What game do you find drains the 3DS battery the quickest?

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#1 JustPlainLucas
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For me, definitely SSFIV. I'd be lucky to get more than three hours on one charge with the 3D on...

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#2 mariokart64fan
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i played 5 hours and a half streight pilotwings max settings,

so didnt do no battery runs with my other games yet, but im expectin the same or lil less for gr ,

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#3 AutoPilotOn
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To tell you the truth I haven't played a 3ds game for longer than 30 min. I spend most of my 3ds time playing DS games.... That will change with Zelda...
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#4 SnowyPaws
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To tell you the truth I haven't played a 3ds game for longer than 30 min. I spend most of my 3ds time playing DS games.... That will change with Zelda...AutoPilotOn

ditto , minus the zelda part as im not a huge fan of zelda.

and hmm i was wondering something, everyone keeps saying the battery life is horrible, but I just sat here playing pokemon white on my 3ds for the past 8 hours straight and i still have 3/4 of battery left.. So do ds games not drain the battery like 3d games do or something??

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#5 xXDante666Xx
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I play for hours with Street Fighter. Then again I have 3D turned off in options so that I can get the 60fps. So smooth.

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#6 trugs26
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I play Ridge Racer 3D occasionally and the built in software and take it out with me throughout the day. A single charge does me a full 24 hours of random gaming on the 3DS.

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#7 Leaky_Taps_Man
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SSFIV for me, I play Ghost Recon more but don't bother with the 3D for it since it barely looks different, just makes me trip balls. Superb game though.

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#8 AOldDog
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Sorry , JPL, I must be growing old, because i did not found the urge to buy one 3DS console yet. Lol

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#9 Nozizaki
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I got about 7 hours in decent brightness with Pokemon Black until the LED went to red. Other than that, I haven't played long enought to kill the battery, and have basically just plugged it in after an hour or so. Now, after June... SO glad for Power Pak+, getting that well before Zelda/Cave Story.
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#10 TankZorz
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I've never had the battery run out on me. I play for short periods and set in on the cradle when I'm not playing.
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#11 emirblade
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I have played pokémon white for a while and a LOT of battery remains. Maybe it's the settings, I have it in brightness level 3 and conserve energy.

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#12 DealRogers
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I play for hours with Street Fighter. Then again I have 3D turned off in options so that I can get the 60fps. So smooth.

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Even with the 3D off I really doubt it is at 60fps.
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#13 TankZorz
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[QUOTE="xXDante666Xx"]

I play for hours with Street Fighter. Then again I have 3D turned off in options so that I can get the 60fps. So smooth.

DealRogers
Even with the 3D off I really doubt it is at 60fps.

Why do you doubt it? That's what the framerate was measured at in speed tests before the 3DS was released in the U.S.
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#14 DealRogers
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[QUOTE="DealRogers"][QUOTE="xXDante666Xx"]

I play for hours with Street Fighter. Then again I have 3D turned off in options so that I can get the 60fps. So smooth.

TankZorz
Even with the 3D off I really doubt it is at 60fps.

Why do you doubt it? That's what the framerate was measured at in speed tests before the 3DS was released in the U.S.

Because I had the PS3 version and, some times it runs a little bit slower (during cutscenes and during certain attacks) with or without the 3D.
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#15 JustPlainLucas
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ditto , minus the zelda part as im not a huge fan of zelda.

and hmm i was wondering something, everyone keeps saying the battery life is horrible, but I just sat here playing pokemon white on my 3ds for the past 8 hours straight and i still have 3/4 of battery left.. So do ds games not drain the battery like 3d games do or something??

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Since DS games are older, they don't require nearly as much processing power, thus using up less battery power.
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#16 Gemini_Red
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SSFIV by far but I'm usually playing online and have the 3D turned on a bit, so I imagine those two things are eating up my battery.

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#17 Raiko101
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[QUOTE="DealRogers"][QUOTE="TankZorz"][QUOTE="DealRogers"] Even with the 3D off I really doubt it is at 60fps.

Why do you doubt it? That's what the framerate was measured at in speed tests before the 3DS was released in the U.S.

Because I had the PS3 version and, some times it runs a little bit slower (during cutscenes and during certain attacks) with or without the 3D.

You could be right, but the 3DS version is quite a different build to the PS3 version. There's no reason they couldn't tweak the game engine in order to hit that 60fps mark.
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#18 DealRogers
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They supposedly did by removing the background animation and a lot of textures, but from what I see, it still isn't 60fps.

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#19 takspeed
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There wasn't really any one game I was on long enough to drain the battery since I haven't been on it often, only the weekends. It did drain once though- I think it took roughly 5 or six hours for it too go since I was playing 3ds games with the slider turned uo all the way and the brightness on 3.