Over 5,000 Players Banned for Hacking Pokémon

According to Serebii.net, The Pokémon Company has announced that 5,954 Pokémon Sun & Moon players have been banned for “altered save data”. Although normally nothing to worry about for people who do not try to hack their games, there are a number of legitimately obtained Pokémon/move combinations that can erroneously trigger the system. No cases of false positives ending in a complete system ban have been reported, but it is something to keep an eye out for.

Players will know that they have been banned if the error code 090-0212 appears when they try to connect to online functions. It prohibits participation in Rating Battles, competitions, and Global Missions, as well as use of Game Sync.

Hopefully this will not cause any issues for players bringing in many new Pokémon and movesets from older games via Bank.

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1,252 thoughts on “Over 5,000 Players Banned for Hacking Pokémon”

  1. Well I’ve had the greatest night…
    Since my Mom got home she has been fighting with everyone, and she has been getting worse all night now she just is sitting in her room wanting to be left alone and acting all depressed and she’s now depressing me too, and I can’t shake anything off right now, and I’m just upset over it…
    Sorry I see you all happy here then I’m just posting this sad message sorry to bum y’all out if I do

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    • D:

      Believe me, I can completely understand how you feel. Even if it isn’t the exact same thing, my parents have been fighting nearly every night now and even some mornings for a few weeks, and by the end of the night everyone’s just exhausted. I’m getting somewhat numb to it but that’s beside the point. It really sucks to see people close to you depressed and distraught, I know. I hope it ends soon and everyone feels better. Just keep up hope!

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    • I can relate too much
      My mom’s a complete narcissist, so she likes to make everything about her.
      I’ll be trying to help her with something (like adding two fractions), and when she gets frustrated she’ll completely burst. Tell me I’m a horrible teacher (great way to encourage someone who wants to teach), that I’m being mean and condescending, that we just want to see her be stupid etc.
      So then I say “Well fine then. You can figure this out yourself.”, and I’ll leave. Then she’ll burst out in tears saying how cruel we are because she does all the work around the house (which she doesn’t), and we never help her, and the one time we actually try to help we just give up. So I’ll explain that I don’t want to teach someone who’s just going to get pissed off whenever I try to help. Then she’ll go into her “You’re all so ungrateful. I bet you wish I wasn’t your mother, etc. etc.” rant. And sometimes it gets so bad that she’ll leave the house and go drive somewhere else, completely in tears.

      It’s hard to sympathize with her.
      You just need to let your mother be alone. Don’t let her drag you into this. You need to help her directly when she’s willing to accept the help, and indirectly when you can.

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  2. I was just struck by the harsh reality that there’s an entire 5 weeks left until the switch comes out…
    I can’t keep spending my time watching dumb YouTube videos for that long ugh.

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  3. So I just clocked the time from when you beat Champion Kukui and when the next time the game actually saves to see how long the “epilogue” is in this game…and it was literally almost exactly 30 minutes. As far as Tapu Koko goes, I just knocked it out in 1 turn so if you actually battle and try to capture it you may add upwards of 5 or 10 minutes to that…

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      • fat chance, i’ve been sick all week, i wanna sleep in but having a job and a pup takes that away from me (also its the winter time and she’s getting fat and greedy with food)

        But tomorrow i’m vacating the house for the day because of painting and the dogs are staying at my cousins so i can drive to somewhere secluded and catch some zs in my car

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  4. How amazing would it be if in DP remakes Lillie, Gladion, Lusamine and Mohn visited Sinnoh on a family vacation studying the Sinnoh Myths many years before Gladion leaves and Mohn gets sucked into the the Ultra-Worm Hole and all of that

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  5. Has the Sun&Moon hyped died down a bit or people just got tired of Plaza? Where is everyone? A few weeks ago there was always a bunch of people online so I could do missions and win 50 FC for each Type-matchups test. Now, there’s pratically no one joining or hosting missions.
    btw, Can anyone enlighten me how do I get more than 16 NPCs to appear in the Type-matchups test missions? I always encounter 16, but I’ve seen people score more than that.

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  6. Since I was discussing about it, thought I’d make it a question.
    Comment Question: What is your favorite Credits Music from Pokemon? Mine is the SM theme, it has a strong and almost perfect ending theme for that game.

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  7. Does anyone else think there are way too many form change items? DNA Splicers, Prism Bottle, Gracedia, Reflect Glass, The meteors for Deoxsys/ Applicances for Rotom (granted they arent items) etc.

    There are just so many

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  8. Hey PJ, I’m not gay but I’m gay enough to appreciate a nice beard when I see one. (It’s up there in the bio). Also, I wasn’t banned, so that’s a good thing!

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