Pro Evolution Soccer 2020/Installation

Converting PES20 LITE

As it turns out, you can just download eFootball PES2020 LITE from Steam and have it unlock the full game using the full .exe and some bypass fuckery.

Download the LITE game from Steam. Let it install and run it once.

Online Method

(1.04.00)

Once you run the game, copy the entire folder elsewhere in order to shield it from updates. Copy this on top of the newly created folder and run the game from the .exe.

Congrats, you have a fully working copy of PES20, Online included (remember to turn off Live Update or your edited teams won't stick). HOWEVER, some people from cs.rin.ru reported being kicked out of the game and told to verify local files using this method, so if this happens to you, you need to transition to the offline method:

Offline Method

Maybe outdated

This is the safer method, involving a steam emulator to trick PES20 into thinking you're always offline, so the game doesn't have a chance to phone home to Konmai.

Step 1. Replacing the executable

Download the full game .exe and CreamAPI, and unzip it over your PES2020 LITE folder. It should be on (wherever you keep your steam library)\steamapps\common\eFootball PES 2020.

Boot up the game.

Step 2. Decoupling the game from Steam

At this point, a Denuvo activation ticket should have been created at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[your SteamID3]\996470. Check that at least one file is in that folder, so the game will think it's still activated.

Download the Goldberg steam emu we're gonna use to make the game work offline. Extract the folder on PES20's main folder as you did for the full .exe.

Browse to %APPDATA% (or C:\Users\your name\AppData\Roaming), and create a folder tree like so: Goldberg SteamEmu Saves\996470\settings.

Inside the settings folder, create a text file, named user_steam_id.txt. This text file should contain your account's STEAM64 ID used to activate the game in step 2.

You can look up your STEAM64 ID here, by either looking your account up by steam ID, custom URL or even logging in.

Boot up the game again, this time straight from the .exe. If it boots, and it thinks it's offline, congrats: you've successfully bypassed Denuvo and have a full PES2020 copy.