Corrupted Save File? (Has anyone else heard about this?)

[Dulcettie]

So I had a couple of guests come over to my town earlier. They said that there's a rumor going around that people are duplicating corrupted items and dropping them in people's towns, which corrupts that person's save file. (They said it was similar to what was happening in CF or something).

There are many reasons why this could and could not be true, but I want to hear the opinions of others before I make a decision. Is this just a rumor, like the villager reset trick rumor that doing it would corrupt your game? Or is this actually going on?

 

[rubyy]

 

[KlopiTackle]

How would that be possible? The game hasn't been hacked, I haven't heard of such a thing.
If this were true I would say they were glitched.

 

[Dulcettie]

How would that be possible? The game hasn't been hacked, I haven't heard of such a thing.
If this were true I would say they were glitched.

So the items could still corrupt your save file, right?

 

[rubyy]

If this is true.

No trades are gonna be done in my town again.

 

[Dulcettie]

Couldn't the item you're buying/trading for be corrupted?

 

[Mao]

If this is true.

No trades are gonna be done in my town again.

*looks at 3ds and banishes people from entering* I have no idea, but I don't want to try @_@

 

[Sholee]

I don't think this is true. I understand that it worked for ACWW and ACCF because there were hacked wii's and flashcards for ds that allowed you to hack the game or edit the maps but the 3DS has yet to have this happen. Also people should take precautions trading with people they don't know anyways. People who have little posts on this board or 0 wifi ratings or even negative wifi ratings, I wouldn't do trades with.

 

[Dulcettie]

I don't think this is true. I understand that it worked for ACWW and ACCF because there were hacked wii's and flashcards for ds that allowed you to hack the game or edit the maps but the 3DS has yet to have this happen. Also people should take precautions trading with people they don't know anyways. People who have little posts on this board or 0 wifi ratings or even negative wifi ratings, I wouldn't do trades with.

True, but there are hacked towns so I'm against just putting away the idea entirely.
And how would people who have 0 ratings get ratings if no one is willing to business with them?

 

[EmmaFrost]

This is a silly rumor. That's it.

 

[Silversea]

So far it seems to be simply a rumour. When (if) the 3DS is hackable this may become a concern one day.

 

[Sholee]

And how would people who have 0 ratings get ratings if no one is willing to business with them?

IF they happen to have something I want and they have 0 ratings, I do check their previous posts to see what kind of person they are and if they don't have any posts to check, then it's really not worth the risk for me especially since there will most likely be another person selling the same exact item i want.

 

[Zanessa]

I need to hear from some people their legit stories before I say anything about this topic.

 

[rosiekitty405]

Omg. My town is officially on lockdown. No trading for a while... The only people I'll invite now is my friends.
I know in WW my game got bricked by someone and I got some seeds. I hope that doesn't come into new leaf because I've put a lot of work into my town!

 

[nellpond]

No way. If this was happening we'd probably be hearing more about it.

 

[JKDOS]

This is just a rumor, It's false and not even possible. don't be so worried lol.

 

[yourlilemogirl]

As far as I see, it's not the items that are corrupt. Just like when cloning items in pokemon games, the data is copied ***-for-tat, it's an exact duplicate, nothing to be corrupted here. But what IS corrupting is the dupping itself. Since you're (or the person coming in to dupe items in your town) turning off the game while it's saving, there's a real chance, as seen by how many threads/posts here state to their corrupted files, that the game isn't able to properly save. Eventually, I'm speculating here, that the save isn't stable eventually once you do this enough times, leading to it to corrupt.

 

[Lassy]

As far as I see, it's not the items that are corrupt. Just like when cloning items in pokemon games, the data is copied ***-for-tat, it's an exact duplicate, nothing to be corrupted here. But what IS corrupting is the dupping itself. Since you're (or the person coming in to dupe items in your town) turning off the game while it's saving, there's a real chance, as seen by how many threads/posts here state to their corrupted files, that the game isn't able to properly save. Eventually, I'm speculating here, that the save isn't stable eventually once you do this enough times, leading to it to corrupt.

Yup, I agree with you c:

 

[DJStarstryker]

As far as I see, it's not the items that are corrupt. Just like when cloning items in pokemon games, the data is copied ***-for-tat, it's an exact duplicate, nothing to be corrupted here. But what IS corrupting is the dupping itself. Since you're (or the person coming in to dupe items in your town) turning off the game while it's saving, there's a real chance, as seen by how many threads/posts here state to their corrupted files, that the game isn't able to properly save. Eventually, I'm speculating here, that the save isn't stable eventually once you do this enough times, leading to it to corrupt.

This. Duped items are actually safe. Doing the duping, however, is incredibly risky. I've built computers in the past. There's a reason why you should let computers shut down safely and not just randomly turn it off. You can corrupt the data on the hard drive. The same is true for video games. This is why many video games tell you not to turn off the game when it's in the middle of saving.

I haven't heard of any sort of hacked items or anything else similar to the things that broke WW and CF yet. I think this is just rumors right now. If people lost data, it's either because they were duping, trying to dupe, or the game corrupted for some other reason that had nothing to do with duping (accidentally turning the game off during saving, your game cartridge got a small error/corruption in it for no reason - this happens even with computers sometimes for no reason but it's rare, etc).

 

[Joey]

This is the first I have heard of it so I don't believe it yet.