The 90s Copy Protection

There's some great copy protection from that like before we had the DRM. Some of those early things devs tried just they work. My favorite one is, is Spyro where the game mostly works fine. But you get to a certain boss and it just resets the entire game - but it doesn't reset it properly. So it actually soft locks the game like you are in another world. It was really an interesting time to see some of that and look back on it now.

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