Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Day 2 of trying to convince Sega to let me into the Creator's Program for Sonic Rumble.
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A showcase of EarthBounds infamous end game anti-piracy measures! If a software pirate/hacker manages to bypass all other copy protection layers in a bootlegged cartridge, the game will freeze at a specific point during the Giygas fight and delete all save data.
Theres been plenty of fake anti-piracy videos surfacing on YouTube recently, so I thought itd be interesting to show off EarthBounds very real copy protection measures...specifically this last layer of protection against pirates whove overcome all of the games other defenses (like significantly increasing enemy spawn in the overworld). When the game freezes here, it glitches in random ways that can be funny and/or creepy right before deleting the save data.
This stuff has been well known to fans for a long time, but many similar documented videos are several years old. I wanted to compile all of the most interesting/unique game crashes I could experience, so these are my results after about an hour of attempting to find new glitches!
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Game Genie code to try the Giygas crashes out for yourself: 2DE2-546E
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0:00 - Example 1 - Glitchy reset
0:34 - Example 2 - Garbage corruption, creepy isolated Giygas breathing
1:13 - Example 3 - You Win! but in an endless loop so you never win
1:32 - Example 4 - You Gained a Level! but in an endless loop so you never level up
1:47 - Example 5 - Scary kill-screen anthem
2:07 - Example 6 - Abstract glitch art
2:16 - Example 7 - Prayer failed, game over
2:29 - Example 8 - Barrage of random glitchy sound effects
3:52 - Example 9 - Green screen startup
3:16 - Example 10 - Earth[]ound startup fail
3:47 - Example 11 - Earth[]ound corrupted naming screen playthrough
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