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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:24AM (#49167746)
And it's very hard but fame-inducing and illegal to defeat locks.
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by flerchin on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:29AM (#49167813)
1. Hard. No. 2. Fame-inducing. No. 3. Illegal. Maybe where you live.
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:31AM (#49167850)
Really? You cracked Denuvo?
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by not_a9 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:22AM (#49169424)
back.engineering folks seem to imply that Denuvo is another case of virtualization based obfuscator being vulnerable to a symbolic execution/optimization approach.

> As AI assisted static deobfuscation continues to improve we will see more virtual machine based obfuscators fold away. In an upcoming article we will publish details on how we fully statically devirtualized Denuvo anti(tamper/cheat). One of the most attacked pieces of software second only to anticheats.

…or you can not bother with analyzing at all and just feed correct CPUID/shared data/whatever values to Denuvo, like the hypervisor thing does.

https://back.engineering/blog/31/07/2026/

Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by not_a9 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:47PM (#49201456)
To add to this, the obfuscation used for their anticheat seems to be… kinda bad? Worse than Epic’s virtualizer/Griffin probably

https://k0mkc.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/08/06/032440

Mind you, odds are their anti-tamper/DRM is a different case.

Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by nemomarx on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:58AM (#49169108)
Denuvo cracks have sped up a lot lately, and usually take two months or less.
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by inigyou on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:23AM (#49169434)
Because the system itself has been thoroughly defeated. Apparently GGP did that, because they think it isn't hard.
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc by goodmythical on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:19AM (#49168560)
Denuvo doesn't exist in a vast majority of games. It's not even used in all modern games.