{"id":24774,"date":"2018-06-11T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hackers_have_already_found_a_way_to_maximise_items_and_pm_tickets_in_pokemon_quest"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:40:00","slug":"hackers-have-already-found-a-way-to-maximise-items-and-pm-tickets-in-pokemon-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/11\/hackers-have-already-found-a-way-to-maximise-items-and-pm-tickets-in-pokemon-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Have Already Found A Way To Maximise Items And PM Tickets In Pok\u00e9mon Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hackers_have_already_found_a_way_to_maximise_items_and_pm_tickets_in_pokemon_quest\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hackers_have_already_found_a_way_to_maximise_items_and_pm_tickets_in_pokemon_quest\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"pokemonquest.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hackers_have_already_found_a_way_to_maximise_items_and_pm_tickets_in_pokemon_quest\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hackers_have_already_found_a_way_to_maximise_items_and_pm_tickets_in_pokemon_quest\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"pokemonquest.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The free-to-play pocket monster RPG <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_quest\">Pok\u00e9mon Quest<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>only launched on Switch at the very end of last month, but hackers have already found a way to manipulate the game&#8217;s save files to net themselves as many items and PM Tickets as they like.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the homebrew community has released a save reader and writer program which you can use to manually edit save files within the game. Among other things, this means that users can modify their profile&#8217;s PM Ticket count (which are used to play levels in the game and would usually be obtained through purchase or time limitations) and maximise their items to a count of 999.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with Pok\u00e9mon Quest being a free-to-play title that relies on microtransactions for income, a hack that bypasses\u00a0any need to buy in-game items could prove to be very bad news indeed for Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company. We recently saw Niantic <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/niantic_is_deleting_players_pokemon_illegally_obtained_in_pokemon_go\">deleting save data<\/a> of <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong><\/a> players who had been using illegal\u00a0third party software, so could we see a similar fate here?<\/p>\n<p>If you want tips on how to legitimately get your hands on PM Tickets and other in-game goodies, make sure to <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/guide_pokemon_quest_-_how_to_get_free_pm_tickets_and_what_to_spend_them_on\">check out our handy guide<\/a>. Have you been playing this pocket-sized adventure on your Switch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free-to-play pocket monster RPG Pok\u00e9mon Quest\u00a0only launched on Switch at the very end of last month, but hackers have already found a way to manipulate the game&#8217;s save files to net themselves as many items and PM Tickets as they like. A member of the homebrew community has released a save reader and writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}