Back when Rayman 2: The Great Escape was released, pirating a PC game was often as easy as borrowing a friend's copy and burning it to an empty disc. Ubisoft developed and implemented a range of different protections to prevent this. Unfortunately, these protections didn't only affect the pirates...
Scripts from the game were exported using raym.app/
Full list of changes:
pastebin.com/raw/iGmRDZTt
Things I forgot to mention in the video:
- The exit in The Sanctuary of Rock and Lava 2 is also broken but I forgot to record it. 21 Broken exits I guess.
- There's a bunch of "fake" files on the Rayman 2 disc that appear to take up a giant amount of space (multiple gigabytes), which made copying the game to a physical disc impossible.
- According to a developer's profile, the protection took a bit over 10 months to be broken.
4 авг 2024