A glitch in Donkey Kong Country 3 can make the game believe that it is illegal. Throwing a keg at a Knocka enemy in a specific spot will execute random code, which may trigger the game's copy protection and make it display an anti-piracy warning.
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there's a series of cheat codes in the game you can input. one of which is COLOR which all it does it slightly change kiddy and dixie's colour pallets for some reason lmao
I was unable to find documentation of the copy protection persisting after turning off the console for more than 10 seconds, but the glitch does permanently corrupt save data, so it is a very bad idea to perform it on a real SNES cartridge regardless! Thank you very much for your inquiry!
Wait, THAT's the anti-piracy screen, and not the one with all the dead Kongs and blood with nightmare-inducing BGM and text saying I'm responsible for their deaths for pirating the game?!
I've messed around with this before and haven't seen it get "bricked", but have definitely lost save data due to corruption. That's not to say it can't happen, but DKC3 probably has better error handling for corrupt data.
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You usually write in aseembly for snes and C for gba
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Second time this week I've seen footage of DKC3 where this is the case and it's confused me a bit 🤔
It's extremely funny how sudden the protection is LOL
The game was NOT having any of it
That sounds ridiculous to the point of almost sounding like a parody of really cheesy and fake oldschool rumours, but... yeah it's real lmao
I ought to play the game again sometime, was always my fav of the trilogy
https://youtu.be/i9bkKw32dGw?feature=shared
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This glitch isn't specifically related to the anti-piracy screen though, it basically just runs junk data as code, and this is a possible result.
I knew the old DKC games were hard, but this is something else!
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