Regarding Hacked DLC Items

[Duchess]

There seems to be some confusion about what hacked DLC items will do to your town and whether or not you can be exposed to the DLC issues if you have never owned a hacked item.

What is a hacked DLC item?

A hacked DLC item is when someone has taken a current item in the game and changed the image maps on the item so that it looks like something else.

For example, the Lightsabers are actually axes that look different. If you try, you can actually cut down trees with it, still. It also shows up as an axe in your pockets, drawers and if you drop it.

How does a hacked DLC item get into the game as a new item?

Each item in AC:CF has a code slot associated with it. At this time, there are a whoooooole bunch of empty code slots, and these are the slots that are filled up with DLC from Nintendo. The items that people are creating on their own (hacked items, like the lightsabers) are also taking up these empty code slots.

Will having/seeing/owning/holding a hacked item hurt my town/save/anything?

Folks, having hacked DLC content will do NOTHING to your save or your town. At all. Period.

The only time ANYTHING could occur is if Nintendo places a DLC item into one of the SAME code slots that is already being taken up in your save file by a hacked DLC item (which COULD happen, but isn't likely given the number of available slots).

In this case, the ONLY THING that would happen is that you wouldn't be able to get the DLC item offered by Nintendo, because the item slot would already be taken up by the hacked item.

This means, for example, that if the Blue Lightsaber is taking up Item Slot A$03, and Nintendo releases a DSi Chair that takes up Item Slot A$03, you will never see it as a DSi Chair. You will see the Blue Lightsaber, because that is the item your save has in that slot.

This will NEVER affect your game in any other way.

I've never picked up a hacked item, can I still be affected?

Once you have had the item in your town OR visited with someone who has the item in their town, you have the same code slot taken up by the same hacked DLC item as that person did (even if you never picked up the item, yourself).

It's sort of like a virus, when you think about it. But a very non-harmful one.

Is there anything I can do to get rid of the hacked item that is in a slot?

Not at this time, no. But I will keep you posted if any of my Homebrew/ACToolKit/etc. sources post information or links to anything that does.