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Man in Glorious Nippon arrested for selling modified Pokéman Violet save data (www.ign.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

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This dude was selling Pokemans with modified move sets for up to $80 a pop and could now face up to 5 years in prison.

Is this not insane? Or do you think he could face a much less severe sentence and the 5 years prison and $30k just the upper limit for this particular set of crime?

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[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago (16 children)

"The 36-year-old allegedly took custom orders for rare Pokémon, and sold the resulting tampered data between December 2022 to March 2023, for up to 13,000 yen ($84) a time on a website that served as a marketplace for video game assets and items. He also offered deals in which six Pokémon would be created for the equivalent of roughly $30 in yen."

How, with GameShark?

[–] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 7 months ago (14 children)

There's a program that you can use to modify Pokémon data, it's fairly easy to do but it's free so idk why this dude was charging people for it

[–] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I’m pretty sure you need homebrew to access the save data, so if your switch isn’t exploitable you’re SOL. In that case paying someone to make the mons you want and trade them to you makes sense to me, though no way I’d ever pay $80 for it lol

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