Michael Jackson combats piracy with vuvuzelas. What?

A video has appeared on YouTube showing the DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience apparently featuring the drone of vuvuzelas over Michael's vocals and lacking on-screen prompts, rendering the game near-unplayable. Why? Because it was a hacked ROM of the game (way to stay under the radar, eh?). Apparently the game can tell that it's been tampered with, triggering code that starts this horrible noise. Here's the vid:

This story seemed too good to be true, so we contacted Ubisoft for official confirmation. Aaaaand... it is true! The world just got a little bit more awesome. Ubisoft told us:

"The development team worked this feature in as a creative way to discourage any tampering with the retail version of the game."

Awesome stuff. It isn't the first time we've seen this sort of anti-piracy creativity, mind. Dave H wrote a whole feature on it, which is well worth a read if you haven't already.

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Justin was a GamesRadar+ staffer for 10 years but is now a freelance writer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.