The DRM thing was a joke. As far as I know there haven't been any reported brickings. But the two Main Menu images was all the content for today. Tomorrow there's going to be Yuki's design sheet and 5 new profile outfits.
Fan PEST? dang... In short less update if that's gonna be a thang...
Was there ever an official mention of the DRM? I can't see it in those two images. AFAIK It was a point I brought up because we don't understand how the DRM works. If it's based on the care package loading menu being used, then loading anything even free DRM would activate it. I'm not sure what it queries and what it compares against for a fail, but I'd back up your saves before loading any fanfest content.
There hasn't been any mention of a DRM. The content being released for the fan fest is free for everyone while it's going on. But after that all bets are probably off. So next month somebody probably is going to get hit with:
It'd be fun to watch if that's how it's actually going to work. It's not just f95zone users who are going to have the fanfest stuff loaded after the month. Everyone on itch.io for instance.
No, we know how the DRM works. It looks for unique IDs in the following four images that were distributed with care packages:
game/gui/main_menufeb2023.png, game/gui/main_menujan2023.png, game/gui/main_menuextra1.png, game/gui/game_menumollydec2022.pnggui.rpy (lines 418-441). Warning: update patches always contain a gui.rpy with this block, so you either need to delete it each time or don't copy the file from the patch.game/images/BGs/summerdorm2monsecond.png with the clean version shared here
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Well that's more information than I knew about. Is there a bigger post about it? Would like to know if it's the game searching for those files, or the files have some tag that signals the DRM to do a check. And what exactly the DRM checks against to see if it's a legitimate copy, like is every one of those images uniquely generated at purchase and locked to some windows account or something.
If you're following the guide, then you probably triggered the "schadenfreude" event (Chika's bedroom) before the beach trip, even though the guide told you not to. This will lead to the path called "bad homie" with Rin. If you can, I suggest going back and waiting for the beach trip to trigger it, this will activate the "good homie" path - which is a must for a Rin enjoyer.
We have been posting event trigger guides for a while now, I recommend checking those out as the Sana thing was covered there as well. Usually they become obsolete as the guide mod is updated, but until then it can save you a lot of time.
I also recommend installing URM if you want to check every option, as that will allow you to simply choose to see the variation through a popup, before rolling back and going through your actual choice. Which is faster and way more comprehensive than reloading.