According to a report from Automaton, Nintendo recently contacted Cover Corporation, owner of the Vtuber talent agency Hololive Japan, over concerns Pekora may have used a hacked Pokémon Emerald cartridge during a March 29 broadcast. As modifying video game saves can be a serious crime in Japan and Nintendo’s streaming guidelines reserve the company’s right to “object to any content that we believe is unlawful,” Cover decided the best course of action would be to take down the stream archive and issue an apology on April 9.
“OK, but what the hell happened?” I can almost hear you all asking your computer screen. Let’s get into it.
The offending broadcast involved Pekora buying and investigating a bunch of used Pokémon Emerald cartridges in the hopes of finding one that contained a super rare item known as the Old Sea Map. The item, which provides access to a special area of the game
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