The FADE Protection for Playstation games
FADE Protection came to PC games first but is currently being used on a small amount of PS2 games also.
Written by Codemasters (although other maufactures are using it to) this protection can detect whether you are playing an original game or a copy.
Your copy will run fine and apear to be a perfect copy until you save the game, at the point of saving the FADE protection system alters the save file on your memory card (or on your PC if its a PC game) so next time you load the game from that save things start to happen.
Reports of faded sound and/or grafix, game menu's altering and screwing up and game play just totally freaked out and eventually rendering the game unplayable (the game is still quite playable but not with any of the screwed up save files).
To determine whether the game is FADE protected or not, simply look at the back cover as it will mention FADE in the copyright info.
If you are PAL region at present (24/01/03) only 1 game (LMA <Manager 2001) is FADE protected however other regions have more games that are FADE protected.
There are 2 ways to get round this protection:
- Aquire and apply a patch to the game to remove the protection.
- Use save files from someone else that has the original (not a great option).
This protection can be on either a CD-Rom or DVD-Rom.
