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I have successfully figured out how to morph fish catches!
Here, I turn beta (105f) on a mystery island into Stringfish (8c1)
This trick uses cheatengine + ryujinx. If you have a similar memory scanner on your switch and get very lucky on island rolls you should also be able to replicate this trick.
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Here's the trick, go to a mystery island which consistently spawns fish with specific shadows that correspond to things. For example, on this island dorado (8cb) spawn regularly. Dorado is a huge shadow and so I scan for Dorado if I see a huge shadow. Dorado's also rare so the next fish that replaces the Dorado slot is unlikely to also be Dorado, and also I can see if a huge shadow spawns next so it cannot be Dorado. I can also scare off fish that aren't Dorado by running because small fish etc can't be Dorado.
So I scan for Dorado when I see a huge fish shadow, I go to catch it and cross my fingers. If the fish bites and it is Dorado then I check quickly if any surrounding fish are also Dorado (aka it has a big fish slot). If not, I know that no other fish could have filled the Dorado slot and I search for value is changed (Dorado no longer occupies the fish slot so it has to be some other fish, which fish I do not know)
So what happened was I had 22 addresses left. Of those slots, only about 8 could have been real fish because the values for that memory range did not fit into 0 to ffff because it was way too massive or fluctuated constantly like crazy. As shown below, you can see that these hex numbers are way too massive and cannot fit into normal ids
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Here are your normal fishy etc ids, most of them are 3-4 digits etc
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So I identified the most likely 8 values and found out that my next fish was likely to be a boot. So I scared off the boot and the next fish in my slot was a betta. Now, since bettas are small, I go around carefully and find out that a betta is likely to be the tiny fish shadow right next to me.
I change the betta value (105f) into (8c1). The size of the fish shadow DOES NOT CHANGE. I fish up my "betta" and it comes up as a stringfish instead.
Interestingly enough, my morphed stringfish unlocks it in the critterpedia too.
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