Posted: 6/29/2008 7:11 AM
Post subject: I tried searching for an answer on this. It didn't help.
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billybobfred
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Does button mashing in any of the Pokemon games have any effect whatsoever on catch rate? Theoretically it doesn't, but maybe there's something in the code that I don't know about because I didn't take apart the ROM myself? Probably not. EDIT: Also did holding A make an attack deal more damage? In case you're wondering, I'm not asking these questions for myself.
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Posted: 6/29/2008 8:44 AM
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feitclub
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I often wondered about that. Supposedly, pressing A at the right time increased damage of attacks AND chances of a successful capture.
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Posted: 6/29/2008 11:42 AM
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Warp
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feitclub wrote:
I often wondered about that. Supposedly, pressing A at the right time increased damage of attacks AND chances of a successful capture.
Assuming the RNG used by the game is based on the timing of user keypresses, wouldn't that be logical?
Posted: 6/29/2008 12:55 PM
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I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it doesn't change the success rate of catching Pokemon. Whether you catch a Pokemon is determined when you press the button to throw the pokeball. I'm not so sure though. EDIT: http://glitchcity.info/docs/myths The last part.
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Posted: 6/29/2008 8:55 PM
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Xkeeper
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Warp wrote:
feitclub wrote:
I often wondered about that. Supposedly, pressing A at the right time increased damage of attacks AND chances of a successful capture.
Assuming the RNG used by the game is based on the timing of user keypresses, wouldn't that be logical?
I think it was meant that it would always increase damage and chances... if it was merely an RNG advance, it would decrease them randomly as well.
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Posted: 6/29/2008 10:16 PM
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I suppose contacting FractalFusion or primoral#soup would be a good way to find out.
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Posted: 6/30/2008 12:56 AM
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From my experience none of these tricks worked. Using Super Balls instead of Hyper Balls on strong Pokémon helped sometimes though. xD