Fish plays Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and commits credit card fraud

A YouTuber has created an alternative Nintendo Switch controller for his pet fish to play live streamed video games. This fish managed to spend real money on some digital purchases while trying to beat a gym manager Pokemon scarlet and violet (h/t: GamesRadar). And all of this happened because scarlet and violet are so buggy that they can sometimes interfere with the game Crash to homepage.

Mutekimaru Channel is a popular Japanese YouTuber who uses an assistive device to stream fish playing video games – an initiative aimed at helping viewers stay home during the pandemic. When a fish swims over a certain area of ​​the “controller,” the game registers this as a specific key press. It’s not just a fish Pokemon either. The owner of the canal rotates the fish every twelve hours to keep them healthy.

If the whole story played at “a fish Pokemon on stream”, then I would have been suitably impressed. But no, the fish went one step further. Several fish not only managed to travel through cities and wilderness using a specialized controller, they even managed to spend their owner’s real money. I’m a little scared to think what else these fish might be capable of. Armed robbery?

Normally, only one fishy player is allowed into the switch tank at a time. As soon as the owner left the game, several fish took over and planned their nefarious raid.

The fish had been right in the middle Pokemon scarlet and violetbut the game crashed because of it notorious performance issues. Once the fish has been brought to the Nintendo Switch main page, she managed to open the e-shopwhere its owner’s credit card information was stored (and consequently doped).

The fish Added 500 yen to their owner’s account. Then it uses the resulting Nintendo Gold Coins (a loyalty reward from digital purchases) to buy one gulf cosmetics from Nintendo Switch Sports. After Sora News 24the owner intends to request a refund from Nintendo.

Be careful out there gamers. Not only can hackers and other unscrupulous species get their hands on your credit card information, so can common pet fish. So don’t give out your credit card number on shared devices!