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Old August 9th, 2011 (4:06 AM).
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It's possible if the player spends a lot of time level-grinding their Pokemon, trying different Pokemon throughout the game; or if they don't leave an area until they've caught every Pokemon species found there, battled every trainer, and found every item.

I've clocked in nearly 300 hours on my Pearl game. It's the first save file on there too, so the file's four years old. Most of that time was spent filling the holes in my Pokedex and EV training.
But I do go around fighting every trainer and finding every item. So I guess people must take longer because they EV train their Pokemon or something? Because that's something I don't do. Not much of a competitive battler.
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Old August 9th, 2011 (7:39 AM).
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Old August 11th, 2011 (12:08 AM).
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I spent 230 hours on Platinum, 480 on Heart Gold and over 800 on Black because in black i bothered to do the battle subway and the musicals and complete the pokedex and train loads of pokemon and travel around completing everything and doing the battle institute and getting loads of foreign pokemon so i can see their pokedex entries in different languages... and more so basically there is a lot to do on pokemon games :)
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Old August 16th, 2011 (3:15 PM).
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my current save is nearly at 50 hours and still going :)
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Old August 16th, 2011 (3:31 PM). Edited September 20th, 2011 by greg0915.
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It's easy to clock up a few hundred hour on 1 game, the easiest way is to start up a trade thread ;)
I have 700+ hours on my White and I still have to beat Cynthia, Elite 4 (second time), catch Kyurem

On my HG I have 450 hour and on my Diamond I have 50 hours but I'm only on the 4 Gym ^_^
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Old August 16th, 2011 (4:20 PM).
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I have over 250 on Emerald, and I spent over 400 hours on Sapphire before I reset it. I also put about 75 hours on Diamond until it was stolen (funny story about that) and I have about 145 hours in Crystal. Black probably only has 25-40 hours on it right now.
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Old August 16th, 2011 (5:51 PM).
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I haven't played much on BW, 30 something hours.

On the other games, I've spent 9000+ hours total on everything.

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I think for me to build my "Dream Teams" It need at least 200 hours of work. But now, my gameplay time is just mere 130 hours.
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Old August 16th, 2011 (9:32 PM).
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I don't have a purpose to play for so long, but I often find my games always have hundreds of hours of gameplay.
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Old August 16th, 2011 (10:24 PM).
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My best friend has maxed out more than one of her games. I do not understand how that can happen.

My longest file is 300+, just adds up over time I guess.
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Old August 17th, 2011 (4:26 AM).
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Back in my old file on Emerald, I used to spend hours going to my friends' Secret Bases that I had gotten into the game via mixing records, and battling them. I did this several times each, and also spent a lot of time in the Battle Frontier scrounging up BP so I could buy things for my Secret Base, moves like Thunderpunch, and miscellaneous items. It adds up.
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Old August 22nd, 2011 (1:57 PM).
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My time was spent trading to collect all Pokemon, then I opened a trade shop, then I got into EV Training, so yeah... I've got 400 hours + so far
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Old August 24th, 2011 (7:33 PM).
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Finishing the National Dex is something to aspire to. Not just seeing the Pokemon, but catching and raising them, too. At least, that's what I'm doing in Sapphire. I've got a little over three hundred Pokemon registered as caught and am currently raising a Meowth and a Poliwag.

I guess a lot of time can be spent trading and battling with friends. Or you could play because you're bored. My friend has a team of level one hundreds and over three hundred hours on his Yellow. He didn't use any cheats or glitches to get there, either. He actually fought the Elite Four every day during lunch for an entire school year.


Another reason is bragging rights. How many can say that they've maxed out the internal clock through normal gameplay?


A lot of the newer games have more post game content and a reason to keep a save file for a long time. I love the battle frontier in Emerald, so I'll keep my save file for as a long time.


Breeding the best possible Pokemon and then EV training it can take a long time, too. I've got over fifty Feebas scattered around my third generation games and couple in my forth gen games. All of them are descended from my Swampert and a glitched Milotic my friend gave me. Back in third gen, you needed the right nature to evolve a Feebas and most of mine are just the wrong nature, making their only use breeding for a better one with the right nature.
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Old September 14th, 2011 (5:34 PM).
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Plug your DS into the charger and let it AFK/AFDS. :p
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Old September 15th, 2011 (1:36 PM).
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Nope, 110 hours is my personal best, and that's on White. ;3

I'll reach 300 hours eventually.
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Old September 18th, 2011 (5:52 AM).
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It's not really that hard to spend 300 hours or more on a gamesave, you can breed and hatch eggs to gain hours, you can continuously battle the elite 4 and champion, you can catch pokemon and fill your pokedex and do all sorts of different things lol.
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Old September 18th, 2011 (6:57 AM).
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I think Platinum was the one I spent the longest time on, somewhere around 356 hours. xD My Black version just turned over the 100 hours mark, even though today was the first time I'd picked up the game in months.
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Old September 18th, 2011 (8:00 AM).
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I finish the main story in 40-60 hours usually, but when I try to complete the Pokédex then I can easily get few hundreds of hours on a save.
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Old September 18th, 2011 (8:32 PM).
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I've had my White since about the beginning of the year and I have about 300 hours on it. There have been times in the past when I set the game down and do something else for a moment or two, but I doubt cumulatively that adds up to more than an hour really.
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Old September 20th, 2011 (5:50 AM).
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I regularly rack up 300+ hours counted in each Pokemon game.
Now, that's not to say I actually spent every hour of that time playing. A lot of the time in my White version (281:30 and counting) was spent with the DS just sitting open because I had forgotten about it.
Of course, there's also the grinding in between gyms/the Elite Four, the Battle Tower/Frontier/Subway, exploring post-game stuff, and just getting bored and going out to catch Pokemon...
For me, it's pretty easy to rack that kind of time up.
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Old September 20th, 2011 (12:48 PM).
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I think I've maybe clocked 300 hours on all of my games combined. The game that I had the most hours on was my original Sapphire file, and it had roughly 130 hours. Even then, about 40 of those hours was using that daycare trick where you put a heavy object on your up button right in front of a mudslide, and overnight your Pokemon would grow 30 levels. I think my Fire Red is also around 100 hours, but I'm not sure if I've quite hit that mark yet.
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Old September 20th, 2011 (1:06 PM).
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i have 200+ hrs so far on my SS.

breeding/EV training/and reg gameplay makes up for like around 200hrs and ive afk quiet a few hours. over 10 at least.


if i had all my pokemon games and theyre saved files. combined, i'd have over 1500hrs easily.
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