Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Hacker Arrested For Selling Modified Preservation Data

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We’ve heard in the past about crackdowns on street sales of mod Nintendo consoles and games, but that’s a slightly different story. Last April, Tokyo-based Chinese national Ichimin Sho posted an ad on a Japanese e-commerce site selling “final preservation data” for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

In fact, this final save data was actually just modified data, and Sho was offering to make any changes buyers requested – such as enhanced stats and capabilities for the 3,500 yen (about $32.00 USD) price tag. One of the interested parties was actually the Niigata Prefectural Police, and the 27-year-old was arrested earlier this week for violating Japan’s Prevention of Unfair Competition Act.

Xu pleaded guilty to the charges and further revealed how he sold the hacked preservation data dating back to December 2019. At that time, he earned around 10 million yen. His specific violation was to provide paid services to circumvent the technical limitations imposed on the Switch by Nintendo. Although the data change was made by an anonymous partner.

If we hear any updates about this story, we’ll make sure to let you know.

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