That's the final battle of the game. The point of the video is how cruel the anti-piracy thing is to kill the game so close to the ending.

I wasn't impressed until I saw that it deletes your saves.

�� fuck.

Nah, it was just designed by a man who shaves half of his head and provides a soundtrack for coffee.

OH MAN!I want a soundtrack to my coffee.
Not a Starbucks Frank Sinatra mix tape every time I buy a fucking cup.

Ausgezeichnet.

This sounds even more fun than the original.

Though I seem to remember fighting globs and globs of fobbies (or were those the foppies?) in Lumine Hall anyway and my cart is legit.

There's also a random Mole Playing Rough on the beach in Summers, in the same place, every time.

You can play the game that way if you want. There's a few screens of the increased spawn rate, the video I linked, and codes to type into an Emulator and Game Genie on SNES that will trick the game into thinking it's on a copy cart on this page....
http://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/antipiracy/

I tried the code on an emulated copy- it didn't seem to work (there could be various reasons why, it'd seem)...I'd try it on the cart but I don't have it at the moment (if I recall correctly, its battery saves had already been nuked by a mishap with the debug menu, but I might be thinking of another game).

If I were an unassuming kid who somehow...uh...was totally unknowingly playing with a totally innocent cart copier, then got the "serious crime" message, I'd have pee'd myself.

The battles in this game could be brutal, particularly the last boss. Still, all of those huge groups of enemies before Giygas...if you could make it past the first five minutes of the game or the first few thousand Runaway Dogs and Spiteful Crows, your level surely would be pretty good. Not that it'd matter since you'd be toast after beating Heavily Armed Pokey.

You can turn the auto-fight off or on. I always left it ON because of the novelty factor.

The fights are like any other turn-based JRPG if you turn auto-fights off. In fact, it's probably a good idea to turn it off until you get a decent party going because it rarely heals and this game is pretty brutal early on.

Earthbound wasn't the only game with with this RAM checking stuff. Nintendo had been doing this since the NES days with all sorts of carts.

True, but this is the only one I know of that really hits you this hard. I mean, ouch. Second Tier of the final boss...

I wanted to experience some crazy graphics/music action, too.