Have you ever done an idle playing method in a video game before?
>>336418687
yeah for that one rocket league trophy
>>336418687
I don't play games on consoles, so I just write an autohotkey script instead of elastic banding a controller.
>>336418687
tf2 item idling back in the day
>>336418687
Yeah, Legend of Dragoon. Can easily grind on the ghost ship with a turbo-controller. Even without additions the normal enemies die easily. Just need to keep an eye on it and break every hour or so to heal. Then if you grind enough gold for the "additions auto-complete" items you can do the same in the desert at the start of disc 4.
Castlevania CoD on the ps2. Walking in circles to evolve the familiar mage or something like that. I loved that game
I have some hefty metal dice I use when I'm doing some /tg/ shit and want to fuck up somebody's table--anyway, they're the perfect size to weigh down a single key on my keyboard. They're pretty useful.
>>336418687
So many times. To farm stickers in Brawl I made a stage with 4 pits, conveyor belts, and put four yoshis in it. I hooked up 4 wavebird receivers to the Wii, all on the same frequency, set items to High and only Sandbags, started a match on the stage with 4 Yoshis, turned my wavebird on with the stick up (so that the game would detect it as down on the neutral position), and proceeded to tap A while reading a book for a couple hours to down tilt the shit out of all the sandbags that spawned. Autism is real and lives in all of us
In quest 64 found a spot where i could train my speed without getting into random encounters and left the little fucker running in circles for a night to max it
>>336419083
Are you me?
>>336419202
What a horribly underrated game.
Despite its flaws, of course.
>>336418687
1000g on Rumble Roses XX.
Arcade Stick with the turbo on and something heavy on top of it. I'm surprised the console survived being turned on nearly 18h a day during 50 days but it did.
>>336419202
They made a Castlevania Call of Duty?
>>336418687
Rubber banded the sticks together to regain MP on FFXIV
Used turbo controller + Warlock Punch + Break the Targets in Smash 4 to unlock customs
leveling sneak on oblivion
weighed down a key in oblivion to get athletics up.
Also in R&C 3 I remember going to a certain spot where cars would continually fly past and rubber banding the fire button down so I could get a million bolts or whatever it was to buy the rhino
>>336418687
Used a rubber band and a turbo button to grind in FF7 long ago.
>>336418779
Stuck a penny under the trigger for this.
>>336418687
Doing this.
>>336419257
I did the same, except for like a week. Bad idea, since agility determines your dodge rate. Since you don't get hit very often, your HP will never increase. Almost like a luck build, by the end of the game bosses can one shot you with the meager amount of HP you have.
>>336419659
>FFXIV
I meant FFXII
>>336419819
I did something similar in R&C1, only using the race track glitch. And that was only for the 1 million bolts trophy in the HD collection, I had bought else everything already, RYNO and Gold Weapons and all.
>>336419409
Yeah, right? The weapons, the forging, item stealing, that perfect defense thing, all the familiar types, I loved it all.
>>336419530
Curse of Darkness. Duh.
>>336418687
Never used a rubber band, but I did do that FF12 method of leveling where you get a rare spawn and just kill the infinite zombies he spawns with the gambit system and just leave the game on for hours.
I'd occasionally reach down while doing something else and check if the controller rumbled which meant I was still alive.
>>336418687
Pokemon X & Y, I used a dime to hold the circle pad around lumoise city tower while pokemon were in the daycare to quickly level them up overnight. I regret it because a few months later my circle pad started to break and eventually I had to trash it and get a new one.
>>336418687
Only once in Wild Arms 3 to speed up my full carrot farm
>>336420031
Anon i had already trained my hp
That game is autism town for me
>>336418687
I used a magnet with a hook on it to pull the analog stick so I could do some alchemy in Dragon Quest VIII.
Back when Warlords of Draenor came out.
Having no desire to be logged out for being afk (I don't actually recall what I had to do), what with the 6,000+ player queues on ED, I left my character in a low-level dungeon, move key weighted down, so that he would constantly run into a wall until I got back.
It wasn't even worth it.
>>336418687
Penny under the circle pad for hatching eggs in x/y
Whichever fable it was that had you earning money for the properties you owned every 10 real minutes
>>336420186
I did the exact same thing. Also circle pad broke but Nintendo support changed it for free.
>>336418687
In Pokemon Diamond I put my pokes in the daycare and then put a binder clip on the side of my DS so that it pressed the left directional button and repeatedly ran me into a sliding tile that went the opposite way.
I did it to level up familiars in Castlevania: OoE
>>336420969
>he didn't know he could just fast forward his clock
This thread is further proof (as if it were necessary) that RPGs are anti-games
I bet that fucked the controller's joysticks big time.
>>336419248
Sorry if this offends you haha, but why did you decide to use Yoshis?
In Pokemon Pearl there was that glitch you could use to get to darkrai by fucking up Jubilife City and going into the mystery zone, and you had to walk left for an absolute fuckton of steps so I used some contraption to hold down the dpad>tfw accidentally saved in the mystery zone and completely destroyed my pearl save
I remember one time I left melee running overnight so I could unlock mewtwo when I got home from school the next day.
I thought about doing this for We Love Katamari.
>>336420031
That game's whole leveling system is fucking retarded.
Like I think I recall hearing FF2 did something similar and I mean, there was probably a reason it wasn't brought back for 3.
I remember placing a rock on my GBA once to hatch a pokemon egg on one of those treadmill areas
>>336420113
This is the only one I've ever done too. I feel less alone in this world.
>>336418846
But you don't do that, though.
>>336422472
I've done it many times.
>>336418687
Idled for XP in FFXII and did the run around the island idling trick in ToS.
>>336418687
One of the Ratchet & Clank games required an absurd amount of bolts for a trophy, and I had every other trophy just from normally playing through the game, so I idled bolts in an area with infinitely respawning boxes. Didn't use a rubber band, though. I think I did some fuckery with hooking up the controller to my PC while holding the button down, since my DS3 was my PC controller at the time, and when the PC picked it up, the button stayed pushed down on the PS3.
There was a Endurance race in GT3 that you could just drive on the walls and win after 4 hours.
>>336418687
Never, because I'm not a faggot.
>>336418687
yes, to max Sneak on my characters in oblivion.
>>336421593
Pokemon and Final Fantasy are like the Michael Bay movies of RPGs.
>>336418687
In cookie clicker, I got my mouse to autoclick 1000 times a second.
There's a place in pokemon D/P where there are tiles that push you back until you hit a wall. I used a clothespin on the d-pad to keep walking left to level up some pokemon overnight. Oh, and FFXII automated leveling with gambits. Break+Flans in Henne mines, I think.
I put my PS3 on top of the O button on the controller to get that million bolts trophy in Ratchet and Clank 1.
I did OP pic related to get 100 km on the horse in Darksiders
Dissidia FF HP regeneration accomplishment.
Would tape down a direction on my d pad on my game boy to level up pokemon in the day care
>>336419257
Alex?
in Etrian Odyssey 4, you can set points on your map that make you auto-walk to the next square, so I just set it up in a low-level area, put a paper clip on the "auto-attack" button and left it for a few days
Just b spec mode in GT4 while i was at work for one of the 24 hour races
When I was a kid, I left a Melee multi-player Vs match on while I was at school to allow for enough time to rollover to unlock Mewtwo
Dayz MOD: broke my legs in the middle of no where and they removed the ability to commit suicide.Crawled for a solid minute and calculated how far I went on the map. An hour to the closest city with a hospital. Jammed a pen cap on W and went to do something else.
>>336418687
>Make it so I'm walking into a wall corner or something indefinitely
>Go to school And come back
>Athletics increased at least levels
>Become speedy high jumpy ninja.
>>336418687
used a book to walk across fallout 3
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
To level up my attributes and >>336421315
>>336419214
Where did you get them?
>>336418687
I did something similar for mgs pw torture scene and just use a toy car and would roll it over the button back in forth.
In Sword of Mana, near the start of the game, I left autofire for attacking on while hitting an invincible enemy that couldn't hit me. The next day my Sword skill was 70+.
>>336427103
Was it one of those crystals that needed you to use magic while wielding the bow to get enough range?
Yeah. Leveling up a character in FFVIII. Had Squall run in a line on the Island Closest to Hell. Killed some dinos. I think I did the same for Cactuar farming.
>>336419202
my nigga
>>336418687
I put a brick on my Wiimote to grind the rupees in Super Paper Mario.
>>336427418
No, it was some static blue enemy I think, that only attacks once you get close enough. Near the beginning you have to activate a bridge to cross a small river in a cave, but the sword's range was longer than the river and could hit the enemy from the other side of it, before activating the bridge.
I botted like 4 characters to max level in WoW while sitting there watching tv and got permabanned.
My account I had since 07 gone forever.
I regret not a single fucking thing. Only reason to login was to queue more garrison missions and do LFR.
Pokemon breeding.
>>336418687
>up gambling skill in fallout
>hold down 1 and 2 at the slot machine
>go take a dump
>come back rich
EZ
>>336420186
>people ACTUALLY put coins under that shit
Nigger there is a fucking d pad RIGHT UNDER the circle pad. Use your fucking head and put a weight on that shit
mega man x8
dem force metals
>>336421987
Snowball?
Rosebud cheat in The Sims, put a book on enter and left it there while I ate.
Didn't even spend 1/4 of it all
I forgot what game it was but i put a 2x2 lego block on the W key and put some form of weight on it.
>>336427730
>tfw the rubber tore off my circle pad after doing this with a dime
In Ryu Ga Gotoku(Yakuza) Kiwami I found an item that gave you 100 yen for every step.
So I went to a corner and kept the thumbstick pushed up on my PS3 controller all night and had millions of yen by the time I woke up.
>>336418687
My TV has a tendency to burn in so when I was playing DS1 - 3 and DeS, I put rubber band to move thee camera constantly
>>336428261
Nigga you're supposed to use paper only.
>>336428261
>ripped it off myself from grinding in MH
I think it's comfier without the pad though
>>336419746
Yup, or acrobatics/athletics, the game had a stupid leveling systemI liked Skyrim's system more
>>336419214
man i was literally just thinking 'i wish i had a weight i could use for my keyboard'
and then you mentioned metal dice and i realized i had metal dice i bought from a metalsmith at the renaissance faire
thank you
>>336418687
Oh sure. Ys 3 on the Genesis & SNES &'d stick Adol near the bottom of the mine pit in the Tigray Quarry. Position yourself JUST right and Adol can just swing his sword to his hearts content while enemies run up to him and away in set patterns, JUST close enough to get swatted by sword strikes and far enough away they they can't hurt Adol in return. Turn off the TV, come back in 8 hours, be at max level and max cash.
Same for any JRPG that has a rotatable overworld. Set turbo controller to auto (or, if something like a Tales of game, to Auto Battle), slap a rubber band over the needed buttons/joystick positions, and come back an hour or so later massively over-leveled. Worked wonders for Vesperia.
>>336419083
This one, too.
Morrowind, to level athletics. I put my character in the river going through Balmora, pointed him into a corner of the bridge and weighed down the W key.
Also when I used to play Kerbal Space Program I was trying to see how far around the planet I could go in a single flight with a plane. Eventually my test flights were going into hours.so I would just pitch the plane at the right angle, turn on AVS or whatever it was called then I'd fuck off to do something else. One time I fell asleep and woke up three hours later to find the fuel had run out but my plane still gliding safely. This was early in the game's life, when increasing the game speed would fuck the physics and they hadn't properly figured out the air dynamics. Good times.
>>336418687
Field Barrier 3. Just check back early on to ensure my MP hasn't fallen too low. After awhile even that's not a worry.
Gran turismo 3 I'd use an elastic and a weight to beat the oval circuit endurance race with the Escudo every day while at school
The elastic gently held right so the car would hug/be guided by the wall, and the weight went on the gas
>>336427730
where is it that you can have your character go forward forever and continuously keep moving?
>>336428807
holy fuck, i did this every time i started a new game. farmed that area of the mines and just swat them out of the air. later on i had that area with the swooping birds and i just grinded that area until everything was maxed.
i sadly never beat the game i always got to second form of the final boss but ran out of healing by that time.
When you had to throw rocks at things between those volcanoes I'd just put something heavy on the space key and watch.
I used to run some scripkiddy hacks and a script i set up myself to bot in maplestory while i was at school back in the day.
>>336418687
i used one of the big black paper clips to hold right to go in to a thing that send you left for happiness/egg hatching in pokemon platinum
I left Melee on all night in an untimed match to get the 20 hours of playtime to unlock mewtwo
>>336428130
X8 is the reason I have Cheat Engine on my computer
>>336418687
Used the mini 4 WD dynamo to make autobutton press, end up breaking my controller.
>>336420029
I came here to post this
Does this count?
GT3 Indianopolis Enduro Event. Taped down the X and used a grape to give the stick just enough movement to properly do the turns without ending up faceplanting walls.
I put some rubber bands on my 360 controller in Halo Reach forge to farm credits.
>>336431915
How does that work?
>>336418687
Never because I'd rather not brick my 1500 dollar PC any quicker than I need to.
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>>336431530
Kifflom!
>>336432340
I have no idea how you could brick your PC that way.
Gran Turismo 3
One of those 100+ lap races in the test course
Had the finger on X and watched TV as I won without trying
We Love Katamari to get a million roses. I did most of the beginning and the end on my own though.
>>336432356
>>336431530
what in the sam hell is that abomination?
In marvel vs capcom 2 on the dreamcast. I forget what I did exactly but I left it on overnight to get enough coins to unlock everything.
I'M GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE
Yes, Rogue Galaxy for frog log weapon upgrade rewards. Basically running in circles doing random battles and every 14 of them I changed the weapon.
>>336420113
Did this one too, left my console on all night, worked perfectly
Farming experience from the boost pads on Sol in Wipeout 2048 to reach Level 50. Used a rubberband + a spare watch wrist link to help hold down the accelerator.
>>336419746
Just as well there's an auto-run button in the game
>>336418687
Grinding AP in FFX-2
>>336423675
What the fuck was the point of those 24 hour races?
>>336418687
I've auto-fished in WoW both with a bot and with a one-button 'technically manual' solution. (You just hit 'A' when you hear a sound)
I've also run in circles to purify pokemon in Pkmn Colosseum, and I've also just left on a melee match overnight to unlock GnW or Mewtwo or whoever it was. Also way back in the day I ran multiple instances of TF2 to idle for scrap metal to make more items with (wasn't in it for profit really, just wanted all the weapons at the time)
>>336419746
oh shit I forgot, I did this too. Everyone in my city did, word caught around real fast that you could auto-walk into a corner near a guard to turn your Oblivion fresh save into a silly stealth game immediately from the get-go
>>336430525
> tfw beat that little shit in Backwardia
>>336423807
Dude I used weigh down my W key between long runs and take a piss.
Man I miss that mod.
>>336429163
The tower in XY. You go around in a circle
>>336433627
Is Rouge Galaxy good? And is it easy to emulate?
>>336432469
I actually walked for that
it was kinda comfy
>>336435701
It's pretty good for a action rpg. But if you are a OCD type of person don't play it. The absurd amount of things to do as side content will kill any enjoyment in the long run.
On some SA-MP role play server like 8 years ago you could get some sorta tokens for driving the train around San Andreas, I forget what they were for but apparently I needed a ton of them cause I put a weight on my acceleration key then went to bed thinking the mods wouldn't realize what I was doing, needless to say I got kicked and then logged back in to a jail sentence for a couple hours.
Forgot what exactly it did but in nintendogs apperently brushing your dog increases something I and gives you points even if you don't do anything, cue me keeping my ds on overnight and over school to get items or something
>>336423537
Jordan?
>>336432632
Came here to post this.
>>336427465
Monster level scales with character level in FF8 so you were making it harder and not really powering up much. That's a fine too.
>>336418687
Once in ratchet and clank. I set something on the circle button while ratchet was on the Blackwater race track under the big stack of boxes. The noise gun or whatever it was called would give you bolts forever.
Glitch spot in l4d1 survival before they patcged it out. Got my 111:??:?? Time on no mery rooftop if i wasnt on mobile
>>336418687
talos
last trophies were extreme persistance and know your limits, basically suck at a puzzle for 13 minutes then finally beat it and/or leave.
I was suprised to find out that people were awarded this trophy naturally
>>336428073
In Pokémon XY the Dpad made you walk while the circle pad made you skate.
>>336418687
I remember doing something like that in Final Fantasy V
>put !Berserk on everyone for auto attack
>positioned the ship so it goes through the map endlessly without hitting any land
>put something to hold the dpad down
I had to grind normally first so the enemies would be weak enough.
FFXII Auto level exploit in Henne mines or w/e with the mirror mail and the Jellys
Oblivion. I made cheap custom spells, left the char standing in place, put something heavy on the cast spell button and left for a snack.
Did the same thing with athletic and sneak.
>>336420186
I did the exact same thing to hatch eggs.
>>336438923
Also this.
>>336420086
Racetrack glitch doesn't work in HD version, it's based off the Platnium/Greatest Hits edition which fixed it.
Yeah, for metal gear solid 5 because of stupid real time build progress.
>>336439114you could have used a binder clip to simply push the DPad to a side.
I made a bot to grind in an mmo when I was 13. I only ran it for a few days getting resources. I've also used an autofire on cookiclicker and wii paper mario
Yes.
Welding a door through the night in Killing Floor to level up Support.
I botted to nearly all 99s on RuneScape if that counts.
>>336418687
sneak lvl 100 in morrowind
Yea for castlevania sotn. To grind the familiars up to 99 I would tape down the shield button with an attack shield in a Medusa head room and go to bed
>>336418687
dota 2 low priority
qop/NP/necrophos
am amd riki in a pinch
>>336420029
What is this
>>336419836
>>336418687
When grinding in ff7 to get to lvl99 I actually got so used to grinding that i would actually fall asleep and nap but still put in the proper inputs necessary to grind.
>>336420098
Fuck Saint Germain. I passed stealing his item since I didn't have the familiar to stop time and didn't know that bosses had different items not found anywhere else.
I couldn't craft the item because of that.
>>336440489
Bullshit
>>336440489
ur dumb
>>336440704
Its true though.
Perhaps not full REM. but I'd be dozing off with my eyes closed and lethargic, but while still progressing.
>>336440840
I know.
