What's your opinion on hacked/moded save files for ACNH?

[Victoria of Starry Isle]

I'm curious to know the communities' thoughts on this topic. Please be respectful when stating your opinions in the comments.

 

[windloft]

as long as it doesn't come to the expense of other people's unmodded games / files, especially involving transactions and trading, i'm not against it.

you paid 60 bucks for the game, as long as you don't harm others or try and start anything up with glitches, gamebreaking items and such, i'm not going to get into anybody's feathers about it.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Oh dear..... I remember when there was like hacked trees when someone had an island with trees with fragments and other stuff on them. However when it was posted in a dream address some people reported it to Nintendo and then they took it down. If anyone was caught having hacked trees on their island they would risk getting their account banned.

As far as I think about it I could see there be fun from it, but when it comes to like cheating the system just to get stuff earn stuff rather than doing it the intended way I would say its unfair.

 

[kazumix]

The same as moded NL files. They're very cool and cute. In ACNL, i loved the idea of putting bamboos, trees, weeds and flowers in rivers or in bridges. I visited a hacked dream town called Arashi yesterday and goshhh it's so beautiful. It's my favorite dream town.

So in NH it's cool too, i guess? I saw pics of star fragments in trees and i liked it a lot. If you're only using hacking to aesthetically improve your island/town and not to do bad things to other people (putting mannequins in their pockets when in multiplayer, or that thing in NL: hackers would go to club tortimer to block the island house door with rafflesias), It's pretty cool to hack your island/town and i'm not against it.

Sorry for my bad english ugghh

 

[windloft]

Oh dear..... I remember when there was like hacked trees when someone had an island with trees with fragments and other stuff on them. However when it was posted in a dream address some people reported it to Nintendo and then they took it down. If anyone was caught having hacked trees on their island they would risk getting their account banned.

As far as I think about it I could see there be fun from it, but when it comes to like cheating the system just to get stuff earn stuff rather than doing it the intended way I would say its unfair.

i totally forgot that nintendo can ban your account for stuff like that! also from what i heard of, the trees didn't brick your game or anything like that, but to nintendo ... hacked items are hacked items, no matter if they're pretty or not.

 

[VanitasFan26]

i totally forgot that nintendo can ban your account for stuff like that! also from what i heard of, the trees didn't brick your game or anything like that, but to nintendo ... hacked items are hacked items, no matter if they're pretty or not.

Yeah they take hacking pretty seriously whenever someone reports it to them.

 

[Khaelis]

People are free to play the game how they please. However, Nintendo is also free to handle those players how they please. Also, just make sure if you're one of the modders, please don't do things that would effect other players negatively.

 

[meggiewes]

As long as it doesn't affect my game, I don't care what others do with their games.

But if they purposely do it to spread gamebreaking glitches (for example), then that is just mean spirited and awful. I like to think that most people won't do that.

I feel like Nintendo is trying to cut down on hacking in this game though. I haven't heard of many people hacking New Horizons unless it is to get unlimited access to trading currencies or crafting recipes. The last big things were star fragment trees and Harvey's fence that was patched out, right?

 

[kazumix]

i totally forgot that nintendo can ban your account for stuff like that! also from what i heard of, the trees didn't brick your game or anything like that, but to nintendo ... hacked items are hacked items, no matter if they're pretty or not.

if i remember well, the hacked trees wouldn't even drop the star fragments, so it didn't count as cheating. in my opinion, there were no necessity of banning islands that would have star trees. nintendo......

 

[VanitasFan26]

As long as it doesn't affect my game, I don't care what others do with their games.

But if they purposely do it to spread gamebreaking glitches (for example), then that is just mean spirited and awful. I like to think that most people won't do that.

I feel like Nintendo is trying to cut down on hacking in this game though. I haven't heard of many people hacking New Horizons unless it is to get unlimited access to trading currencies or crafting recipes. The last big things were star fragment trees and Harvey's fence that was patched out, right?

They do ban people if they were caught doing glitches like duplicates to spawn more items just to sell them and make more bells thats something that they don't take too kindly too.

 

[Parkai]

i wish they added a seed that let you grow items so you could have natural fragment trees D:

 

[Moritz]

So long as they keep their save data to themselves I don't care what they do.

If you go online and make people think you're hacked stuff is legit then I take issue with it.

 

[Feraligator]

I have a modded Switch in which I replaced the ACNH soundtrack with my own fan made version. That probably sounds big headed but you know what? I enjoy the game more when I'm not forced to listen to music I don't like, while being able to hear the nice sound effects too. At some point I may change it to the soundtracks from other AC games to mix it up.

I know there's someone else on this forum who replaced the OST with my soundtrack and it's really nice that they enjoy it too.

Of course, you can contest me if you want, but it's not going to change my mind if I'm honest and I probably won't respond to anyone who attacks me for it.

 

[VanitasFan26]

People are free to play the game how they please. However, Nintendo is also free to handle those players how they please. Also, just make sure if you're one of the modders, please don't do things that would effect other players negatively.

I think I had my encounter with a hacker one time when I was using Nookazon. I was finished doing a trade and they gave a wrapped gift in return. I opened it up on my island to find out that its a Sea Creature called the Spider Crab. I was like "Wait you cannot wrap up creatures in this game" then I donated the item to blathers and he accepted it. Whats weird is that I didn't catch it so the game thinks I never had it before because it wasn't registered in the critterpedia

 

[CuriousCharli]

In my opinion "hacking" only becomes a concern if its attacking someone else or affects someone else, THAT is what everyone fears.
There are a lot of hacks and mods that are harmless and are just for pure fun or to help others.
I mean, everyone can exploit a certain glitch to get multiple of an item(s), that is a type of hack... well... bypassing a system and in the end people give that stuff out to make people happy. Those are the kinds of people I will always support and always will.

 

[Victoria of Starry Isle]

Oh dear..... I remember when there was like hacked trees when someone had an island with trees with fragments and other stuff on them. However when it was posted in a dream address some people reported it to Nintendo and then they took it down. If anyone was caught having hacked trees on their island they would risk getting their account banned.

As far as I think about it I could see there be fun from it, but when it comes to like cheating the system just to get stuff earn stuff rather than doing it the intended way I would say its unfair.

Yeah, I remember that.
It was only because this youtuber would mass report people with star trees and encourage fans to do the same. Even if the person they were reporting didn't do anything wrong like hack someone else. Nintendo saw the mass reports and saw that a lot of people didn't like the mods/hacks so they toughened their policies on mods/hacks.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Yeah, I remember that.
It was only because this youtuber would mass report people with star trees and encourage fans to do the same. Even if the person they were reporting didn't do anything wrong like hack someone else. Nintendo saw the mass reports and saw that a lot of people didn't like the mods/hacks so they toughened their policies on mods/hacks.

There was a YouTuber who recently got banned for the same reason. I forgot what his name was but he was the one showcasing the hacked island and for some reason when he went to that island he got his account banned which was strange because he wasn't the one hacking. Nintendo is pretty strict with their policies but sometimes it can be too aggressive.

 

[AccfSally]

I'm fine with it. as long as they're not using them to steal people dream addresses like in NL (and still is happening).

 

[kayleee]

It doesn't bother me at all if other people hack their islands, unless it somehow compromises my own game. I remember in Wild World people who hacked could drop Museums and other buildings in other people's towns-- someone did that to my friends' town right in front of her train station so she could no longer leave her town or visit other people. Obviously situations like this aren't possible in New Horizons but if it were possible I would have a problem with it. But otherwise, as long as my game isn't impacted then I don't care what other people do

 

[tybalt_cake]

i think modded islands are so cool, i would do it to mine too but i'm afraid of bans

as long as the people who mod don't do anything nasty to other people's islands it's all good