Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen: How To Avoid Losing Hours Of Progress

"By pressing all four face buttons on your Joy-Con at once, you can make and go back to the main menu. If you're Shiny hunting, this can be a quick and easy way to reset the game and potentially spawn a different-colored critter. This is especially helpful on certain Legendary Pokémon that you don't have to search for in tall grass, as they have a set spawn area that you have to interact with before you see if they're a regular or Shiny version."

"But if you're just trying to play the game, pressing all four face buttons at once is pretty easy to accidentally do, and since and don't have a modern autosave feature, one misclick can lose you hours of progress, gym badges, and captured Pokémon."

"If you go to your Switch's Accessibility menu in the settings, you can change the button mapping on your controller. Turning off X or Y is an easy way of making sure that no matter what you do, the game won't recognize the soft reset command."

The Game Boy Advance ports on Switch include a quality-of-life feature allowing players to reset the game by pressing all four face buttons simultaneously. This benefits Shiny hunters seeking rare alternate-colored Pokémon, particularly for Legendary Pokémon with set spawn locations, saving significant time during the hunting process. However, this feature poses a risk to casual players, as accidental button presses can trigger resets and cause loss of hours of progress, gym badges, and captured Pokémon. Since the games lack modern autosave functionality, one misclick can be catastrophic. Players can mitigate this risk by accessing the Switch's Accessibility menu and disabling the X or Y button, preventing the soft reset command from activating without losing any game functionality.

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