How Emulating Pokemon Games Can Ruin Your Attention Span

[@soviet_soyuz]

Nice try, Nintendo

[@Onepieceistheworstanime]

Not bad I actually chuckled

[@joemomma6317]

LMAO

[@DarkAmph]

I remember realizing in high school how not speeding it up is a matter of whether you wamt to enjoy it or play it like a religious obligation lol

[@jakisrandom1]

the second part kinda hits home cuz i played every pokemon with fast forward but honestly ill always choose playing with fast forward because reading 4 sentences in about 30 seconds is no fun especially when its always just the most casual and boring stuff, with very few exceptions that actually elaborate on the pokemon world or are ACTUALLY funny.

[@drazenpoduje6168]

​@@jakisrandom1 you can just speed up the text on the options menu. Plus, by speeding the game up you ruin the music

[@DarrellKareem-sz4cl]

I want to enjoy it yes but grinding, and long ass battles are smth i dont enjoy

[@BagzAndPresident]

Life is short. Time is little. I use speed ups to balance my time between games and being able to do what I want before work

[@Mikey-ct3qf]

Mainly grinding. If I’m in a battle that actually requires effort and cognition I’m not speeding it up

[@leonardomatheus1888]

​@@Mikey-ct3qfEffort and cognition on a simple turn based game?

[@ivanlol7153]

@@leonardomatheus1888wait till you learn about chess

[@yujiandou4658]

@@leonardomatheus1888competitive battles

[@Yarott75]

​@@leonardomatheus1888The simple games are often the more deceivingly complicated ones. Even when you believe chess or Tic Tac Toe are solved games.

[@batmabel]

Every new hack rom or just regular game run I do I always think "this time, I won't speed it up" and then by the second battle I'm already like "lmao I *am* speed"

[@gabekyun]

Nice Pfp :)

[@spamtoncrocker9067]

im speeding through White 2 woohoo

[@thonnytrombonni1676]

Blud is NOT convincing me to sit through gen 4 slow ahh animations

[@DarkAuraLord]

Fucking seriously. I already DID my time in in the trenches back in Gen 4's wifi battle days. FUCK that shit.

[@jemysvern5378]

You can literally skip animation on settings lmao.

[@thonnytrombonni1676]

@@jemysvern5378 does it skip the infamous HP drain animation? Btw i was mostly thinking of world animations like surf

[@meowmeowmeow-7040]

​@@thonnytrombonni1676The HP drain animation was tragic especially against Chansey and blissey and high HP pkmn 😭😭😭🤞🏽

[@mertensiam3384]

RIGHT? It's so annoying

[@DaSquyd]

I watched this video at 2x speed Edit: ok now that this has almost a thousand likes, I'm going to admit that this was a lie. I said it because I thought it'd be funny.

[@FootballPsychoPS3T]

I have been called out by this comment. In fact, I have a Chrome extension called Video Speed Controller that lets me go above double speed 😅

[@RolyGuacamole]

Lmaoooo

[@Joao_HunterYT]

Me too 💀

[@carcas77]

Bruh, Imagine if you could speed up KZbin videos by just holding space.

[@theshaklawist]

2x + started also reading comments at 1:00 + lost my interest at 1:40

[@beesechurger3558]

I personally have a set rule on the speedup mode ONLY USE IT when grinding, the moment i stop, turn it off. The story and music is fun, but not killing 800 patrats in a row.

[@Letmedoodle]

Same

[@ferb9623]

Agreed

[@norikaikakyoin7069]

“Ah shit looks like im underleveled and theres no more trainers left time to kill 500 boldores in some shitass cave”

[@comfylain]

My first experience with any Pokemon game was emulating Crystal in 2006, I used the speed-up function exclusively when grinding and never abused it. The following year, I got a Gameboy Color and a copy of Pokemon Red and I played that just as often, and never really missed the speed-up feature. As an adult, I don't consume short form content or watch videos on anything other than regular speed, because speeding up videos with talking in them makes my brain feel like it's lagging behind and I can hear weird echoes, so I just don't do it. My attention span is definitely worse than it used to be, but not as bad as some others, I would say.

[@robinsr4745]

My first was crystal too weirdly enough but i think it was in 2012

[@NatetheNintendofan]

Instead of speeding up, you should cheat.Simply grab those sheet codes and sheet for some rare candies.But only level up when you're Pokémon.Need to catch up, but once you get to generation.That introduces e x p all no need for that anymore

[@t4tz3lwurm]

@@NatetheNintendofan it doesnt feel right, at least to me

[@bigjake360t]

There is a difference between a short attention span, and impatience. For example a person nearing the end of their attention span is easily distracted, but emotionally neutral. On the other hand a person who has become impatient will easily get annoyed, but will still be able to focus.

[@sulewski_]

Oh my god i felt this so bad i gotta do a speed up detox

[@sulewski_]

Update: playing black 2 on my old DS feels so refreshing I should have done this years ago

[@davidfelez7575]

Don't play 4th gen tho​@@sulewski_

[@Kichona]

​@@davidfelez7575platinum and hgss are fine

[@ktvx.94]

Every time I play an old Pokemon game I force myself to NEVER speed up because I know there's no coming hack. Eventuallly "just this time" becomes permanent.

[@AG-sb7pu]

Perfectly said!

[@shadowedfate151]

When im on original hardware I pretty much am fine without speed up.

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

It's funny when you consider the fact in the Pokémon Stadium games, you can play the Gen 1 and Gen 2 games with the Transfer Pack and whatever game cart you have and the Doduo and Dodrio Gameboy Towers can SPEED UP the gameplay when you want. Lmao. Of course you have to unlock those but still. Back then, this WAS a thing. Heh

[@xela12345]

I use this as a Nintendo approved excuse to play Pokemon games on fastforward

[@robmalcolm8042]

The stadiums were challenging too if you didn't send your own teams from the cartridges. I beat gym leader castle and the league with rentals but it wasn't that easy.

[@pedrohenriquemedeirosmacha9696]

I only use the fast foward features if i am either: 1- grinding lvls 2- getting pokémon on the post game that i just so happend to miss on my playthought (aka baby pokémon and mons that are in general hard to get, such as legendaries).

[@TaLeng2023]

Hatching eggs

[@MordenTheCoolestJumpluff]

For me it's the actual slowest games in pokemon. The gen 4 era.

[@adribier]

The difference is now your time is a lot more valuable, because its a lot more scarse. And I feel like many games waste the players time, either by gameplay, or slow menus/UI, slow animations, etc.

[@natbernatber]

Then i think it's more like choosing good game overt fast or short ones, even if they are "slow", because some experiences are better if you take the right time to enjoy it

[@colevitiritto8976]

Have had this exact same internal struggle and I also came to the conclusion that when I play thru emerald or fire red, I enjoy it most if I play it for ~1 hour stretches. Go thru a route, explore the city, beat the gym, turn it off for a while. Helps curb the desire of wanting it to be sped up. I will say the worst part is no save states. When I go to the back of meteor falls trying to harvest a 31 IV attack, naughty nature Bagon, it’s nice to be able to just reset after each catch if it’s a crappy one.

[@BagzAndPresident]

Explore the city? Haven’t you already talked to the NPCs 100x

[@colevitiritto8976]

@@BagzAndPresident well I mean yes but I’m saying going thru and collecting all the items to get in the city, it’s still something to do

[@Sin_Alder]

@@colevitiritto8976 Plus, can't speak for anyone else, but no matter how many times I play an RPG, 9/10 I'm not going to remember every conversation in a city (especially since a lot of them aren't going to be super interesting), but because of that, I can't remember if I'm missing out on something. Whether that be a tip, an item, a trade, an special trashcan, or whatever. I'm obsessive enough that I'm not leaving a city or route until I've gotten everything there is to get.

[@quintenfrancis8858]

Naughty is not even a good nature kekw

[@alexanderstilianov]

I never thought anyone else had this problem. I can't play emerald without the speed up function.

[@GramKraken]

Especially for me when I played a nuzlocke and keep losing pokemon so I need to grind levels on new ones…

[@DaShinyDragonMon]

​@@GramKrakenFWIW, most nuzlocke rules allow for rare candies over grinding now. Obviously each person is still on charge of their own rules but it's more accepted now

[@RomanMartinez6666]

@@DaShinyDragonMon i rarecandy while at x5 speed lol

[@JB-bb1bh]

....nah, i hated how slow it was for a LONG time. Aint nobody got time for DP and before slow speed. All hail the towers in stadium 1/2. Was mad a tower didn't exist for RSEFRLG. Gen 5 and up was the start of bearable speed. I died a little inside when move animation was mandatory in gen 9.

[@nizuma_8341]

Nah you're so right. I literally cannot physically get myself to play a Pokemon game without 4x speed let alone 2x speed.

[@zegroselia2504]

I had this problem too for a while and i think that i solved it by simply enjoying the music, you can't hear it when playing with fast-foward so i started playing it normally again because i think these games have a nice soundtrack.

[@grunkleg.2934]

Listening to the BGM helps a lot to curb the desire to use speedup, at least when you're just playing through things and aren't grinding for something. Another thing I'll say is that the newer games love to yap your ear off. The older games really knew how to get on with things, which makes them far more replayable

[@SkywalkerOne1977]

Except in S/V where the background music is.... just there.

[@mlshiza5335]

it felt so good when i stopped using fast-forward tbh, i love the music in these games

[@pokegateofficial]

I guess you'd have to use your imagination without the battle animations. 😅

[@ACasualCustomer]

Our dopamine receptors are fried

[@mrsuperheatran2794]

I have a friend who doesn't even use fast forward, he just hacks in better natures and rare candies to avoid literally any grind- even in games that have the post-xy exp share. He also doesn't like it when I call him impatient for it either.

[@DeepakKumar-fi4os]

Seems like a cool guy ngl

[@mrsuperheatran2794]

@@DeepakKumar-fi4os He is. We talk like every day, haha.

[@TaLeng2023]

He value his time and he knows what he wants and gets it.

[@jakisrandom1]

litearlly me. except i was more dedicated to keeping my team legit WHILE ALSO keeping the spirit of "adventuring with the team you've caught instead of just breeding semi-comp team" so in pre-gen 6 gens i just genned PIDs with best IVs, nature and ability combos

[@robmalcolm8042]

I did that once nature cheats one time but still wouldn't do it again kills the work of trying to get the right nature. Even tho nature hunting alone can be a pain in the a.

[@randomedgygamer2191]

I cannot play without fast forward lmao

[@tayclark42]

Same its why I STILL DONT PLAY new pokemon

[@Clooger-]

Because you're brain dead.

[@alfredtorres1252]

Exactly why I refuse to fast forward lol

[@CM_684]

​@@tayclark42 same lol, old games i can replay them on and on even now, but the new games I'm one and done if I even play them in the first place

[@robmalcolm8042]

Really? I mean emulating has its perks even tho there's less glitches and stuff on original hardware but when I do emulate pokemon I usually would use it for something that can be actually useful like a long legendary battle trying to catch one without a masterball or skipping pokemon league credits etc stuff that actually don't matter as much to skip through. Grinding tried it once and it killed the feeling of leveling even if it does take much longer in some games.

[@samuelturner6076]

Huh, it's nice to get some insight into this. I never used features like this and never wanted to, so it helps me understand others perspectives and why they might feel the games are "slow".

[@senorlechuga8832]

You know, funny thing for me is that I used this with lots of gen 1-4 games/hacks (especially with gen 4)... except for gen 5. I never used speed up unless it was to grind in my nuzlocke. I have no idea why, but it just doesn't bother me. Gotta say though, this wouldn't have happened if the animations weren't so damn slow. Hell, even romhacks added changes to this so you see most of it all at once and still keep it readable. And it makes such a difference it's amazing

[@nylana4552]

i dont have bad attention span and i never really speed up any game but i do notice that the grind gets really anoying in pokemon games, the best thing to do is either not care about the grinding like having perfect stats and just play the fun part like 90% people do or take breaks after 1h like said in the video, the break does help me and it should help others too

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

If anything, you are just getting "spoiled" by something that has become a common game feature. Almost any newer RPG has a fast forward button and skip dialogue button. Even older monster collectors like Dragon Quest Monsters and Shin Megami Tensei have that. Shin Megami Tensei has much better dialogue, its dialogue choices actually matter and it helps that the game has a New Game + so you can go back and look at important dialogue. Yo-Kai Watch has monumentally better animation, a much faster battle system and STILL has a fast forward button and skip dialogue button. It might do you some good to play some other monster collectors outside of Pokemon to get much more perspective.

[@barry5]

More people need to play yokai watch, especially yokai watch 2. It's so good, really glad it seems to be getting a bit more attention recently.

[@randomedgygamer2191]

So many truths spoken here, I’ve noticed all these things myself

[@nemesis9022]

I cant stand what the speedup does to the music, so this has never been an issue for me.

[@eganginnit5750]

the speed up was crazy when I was emulating emerald. like turning it off made it feel too slow even though it was normal speed. A nice break from it when emulating heartgold on pc though, since it doesn’t work the same as on mobile I only have it on when grinding because it’s so laggy lol

[@robmalcolm8042]

Heartgold laggy? I mean ds emulation on mobile at least does seem to have some flicker of the trees I noticed that I don't really see on my 3ds but that can be cause they were designed for lcds. Otherwise noods and melon ds don't lag in pokemon games at all.

[@samelol8149]

I used to speedup alot too, until i bought a switch and bdsp and from that point onward i rarely use emulators anymore, and i only speedup during wild battles or dialogue i know by heart

[@CoolFennekin]

When trying to doing a randomizer for every pokemon I could like the madman I was, the fact the ds games were always a little laggy and the speed didn't do much outside of the gen 4 battles, that's really kept my attention span down to earth.

[@ferrothorn9022]

Going on walks without airpods or a phone helps alot with attention span

[@Acacius1992]

But what to do then? I bore to death doing that (especially with my adhd)

[@ShadowPKMNcz]

​@@Acacius1992 I dunno, you can enjoy the scenery (if you can), walk to maybe like a store and grab a snack, excersize, think about some stuff, reflect, maybe sit down somewhere and write your thoughts down, read a book (and I mean a physical book), hell you can do a lot of things. These are just things that come to my mind.

[@harshmalhari8519]

@@Acacius1992i walk until I find a place to sit and draw

[@Surepeacooler]

I emulate gen 3 because I don't have a GBA, but I play the DS/3DS (+GBC) games on the 3ds. My emulator does have a 2x speed version but I don't use it, I've only activated it by accident and immediately thought it made the music sound awful

[@codified_]

I also had this problem, and I knew exactly what you were gonna talk about with just the title. Here's a bit of my experience with this: I LOVE Pokemon Emerald Rogue, update 2 came out recently and I have been having the time of my life, but when I played it for the first time (more than a year ago) I dropped it instantly because I sped everything up, making it impossible to digest everything you need to actually understand and enjoy the game I returned to the game because watching videos and stuff made me interested once again, but noticed that me speeding up all the time was a problem, so this time I took action, I literally disabled the button to speed up and played that way for months and months until I became used to the normal speed, I literally forgot that the speedup existed after that I've now switched emulators because of some features, so the speedup button was enabled by default, but I have never pressed it, and it was amazing to realize that I had been playing with the button enabled for these weeks but never remembered or felt the need to press it, and I still don't So yeah, my advice for this is cutting the problem by the roots, literally make it impossible to press speedup until you are "cured", that worked for me XD

[@JohnnyVincent420]

This is why everytime i play Pokémon i turn off the speed up toggle always, i never use it.

[@Liquid_Plastic]

this is so real for me cause i can't stop speeding up games i really wanna enjoy them a slow pace again but i just can't get in it!

[@reubendeeley3830]

I agree, when i started playing on emulators i also thought the speed up was great quality of life. But what I realized is that with the option of speed up and save states, theres less investment. the games worked at that speed because there was huge pay off mentally. we could play them for hours because there wasnt an option to speed up, if I speed up during cut scenes or grinding I feel WAY less invested, like why am i even playing this game, the pay off i was looking for i just got all the time without any of the hard work and so it became worthless to me. So Ive been trying to play emulators without speed up at all, or get repos for cheap that dont have that option.

[@lacklustre222]

Dude this is so true about everything. I’ve been slowly trying to claw my attention span back. Starting with playing on the native hardware instead of my phone with speed ups and save states. Love the video!

[@lucaslopes1260]

We also have this problem on KZbin as well. I watch videos on normal speed to avoid feeling burned out. If I can't watch a certain amount of videos in a day, those videos weren't meant to be watched. With a few exceptions, of course.

[@ms1-Alex]

Emulated games are way less brainroot That standard mobile game, even if speed up Not all bad is worse than status quo

[@gonzoengineering4894]

There's something to this, but I find it interesting that Pokemon is the only game I emulate where speed up is my default setting. These games really are so much slower than they need to be in so many places, and they've only gotten slower over time. Wild that text speed is even a thing once we leave the OG Game Boy behind for example.

[@kitloontsu]

feel guilty watching every video on 1.25x speed now

[@robertlupa8273]

Watch them on 0.5x speed.

[@alecrutz956]

don't feel guilty, I've used 2x speed on videos that are absurdly long or where the creator talks slow as shit.

[@hl_brasil2096]

watch on 1x, the life is happening in 1x

[@arafatsan9354]

I only use 2x speed while studying because its gruesome and long task that isnt gonna give any stimulation.

[@theomegaghost]

Good video. Now that "anti-speedup" measures have started to show up in Pokémon romhacking, people have started going on insane tirades defending speedup and cheats. The points are all the same, and they always come from a place of entitlement and a ruined perception of time. Asking a player to engage minimally on the game's terms is the basic foundation of design intent, yet some people fail to see that games are allowed to have rules and impose limitations. It is quite literally part of what makes a 'game'. Even when you can use speedup and cheats, it's generally not very good practice. It ruins the experience and turns the gameplay into a meaningless act of media consumption. If you don't have the time to play a videogame or think grinding is necessary to win (in Pokémon!), then you might as well not play. It's gonna be your loss.

[@brunoreis4455]

For me it's kinda funny, because I always just used the fast foward for either grind, or random trainers, but thing is I pretty much ALWAYS play pokemon while watching something, like the anime, or whatever (at the normal speed) so the fast foward never really affected me Untiiiill I started to work(plus college), and my free time got so drastically cut to almost none, now I can't even properly sit back and actually relax, it's as if my mind is always on a race car, gotta relax faster, this video needs to go to the point faster (I still dont speed up videos tho, and no no shorts either) wich really ended up taking an tool for my atention spam Funny enough it's pokemon that is making me slow down a bit, trying to shinny hunt feebas in emerald, and you sure as heck can't speed up the fishing mini game, so hey even through it feels an complete waste of my almost non existent time, it does feel nice to just mindless tap the "oh a bite!" button and slow down a bit

[@GramKraken]

In college around finals time I remember getting addicted to stardew valley not to dangerous levels (yet) but it definitely helped me slow down and relax haha

[@SumitSStark]

I usually only use time skip(kingu krimson!!!) when grinding to level up for gyms or evolving pokemon , fainting in the wild and running back and forth to pokemon centre, and it can get pretty exhasting, i dont see why someone would skip away dialog, thats just hurting your play through and enjoyment

[@AceTrainerSquirtle]

This is a much needed wake up call. I play Pokémon rom hacks and nuzlockes on emulators all the time and I think the brainrot from excessive speed up is starting to go to my head. I really gotta learn to try playing without it, or at the very least slow down the fast forward rate.

[@TwilightWolf032]

I used to utilize the speed up function of emulators quite a lot back when I was a kid and a teenager. Now I have matured and come to appreciate the down times between events to the point I can just enjoy the art style and environment of a game while traversing it, and I think the games that changed me were the three Metroid Prime titles. The scenarios are so beautiful, I can't help but just admire them whenever I replay any of them. That helped me appreciate the slow nature of some titles (but goddammit, modern Pokemon is just frustratingly slow for no benefit to the experience)!

[@GramKraken]

I just finished Metroid prime last night. Such a wonderful atmospheric game I can’t imagine wanting to fast forward in that game

[@TwilightWolf032]

@@GramKraken Get Prime 2 and 3 if you can, Prime 2 is my favorite of the Trilogy!

[@chamionfriend9210]

i always speed up the pokemon games from pokemon red and blue intel black 2 and white 2, i couldn't find a way to play 3DS or switch games, but after years i finally did it, the first 3DS game i played is pokemon X, because i couldn't find a way to speed up the game, i played it normally, without speeding it up i finally gave up at speeding up games because they're a bit faster now, so yeah if you don't find a way to fast foward, then that's the way to finally play the games normally.

[@DziuraObokSiura]

i just unbinded the speedup the moment i got running shoes in fire red which was like 3 days ago and i just beat erika today and im already ready to slay the fuschia gym so im a speed demon anyway yeah i dont need it at all

[@CynthiaartistArtist]

I always okay pokemon games in normal speed. Its so much fun this way.

[@Shinepikavee]

I didn't get effected by emulation but playing sonic and speeding through those like crazy had an effect on me.XP I went from running like crazy in frontiers to playing violet and thinking this is way slower then reminding myself to use what I had been practicing to help with that thought. I found appreciating what is in front of me like the music or the simple things helps since it requires slowing down to get the most out of it though while the attention span is trained to be wanting things done quickly it does result in cravings to speed up. Takes time to get better. I've been spending years getting back to the way I was and I think I'm almost there.

[@mertensiam3384]

I usually just speed up battles, when I want to enjoy these games "the normal way." I like to explore the areas in Black and White 2, try to go to cities with those cool music stuff and just walk aroind talking to people. It makes me feel like I'm there in the world. If people were trainers irl, they would probably talk to other people and explore the cities.

[@jonassilvarodrigues8222]

Man, i didn't even watched more than 2 minutes, but i already can relate to the video. I've been trying to play Pokémon Emerald for the very first time without speeding up the game and, oh boy, it's veeeery hard. I've only played Pokémon through emulators, so i always had access to the speed up function. I play Pokémon Ruby religiously every year since 2008 and never tried to play "normaly" up until now with Emerald. The struggle is real

[@forbest34]

this video took me 4 minutes to watch on my youtube emulator

[@GramKraken]

Even shorter if you’re using the Adblock cheat code

[@FinagoBaby1]

i felt this in my soul. these exact sentiments been flowing through my brain when i picked up my gameboy and just couldnt get through the game feeling it was too slow. i started using the speed for the grinding then ended up keeping speed on the whole game. i thought it was something wrong with me until i realized as a kid i had NOTHING else to do. its adulthood bro. when we were children things didnt feel slow because we had time. My whole day was a playthrough, even if i had places to go my face was in my gameboy while my dad drove. now there is no dad driving, or gameboy at church. which is why things felt slow again during the pandemic. its really the panic of not having much free time

[@kingkane]

“Teirno, you LITERALLY DON’T MATTER” subbed immediately

[@Reinoiro]

Beat radical red on my phone emulator. With save states and speeding up. All the thinking and team building did WONDERS for my attention span

[@BleddynsStudio]

As someone who hunts for shinies in the old gen games on original hardware, I’ve come to enjoy the slower pace of the games. Learning how to best optimize your time (encounters per minute for grinding, per say) without the use of emulation or speed mods is fun in of itself.

[@Chronoflation]

How to play GBA right on the 3DS, turn brightness down to 1 or 2 and hold select when opening the game to open it in its original resolution. You'll have some black space all around it, but this works on all older games played on the 3DS through backwards compatibility. Emulating? You're on your own, lol

[@robmalcolm8042]

When you inject them you can also do a dark filter that emulates a real gba as well. But I have it off as it's much brighter. Native gba is great on 3ds and there's zero lag visually which no matter where I try with any gba emulator there's some visual lag that no one mentions. The best or almost close is pizzaboy for android. That one sounds just like a gba in audio and it's pretty accurate like almost no visual studder but it's still there a tiny bit. Also your trainers left eye is smaller than the right. I dont see that on mgba or a real gba/3ds. But its pixel perfect just like a real gba while 3ds is either small resolution and pixels or blurry but not too bad and regular sized 3ds screen. Mgba thru retroarch same thing. No matter what setting. At least on the latest and greatest android phones. Surprisingly my iphone 13 maybe cause its a lcd screen not too much visual lag. I heard bizhawk on pc uses a modified mgba and that one has no visual lag just like a real gba. Nanoboyadvance is supposed to dam near be a gba in emulator form and even that on a laptop had lag visually but that can be cause it's demanding maybe.

[@AuronScott]

I cannot play Pokémon without speed up anymore.

[@generalman9849]

I think it’s more about the speed of the speed up rather than the speed up itself. Something like 120% speed makes it feel so much less sluggish, while still letting you smell the roses, as it were.

[@_WiZ420]

None of us truly have enough time. It's all a matter of if you are controlling your attention span as to whether or not it becomes a problem. This video is a great way of showing awareness, but I really feel like this is the best message to deliver to new fans. Patience is a virtue, and the moment you press that button out of impatience, you have lost said virtue. The main reason you should speed up is to break the cycle of your brain rotting away at the same repetitive micro interactions. It's hard to establish which side you're on, because these share two sides of the same coin. It's the same actions that lead to either side.

[@charsage1036]

I kinda have similar situation with fire emblem with difference being a play new games just fine but the older games i can't imagine playing fe4 or path of radiance without speed up.

[@GramKraken]

To be fair…FE 4 is a beast of a game and those enemy and ally phases NEED to be sped up haha

[@quembek6448]

Honestly, I don't blame anyone for speeding up these games. I really wish that battles in pokemon games were ''snappier''. Multi-hit moves having those pauses between each hit is probably the biggest offender.

[@NexXxu]

I blame, this is destroying attention span, life isn’t a speed hack or 2x speed

[@teddyarden9710]

You can't fool me Nintendo's employee. I will keep emulating Nintendo games till I die of old age....

[@hamlet1055]

Wait, if I'm playing a JRPG that is a Nintendo published product a play Fire Emblem nowadays but on my 3DS and/or emulating the GBA entries I don't have the Switch entries.

[@Danfth]

this is one of the video that actually tackled emulation gaming, when i watch a persona 5 playthrough on youtube it feels comforting and relaxing, but when i play it, i was unpatient and sped up the game. (i'm not pretty good at english so i forgot what i wanted to say next)

[@Magnemite_]

as a shiny hunter i pretty much only play these games on original hardware, and they really just hit different. a reason they look better that you didn't mention is that the original screens have a pixel grid that is not there when emulated, which you would think would be really distracting and look awful because it's a bunch of black lines on the game but actually makes everything sort of smooth out and blend together more to appear /less/ pixelated and also makes the colors pop way more. i noticed the same slippery slope thing when emulating these games and now i basically never do it anymore and they're way better because of it. all the little things you miss with speedup on really add up, even if it can be tedious at times. it also doesn't help that constantly toggling speedup on and off in challenge videos and stuff looks REALLY tacky, instantly makes me lose interest in the video

[@eljuarez29]

I shiny hunt full odds on gen 2 for the virtual console I think my attention and patience is fine and I’ve played emulator at 2x speed when I was younger a lot I think ur evolving into a slowpoke 😂jk we all process info differently and nice video didn’t ever see it that way

[@Kyonari]

I was luckily able to recover what helped me a lot was just playing fan games where I didn't know the story or just playing the games officially, by now I can easily sink hours into the games again.

[@realIkeaMan]

para, sleep and confusion are definitely what cause me to speed up the most. i always tell myself i wont speed through important fights but the second i have to deal with a status condition in normal emulation speed i fall asleep immediately lmao. i think the worst one for me was on a randomiser run where i had a confused tyranitar and leftovers holding latias vs tate and liza. all the confusion lines + sandstorm damage lines + lefties healing lines were genuinely unbearable to me, yet the first time i played emerald (before i knew how to speed up on an emulator) the game never felt slow.

[@CECColumbusOH]

I have a theory that the reason you feel the games look better on the original handhelds might be because of the 1:1 pixel scaling. Try booting a DS game on your 3ds while holding Start+Select, it looks SO much better and way less blurry when 1 in-game pixel is represented by 1 physical pixel on a screen. Secondly, even if you have perfect scaling on a modern high-resolution screen, you still miss out on the screen door effect that was apparent with lower resolution screens - the feint grid lines that can be seen between pixels that add more definition and create that traditional "pixelated" look. Thankfully, the Analogue Pocket tackles both of those problems flawlessly. The screen resolution of the AP is exactly 10 times that of the original gameboy (1400x1600p boosted from 140x160p). Not only do you get perfect scaling with that, but all of the extra resolution allows the device to recreate the screen door effect by drawing a grid over the in-game pixels. The games look so crisp and sharp, it's insane how incredible they look on the analogue pocket. That system has truly breathed new life into my gameboy collection for me, and I wouldn't want to play these games on anything else now (even the GBA SP 101 is tough to go back to because of the poor response time that leads to ghosting with fast moving images).

[@poximano1160]

that's an upgrade not a downgrade bro Turbo mode is a feature in a lot of jrpgs , for example trails in the sky series you can do 4x time. Hardcore old fans are now 25 or older now , and don't have time to play more than 1h. so we resort to this to speed up our catalog.

[@Scorched_gymsocks]

I’m definitely going to 2x speed the first 2 badges until my pokemon are at a decent level and the beginning part of the game is over. After that I just play regularly, Pokemon games start incredibly slow especially the older titles

[@FabioSpelta]

For what matters the colors accuracy there are plenty of way to recreate the original experience(s), even the ones of the worst screens if you're that nostalgic. You can use either retroarch's core options or its GPU shaders. Results are incredible. You recreate those dull colors, that motion blur, it's just alike. Plus, you CAN turn off fast forward.

[@daanstrik4293]

When I played a pokemon platinum rom I used the speed up only when going back to areas I had already gone to or while grinding. The main reason for this was the music. I’ve always loved the music in pokemon games, and speed up turns it into a mess of noise. So everytime I ran through a new area I played in regular speed just so I could enjoy the music

[@tamerkoh]

So a couple of notes here to your points. 1. Regarding the graphics seeming better on the original hardware for older games, this is simply explained: Older pixel art games were designed around the CRT screens we had back in older hardware, which were inaccurate and had a lot of colour-bleeding across pixels. This is why techniques like dithering worked well, because when they were put on the CRT display, the dithering resulted in colour mixing with the pixels, faking transparencies or extra colours. A good example of this is Sonic 1 on Genesis for example, the waterfalls. On CRTs, the vertical lines of pixels with gaps between for the waterfall graphics actually ended up looking like a half-transparent, fully-rendered waterfall. However, because our modern HD flat screens are more precise and don't have nearly as much colour bleeding, as well as the pixel art needing to be stretched x2 or more to fill the higher resolution space, these visual tricks are now broken. 2. In regards to older games seeming slow and you wanting to speed them up, I'd argue it's not solely a problem of attention spans getting shorter, but also the realization of just how much a lot of these older games actually waste your time. I don't mean gaming as a whole being a waste of time, but rather, the game design of some of these older games being built to fake longevity. For example, the walking speed in a lot of these older RPGs, even Pokemon before you get the Running Shoes or Bikes. The characters walk at a snail's pace everywhere, for no real reason, and there was no way to move any faster. That's not really an attention span issue, it's a question of why they move so slow in the first place, lol. It also extends to many other elements of game design, like say UI design. In a lot of older RPGs like on the NES or something, like say the original version of Final Fantasy 1, you have to buy items in shops 1 at a time, and go through the whole "What would you like? Buy -> Potion -> Thanks! Anything else? -> Buy" routine for however many items you want to buy, instead of being able to do it all in one transaction. Another contributing factor is animations being unnecessarily long as well. Like say opening a treasure chest in Zelda; in the 2D games like A Link to the Past, it's a fraction of a second with the fanfare playing out as the item's graphic rises up. But in the early 3D games like Ocarina of Time, we've got this whole 5 to 10 second sequence of the camera panning around, Link gawking at what's on the chest and leaning in, and slowly coming back out to finally hold up the item, with a slow crawling text box. It wouldn't be so bad if it only played on key items like the Hookshot, but it plays even on something as trivial as a dungeon Compass, lol. So just consider all these things as you go back to any old game; it's not just an attention span issue, but definitely a mix of older game design principles (or lack thereof) also adding up to make everything move rather slow.

[@kefentseKdot]

I’ve felt this for years and never saw a video show such great representation 😂😂

[@Honey_B_River]

This trend of attention span is getting shorter should stop . Humans value their time and with many valuable and enjoyable things hanging around we tend to give little attention to everything without getting the full of experience of one sole thing fearing that we will miss up .

[@hoennfanboy]

I played emulators until i got a new 3ds and modded it this year and im glad i dont have access to speed up anymore cuz i only play on my ds now, lmao mostly so i can enjoy the music. I do miss save states though to an extent bc the stakes are higher without it. PKSM is a godsend for editing natures and ivs and evs and other tedious things.

[@codyshrimp2346]

I certainly feel the effects of attention spans dwindling, but when playing roms I’m somewhat selective on what/when I speed up things. If it’s a game I already played before I’m more comfortable speeding it up during the obligatory tutorials, but when playing a game for the first time I didn’t speed it up at all and it was pretty nice to slow down and smell the roses.

[@Mrperson0]

Don't forget that Nintendo officially allowed people to speed through Gen 1 with the use of the GB Tower in Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2. For Gen 2, they didn't let you use the speed up feature until you beat the Champion.

[@fellowpassenger_54-67]

I’ve always preferred playing games on their original hardware instead of emulating them, the main reason for it was that it felt more authentic to me for some reason, but your video was very informative on this matter so thanks for the info

[@Storuu]

some rom hacks, such as Insurgence, actually gets the overall speeds and timings down really well throughout the game. i don't even feel the need to speed up for games like that

[@bey1083]

One thing I’ve found that helps with avoiding speed up is using rare candies and getting to level cap before fighting a gym leader. After the gym I’d just play the game until the next gym where I repeat the same thing. I can understand why people wouldn’t like doing this, especially since it decentivizes battling wild Pokémon. But I only have so much time in a day and it helps me progress without being Lightning McQueen. This is especially great when playing alongside friends.

[@Chronoflation]

I feel like locking speed up to a set multiplier, like 3 or 4x, and making myself actually read the text on screen, making myself talk to NPCs and the such, helps to keep me from being on "GO GO GO" speedrunner mode. Since I'm never reaching for a speedup button, as I locked the games to go faster, I never feel that urge to hit one at 1x speed. Makes it easier when I go back to the original games. Though, I do still wish I could get into the options to run the games at least 2x sometimes. Overall pretty good. But I'm not gonna lie, talking to every NPC can still feel super slow, especially when I'm just trying to treasure hunt and forgot what's where in all the different games, so I NEED to talk to everyone. But I still have fun. My brain still itches to go faster, but no more than any other game. So it's a tolerable amount that I can still enjoy the game through. I also specifically try to just lay back and relax, and try to treat it more like reading a book. That said, while I love it, I do often feel time cramped since I'm a dad now and only have like 30 minutes to 2 hours at max for focusing on a game like this

[@robertlupa8273]

I had to mentally force myself not to skip anything or alt-tab to a game of Hearthstone while reading this. What happened to me.

[@enisbaba]

I had this issue too but what i did was just playing exactly 1 hour of a pokemon game without fast forwarding and it really helped me

[@DMTFLTV]

I'm a grown man, I'd like to enjoy Pokemon Silver across an afternoon and forget about it for a few years. Choosing to not waste my time doesn't mean my attention span is shot, it means I choose to use my attention span for more important things throughout a week. I don't miss the days of playing the same game for weeks on end to try to accomplish some task that ultimately means nothing. It's a nice little exercise to have an emulator open for downtime in a day. Spacebar speed up lets me enjoy things I wouldn't have time for.

[@elyuanfg]

Technically, if I use fast forward I can have twice or more gameplay per minute than a normal person, receiving at least twice as much information and therefore dopamine in my brain, so I end up developing a severe addiction to dopamine, resulting in a deep depression making the only thing that keeps me alive is torturing myself playing Emerald Kaizo

[@droycon]

I agree that’s why I play Pokémon games on my modded 3ds cause I noticed I fast forwarded too much but you are right about ds and gba games looking washed out on it because it doesn’t upscale well

[@Versanitybutreal]

At least my attention span is not that bad that I will get bored after 5 minutes of playing

[@megenta9720]

GBC Squirtle Sprite looks like he is caked up and has a tail on his back

[@bewarebewear1507]

I cant really bother with playing these old games at their og speed, I tried replaying heartgold in my dsi and I immediatly turned it off after getting the first badge, it felt like such a slog to go through for me. Like these games are slow as shit for me lol Even with youtube I dont really have the patience to watch it slower than 1.25x, emulating helped me like the older games cuz of speeding mechanic Plus the grinding fucking sucks with the old games, I hacked the unlimited rare candies to atleast be on the same level as the elite 4 for leafgreen with how high of a level cap they were compared with the rest of the game.

[@milkshake_237]

In my personal opinion, if you can overclock your gameboy or ds, then its completely fair to use speed up.

[@shadow_8673]

Well I only speed up and use exp codes for grinding, we all know how terrible grinding is