Pokémon Crimson Exploit: Second Joy-Con makes you twice as fast

In Pokémon Crimson and Crimson you can significantly increase your running speed.

Attention Pokémon Crimson and Crimson fans: Tired of trudging around slowly? Do you want to get from the spot faster and complete the step challenges faster? Then there is now a very simple way to just dash around twice as fast. What sounds like a cheap, unrealistic ad is actually a hardware exploit that only requires a second left Joy-Con.

Pokémon Crimson: Double Joy-Con, Double Speed!

The calculation is simple: If you use two Joy-Cons at once, you can of course run twice as fast. Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Well, it shouldn’t normally work that way, of course, but it does in Pokemon Crimson and Crimson. For now, at least.

How to run faster: To take advantage of the unintended speed boost, you need to connect two Joy-Cons to your Nintendo Switch at the same time. As if you were registering a second person as a player. Except that you simply use the second Joy-Con yourself and play in single player mode.

For some reason, inputs from the left analog stick are registered by both Joy-Cons – and added together. With the insane result that you can just run around twice as fast.

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However, there is a catch: Apparently you can only run twice as fast if you move diagonally. Again, we don’t know exactly why that is, but we’ll take what we can get.

Of course, this can be compensated for by navigating wildly with the camera. As explained, for example, by Reddit user Hamsterhead 64, who also created the video above.

This opens up new possibilities: Such tactics should of course be exciting, especially for speed runners. And no, apparently four left Joy-Cons don’t bring four times the speed. At least that’s what the comments say Reddit already hotly debated.

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Pokémon Crimson and Crimson have been available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch since November 18th. They offer a seamless open world and co-op for the first time, but also struggle with technical difficulties. Pop-ins, frame rate drops with stutters and an acute lack of detail have also caused us to downgrade the game to the ninth generation in our GamePro test.

What do you think of the double speed trick? Did you already try it?