News Sonic Mania frees itself from Denuvo

[Tizoc]

Patch Release (RC 1.06.0503) :: Sonic Mania General Discussions

We're pleased to announce that patch 1.06.0503 is now live! Patch notes: • Fixed an issue where a controller didn’t always get detected • Increased the amount of storage size a user could access for the replay data. • Fixed an issue where the check for compatible shaders was not performed when...

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ATM, the non-denuvo ver. is in the Beta build, to get it use this code, so expect it in the next main update to the game at least.

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[RionaaM]

This is great! Denuvo needs to die once and for all, but I'll gladly take every little victory we can get.

 

[KainXVIII]

Sonic had problems with Denuvo, afaik?

 

[Tizoc]

Sonic had problems with Denuvo, afaik?

Not that I knew of, but it was an unnecessary inclusion to begin with.

 

[Adnor]

Finally some good news today.

 

[lashman]

This is great! Denuvo needs to die once and for all

yes ... yes, it does ... the sooner the better

thankfully SEGA seems to have given up on using it .... at least for their non-AAA games, i guess ... remains to be seen if they remove it from VC4 as well

 

[Deku]

Does Sonic run faster without Denuvo now?

 

[lashman]

Does Sonic run faster without Denuvo now?

yes

 

[Stevey]