This is from Pokebeach:
"The PokeWalker seems to be able to detect abuse. I have done a few tests with shaking the PokeWalker in a one minute time span. Each time I shook it very fast for one minute, it would only add six steps. When I shake it at a slower rate for the same one minute, it goes up nearly 150 to 200 steps. These results appeared in multiple tests. Each time the PokeWalker was shaken at an extremely fast rate over the one minute, exactly 6 steps were added."
My friend just taped his to a fan. He maxes it out every day.
It adds like 10 to 20 a minute after I stop shaking.
Quote from: Cornwad on April 05, 2010, 04:33:07 PM
My friend just taped his to a fan. He maxes it out every day.
I remember hearing something like this in another thread with the Pokemon Pikachu. It really works? I thought it would detect that as abuse?
Have any of you tried, you know, walking?
Quote from: Phaze on April 06, 2010, 12:04:42 PM
Have any of you tried, you know, walking?
I have. Nice for some exercise. ;)
Quote from: Phaze on April 06, 2010, 12:04:42 PM
Have any of you tried, you know, walking?
It's a hard concept for some people to grasp.
It doesn't work if you tape it to the fan. Apparently he put a piece of metal on the fan to unbalance it and make it shake more or something. I haven't seen it yet. But it definitely works. I just walk to get my stuff.
Quote from: Phaze on April 06, 2010, 12:04:42 PM
Have any of you tried, you know, walking?
Quote from: Friendly Hostile on April 06, 2010, 12:45:25 PM
It's a hard concept for some people to grasp.
Like me. But I'm not obese yet! :o
I made a stage with spikes and a roof in Brawl and taped it to the controller. It worked for a while but then stopped counting the steps for some reason.
Quote from: Someguy13 on April 06, 2010, 08:18:49 PM
I made a stage with spikes and a roof in Brawl and taped it to the controller. It worked for a while but then stopped counting the steps for some reason.
Pokewalker: Aww, this kid knows how to run an-wait a minute, this feels like vibration! NO WATTS FOR YOU, CHEATER!
Hmm, first off, I'd like to know HOW to use a pedometer. I havn't gotten a pokewalker yet considering the hard times, but I'd like to know how to work a pedometer in the 1st place. I have one on my Ipod(present), and I'd like to know HOW to use it properly \:
You set it, and then it tracks how much you've walked.
/thread
All of you go get a job. I've gotten past 10k a few times from mine.
Quote from: えっちーせんぱい on April 07, 2010, 01:27:09 AM
All of you go get a job. I've gotten past 10k a few times from mine.
I have a job. I just don't have any hours yet as it's still a little chilly outside and that makes it a bit hard to sell snow cones.
I've noticed that you have to shake it at a slow-ish speed, or it won't work. I put mine in my backpack at school, and I get a decent amount of steps. I don't usually cheat, I get enough by walking.
Quote from: Friendly Hostile on April 06, 2010, 12:45:25 PM
It's a hard concept for some people to grasp.
God forbid that they do something with walking in a portable game. The risks in doing it are clearly not worth the end result despite the fact you can do both at the same time.
Quote from: Cornwad on April 05, 2010, 04:33:07 PM
My friend just taped his to a fan. He maxes it out every day.
Specifics?
If you're in a sport, you can clock a ton of steps in practice. I'm in tennis, which isn't as heavy on movement as stuff like track and basketball, and I got up to 40k one day. Even by just being in school without any physical activity it's possible to get 10-15k per day.
Just yesterday, I tied mine to a string which I tied to my fan (specifically, to the metal part at the center of the blades that connects it to the center of the fan). It seems that the string length affects whether it will actually add steps; tying two pokewalkers at the same time to it, when the strings aren't measured out to be exactly equal or anything, ends up with a huge difference in steps. Like from 5000 to 20000.
I think my strings are about 15cm long (half a foot)
I, personally, gain about 6000-7000 steps when bringing it to school for one day, which is really the only time I ever leave my house. That's enough for most things, but that silly yellow forest left me hanging on not doing anything for a long time because I don't walk enough in a single day to get anything on that course. Both good Pikachus need 10000 steps though the steps reset to 0 every midnight.
I just taped my Pokewalker to my bike.
Over 2 miles = Over 2000 steps = over 200 watts (2 miles is nothing to me =P)
Success. An easy way to get watts without cheating it.
Quote from: Missingno6 on April 10, 2010, 02:22:47 PM
I just taped my Pokewalker to my bike.
Over 2 miles = Over 2000 steps = over 200 watts (2 miles is nothing to me =P)
Success. An easy way to get watts without cheating it.
Considering the fact you technically didn't walk, it's still cheating.
Quote from: AuraChannelerChris on April 10, 2010, 02:55:14 PM
Considering the fact you technically didn't walk, it's still cheating.
It was made so people would exercise, thus it has served its intended purpose.
Quote from: Missingno6 on April 10, 2010, 02:58:54 PM
It was made so people would exercise, thus it has served its intended purpose.
By walking, of course. It's not the Pokebike, is it?
Quote from: AuraChannelerChris on April 10, 2010, 03:46:23 PM
By walking, of course. It's not the Pokebike, is it?
You got me there.
Hmmmmm, that gives me ideas though. . .
if you slap it a couple of times it could count as abuse ... if you want
Quote from: killerkevin001 on April 13, 2010, 09:15:27 AM
if you slap it a couple of times it could count as abuse ... if you want
I...no.
I don't understand exactly WHY people would try to abuse it...get up, walk around, do something you lazy bums! =P lol
I just put it on my sock, or my shoe, and tap my foot to music. Seems to work pretty good.
PY, one of the laziest bums in the world, uses his Pokewalker legitimately. Shame on you all.
Cheating to get watts is too much work. I just walk with it clipped onto my belt.
QuoteMost pedometers have a tiny spring-set horizontal arm that moves up and down as you walk and measures the vertical movement of your hips. Electronic pedometers, however, can detect the impact of your foot hitting the ground.
All of your shaking tactics are moot (http://ask.yahoo.com/20040413.html).
(http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/comics/2010-04-14-235-PokemonPedometer.jpg)
Gotta love BiTF.
I wonder if "Chugga chugga chugga" is a reference to Chuggaaconroy?