If you’ve ever modded a Pokémon game with a tool like PokeSAV in your life, the punishment for cheating could come years, even decades, later. A few days ago we told you that Pokémon Home was updated to support the new remakes of Brilliant Diamond / Gleaming Pearl and the Pokémon Legends: Arceus . Well, apparently, said version of Pokémon Home also includes a new feature to detect illegal Pokémon in your game , and the punishment seems to be a lifetime ban from the system .
Being such a harsh measure, it was strange that players had not been notified. For a few hours, many Pokémon players – some innocent of having changed anything – have received a nice permanent ban from Pokémon Home, and on the networks there has been talk that this measure seemed to be Game Freak’s ultimate weapon to end Pokémon. the cheaters . Just a few hours later we have discovered that it is a programming error and that it can be fixed for the time being.
Punishment for bad players or Game Freak’s pincer?
Breeding Pokémon somewhat follows Mendel’s laws, and creating the perfect creature can take days or even weeks of work. Hence, for years, many players have used external tools to create Pokémon with the click of a button . Game Freak has never been amused by this type of practice, despite the fact that even in official Pokémon competitions we can see players who have clearly used these techniques to generate their team. For the same reason, Pokémon Home and all previous Pokémon trading platforms have systems to detect if Pokémon have been generated illegally or if a creature is really a clone of another Pokémon.
When a player artificially creates a Pokémon, it doesn’t always go well. In fact, it is quite complex to generate it perfectly for the system to detect it as legitimate. When a Pokémon has illegal parameters , the system usually won’t let us move it out of the game.
But there are exceptions. A poorly executed illegitimate Pokémon may have been spawned in the fourth generation, for example, and may have been passed from game to game until it was detected as illegal in current games. And this is where it seems that there are changes in the new version of Home. If the Pokémon Home 2.0 software detects that you have a ‘Bad Egg’ in your game, you are logged out . They have hunted you.
What is the ‘Bad Egg’?
The Bad Egg or Bad Egg is the way in which Pokémon games notify the player that they have a corrupted Pokémon on their team or PC. They exist since the third generation, and can become a headache. Sometimes a bad egg could corrupt an entire game, rendering it unusable. Exactly the same as when you were trying to capture MissingNo in the first generation games.
At first glance, a bad egg is nothing more than a normal egg, only it is accompanied by the text “It seems that this egg is going to take a lot to open”. And you can do the Camino de Santiago seven times in a row, which we already told you that that egg will never hatch. In fact, it can ‘contaminate’ other boxes on your PC, as if it were some kind of virus. And, since it is an egg, it cannot be released.
The bad egg does not always appear for hacks
This is where we are struck by the drastic measure Game Freak seems to have quietly taken. We agree: if a player has a bad egg on his PC, it is very likely that he has cheated. But Pokémon games are full of cases where the bad egg could be generated by a glitch in the roms ‘ own programming . For example, in FireRed and LeafGreen (3rd generation), if you used the same pair of Pokémon to breed more than 20 times in the nursery on Isla Quarta, the game would become corrupted and you would get these eggs with corrupted data.
Therefore, the debate is served. As the Pokémon Center account points out from Twitter, the new version of Pokémon Home gives you an Error Code 2-ALZTA-005 / 10015 to any player who connects his game to the Pokémon cloud with a ‘Bad Egg’ in his possession. This code is the one usually received by players who are permanently banned . Everything seems to indicate that it is a bug in the detection system of corrupt Pokémon, and there are a few steps you can take to solve the problem if it has happened to you in your Pokémon cloud.
Fix Pokémon Home ‘Error Code 10015’
We are still waiting for Nintendo to clarify what has happened with this Pokémon Home update. At the moment, the guys from iMore have published a guide with the steps they have taken to solve this error. They are the following:
- Turn on your Nintendo Switch and hover over Pokémon Home.
- Press ‘+’ on your controller.
- Go to ‘Data Management’ and fearlessly accept about ‘Clear the program’.
- Now go to the Nintendo Switch eShop and search for Pokémon Home.
- Click on ‘Redownload’.
- Start it once the download is finished and log back in with your account.
If these steps do not solve the problem, you will have to wait for an official solution -or it ends up confirming that the objective of the measure was to eliminate all cheaters, which seems quite disproportionate to us.
