Selling Edited File Save Game, 27-year-old man faces jail time

According to Niigata radio, Ichimin Sho – a 27-year-old Chinese man currently living in Japan, was arrested by the Japanese police on July 8. It is known that the cause of the incident was that Ichimin was selling save game data files of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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Ichimin Sho posted his modified save game data files for sale Breath of the Wild version Nintendo Switch on an unspecified auction site and described it as “the most powerful software”. These mod files will help the player improve in-game abilities, and Ichimin also provides rare items upon request.

To use the service, players will have to pay Ichimin a fee of about 3500 yen (about 731,000 VND). The Niigata Prefectural Police caught and detained the 27-year-old male gamer for violating the Law on Prevention of Unfair Competition. After being arrested, Ichimin also admitted to having sold modified software and save files and earned 10 million yen (nearly 2.1 billion dong) in the past year and a half.
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This is not the first time someone has been arrested for selling Save Game data files in Japan. Deputy Director Okazawa of the Niigata Police’s Cybercrime Division has also asked people not to create, sell or buy modified data or software as it is a violation of the law.

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