
And the launch window for Sonic Mania has long passed. While we don’t condone piracy on SEGA Nerds, it’s understandable why hackers made the effort to break through this DRM after some users reported performance problems with the game, due to Denuvo. Even when its working as intended DRM is never good for players, but time and. But, according to DSOGaming, Sonic Mania ‘s Denuvo has been hacked, just eight days after it launched on PC. And the purpose of DRM isn’t to protect a title from piracy forever, it’s just to keep the launch window of a game open for optimum sales. Denuvo has become a recurring PC gaming villain, frequently blamed for launch issues and problems with performance. The version of Denuvo in the game is the very outdated Denuvo 4.9 variant, for context the current version numbers hover around the 5.6 range. Although for a 2017 title to get its protection pulled isn’t a big surprise.

It’s actually a pretty small update for the game, only including a couple minor fixes alongside pulling the DRM tech out of the title. The Japanese company has already removed Denuvo from Yakuza 0 and has recently released Yakuza Kiwami without this anti-tamper tech. SEGA and Denuvo previously made a pretty big deal about the inclusion of the countermeasure in the former’s games, and now it looks like Denuvo is becoming less and less effective. This patch includes a few different fixes and additions for the 2017 action-platformer, but the biggest deal is what the patch takes out.

SEGA has now released a patch for Sonic Mania, the title published by Sega for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows. Denuvo a commencé comme un outil de gestion des droits numériques relativement robuste, mais il a été moins efficace récemment.
