Suggestion: Forcibly trigger anti-piracy

[mariomadproductions]

I'd like to document some game anti-piracy features for The Cutting Room Floor, so it would be useful if there was a feature that causes the sort of things that DS anti-piracy code looks out for to be badly emulated on purpose.

[zeromus]

try removing line 66-67 of slot1comp_rom.cpp and see if you can get them to trigger

[mariomadproductions]

Thanks, I'll try that.

[mariomadproductions]

Finally got round to doing this. I used commit e09f2699140f8feb6875c9739637ef346ac37241 and didn't edit any code.

1>------ Build started: Project: DeSmuME, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>  Cannot find git or git.cmd, check your PATH:
1>  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\\bin;;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\ide;C:\Program Files (x86)\HTML Help Workshop;;C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\;;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\OMake\bin\;c:\devkitPro\msys\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4;C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4;C:\Python33\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;c:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\Bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Apps Sync\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Apps Migration\;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\Program Files\PuTTY\;C:\Program Files\Nintendo\Nintendo Dev Interface;C:\Program Files\Nintendo\HostBridge;;C:\Program Files\Mu\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Programs\Fiddler;
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(123,5): error MSB3073: The command ""%windir%\Sysnative\cscript" /nologo /E:JScript "defaultconfig\make_scmrev.h.js"
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(123,5): error MSB3073: :VCEnd" exited with code 1.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

The tutorial didn't say git had to be installed, so...

[zeromus]

install tortoisegit

[zeromus]

(FYI, git no longer needs to be installed to build desmume)

[zeromus]

waiting for @mariomadproductions to confirm whether this hack triggers the AP

[kbarkevich]

@zeromus I tried it, it does indeed trigger an anti-piracy measure for Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (it locks the controls on the save select screen.)

[zeromus]

I don't think I want to add an option for this.. I glanced around and can't see a place I'm happy adding it. Since the code is easy to hack, maybe we can leave it that way. If you insist, I can add a command line parameter, since there isn't any need to change it at run-time.

[mariomadproductions]

I would appreciate it if you could add a command line parameter for this.