Pokmon Cloning Trick Discovered In Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl – Kotaku

Pokmon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have only been out for a few days and players have already stumbled into a massive glitch that lets you endlessly clone any Pokmon in the game, including whatever rare items theyre holding. That means it doubles as a duplication trick, and effectively breaks the game.

It appears the trick was first discovered by Twitter user Kevinfor5 who posted about it last night. Its quickly beginning to circulate around now, in part because its so easy to do. This morning, YouTube user and speedrunner Orcastraw posted a straightforward video guide to the cloning trick thats under a minute long.

Heres how it works:

I tried it myself and can confirm that it works, at least for now. The trick can be used to duplicate Legendary Pokmon like Dialga and unique items like the Master Ball. The only requirement is that youve progressed far enough in the game to have reached Solaceon (which happens shortly after you complete the second Gym).

This is far from the first time cloning glitches have been discovered in the series, including in Diamond and Pearl, but its surprising to see one crop up so soon after release in a modern Pokmon game. Who needs to mess around with hacked Pokmon when the game itself will let you generate your own? Kevinfor5 already claims to have found another even more efficient dupping method earlier this morning.

Pokmon BDSP were getting patched right up to release day, and Im sure more fixes are on the way. This new cloning glitch will probably be at the top of the list going forward.

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Pokmon Cloning Trick Discovered In Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl - Kotaku