Non-amiibo villagers like Raymond/Audie/Judy/Sherb getting duped by savestates

[Xara]

i think i saw a thread on here offering duped raymonds and sherbs a while back ;u;

 

[Underneath The Stars]

do the campsite trick people! it's FREE.

time is not however, but you'll waste time anyway trying to get your dreamie. fyi, i have nothing against people buying their villager, it is what it is. i'd prefer to spend real life money on amiibo cards, but if they don't have then you're kinda left with no choice. at least the villagers never move out on their own now. so it's still like you have purchased them forever.

 

[SheepMareep]

I have a question and please pardon my stupid for asking, but do duped villagers ever have glitches or bugs? While I think it can help players more easily obtain these villagers, is there a risk associated with it?

With this particular method the person used (explained in their twit thread) i dont think theres much, if any, risk. What they are doing is basically saving their game prior to raymond leaving, allowing someone else to pick him up-- triggering THEIR town to recieve him-- and then quitting the game after they leave and opening up their save point prior to him being picked by someone. So the other person's town still registers as them getting Raymond but the source town is at a point that he was never picked by anyone.
It's basically the same as if you were to pick him from anyone else's island.
While it requires hacking the switch to do this, the person isnt directly duping in multiple Raymond's so his core coding is perfectly safe/fine.
If they were editing existing villagers to be raymond for an all raymond town then I'd be more concerned

 

[kasane]

on one hand if enough people do it (or if they give away 100,000 raymonds) then it'll probably make all those greedy sellers phase out