4th Gen Pokemon Diamond is.. slow?

[Le Creep!]

Heya, I started playing Diamond yesterday and noticed that between Pokemon attacks, it like, slows? I mean, there's a short pause between text e.g 'Chimchar used Scratch!' *pause* 'It's not very effective..'

Also, the HP bar is slow as well, when it goes down, as well as up.

This does not happen in Platinum, or Heart Gold & Soul Silver.

Just wondering.

 

[Toa Hyro]

I actually notice that while playing my sisters pokemon pearl that its really slow compared to my platinum and heartgold.

 

[shookie]

Pearl and Diamond are INCREDIBLY slow when compared to Platinum and HG/SS. They fixed this in Platinum and subsequent games, which makes it even harder to go back to Diamond and Pearl.

Here's a good example: trainer battles in D/P versus Gardenia in the TTC.

 

[celebi72]

To right mate! For me it was my first game so i didnt know what slow was. got platinum and BAM! I thought there was a fast settin i i had just hit it! Platinum is SOOOOO much better! ^-^

 

[amberfunk]

Yea diamond is slow. I got diamond first and I played it almost all the way through. Then I got heartgold and I thought that something was wrong with my diamond game because it's so slow. Glad to know that nothing is wrong with it!

 

[-Jared-]

I know exactly what everyone here means...I gad finished P{latinum and I decided to start a new game on my Pearl, but gave up after a while because the slowness just got to annoying. I figured it wasn't really fun when half the time I spent playing was watching HP bars empty and fill. Reallllly slooooooowly. >__<

 

[Charizard★]

I have noticed it too, but it doesn't really bother me.

 

[XxRogueTrainerxX]

I honestly don't care about the slowness.

 

[Niprop]

I didn't really get much of a grasp on HOW slow it was until I played Emerald. After that, it seemed as though D/P were actually lagging!

 

[Amore]

Everything about the games is slow. Platinum was a little faster. Hg/Ss is faster still.

However, due to the 3-d, the whole generation runs slower. And apparently Gen III is faster than I and II too.....

But B/W are going to be faster again!

You get over the slowness though....

 

[EmeraldSerenade]

Oh god it was slow. I swear, it would take forever for my blissey's hp bar to go all the way back to full health when I use softboiled xD

 

[Ruin Maniac]

I know what you mean.It takes ages on Diamond just to execute tackle. Emerald is quick and simple

 

[Enigma]

They all seem slow compared to 3rd gen, IMO.

Never really thought/noticed HG/SS was any faster than D/P. :pink_disbelief:

 

[Kieran]

You might want to set the Text Speed under option to Fast, it might help that wee bit, but even when I feel my Platinum and HGSS's so slow even on Fast, it doesn't help a lot to me.

 

[Sparky1232]

I didn't notice its slowness until I went back and played FireRed. It doesn't bug me a huge amount. Sometimes, though, when I'm fighting a Pokemon with high defense, its HP goes down really, really slowly, and that gets kinda annoying.

 

[Pikadance14]

I liked the speed of Emerald, especially if animations were off. D/P/PT were slower, but it didn't get annoying. But saving in Platinum is soooo slow! I could go get a drink of water and my game would still be saving.

 

[celebi72]

I liked the speed of Emerald, especially if animations were off. D/P/PT were slower, but it didn't get annoying. But saving in Platinum is soooo slow! I could go get a drink of water and my game would still be saving.

yea i agree. the savin speeds tooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooow. on my r4 though, the little clock thing doesnt even go round the circle once and it saves. its so good!

 

[sab]

this whole slow thing is partly what got me off the pkmn games, so maybe when I try the new ones I will like playing again.

yea i agree. the savin speeds tooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooow. on my r4 though, the little clock thing doesnt even go round the circle once and it saves. its so good!

I know what you mean. on my m5 saves go lickety-split, but now I mostly just use that chip as an mp3 player. I use the easy flash chip now, but It's all mostly the same thing.

 

[war rock exe]

i realized that after i quit playing platinum for a bit, i waaaaaaaay too slow; and it fast when i didn't have platinum or SS

 

[MarstheCar]

I thought it was only my mind playing tricks on me. I've played Platinum so much, I noticed a pause before an attack and the speed of surfing was really slow in Diamond.