My game turns black and pauses?

Jan. 26, 2018

Okay, so I’m playing UM as usual and the craziest thing happens - twice! I went to BF2 of Aether Paradise, and while receiving the DNA Splicers and the Prison Bottle, the screen went black and the sound paused. Luckily, the screen and sound went back to normal after three seconds, but I want to know what happened. I’ve got shinies on this game and don’t want anything to happen to them.

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Okay, so I played around with my system a little bit, and I believe I found the cause of these blackouts. As I said in my comment earlier, I’ve found that my system blacks out when I place it on my laptop. I ran an experiment with this info, and I think that it’s because an external magnet is activating/tricking the part of the system that tells whether the 3DS is open or closed, which puts it into sleep mode; the power light fades in and out in the same fashion in both cases. Luckily, this means that these blackouts should be completely harmless to the game and system; the 3DS just thinks that you’ve closed it, and is acting accordingly.