In recent years, successful bypasses have become so rare that many viewed Denuvo as effectively unbeatable.
Denuvo has been almost universally cracked since the start of this year, author sounds pretty out of date to be talking as if this is a recent development.
It would be nice if they talked more about this mysterious ‘Linux-based breakthrough’. Given that the hypervisor crack is so widely effective and platform independent, what is the breakthrough they’re talking about that’s beating it? This is the first I’m hearing of it, and I’m not convinced they haven’t gotten it mixed up with hypervisor.
Oh how fun, you shared the same comment on two posts. Here’s the same reply I left on your other one:
Hi there!
I’m the author. Not only have I chatted to Voices, but I did an AMA with Dodi, organized the same with FitGirl (which didn’t actually happen), and even chatted to Empress. Which…wasn’t very fun. I’ve interviewed KaOs and also the gentleman behind Ghost eShop for jailbroken Switches. This is just to say I know the scene, and I know the people.
Denuvo has been almost universally cracked since the start of this year, author sounds pretty out of date to be talking as if this is a recent development.
Seems there was about 20 games released this year with Denuvo. Voices has changed the scene a lot, but he can only do so much. Now he’s using A.I. to help with his process this is speeding up a ton, but he cannot possibly keep up with ‘demand’ as it were. I found four he’s done, for 2026 releases:
- Resident Evil Requiem (February 2026)
- PRAGMATA (April 2026)
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (May 2026)
- 007 First Light (May 2026)
It certainly hasn’t been “universally cracked”. It will get quicker, but it is still an effort. One game every two weeks or so at the moment.
universally cracked
This is not only a stretch, it isn’t true. The fun thing is that he has cracked 2026’s build, and then their updated build, then a day one release. From a technical POV, it is super interesting to see.
Hi!
I’d love to know more about the chat with Empress 😂
Sorry, when I said universally cracked I meant they had figured out a general viable method, not that all denuvo games were cracked.
I’m mostly just wondering what you meant by a Linux-based breakthrough? Since it seems you’re talking about the hypervisor method which originated on windows. That’s the part that’s really unclear in your article, some elaboration would be nice.
(Thread continued at https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/comment/26382834)
I can imagine this just leading to Denuvo blocking linux platforms (if possible).
Tbh, if you are already able to bypass their whole protection, this is just a few more syscalls to hook into - proton already does that work anyways because windows syscalls don’t mean anything to linux boxes.
Also, doing so would mean that piracy is the only way to play those games on linux, leading to mass proliferation of bypass techniques.
Could, but that might be a hard sell to publishers with the popularity of deck, machine, steam OS, and just Linux rising popularity lately in general. Still a minority of the gaming market for sure but growing.
Then I’ll jump to piracy again, it is a net loss for companies and I save money.
