Anyone who's ever had a dog knows what a pain it is to try to train a puppy. They're constantly peeing and yelling, and they would much rather chew on all your delicious belongings than learn a bunch of useless commands. As it turns out — according to the Nintendogs speedrun, at least — the answer is twofold: One, give your puppy a short but recognisable name, like "L", and two, take it back to the puppy shop the literal second it messes up. That'll teach 'em!
(For the record, we do not condone resetting your puppy. We love puppies very much.)
"Hold on," you cry — "what do you mean, "the Nintendogs speedrun?" Ah, good catch.
The most popular way of speedrunning Nintendogs is to get 1st place in all of the beginner contests — Obedience, which checks how good your pup is at following commands; Disc Throwing, which is a frisbee competition; and Agility, which is an obstacle course. You can train your dog, but that takes time, and speedrunning ain't about that. The best thing to do is just get really lucky with your starter dog, and the RNG that dictates how well the competitions go.
The speedrun of Nintendogs is not a particularly popular one, even though the current run lasts anywhere between 11 and 25ish minutes, because so much of it is luck-based — which means pretty much anyone can give it a go and potentially do really well on the leaderboards.
So, that's what YouTuber GappyV decided to do. He picked up a TOTALLY LEGITIMATE PC COPY of Nintendogs, and secured a third place record on his first go, with a 14 minute 7 second run. Sure, technically, there were only two records in his category... so any time would have made third place... but it only got better from there.
After finding out that his stream chat mod had sniped the first place record overnight with an 11 minute 49 second run, GappyV decided that it was no longer a joke. He would get that record.
And you know what? He totally did. With an 11 minute 6 second run, GappyV was — and still is, two months later — the undisputed world record holder for Nintendogs speedrunning in the Emulator Beginner Contest Golds category.
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An inspiration to us all. Woofless aggression.
A Nintendog's life!
I'm more interested in the story of how deeply Kate Gray had to dig before finally coming across the perfect picture of a dog and a trophy (apparently taken by a resident of Alpha Centauri VIII) with which to headline her article, personally.
I live with some of those real dogs real people really dumped, and I chose the "worst" of them, the ones that were already awaiting a death sentence for standing up against their human abusers (or "masters" or "owners", both words meaning slaver when you're talking about a living "possession") and one that could not find peace with the actually good person that took her in after being abused, nor with being home alone. And yes, they are terrible dogs, if you want a "good obedient" little robot fashion statement on a leash. Which makes them the best ACTUAL DOGS, the ones I saw in wild packs when traveling, and taught humans in the area some humility. They scare people with ill intentions and melt friendly people's hearts. They are my brother and sisters, and I'd rather live a short life among them than a long life in human society.
But that's real life. Not Nintendo Life, I'm sorry.
My sisters were mad into Nintendogs when we were younger and all had DS's. I couldn't get into it nearly as much though I imagine if I went back I could enjoy it quite a lot more (especially as I now have a dog of my own). Would love to see the series make a comeback in some way (though without the microphone, that could prove to be an uphill battle).
But taking care dogs cannot be treated by speed run.
You will not treat your dog like that.
It was forcing your dog to obey you in 1 second.
It's all fun and games until they **** on the floor and you step in it when you wake up to bleed the lizard.
@TheBigK You have a dog AND a lizard? Cool!
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. - Dr. Ian Malcom
A dog is for life, not just 11 minutes.
Maybe Kate could provide a link for nintendogs on PC? Or maybe she won't......
Don't worry Kate I found one for you -
https://gamefabrique.com/games/nintendogs/
@Fath Honestly, it wasn't that long! I searched for "dog winner" and "dog with trophy", I think. There was a very good Shiba Inu with a bunch of medals, but the photo was portrait so I couldn't use it!
Here is a great video of Gappy https://streamable.com/azd09t
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