Japanese Police Arrest 36-Year-Old Man on Suspicion of Tampering With Pokémon Violet Save Data – IGN
Japanese Police Arrest 36-Year-Old Man on Suspicion of Tampering With Pokémon Violet Save Data – IGN
by razorbeamz
12 Comments
razorbeamz
This is something that basically all competitive Pokémon players do, by the way. Basically no one participating in the competitive scene legitimately raised their Pokémon from wild-caught or egg-hatched sources.
Game Freak really should make a “competitive mode” with a granular team editor if they don’t want people to do this.
wes741
This is insane!
Neither_Ad_2960
Oh? He was selling them? That’s a no no in Japan.
ReturnToFlesh84
>The 36-year-old allegedly took custom orders for rare Pokémon, *and sold the resulting tampered data* between December 2022 to March 2023
And there you go.
Mystic_x
It’s rather silly that police time is spent on this kind of nonsense, isn’t it?
This is a matter between the developers and the players, the mere suggestion of bringing the police into it is something that should be met with raucous, mocking laughter, but they actually have police officers arrest somebody for… pokemon hustling?
TacticalTobi
yeah umm don’t sell that stuff
Rynelan
“So, what are you in for? Murder? Rape? Theft?”
Selling modded Pokémon..
“I’m sorry sir, I’ll leave you alone.”
LUNA_underUrsaMajor
Would this be legal in the US, for someone to buy the game modify it then resell it.
AipomNormalMonkey
lock-him-up!
lock-him-up!
CMDR_omnicognate
We reposting this again?
Hockeylover420
Apparently, modding software is highly illegal in Japan.
Also, knowing that Nintendo is one of Japan’s biggest companies makes you think that there has to be government collusion.
mrpopsicleman
So, when I used a Game Genie to catch all 151 in Yellow, that would have been illegal in Japan? That’s stupid.
12 Comments
This is something that basically all competitive Pokémon players do, by the way. Basically no one participating in the competitive scene legitimately raised their Pokémon from wild-caught or egg-hatched sources.
Game Freak really should make a “competitive mode” with a granular team editor if they don’t want people to do this.
This is insane!
Oh? He was selling them? That’s a no no in Japan.
>The 36-year-old allegedly took custom orders for rare Pokémon, *and sold the resulting tampered data* between December 2022 to March 2023
And there you go.
It’s rather silly that police time is spent on this kind of nonsense, isn’t it?
This is a matter between the developers and the players, the mere suggestion of bringing the police into it is something that should be met with raucous, mocking laughter, but they actually have police officers arrest somebody for… pokemon hustling?
yeah umm don’t sell that stuff
“So, what are you in for? Murder? Rape? Theft?”
Selling modded Pokémon..
“I’m sorry sir, I’ll leave you alone.”
Would this be legal in the US, for someone to buy the game modify it then resell it.
lock-him-up!
lock-him-up!
We reposting this again?
Apparently, modding software is highly illegal in Japan.
Also, knowing that Nintendo is one of Japan’s biggest companies makes you think that there has to be government collusion.
So, when I used a Game Genie to catch all 151 in Yellow, that would have been illegal in Japan? That’s stupid.