The cases of rigged PvP challenges/competitions have been on-going and there are many reasons on why things can occur that way such as the usage of bots, mods, impersonation, and even other things that make the challenges unfair. It's also the same case for the hacks that allow you to obtain items that are difficult to get through Loot Box feature in mobile games. Sure, having bots, gameplay modification that makes things unfair and impersonating someone are the definitions of wrong deeds and you may be in trouble in risking a ban normally. But what if a ban isn't enough for an immature-ass culprit as if he thinks he's done nothing wrong and the reporters and investigators have messed with him or something that he continues the same offense in the gaming world? One solution that causes mixed opinions is the harsh punishment by fine and jail time for modding game consoles and game saves.
As part of the updated Unfair Competition Act law in Japan, it makes modding game consoles and game save files illegal for recent reasons. Firstly, a modded game console can open doors to custom GUI, more games sthat are obtained other ways as well as things that mod the controllers so that the controllers can be used for gameplay, etc. The Classic Edition/Mini lines of consoles are the examples of the fact that you can add additional games on them but what stinks about this workaround is that it has a dark side in addition to light side. The dark side is obviously piracy of course as well as the sales of modded consoles. Tthere was already a case of a man being arrested for selling hacked SNES Classics/SFC Minis. Even the sales of hacked game software should be illegal in my opinion like I've seen the copyright warning messages for those hacked games made by the fans. I don't get on why would people modify the game save files though?
What about the old consoles and games for them then? That 's the gray area topic but to distribute something that allows you to alter game save data or even a service that offers similar stuff is said to be illegal. What makes the law considered broken is that you're playing the game online on the modded console or with edited game save.
Then, there was an episode of Game Center CX which showed off both the original and modified versions of Gradius on Famicom. Of course, only the original could be shown but the modified one couldn't as the game was modded without consent from the original game developers. Even if the modded version was praised by them, the legal issue is what's making things hold back. You expect M2 to be given an assignment to make an existing classic Famicom game even better and closer to the superior counterpart as a legal solution? Better yet, how did someone find time, resources and solution to improve that classic game even better? How did they allow the grey area stuff to be in the TV show? The same question can pretty much go for some AAA games on PC with 4K textures and other shaders. Of course, for modern games, the same risk is there when it comes to playing modded games while online.
