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Griff Morivan
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« on: March 12, 2007, 12:35:56 am »
It had recently dawned on me that while not all players are so rude and/or underhanded, I was wondering if it's possible to make a demo that can be played over and over, but to install the patch over it will do you no good?

Again, I am making an FF hack, and I would like to keep people from leveling on the weakies in the demo and then wreaking havoc on the real game.
Kitsune Sniper
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2007, 12:43:26 am »
You could make it so the demo saves don't work in the final version. Add some sort of check for a byte or something on the final version; if it's not there, it won't load.

Either way, they could just load a savestate or something, so there's no real point in trying to stop the users from doing this.
Sliver X
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2007, 02:38:12 am »
Make a hack to where this isn't possible (Which is beyond your abilities, anyway), and I'll use this to hack my SRAM file however I please.

Make a hack to where the SRAM is stored differently (FAR beyond your abilities), and I'll crack the ROM open in FFHackster and edit just about *anything* however I please.

This is a stupid thing to worry about, as those who want to cheat, will cheat.
Griff Morivan
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2007, 05:57:30 pm »
Ne-ver-mind, then. Didn't realize it'd be so hard.
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