыл бұрын
I got this free from Epic and am almost certain it's broken. I tried getting it to play and it felt broke. Might try again now after seeing this.
@ROBDEWAND
3 жыл бұрын
ironicly that it even has anti pirate software considering it contain pirates itself
@Vitaliuz
2 жыл бұрын
Funny how none of you fellas got it. It's just a "tryhard nolifer speedrunner" mode.
@pvt.prinny759
2 жыл бұрын
i had the original big box version release when i was a kid and i could never get past a certain level because i always got the missing cd thing even though i had completely legit version bought from store shelf, still to this day im slightly salty about it
@nils920
2 жыл бұрын
Basically, this is what happens when you let Razorbeard and his pirates program the game...
@LuarioDrago
2 жыл бұрын
O wow now I'm feeling very special because I had a simple burned copy of my classmates original game and somehow had no issues with it ^^"
@redbird_studios
2 жыл бұрын
How ironic how the copy protection failed to protect against copying but succeeded at making the game impossible to finish on some legit discs ;)
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