You can see the game’s DRM in action with YouTuber Sami’s video below:įacepunch Forum member Testmega said that the supposed reason the DRM was implemented was because the creator was “super protective of his sprite edits to the point where he wanted to control who could and couldn’t play the game.” The game also makes use of an API call for raw hard disk access in order to search for hack tools or cheat engines. He also said that the game also uploads info to cloud storage service OpenDrive possibly to check in on a blacklist/whitelist maintained by the developer to disable or reenable the game for individual users. YouTuber SidAlpha adds that the game requires administrative permissions in order to run so that it can make changes to the operating system and the registry. LJSTAR said that the only way to remove the DRM is to “talk to a specific person, prove him that you are innocent and it was a glitch, then he will talk with the creator which will white list your PC again.”

LJSTAR also reports that you can’t share your save file from one computer to another because it causes the red background glitch on the other computer. Doing this also activates the DRM protection. If the program is installed on the computer, you cannot search for the game’s name followed by “cheat,” “hack,” “mod,” or similar keywords on Google because the browser closes immediately. Uninstalling and reinstalling simply returns it to the blue background glitch.

Ghosts appear and kill you nearly instantly. The infamous boss theme from the US version of the Sonic CD soundtrack also plays.

If you go into the registry to try and remove things, the game’s background turns blood red with a static overlay and creepy yellow/red eyes popping in and out. The game’s background will also turn blue and it will spawn red, invincible “ghosts.” LJSTAR said that the game at this point is “not unplayable.” Uninstalling and reinstalling won’t fix the problem. If the player tries to run a cheat engine in a browser, it will close the browser. The game, “Sonic Gather Battle,” was found by Discord user LJSTAR to contain DRM. Users have reported that a fan-made game based on Sonic the Hedgehog contains malware.

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