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Encryption Constant. This thing: Well yeah, it modifies the top half based on your TID/SID and PID. So given you're using the same PID, TID and SID, it gave you the same result; there's only one modification formula (for forced shinies), so if all the variables are the same, the result is the same.

If I'm not mistaken, the factors connected to the seed are PID, IVs, HT, WT, EC. So yeah, you can't change any of them haphazardly.

Ah that makes sense. To my understanding that is how games force shininess. From what I understand, the games rolls a shiny check, *before* the seed is rolled. (Which the seed is used to determine various stats such as PID, IVs, Height , Weight, EC, etc), and the result from the shiny check would result in either (1) Shiny or (2) Not Shiny. So if you rolled a shiny for the shiny check, but the resulting PID from the seed is not shiny, that is supposedly how the game assigns you a forced shiny PID (by modifying the top half of the PID). [which is square shiny] [extra info: if you rolled a shiny for shiny check, and have a shiny PID from the seed, the game won't force shininess on you. That's how you get star shinies for these wild encounters] Well, glad it's all sorted out :3

No problems. I replied cause I happened to be online, I can't say the same for my future reply, but as long as I have details, I'll answer it when I see it. On a partially unrelated note, I see that all 3 of your SoJ has the same stats and PID. Did you use a cheat to get them or something?

Because you modified the PID beyond legal bounds. The new version of PKHeX added a check to overworld/fishing/symbol encounters from gen 8 (if you control + click the legality symbol, you'll see the PID type now being called overworld8), and checks whether their PIDIV and other stats are properly legal. (basically can reverse engineer those stats, and see if any legal seed was used to generate them). Here's a tool that might be of interest, provided you have your legal copy of the Swords of Justice. Do note you can not change their IVs. (You could just hyper train them if you want)