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Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS pirates

Posted Dec 5, 2010 at 11:51AM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: michael jackson: the experience, piracy, Ubisoft
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If you're going to pay a tribute to the late great King of Pop, you might as well go legit. Ubisoft has implemented a new anti-piracy measure for Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Nintendo DS, so you bet there aren't going to be any smooth criminals for this show.

 

They might not have been able to stop the illegal distribution of the game, but Ubisoft was somehow able to stop the pirates from enjoying the experience. Many of the touch-screen controls have been disabled and the music is marred by what sounds like a blaring vuvuzela.

 

This blurry off-screen vid shows you how the audio gets all messed up:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiny Cartridge [via Joystiq]

 



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# RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesSaito Forte 2010-12-05 13:09
"Your merely postponing the inevitable"
- Albert Wesker

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# RE: RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesGlenn M. 2010-12-05 13:33
the pirates will ensure "complete. global. saturation" :D

seriously though, it's a nifty little measure to discourage the practice

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# RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesjazneo 2010-12-05 13:16
Give a month somone will figure out to do disable that 2

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-1 # RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS pirateskeith_ 2010-12-05 13:18
too bad no one had a horn when ol' Mikey went to put his hand down a 10 year old boy's pants.

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+1 # Oh come on...hdiskd 2010-12-05 17:45
The man was innocent for crying out loud. That's all you haters ever talk about. Don't be jealous that he accomplished more than you ever will in your lifetime.

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# RE: Oh come on...keith_ 2010-12-07 13:04
really? settling a lawsuit doesn't equal innocence. i can still remember a breakdown that the police gave about all the secret tunnels from mikey's bedroom to the guestrooms where the kids were - what a better way to avoid being caught for pedophelia than your very own escape tunnel!

i'm not jealous - i just don't like pedophiles.

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# RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesUltimaXX 2010-12-05 14:53
They tried to do this with Pokemon Black and White; Ninty managed to make it so that pirates couldn't save their game.

It was a whole six days before somebody figured out a workaround. :D

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+1 # RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesFyga 2010-12-05 16:16
They really shouldn't advertise these things, you're calling people who don't even care about the game over to take the "challenge"

Metaforic boasted a year ago a 100% unhackable security for DS games today--they failed. At least Pokemon B/W's security flew under the radar till people downloaded it

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# RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS pirates23phantom 2010-12-05 17:47
game sucks anyways

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# RE: Buzzing horn ruins the Michael Jackson experience for DS piratesAzariel_z 2010-12-06 04:23
ahh, this is the AP until you use a hack or update your card firmware...waste of time Ubisoft.

Amuse me...

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# who caresalexZander2008 2010-12-06 10:59
why do people want to even play this game it looks like shit. just go out and buy if you want it that bad. i know i dont

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