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Cooking Mama Becomes Subject of Strange Hacking Claims 1

Cooking Mama Becomes Subject of Strange Hacking Claims

From Cryptocurrency to Music Sources

  • Clement Goh Clement Goh
  • April 6, 2020
  • < 1 Minute Read

The developers of Cooking Mama: Cookstar are telling fans their game is not hacking Nintendo Switch consoles after mixed signals came from players and online communities. Rumours and accusations varied from the game being pulled from online stores after hackers allegedly mined data from Switch systems through the culinary title. Another story from IGN connected the game to its strange release window, which wasn’t clear to players.

According to Nintendo Life, the game had been indeed pulled from the Nintendo Eshop while further investigation by a Twitter user found issues from copyrighted music taken on YouTube.

https://twitter.com/OtherEhm/status/1246946944884318209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1246946944884318209&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendolife.com%2Fnews%2F2020%2F04%2Fcooking_mama_cookstar_pulled_from_switch_eshop_amid_accusations_of_mining_cryptocurrency

1st Playable, the team behind the latest signature cooking series, stated the rumors aren’t true as Cookstar was stable for months without any problems. Developers also added they weren’t tied to the game’s sudden takedown from the Nintendo Eshop, hoping things would be resolved sooner than later.

Those are all rumors. The game is fine. We’ve playing it for months, the team just got our retail copies and they work as expected. There’s no technical issues with the game, and although we’re not directly involved with the eshop issue we are hoping it will get sorted out soon.

— 1st Playable (@1stPlayable) April 5, 2020

As the speculations grew, more users claimed systems that owned the game suffered strange battery drains, slow system speeds and other symptoms of overworked hardware which comes from a bitcoin takeover. Players who did receive the physical copy tested it without further issues while a user stated the mining and blockchain was gone.

UPDATE 2 : we have worked with a user who has a physical copy and can at first appearances confirm the following: thanks @mmofallout

Game works offline

Game works without a linked user acc

Game works on a formatted console

Currency and blockchain appears removed pic.twitter.com/arsXwcaHWl

— DoesItPlay (@DoesItPlay1) April 5, 2020

A feature from IGN attempted to make sense of what they’re calling a gaming mystery for Cooking Mama: Cookstar which was announced in February. While upcoming titles were expected to have a “Coming Soon” label on the Eshop, the game proved to be an exception and started suspicion for wary Switch owners. Its physical copies were also claimed to be rare to find in U.S. Gamestops.

In pure coincidence or a ridiculous string of occurrences, the Switch overheating symptoms are a far cry from tales of bad distribution. Despite either case, its developers are just as puzzled as everyone else.

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Clement Goh

Clement Goh

Clement is a big gamer, but an even bigger listener. Little did he know, it would be the niche he was looking for after j-school. He experiments as CGM's VR Editor and doesn't hesitate to break the games industry's most pressing issues.
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