This exploit will also duplicate each item the Pokémon was holding. This new trick has a lot more steps than the previous ones, but is also a lot faster, and doesn’t require you to have any “sacrificial” Pokémon. Instead, everything simply copies over as if you were right-clicking JPEGs from one folder to another.

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It’s unclear why these duplication glitches are so rampant in Pokémon BDSP, but it could have something to do with trying to take the old-school gameplay of the original games, and add modern features like being able to access your storage boxes at any time. It could also simply be a result of the game being rushed out. For anyone who hasn’t been following the wild saga of BDSP’s release, the game leaked weeks beforehand, after which publisher Nintendo rushed out an early 3GB patch to add things like missing animations and music files.

This also means that if you want to take part in the current exploit bounty, you’ll probably want to act sooner than later. Most of the rarest Pokémon and items in BDSP can’t be accessed until the end game, and I’m sure developer ILCA is already working to try and patch out these bugs, along with a litany of others. In the meantime, fans can artificially farm the Gen IV Sinnoh region to their hearts’ content.