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I wrote a emulator detection program which detects if an emulator is used to run the program or not. It is very useful for mean people who write a game that someday will be sold commercially, and they don't it to work on emulators. Available at my site's MD section.
Tell me what do you think !!! BTW merry X-Mas everybody !!!

I don't agree with such tools. I can't stop you from making it, but to me it's a slap in the face if I want to run a ROM in whichever fashion I want, but I either have to hack around or do without. At least you acknowledge that it's for "mean" people tho =P

Why not ? everyone is free of doing what he want with his code.
But honestly i don't think it's a good idea since almost people won't be able to test your homebrew on the original hardware. That's just closing doors for some people...

Well, I said MEAN people who write a game that will be sold commercially and who want it not to run on an emulator.

Hmm ok but then in this case i guess that type of protection can be easily broken with an emulator update

Or a ROM hack...

And I did say "I can't stop you from making it", only that I personally don't agree with the use of such tools. On the C64 many people have used what they called "emufuxxors" to prevent running a program on emulation, but then the emulators either got more accurate or the demos were hacked to bypass the emufuxxor =P

just look at HazeMD, he got a real pleasure to make run all the HK bootlegs which included some kind of weird protection, those kind of stuff, just motivate people much more to hack it

Rom hack or emu update will help, but one other idea of mine is to take advantage of address warping on real system. Ideas are unlimited but I will not use such anti emu stuff in my progs.