Japan's Unfair Competition Law Amended. Save Editing now illegal.

That’s insane.

If it’s purely a crime for using online, it makes a little more sense but it’s a bit freaking harsh!

Offline for personal use should be allowed regardless... crazy.

 

Obviously it can only be applied to online things because no one can monitor your saves otherwise

 

I think that is kinda harsh, but if you want people to stop doing things there is no better way.
It doesn't specify if this applies to competitive games only or not, but seems like it (hence the "unfair competition" name of the law).
One of the worst things in the competitive world is that save editing, while discouraged, is completely possible. Thanks to the hacking tools you can create a perfect team of pokemons and go to a competition without anyone noticing.

 

Changing a byte in a save game gets you arrested but being a racist or sexist is something that you see on daily basis and its accepted as a normal thing. Never change Japan.

 

Dont worry folks, Japanese people will be extinct in a few generations if they dont sort their shit out and start breeding!!

Clearly prioritys are all out of whack. Lets continue whaling but make save editing illegal.... Idiotic at best!

 

So what if I wanna get a Charizard on my Emerald save. That's illegal?

Shouldn't be enforced on single-player / games without a competitive scene (like older Pokemon games).

 

Wow, this is very harsh. This should only extend to any online competitive games, not singleplayer games that have no online functionality at all. That's like saying it's highly illegal to give yourself infinite continues in an old Sega Genesis game.

 

you could aways trade fire red with emerald or you could do a pomeg glitch

 

I agree that this shouldn't be a law, let alone this harsh.

 

This shouldn't be a law and it's just needlessly harsh. Cheaters should be punished, but that's what bans are for and there's no reason to make an entire law to punish cheaters. I can see where something like someone editing money into their online game should be handled with the law, that's actually fraud and a crime. But punishing people with legal action for cheating is just harsh, plus punishing them for cheating offline? How are they going to enforce such a ruling? I feel like enforcing such a law would require actually violating someone's privacy to do so.

 

Both are possible but the point stands. It's easier to PkHex that Charizard in there, and no one is affected negatively.

 

That is crazy. Like I can understand it for multiplayer games, especially online ones with heavy competition scenes. But why in the world would they care if I edited my save file for say an old single player game like Link's Awakening on my Gameboy Color? I have to imagine they wouldn't be going after such people, but the wording of the law would definitely apply to them. As such, they really need someone that knows what they're talking about writing up such laws, make the purpose of the law apply specifically for what they're after.

 

Good to see they're focusing on the important stuff.

 

They may force game companies to install tracking software to see if they're save editing or not