SEGA has released a new beta patch for Sonic Mania that, among other things, it removes the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. To be honest, this does not really surprise us as SEGA has been distancing itself from it. The Japanese company has already removed Denuvo from Yakuza 0 and has recently released Yakuza Kiwami without this anti-tamper tech.
This beta patch also fixes an issue where a controller didn’t always get detected, fixes an issue where the check for compatible shaders was not performed when the game starts and increases the amount of storage size a user could access for the replay data.
In order to gain access to this beta patch, you’ll have to right click on Sonic Mania in your Steam library, select BETAS and then use the following password “sonicmaniabeta”. If you’ve done it correctly, the community_beta branch will be available to download.
Below you can find the complete changelog for this latest beta update for Sonic Mania.
- 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 the game starts.
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The death of DENUVO company is coming.
There will always be something to take it’s place you just wait and see.
i mean they made it so far and they made a living out of designing a drm. they’re not going anywhere. we’d be lucky if more of these fckers won’t pop up to start a competition in a year or two.
That’s exactly what’s gonna happen. Because what we’ve seen with Denuvo is that publishers are willing to pay top dollar for something that has no guarantees of working and sits in the low percentile when it comes to working. with that said, someone out there already notices this and is gearing up to sell Snake-Oil. why O’ why didn’t i Learn to code or go to school for coding. I’d be a rich man i tell ya.
Whatever will replace Denuvo, will be worse. Things never get better in this trash industry.
“Things never get better in this trash industry.”
can’t disagree with that.
Indeed. That’s precisely what I was getting at. It’s coming. It’s inevitable. Been a slow process of easing people in to accepting it, but always online is the next step.
The last step, will be “streaming”. Where everything you are able to do, will be dictated by corporations, and their spreadsheets.
Bright future, I know.
Google Stadia would like to know your location.
The death is still far away, you’ll have to wait until all denuvo games got cracked day one, and all the publishers stop using it, and even after that, it will be replaced by something else, maybe worse, maybe not, but something will take it place
11 minutes gameplay of 3drealm’s new game :
watch?v=9OLmDh6Fyy8
ugly
Seriously ?? For a game that presents itself like a retro FPS and being made with Quake Engine ??
welcome to 2019
So what ?? in 2019 a company can’t make a retro game ?? A veteran gamer can’t play an old game or new retro inspired one ?? Am i talking to a kid ?? If it’s the case i’ll stop now, i come to this site to talk with adults
So what ?? in 2019 a company can’t make a retro game ?? A veteran gamer can’t play an old game or new retro inspired one ?? Am i talking to a kid ?? If it’s the case i’ll stop now, i come to this site to talk with adults
an ugly retro game
A 3D Retro game can’t be pretty, that doesn’t make it unplayable or not fun, i’ll rather play Dusk than any new CoD or BF, Return To Castle Wolfenstein is still a better shooter than Wolfenstein 2, not to mention some Brutal mods for old games here and there… cause you know ? games are not just graphics…
your choice
i’d pay $60 for project brutality in 2019.
thanks for the info
what are you going to do with the information i gave you?
At this moment you ran out of arguments. Please close your discord account.
and you are ?
Didnt know 2019 meant devs can make retro games.
what even is this argument
Nah, it looks fine, the only thing that’s looks ugly is whoever is playing this and doing terrible job of doing it.
And a damn was not given except by whiners with 3 gen old processors.
“Ha Ha YoUr CoMpUtEr Is OlD, yOu DoN’t DeSeRvE tO pLaY pIxEl ArT gAmE!”
That’s you. That’s how you sound right now, you stale french fry. Stop it. Get some help.
Wrong
My 3rd Gen intel CPU runs Denuvo games fine, including this one.
I still don’t want it attached to the software I use.
Stop defending this godawful practise
I’m not defending it. It’s stupid and ineffective but to date there’s no proof denuvo affects anything. So there’s no reason to be against it. You’re essentially crying because businesses are trying to protect themselves.
They are tons of reasons to be against it, and it affects many things. from performance (Read Eurogamer’s recent article about DMC5) to limit some mods, ownership, forced online checks, f**king up your game just like the drm before it.
You’re essentially crying because customers are trying to protect themselves.
It affects performance, games without it run better without it, that includes games that have removed it and leaked game files that didn’t have it.
How is this not proof?
Are you the same game guy who claimed his ultra expensive processor have problems to run this site?
No. My bad a10 at work does because we’re running 200 mandatory processes. The site obviously does something that drives mcafee crazy though.
Whoever suggest Sega higher up to use denuvo back then need to be fired ASAP and banned from Japanese gaming industry…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6dedd91b908b424d1862df82c43ab30b0527c4345fe9754590d4f4a329a3a1e1.gif
Good news indeed. Gonna buy it asap!
The game runs at 240fps? Or is it limited to 60?