History WebVideo / MarioPartyDSAntiPiracy

--> '''Rules:''' There is nothing you can do.
--> '''Controls:''' None

-->'''Joey Perlioni:''' This isn't how it should be! Mario Party DS hasn't been sold in 13 years, and it's not even on sale on any current Nintendo platforms! So why is it such a big deal if I pirate the game? If I pirate the game for my own enjoyment, why is it such a problem if you're not gonna make any money off of it in the first place?

-->[[spoiler:'''D.J. Hallyboo:''' That doesn't cut it, criminal!]]

--->'''Rules''': ''"[[ImpliedDeathThreat There is nothing you can do.]]"''
--->'''Controls''': ''None''

--->you won't like my true form you won't like my true form
--->'''DJ Hallyboo''': ''"Heeere I come!"''

-> ''"Piracy Is No Party!"''

You can watch the series [[https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeyPerleoni/featured here.]]

-->'''Rules''': ''"[[ImpliedDeathThreat There is nothing you can do.]]"''
-->'''Controls''': ''None''

-->(Rough translation) Hudson - This is not necessary. It will delay the launch considerably.

--> you won't like my true form you won't like my true form
--> '''DJ Hallyboo''': ''"Heeere I come!"''

--> ''"POWER OFF NOW"''

''Mario Party DS Anti Piracy'' is a series of Website/YouTube videos by Joey Perleoni. What started off as an ominous mock-up of what a ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'' anti-piracy screen might look like evolved into a fullblown series, showcasing the deranged anti-piracy measures Nintendo supposedly left in this cute little ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' game.

* AprilFoolsDay: In 2022, Joey Perleoni released an Anti-Piracy Screen video for VideoGame/MarioParty8, done in the style of what a Website/YouTube video would have looked like at the time of Mario Party 8's release.

* AprilFoolsDay: In 2022 he released an Anti-Piracy Screen video for VideoGame/MarioParty8, done in the style of what a Website/YouTube video would have looked like at the time of Mario Party 8's release.

** The "Exception occured" messages contain hex code that translate into words such as "tunecode" and "morsemor", the meaning of which is unknown.

* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: Joey (At least in universe) certainly believes that there is nothing wrong with pirating old games that aren't being sold anymore.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The game throws increasingly unsettling anti-piracy measures at the player for pirating the game, many of which include the player character dying. One measure even ''calls the police and forces the player to confess to pirating a video game.'' [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as according to some hidden lore via some Japanese text on the "Host Hoedown" instructions screen, there is at least one rogue developer at Hudson Soft who has an unsettling obsession with thwarting pirates by including [[NightmareFuel increasingly disturbing]] anti-piracy traps, to the point where the company ''themselves'' are trying to stop them from implementing any more.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOsKhUlC360 Personified Host]]" and the later "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzeBHFv0VkY Host Hoedown]]" center on a minigame pitting the player against the host, the (untranslated) description of which ends with a note from or addressed to Creator/HudsonSoft pointing out that this is completely unnecessary and is just going to delay the game's launch.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The story ends with a comedic live-action ChaseScene with D.J. Hallyboo materializing in the real world, Joey ascending and becoming an angel for a brief moment, then Hallyboo sucks Joey into a Nintendo DS and smashes it.]]

* GrandFinale: [[https://youtu.be/XM6Ox7gERH0 The fittingly-titled "Finale"]] depicts [[AuthorAvatar Joey himself]] writing up a TAS program to complete the UnwinnableByDesign Host Hoedown minigame and smugly sitting back while the game plays itself... but it turns out Hallyboo doesn't like that, and he breaks out of the game to deal with Joey in the real world, once and for all.
* HardTruthAesop: Piracy is ultimately a morally gray act. While pirating video games can lead to video game studios losing money, it shouldn't matter with older games as long as people aren't making their own copies to sell, as many of them never see the light of day again after their initial release and might be on hardware not easily accessable to the average layman, meaning that the devs and publishers aren't even making money off of these games anymore anyway, and many people who pirate these games just want to revisit older games without relying on aging, failing hardware that they might not even own. [[spoiler:D.J. Hallyboo [[ShutUpKirk rejects this aesop]], and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment kills Joey to death]] by sucking him in a DS and smashing it.]]

* NoFairCheating: Attempting to beat the personalized host by using TAS? Nice try, but [[spoiler:the host will manifest into real life and ''kill you'']].

* RejectedApology: [[spoiler:Joey shouts that he's sorry whilst fleeing D.J. Hallyboo but still gets chased and killed by him.]]

* SerialEscalation: As the series goes on, the anti-piracy measures get considerably more elaborate and unsettling to the point where an untranslated message on the pre-game screen for Host Hoedown, presumably written to the development staff from one of the higher-ups, comments on how excessive and unnecessary all these anti-piracy measures are. It all culminates in Joey getting ''arrested.''

* UnwinnableJokeGame: PlayedForHorror.

** "Host Hoedown", a fictitious minigame where you are forced to apologize to a personalized host (in Joey's case, D.J. Hallyboo, an expy of M.C. Ballyhoo) for pirating the game by tracing the word on the bottom screen. During the third phase, the word moves around, effectively rendering the game this. While it's technically possible to beat the game via TAS, [[spoiler:this'll result in your own life being unwinnable]].

''Mario Party DS Anti Piracy'' is a series of Website/YouTube videos by Joey Perleoni. What started off as an ominous mock-up of what a ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'' anti-piracy screen might look like evolved into a fullblown series, showcasing the deranged anti-piracy measures Nintendo supposedly left in this cute little Mario game.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the finale, D.J. Hallyboo sucks Joey into a DS and smashes it, successfully killing him.]]

* UnbuiltTrope: A massive wave of fanmade anti-piracy screen mockups (usually taking a horrific SubvertedKidsShow approach) was inspired by this series. However, flavor text implies that the anti-piracy was developed solely by one rogue dev who took the issue far too seriously, to the point of calling the police and forcing the player to admit their guilt. Nintendo and Hudson Soft, naturally, did not let this into the final build, and it's implied that Joey's copy of the game is an earlier build before the anti-piracy was removed. [[spoiler:Once things start to get supernatural outright, everything suddenly takes a less serious turn as D.J. Hallyboo chases Joey throughout the real world before killing him by sucking him into a DS and smashing it.]]