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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

[–] OmniDeficient@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

It's called innovation. Commies wouldn't get it.

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