How Pokémon BDSP Are Cracking Down On Glitch Cloning
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are finally attempting to put a stop to duplication glitches. While the Pokémon series has been mired with technical issues and exploits since its beginning, the Gen 4 remakes on the Nintendo Switch have been notably bad when it comes to glitches. However, February 2022's version 1.2.0 update saw a significant crackdown designed to limit the trading and use of duplicated Pokémon, which may suggest something about the future of Pokémon Home.
Pokémon BDSP's duplication glitch works eerily similar to the way the void glitches worked in the original Gen 4 titles: Players could overwhelm the game in specific places of the map with a quick series of inputs that would essentially strain how areas load. However, Pokémon BDSP'sglitch works by overwhelming the games' menu system in such a way that it allows players to move a Pokémon in their PC while keeping an original copy of this Pokémon in the same location. Despite several attempts at rooting this out, fans keep on finding new ways to circumvent prevention methods with each update that has come out. The consequence of this has been that shiny, hyper trained, IV bred, EV trained, and legendary Pokémon (or all of the above) have been replicated en masse, reducing their value and making online play near impossible for trainers who do not want to cheat.
Related: Pokémon BDSP Already Hints At Scarlet & Violet
Instead of trying to root out the problem that has made the duplication glitch possible, Pokémon BDSP have instead turned their focus on what makes duplicating worthwhile in the first place with: trading and online domination. New methods devised by the developer of Pokémon Home ILCA now catch the appearance of duplicated Pokémon
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