How to "hack" Tap Fish 2 Without Jailbreaking
Intro: How to "hack" Tap Fish 2 Without Jailbreaking
Have you ever been bored out of your life by playing Tap Fish 2, because you couldn't buy all the cool fish? You knew how but you didn't know how to jailbreak? This instructable shows a easy way to "hack" Tap Fish 2 without jailbreaking your iDevice. Basic HTML or XML understanding is recommended, but anyone can do this. Just saying, I do not own any software that is spoken on this (including Tap Fish 2 itself) if this is copyright, you may delete this.
STEP 1: Get the Program
You will need to download a program called iExplorer. It detects your iDevice as a external hard drive (like a usb plug) and lets you modify the system files! WARNING: Whatever you do with this program is at your own risk. Don't come crying to me saying "I messed up my iPhone!!". You can get this program at http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/
STEP 2: Enter IExplorer
Plug in your iDevice to your computer and start up iExplorer. Wait 10 seconds. If nothing pops in iExplorer, un-plug your iDevice and repeat this step.
STEP 3: Now for the Fun Stuff
Close out of Media and enter Apps. Now enter com.gameviewstudios.fishlifeplus and then enter FishLifePlus.app. Next search for the two files localstore.xml and localstore_en.xml. Drag them on your desktop and Right Click localstore.xml and choose Open With Wordpad or any other text editor. I used Visual Basic 2008 (cause I like it). Don't do Notepad, I tried it. Scroll down to the green snapper. Look for the <price pricetype="coins">10.0</price> and change the 10.0 to -999999999. Now go for the yellow snapper and look for <price pricetype="coins">15.0</price and change the "coins" to "fishbucks" and change the 15.0 to -999999999. Press control + A (command + A on mac) and then press control + C (command + C on mac). Open localstore_en.xml, hit control + A (command + A on mac) and then press control + V (command + V on mac) Save it, drag the two files back in iExplorer, say yes to everything. Unplug your device and exit out of iExplorer.
STEP 4: Test It
Go into Tap Fish 2 and try buying a green snapper and a yellow snapper. Now look at your money. Amazing, isn't it? WARNING: You may mess up your Tap Fish 2 game by buying too much green snappers and yellow snappers. Only buy them when you are running out of your money (somewhere about 5,000 coins, 1,000 fishbucks). I hope you had fun with this!
STEP 5: Messed Up Your Game?
You messed up your game? No problem. Click the pointer button on the bottom right screen of tap fish 2. Now click "About Tap Fish 2". Next click the restore game button. If you followed this, you got the money but you can't buy anything with it? Restart your tap fish 2 game and then repeat steps 2-4, but when you type the -999999999 type in -100 in its place and buy many of green and yellow snappers. There, problems fixed! If you still have problems post in the comments bellow.
35 Comments
LLA12 10 years ago
vsandusky 11 years ago
When all else failed, I tried exporting the whole folder to a separate directory folder on my pc. iexplorer stalled on the localstore_en.xml file. After 20 minutes I closed out iexplorer. Have tried on both IPad (Next Gen) and Iphone 3GS with the same results.
Is there something else I need to do in order to make this work? I hate to think I spent $34.99 to get "free" fish bucks and have nothing to show for it.
VoltageMANIAC 11 years ago
KrazzyEyezz 11 years ago
samara_13 11 years ago
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agregory fletcher 11 years ago
drchrisfr 11 years ago
I have only just yesterday read your instructions being new to tap fish 2. I am wondering if a recent Tap Fish 2 update might have changed things a bit. There no longer appears to be a localstore.xml although there is a localstore_en.xml (english) and localstore-ja.xml (Japanese I guess) I did a search on the other directories as well and it does not exist. Changes in the English and Japanese xml files make no difference to the game so I am wondering if the fish prices etc are now downloaded from the server everytime one opens the game or if they are saved elsewhere as soon as one opens the game for the first time.
Have you noticed any change?
Kind Regards
drchrisfr
aschmidt11 11 years ago
jabsjr 12 years ago
VoltageMANIAC 12 years ago
just-me-again 12 years ago
I also got the different backgrounds. That was nice.
Anyone has been experiencing problems after the update this week?
Kzettler 12 years ago
VoltageMANIAC 12 years ago
jpbredman 12 years ago
Reason: when I did the copy and paste thing - for some reason my store would show (in decorations menu) "tank basics2", "castles2", etc. Not sure exactly why this happened, but when I would try to purchase something from any "2" menu - it would say "cannot connect to server". It didn't cause any other problems except making the store menu all crowded w/useless menu choices - but I started from step 1 and just made the changes (without copying and pasting) and : problem solved.
Hope this helps.
bronson11 12 years ago
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VoltageMANIAC 12 years ago