10 Most Creative Traps For Video Game Cheaters

Hacking and data corruption are frequently used by Pokémon fans to mess with the game's balance and make it easier to get things like shiny or rare Pokémon.

For the most part, using light cheats isn't likely to be punished, but if you push it too far and get one too many suspiciously favorable rewards, the game's scripts will bring one of the most infamous penalties among Pokémon fans.

A bad egg.

Introduced in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, bad eggs are, as the name suggests, corrupted Pokemon eggs that force themselves into your party when the game discovers you have a Pokemon whose data wasn't encrypted by its own scripts (aka it noticed you were cheating).

What makes bad eggs bad is that once they enter your Pokémon party, they cannot be removed, and in the worst-case scenario, the eggs can even fill up your entire squad, rendering your game completely unplayable.

The eggs were introduced into the series to target suspicious players with illegitimate Pokémon, so you can probably imagine the collective shock of all those smug backyard kids who lost their entire save files shortly after bragging about catching fifteen Bulbasaurs or catching a second shiny legendary.

There's some justice in the world, after all.