We will go over a method to avoid this below, but GameDB strongly recommends you only play offline with cheated items. This means you will be placed on a server with other cheaters. If you continue to play with this error, you will receive the message “ YOU HAVE BEEN PENALIZED”, which will result in a soft-ban. If you are caught with cheated items, you will receive the message “ INVALID GAME DATA HAS BEEN DETECTED” upon booting your game. Every Tuesday, the game developers run a sweep of save data on their servers.
First and foremost we must state that there is a risk that goes along with cheating items into the game.
