Pushing a Button for Rare Pokemon

[Music] since the dawn of the age of video games there have been buttons to press 1958 Stennis for two is widely credited as the first video game created solely for entertainment purposes and each player that game has an aluminum controller with one knob and one button press a button on the controller and your game will perform an action in return this is one of the oldest and most recognized rules in gaming and with any rule there's gonna be people that try and break it it's been 60 years since the rise of the video game controller and I need a button pressed but there's just one problem I don't want to be the one pressing it shiny hunting and Pokemon is boring or at the very least it's very simple for almost every shiny hunting method in the series your goal is to perform the same mundane task over and over again usually for hours until you find a creature that's a different color than you normally expected despite its massive simplicity I actually really enjoy shiny hunting it's all zen-like giving you a simple activity that only requires a light amount of focus and despite it not being a great challenge it isn't completely brainless if you aren't paying attention there are usually a handful of ways to fail or mess up when you shiny hunt to me when I got the plate you just what but for the first time in Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Eevee I found a shiny hunting method that feels almost completely on interactive absolutely brain-dead and that is shiny a lowland hunting let's go sprit ii unique here you can train an NPC swapping a regular Pokemon for Anna Lolan one and there's a very small chance one in 4096 that the NPC will inexplicably send you a shiny pokemon not only is trading an NPC for shiny pokemon kind of unheard of but you can also trade these npcs an infinite number of times the game isn't even foresee to save when you trade so if you don't find a shiny after sending a big bunch of trades you just reset and try all those trades again you want to know how you trade in this game press a nine times a-a-a a-a-a-a watch a cutscene and then finally a a to end the dialogue sure you might have to do some legwork to get a batch of tradable pokemon but once you have that batch the entire process is completely automatic press a purse a press a pressing this method finally broke me assume a movement for a pretty fair estimate of 4,000 trades before finding a shiny we would be pressing the a button for 33 hours and 20 minutes I thought to myself why do I even need to be here what if there was some way to get something to press the a button for me then all I'd have to do is check the Pokedex once between each batch see if I found the newel and shiny form recorded in it if not then the badge is a failure I'd reset the game and then I'd leave whatever mystery device I created to keep pushing that button for me I could work and it videos watch movies hang out with friends whatever and the whole time my game would be shiny hunting for me the question is how are we going to push that button since the very beginning of Nintendo consoles players have been wanting to do exactly what I've been describing and the most classic solution to getting a button pressed for you is a turbo controller the oldest one I've seen in person is 1987 SNES advantage a joystick like mega controller that offered a variety of knobs features and ways to get well an advantage over a normal controller usually a turbo button lets you press a button multiple times per second as long as it's held down some turbo controllers even hold the button down for you they're perfect for pressing a button faster than a human can or in our case pressing a button without us even needing a human in place sure seems like cheating but hey for the last 30 years Nintendo has put their official seal on the technology here's Tendo seal right now right here for a PGP branded controller with a turbo button I've seen people use these in games like xenoblade chronicles - you can get your turbo controller to constantly spam egg and fill your pouch with a bunch of items slowly raising your trust with every blade to the max well you go off and live your life these are wired controllers which means all you have to do is plug them in via USB C cable and the game will recognize it as a pro connect oh come on this is ridiculous you can only use the pokeball plus or joy cons to play pokemon let's go so yeah if we could use the pro controller I wouldn't even be making this video or if I did it would be a whole lot shorter we'd end it right now of course there's no such thing as a third party joy come with the turbo button in fact there isn't really a third party joy Khan at all Hori does make this one undocked mode only left joy Khan to give you a better dpad but really that's about it so if something is pressing a button for us it's gonna have to push a button on one of these bad boys and technically you don't even have to push a to say yes and Pokemon go you can press a press the left stick the right stick RL ZL and Zr of all these buttons I've found that R and L seem to require the least amount of force to register a press so what provides a constant force both on and off without ever stopping my first thoughts turned to the drinking bird a mid-1900s thermodynamic toy that relies in a clever shift of temperature evaporation and pressure in order to perform mechanical work there's even a couple of instances where people use these toys to push a button in popular media and I think that's what Burton to this idea into my brain like this scene from 1990s darkman where a bird is used to detonate a bomb and then there's the 1995 Simpsons episode king sized Homer where the perpetually lazy Homer Simpson uses a drinking bird in order to get this repeatedly press a key on his computer to do work for him so that he can go out and enjoy other things I am literally Homer Simpson right now so of course as soon as I thought up with this idea I did what any sane person would do and immediately order to drinking burped without hesitation actually uh I ordered a three pack if that was the only thing Amazon offered same-day delivery for considering that my end goal for this was to catch some Pokemon I'd like to think of this purchase as operation dodrio all right so first things first about this toy it doesn't just run on its own the bird's head has to be wet for it to function normally it doesn't just go nuts unassisted even though it always seems to on TV shows and even though the beak has to be dipping down into the water my thoughts were that we could use this bottom part to swing into the joy con providing the light amount of force needed to hit one of those triggers using some objects around the house to hold the joy con an bird in place I begin the test wait for it wait for it nein it doesn't register a press C if it did hit strong enough those lights at the front of the controller would flash green for a second but it's weird because if I physically put the bird down let go and let it swing like a pendulum it will hit hard enough but the way that this bird moves on its own the changing pressure from the methylene chloride just goes too slowly not to mention even if it was strong enough this thing swings a lot slower than I thought about once a minute this really isn't even worth the time saved to be worth the trouble but I have one final idea what if we lower the location of the water forcing the bird to dip deeper and then swing back with even greater force instead of this nice tall mug how about we pour this baby some shy [Music] I decided that it was time to rely on something more powerful than an evaporation based shift of temperature we need something electric something that can run for hours and fast I went to the land of the American Dream Walmart with a conveniently placed a lowland right you taunting me the entire way my goal was to find an electronic toy capable of providing me with a perpetual battery sustained motion I needed something that keeps going keeps hidden keeps pressing and unpress about my joy kaan in the interest of practicality I bought the cheapest possible option I could spot the remote-control robotic battlespace bot from sharper image I found it in a clearance bin for 8 bucks the idea is simple use the punching arms to constantly hit buttons for as long as the battery gives them power it will be my literal robot assistant playing my games for me just like the days of old because you know nothing ever went wrong when we let the robots play our video games well it turns out that when you buy an $8 robot toy you get an $8 robot toy don't expect it to punch for you I was promised punching action but what I got was completely unelect Roenick arms that swivel this thing is a cheap RC car hidden in the Trojan horse of a cool interactive button-pressing robot toy you know what they say fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me from here on out we're gonna be building our solutions custom products made specifically for pressing that button it what would be a better way to build than by going back to the first thing I ever used to build in my life Lego like the drinking bird these universally recognized plastic toy bricks began production in the late 1940s today they do everything from building a house to recreating your favorite movie to saving Mata Nui to pushing a dang button I searched online for something that automatically pushes buttons Legos and I found this solution which uses LEGO Technic a motor and a battery to press a keyboard key over and over again with all my old childhood leg go back across the country at my parents place I went to a local lego hobbyist store to see how quickly and cheaply we could recreate this machine in the video the employee there was super happy to help as long as I was okay using an older 1990s motor because they were out of the newest model isn't the exact motor I grew up using as a kid so it was actually coming astons ik for me it took less than 15 minutes to get this simple model recreating the one I saw in the video and we were off to the races the idea is that as long as you hold the Machine and the joique on perfectly in place this thing can punctuate any button as long as your batteries keep going I decided to hold the machine with some board games and the joy come with a desk lamp and for the first time it just works the a button is being pressed and I don't have to be there I ran a couple of strings with this thing and I didn't even have to hold a controller both hands-free from tiny toy cons and carpal tunnel the entire time it's perfect well almost perfect you see there's just this one thing it's just that sometimes it's a little bit slow it's it's a bit loud I take my research but in the end it turns out these old motors are just pretty dang loud even under optimal conditions and that's just a flaw we're gonna have to deal with I think there's something poetic about this hunk of plastic and metal potentially as old as I am doing the work for me while I'm not around poetic but not exactly elegant still as long as I'm not in the same room as this thing and I don't have to hear it everything is awesome before I get to my final and in my opinion craziest methods I want to give a shout-out to reddit user space and time who found a solution for this exact same problem that I had using a fan tape twine cardboard and a fishing swivel the end result is delightfully Rube Goldberg in and it looks a little something like this I've linked their post in the description which includes an entire illustrative tutorial for how to make a fan slapper of your own so feel free to try it out for my last methods I decided to learn something completely foreign to me microcontrollers contrary to how it sounds these aren't tiny video game controllers but they're actually tiny computers on an integrated circuit they come in many shapes and sizes and that can be programmed externally from a computer and even interact over common connections like USB micro controllers have done some pretty crazy stuff with Nintendo Hardware modern take your Nukem it made an absurdly complex system that automatically detected and captured shiny pokemon on the 3ds another modern by the name of shiny Quagsire used one to create a program that draws splatoon to memes for you from an image that you feed into the computer and youtuber pond and rules repurposed that code to make a microcontroller that gave him time jumps to beat the mario odyssey challenge of course this solution doesn't work with pokemon let's go because it pretends to be a fight stick which plugs in like a pro controller which doesn't work but lets go but it is still super interesting and inspiring as someone jumping completely blindly into the world of microcontrollers and related technology i decided to start with a simple arduino board and a simple project these boards are open-source and use a simplified c based programming language for sending behaviors from your computer to the board because the Arduino board schematics are open-source you'll commonly find cheaper knockoff boards that function exactly the same as an official Arduino one they started on this Elega branded knockoff of the Arduino Uno board these boards alone are only about ten bucks but I got one of these cool starter kits for $35 that comes with a bunch of essential tools like a breadboard resistors wires diodes and a handful of small electronics intended to help a beginner make some DIY computer solutions my original goal was to use components such as a motor with the Arduino to make a similar and more personally program version of the Lego button spammer however before I even got to this solution a viewer from my facebook streams named Alejandro recommended something else the solenoid a solenoid is a coil of wire that acts as a magnet when electricity flows through it alejandro suggested to use a simple push-pull solenoid to repeatedly push in polar ah to slap a button I ended grabbing this small 4.5 volt model for the job under normal circumstances the art do you know I owned is best operated at 5 volts or less Alejandra drew up a circuit schematic for how to connect the Arduino up to a solenoids and I got to learning how to use a breadboard once the wires were in place we put this code into the Arduino setting it up to turn the solenoid on and off at an interval of milliseconds that we chose and after some quick adjustments voila click-clack were on the attack with the weakest push-pull solonite of all time you really have to hit the right spot of the arm button for this thing to provide enough force to register a push but if you secure everything into place it's by far our smallest and quietest solution yet for my final method we explored a new frontier pushing the button without pushing a button for every single solution so far we've been thinking mechanically how can I get something to hit the button instead of me what have you ever thought about what it is that a button actually does typically pressing a button down completes a circuit with a piece of metal allowing electricity to flow and send a signal but if we go under the buttons and go to the board itself hooking up wires from the Arduino to the Joye con we can stimulate the board below the button itself and trick the system into thinking that it has been pressed once again I work with alejandra on this project and once again I look to the works of daegu Newcomb were they in a community of monitors have worked to disassemble and explain everything related to joint con boards and its technology after hours of testing disassembling reassembling carefully and sometimes poorly applying a soldering iron to connect cables to the joint gum board we did it it's beautiful the perfect button masher temporarily removing the R button even give me space to close the controller back up making for our neatest and absolutely quiet a solution using this code to send signals from the seven pin to the ground pin on the Arduino we created a joy con that can tirelessly mash the L button as long as the controller still has power it trades non-stop the version I made matches the L button and it's soldered pretty poorly to the board directly my two wires are soldered here and here I don't really advise that anyone do what I did but I'm an amateur and soldering points this tiny was probably not a great first place to start eventually alejandro came to an optimal solution which is ordering a separate ZL ribbon cable about 10 bucks or less and then you safely solder the wires to that here and here then you can replace this modded ribbon cable with the regular ZL button whenever you want and use the spammer mod it still isn't easy but this is the best way to attempt this mod without destroying the joique on board on its own and as it turns out mashing the yes button over and over again has some other uses - such as feeding a single Pokemon 200 individual candies or you can even catch pokemon without trying just buy a thousand regular pokeballs put the game in undocked mode stand in a Pokemon dense area and let er rip your game keep throwing pokeballs immediately as soon as a Pokemon is encountered I did this in mount moon in order to catch hundreds of Geodude for a lull in training inexplicably I even found a shiny Geodude in a batch of 400 captures I wasn't even there for it I popped a lure but somehow well the game was sitting by itself a shiny Geodude spawned and walked into my stationery player it hand was captured by the least skilled polka ball thrower of all time I didn't even consider that this thing could catch shinies in any way other than the lowlands but that's incredible now at this point you got to start thinking how far is too far have I lost my mind is it worth potentially destroying an expensive joke on controller with hot melted metal also that I can obtain an alternate coloured Pokemon without having to be physically present some people would even argue that what I'm doing invalidates all the hard work the entire point of going into a difficult shiny hunt after all you weren't there for the struggle isn't that just lazy if you aren't the one pressing the button going through all those hours of work did you even earn it and to that I say you would not believe how much work it took to get this lazy I push that button you

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Keywords: Pokemon Lets Go, Pokemon Lets Go Eevee, Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu, Pikachu Eevee, Nintendo Switch Pokemon, Pokemon Switch, Shiny Pokemon, Shiny Hunting, Easy Shiny, Alolan, Alolan Trading, Trade shiny, Nintendo, Button Mash, Automatic Button, JoyCon, Joy Con

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Length: 19min 45sec (1185 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 15 2018