It seems like The Pokemon Company is really cracking down on hacking. A massive 5,954 players have been banned from online activity for altering their Sun and Moon save file. While the game will still function normally offline, players will be met with an error code when they try to use Game Sync, Battle Spot or the GTS. This doesn’t seem to be the end of it either, Game Freak pledging to pursue more hackers.
Nearly 6000 Pokémon Sun And Moon Players Banned For Altering Save Files
SWEET JUSTICE
Good.
Get over yourselves.
Awww, did you get banned?~
Again, get over yourselves.
Yep, he got banned.~
Maybe next time you’ll play fair.~
You obviously know nothing of ethics, or how hacking works.
https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/5q9jho/pokémon_global_link_note_says_almost_6000_people/
I think he did got banned. How can you tell he did?.
When someone is upset over an article and acting entitled about hacking, he most likely was one of them.~
Oh so you guys knew he got banned huh?
asdfghjk!!!
From the sounds of it, what gets you banned is doing crazy obvious shit. Using Powersaves and PKHex normally seems to be fine, but changing your Player ID number to something specific, or changing your name to something normally blocked by the system, and any sort of overworld mods are what gets you booted.
So just keep it discrete, and you should be alright.
@Sleepy
But isn’t the Powersaves still considered as altering the save file?
Oh yeah, totally. But from the reports on reddit, gamefaqs and facebook of people who both have and haven’t been banned, simply spawning a couple items here or there, making a pokemon shiny, altering IVs and small things like that doesn’t seem to be detected as easily, or at the very least wasn’t a high frequency of the bans this round, and that’s what most people tend to use the device for.
@Sleepy
Oh I see, thanks for the response
=D
I think that counts for people hacking the game in to the save file.
If you hack you should respect those who don’t and play offline anyways. I’m all for messing with your game as long as it doesn’t hurt other’s experience with it. I’ve definitely used Action Replay/Game Shark on all Pokemon games at some point. Usually I do it when I buy the second version of the game to speed through. I assume these people went online with super overpowered Pokemon or unobtainable shiny Pokemon. If something is detecting that game saves are tampered with I’m sure hackers will find a way around that as usual.
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I have you know that I used powersave only for ORAS and I transferred those pokemon to Sun and Moon but my powersave license expired and I don’t plan on renewing my license now so Ninteeendo ban me I still wouldn’t care.
You got banned?
if you’re talking to me, no.
Oh
I’m a n00b. I admit it… what does “altering save file” mean and how is this unfair in online play? Thanks
Altering save is a simple way of hacking. Thats essentially what it is. You can alter you save file files to get shinys, but mainly its used for getting perfect IV pokemon, at least for the competitive cheaters.
Ooh ya
The taste of defeat.
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Nothing wrong with hacking a game… as long as you stay the fuck offline because hacking then using your hacked shit online is cheating everyone else.
Are those images of Ash (the main character) and Bonnie (a younger child around the same age as the intended audience of the current generation) supposed to make hackers feel ashamed?
If it works, then people have zero backbone and little justification for their actions. I could really use one of Haedox’s Nintendo criticism editorials about now.
All of this and no in-game Hall of Fame, O-Powers, Wild Audino, Le Wow Restaurant, or many rebattleable trainers.
About the images pretty sure they just wanted one that fit the title Ash and Bonnie with those faces are like “Oh no!”
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I haven’t played Pokémon in ages. I honestly had no idea you could cheat ha ha.
Some people are too busy to go through the process of training but still want to play Online. I personally think as long as you stay in fair bounds, it’s not that big of a deal.
That said, 3DS security is pathetic. I can promise you there will be a fix for it in a couple days like when they had the NNID/eShop ban on early Sun/Moon adopters.
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