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[marsares]

Some people are surprized that PD is not heavily protected.
Strange, it will even let you play and save without a 16Kb eeprom bootcard ?

I see two explainations :

1) backup units are used by developpers.

2) developpers just ignore us.
I mean, see how many people downloaded that Zelda MOM crack : 3600.
That's a drop in the ocean of people using emulators.

[LaC]

Actually it IS heavily protected. but with bootemu its hard, but not impossible to beat.

[^TeR^RoR^]

What kind of protection does Perfect Dark have?
One thing i think is *REALLY* strange, is that it *CAN* save to a normal MEMPAK.... But i´m not complaing http://www.dextrose.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[CrowTRobo]

I seriously doubt Rare uses backup units to dev on. Third parties rely on them because they are far cheaper than the actual hardware and they are independent. Rare is a second party and is partially owned by Nintendo, so I'm sure they have plenty of official hardware.

CrowTRobo

[sticky]

perfect dark pre release was on a big ol card
when it was sent out it certainly did not come on a cdr! http://www.dextrose.com/ubb/smile.gif

[timschel64]

If you've ever seen a N64 dev kit you know it looks quite similar, if not exactly like a v64jr. The only difference, aside from the obvious cosmetic changes, would be that the dev kits use a SCSI interface.

[Garth Elgar]

I thought that it was quite strange that pd saved straight to mempack too.. maybe they wanted to send out beta copies and didn't have (enough) flash rom beta carts? I dunno...