GTA VC - Hidden Anti-Piracy Measures on PlayStation 2 - Feat. BadgerGoodger

Hearing the demonic laughter as a young kid playing a bootlegged copy must've been scarring lol it 100% would have messed me up.

Now i understand better why Rockstar likes to release on console first, as annoying as it is to us PC players

In the text for the second measure I HATE "Did they even test it?". Its not public code. Maybe they decided against it and didnt remove it? Who knows. The bitchy tone about code written in 2002 that wasnt intended to be publicly available in the first place is just unneccessary.

Nowadays, code is expected to be reused or revisited so its meant to be written much cleaner, but in 2002 I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of games have tonnes of unused or brokeb features that just simply werent cleaned up before launch.

Why would any one buy these copies?

Funny because i played full functional pirated game with no issue😂

I can assure you that here in Pakistan, bootleg san andreas on cd was common.

This version had no music, dialogue and major sound files removed. The only thing you could hear was gun sounds, vehicle sounds and few 2 3 pedestrian dialogue scripts.

Both cracked pirated copies of GTA 3 and GTA Vice City are worst than the GTA 3 and the GTA Vice City Definitive Edition 💯.

In my country we hade 2 special version of sa released of curse there are bootlegs,there is a Persian moded one, fully dubed and cars popular in iran,thats the most popular and it's pretty interesting, there is also a snow mod, it's a nsfw release with nude pics all over the place, and im pretty sure there is a dub of vice city as well. Not for 3 though.

Скучаю по русскоязычным роликам ;) Удачи на Англоязычном Ютубе❤

Dear lord imagine a CD release of San Andreas; you'd basically be playing it as a deaf person at that rate.

Honestly, this video rubs me up the wrong way. Needlessly critical of the groups doing this work - many people playing these versions had no choice, be it due to financial issues or living in countries where it's just not viable. I had the original copy, so I didn't have a cut down experience, but I was expecting a rundown of the anti-piracy measures without the needless biased vitriol.

Defective by design.

In malawi we weren't that connected to the internet so the country shared a GTA Vice City with no sound like everybody from my generation played GTA Vice city pc version with sound😭😭😂😂 i was so young i thought tha was normal

I don't understand why they have to fit the game in a CD instead of a DVD

I had a cracked PS2 as a kid and everithing worked fine. Played all 3 GTAs to death.

rockstar used to make anti modding measures

now they make modding measures

cries in gta v and rdr2 online

Does anybody know how to play the og trilogy on PC that isn't the definitive edition? Been looking but so far nothing to promising.

Grande Fausto

So, just removing duplicates could of got both on a single DVD? With no butchered radio etc

Careful or speedrunmer might be inspired to do piracy% on gta vice city

All the crazy messing around with the bootleggers, try to fit them on CD lol Use a DVD! DUHHHH

Someone "gifted" me this bootleg collection of Gta games all in one dvd, it had gta 1 till gta vc on it and thats how I got introduced to gta games. this was back in 2003-04.

Not having the full soundtrack in the game is a crime on its own

I love how the cracked version is just Oops! All Wang Chung

The funny thing about anti-piracy measure is companies will spend a bunch of time and money adding in all these measures to stop pirates but in the end 99 percent of people who pirate the game will never even experience them because they get patched out almost immediately before the game gets uploaded online. I remember when Sonic Mania was actually delayed so they could add in more copy protection measures.....it was cracked only 8 days after launch! lol

bro i got gta3 on g2a for 4$ legit, I just don't understand the people who want cracked or pirated copies I mean they took out 4 radio stations Smh

vadim did you see the gta 5 source code leak?

Only people with a modchip would have been able to play these burned discs, right?

"We can fit it onto a CD but we have to cut out the songs!"

This reeks of "I've won but at what cost?"

i dont understand what anti piracy measure becuase people were happily playing pirated vice city back in 2004 on modded ps2

I had burnt versions of all these games fully, i never saw any of these measures, cuts or anything?

let's hope that gta 6 will be cracked fast

I remember downloading VC for PC back in the day, and to get it down to something like 300 or 400MB, they took out plenty of stuff, to the point where ambient voices, Rosenberg's comments getting Tommy our of jail, and even police radio chatter was just a rather nasty static noise, ended up just buying a 2nd hand copy off ebay for next to nothing and patched it to not need the disc... :P

Will You Cover the source code leaks from gta 5?

I know Rockstar failed hard with these measures, because I pretty much played bootleg copies of the 3 GTAs in the year they got released with no cuts like these CD versions, it was pretty much a dvd r with the entire game, I never even heard that they had a pirate version on a cd before this video.

It’s horrible thinking somebody’s dad came home with this one day and this is how they think games are supposed to run

Dude, I just wanna play the version of The cut content, including the doctor, and all of That. All of the Burt Reynolds missions and the Everglades and shady acres. I don’t know GTA six pretty much is a complete opposite of the vice. I love and remember.

Is there anyway I could get the og gta vice city on windows 11? It was a child hood game I’m trying to replay it.

How did these people play back-ups on a stock PS2? You mean to tell me everyone in XYZ country has a soft-modded PS2 to play all these countless knock-off back-up ROMs?

You’re so talented

Oh, damn... How scary the radio, Imagine if a child played this version in the evening...
However, can anyone tell me why some pirated copies don't contain these measures?
Anyway, really congratulations for your videos: they are beautiful, interesting and really well done.

I still haven't seen a GENUINE PS2 game in my entire life. No joke.

I have a modded PlayStation 2 with Matrix chip and VC is the only GTA that keeps freezing, while I can play 3, SA and both Stories games with no issues

Vadam i know the 8 ball mission destroy the van in gta vice city stories

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Oddly I remember a friend of mine playing this speed version of the game surprisingly he managed to finished it, I was confusedly laughing when he allowed me to play this version.