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.

 

Yep... I find it stupid too. Though I don't know how they'd enforce this.

 

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.

 

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).

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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