• JohnEdwa
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    12 days ago

    Because:

    Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

    • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
    • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission
    • Game save and console modding services
      As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

    It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.