LogFAQs > #979072771

How exactly are you playing this game? Are you playing it as Nintendo intended or are you using a method that is quite iffy to talk about here on GameFAQs? If its the latter, youre probably experiencing some sort of anti piracy feature that Nintendo programmed into the game since I recall hearing on one of the videos discussing anti piracy features in video games that Earthbound had a similar feature that effectively made the game extremely hard to the point that it was on par with Dark Souls due to how frail Ness and his buddies were and how hard the enemies would smack you with even their normal attacks.