Pokemon X and Y [3DS] - Page 9

On January 15 2013 09:08 PhoenixVoid wrote:


Unfortunately 3DS exclusive, and from what I've heard, a 3DS emulator on computers is difficult to near impossible to port over, so even emulators are restricted

On January 15 2013 09:08 PhoenixVoid wrote:


Unfortunately 3DS exclusive, and from what I've heard, a 3DS emulator on computers is difficult to near impossible to port over, so even emulators are restricted

On January 15 2013 20:49 Tobberoth wrote:

Creating an emulator is never complicated in that sense, a 3DS uses the same hardware as any other device and they are all emulated in similar ways. Obviously, emulating the 3D effect is kind of out of the question, but it's just cosmetic anyway. What makes it hard is that
1. It takes a lot of time and effort to map everything out and test it to get full emulation.
2. Requires a lot of power (though I certainly think a modern computer should be able to play 3DS games just fine if there was a well-written emu out)
3. Games need to be decrypted. 3DS roms are encrypted so they won't play, even if you had a proper emu (which you can't even really design as long as the games are encrypted).

Dolphin already runs Wii games just fine (hell, you can even play Skyward Sword on it), there's no doubt in my mind that there will be at least one successful 3DS emulator... but yeah, expect it to take a few years.

On February 19 2013 21:26 Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo wrote:
Well if you only played red and blue then the amount of changes to the core gameplay should be enough for you. I mean it's still very much the same but because there are often at least some slight improvements from on edition to the next there's quite a jump going from edition 1 to... i dunno, 10 or so.

That said, the Pokemon battles in a normal single player walkthrough don't really require any skill at all and it's far from a challenging experience in pretty much every Pokemon edition, will this change in X/Y? Most likely not. I recommend the mods Sacred Gold and Blaze Black 2 if you actually want to be tasked.

Also the story is still in general garbage and targeted at kindergarten kids. Pacing too is problematic as random encounters and trainer encounters are very common and both take too long to load, display text and the battle animations take a while. Even when I was playing the mods I mentioned above with roughly 2 times the speed I still used Repel nonstop after some time just because of how bad this is.

The competitive aspect, which is one of the few really positive things about Pokemon, is in general much better now. There are often lots of options to play against AI and see how far you get and/or online play vs other people.

Japanese variety show, Pokémon Smash has just aired and has shown that there will be a new Pokémon revealed during the episode next week. It's not currently known what the contents of this will be, but the trailer showcases a clip from X & Y with a Pokémon blanked out, confirmed to be a new Pokémon. The trailer also showcased Junichi Masuda showcasing something. This was stated to be a world exclusive! We'll provide coverage as and when this comes

Edit: The official site has also posted confirming the localisation of this news will be revealed at the same time worldwide

On January 17 2013 20:00 Bobbias wrote:


True emulation takes a beastly computer to manage actually.... There must be a TON of speed tricks used in dolphin... Not saying that an emulator that can play commercial games is that far away, but just wanted to point out that actually properly emulating a system takes far more computing power than you'd expect. Just look at bsnes; it's the only truly accurate snes emulator and it takes a decent modern computer to run at full speed. It doesn't even run at full speed on this laptop.

On March 31 2013 17:38 Capped wrote:


The only reason it takes so much power to run is because emulators are made by enthusiasts and small "basement" teams, they are heavily unoptimised and actually terrible-terrible programs coding wise.

A properly coded emulator would not take 20x the power of the machine its emulating. (E.g the Wii with SNES/NES/N64 games, you dont see it struggling, you see performance boosts and the Wii sitting around at iced temperatures.)

So your right and wrong, emulators are illegal so you'll never see a superbly-coded one apart from resales on older machines like the PS3, Wii, 360 has on its stores.

Thats the only reason they take so much power >.>

POKEMANZ AWESOME! <3 was just playing pokemmo and saw this xD

On March 31 2013 17:36 kafkaesque wrote:
I spoiled myself by playing every game on an emulator, so I'm used to 2x speed, so games on the handheld seem boring, tedious and frustrating. Even on highest text-settings the text takes half as much time to read as it does to appear and the animations take forever, like in Final Fantasy 10.

I assume you couldn't play Black / White 2 on an emulator due to hardware restrictions?

On March 31 2013 17:36 kafkaesque wrote:
I spoiled myself by playing every game on an emulator, so I'm used to 2x speed, so games on the handheld seem boring, tedious and frustrating. Even on highest text-settings the text takes half as much time to read as it does to appear and the animations take forever, like in Final Fantasy 10.

I assume you couldn't play Black / White 2 on an emulator due to hardware restrictions?