Random: Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Players Discover How To Manipulate The Item Printer For Best Results
Last year, The Pokemon Company released the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokemon Scarlet And Violet, which includes a new feature called the Item Printer that allows players to obtain randomly generated rare items by trading TM Materials gathered from wild Pokemon.
Now, players have discovered how to manipulate the Item Printer’s RNG to get the best results possible, As explained by Pokemon dataminer @Sibuna_Switch, the item printer’s results are determined based on the Switch’s system clock. By changing the system clock to a specific time, players can control exactly what the Item Printer spits out after being used. In the example tested by Sibuna_Switch, setting the system clock to 2016, 2:11:13 AM allowed them to obtain 10 rare Poke Balls every time.
Looks like this was first noticed by the Japanese community and tested by @stella_ssa and @eshippoiya.
More to come tomorrow, time for me to go to bed zzzz
— Anubis (@Sibuna_Switch) April 9, 2024
Scarlet/Violet's Item Printer has been broken! The results are locked-in when you open the menu for the first time (using "seconds since 1970").
With knowledge of how it determines item results, we can forecast results, and game the item printer.
More info soon. https://t.co/5yOMUpQb7a pic.twitter.com/w7iLPNaDOa— Kurt (@Kaphotics) April 9, 2024
Might improve this later, might not — a tool to calculate & search for datetime seeds 🙂https://t.co/h0vwa13uf1
— Kurt (@Kaphotics) April 9, 2024
Japanese players familiar with the exploit have also been posting their results on Twitter, farming rare Poke Balls along with other valuable items such as Ability Patches:
#ポケモンSV #NintendoSwitch
2024.1.1 0:05 4秒くらい
ウルボ2
フレボ2
ラフボ
スピボ pic.twitter.com/ee81sASWZ2— Eliana (@eliana_wiz) April 9, 2024
新時代の金策
日付:2024.1.1 0:05
秒数:4.6-5.0秒
道具2倍チャンス日付:2024.1.1 4:00
秒数:10.0秒
アイテム:パッチ1orパッチ2⚠️両方1連です
1分でとくせいパッチ平均3個
全てを過去にする脅威の時給2,000万越えです
BPと素材も最低限しか使わないので本当におすすめ#道具プリンター設定 pic.twitter.com/RegMuUTWjL— 夏目 (@ntmgpoke) April 9, 2024
日時:2024.5.3 0:03
秒数:4秒
アイテム:テラピ草5,ノーマル9,虫13,特性パッチ2
チャンス:レアボ
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そのまま閉じず引くとムンボ,ドリボ,ラブボ,ルアボ待機時間クッソ短いしパッチ2もあるし割と強いと思います。そのまま引かず一旦閉じるやり方はこれから検証します#道具プリンター設定 pic.twitter.com/iOP8i4NuxW
— ころ@本垢凍結中のサブ垢 (@touketsukoro2) April 8, 2024
Given that this method of determining results is integral to how the Item Printer functions, it is not certain whether Game Freak will take action to patch away the exploit. Stay tuned for more details as they come.
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