*This is for HG and SS

>>219
I believe it pauses to check for your bike, because it can't do that on the fly. I first noticed this in Ruby, so I just kinda accepted it.

That's because the map is actually built up into smaller squares that are loaded into the DS' memory, one square at a time. When you are riding the bike, you actually are traveling faster than the DS can load the next area, so it pauses for a tiny amount of time to prevent you from seeing missing points on the new section of the map.

So, those slight pauses are actually kind of a loading screen of sorts. When you're walking, it isn't as noticeable as it tends to fit nicely between frames.

TL;DR: The DS treats its cartridge more like a CDROM drive than a ROM simply because the data access speed is so fucking horribly slow for a cartridge.

>>226
That's how tweaking works, isn't it?
Has anybody found any use for that in HG/SS?

>>228
You can tweak through Tohjo falls without Waterfall and beat the game early.

>>231
Kind of neat.
I guess it's kind of soon to be expecting something groundbreaking.