Something Funny About Super-Speed Mode

[BeatlesFan88]

I turned on super speed mode for the first time and I paused it and it looked as though the menu were moving up on the screen. Haha...it was weird...

Has this happened to anyone else?

[dark_archon]

It's called the Tetris Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

"They might also see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination."

Your brain is not used to the moving speed and is playing with your eyes. Most of Rock Band/Guitar Hero players get that when they start.

Edit: Also, we all get Highway hypnosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
That's the state in which you play the game 'automatically'. "In this state the driver's conscious mind is apparently fully focused elsewhere, with seemingly direct processing of the masses of information needed". I get that a lot.

[Victory10]

It's called the Tetris Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

"They might also see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination."

Your brain is not used to the moving speed and is playing with your eyes. Most of Rock Band/Guitar Hero players get that when they start.

Thanks for the information , i have noticed this problem on some occassions.

I looked away from the tv and things was moving upwards like the highway charts.

I am not a new player though and somtimes i still get it.

[Jordan10la]

I still get this sometimes too.

[bek_____2]

It's called the Tetris Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

"They might also see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination."

Your brain is not used to the moving speed and is playing with your eyes. Most of Rock Band/Guitar Hero players get that when they start.

Edit: Also, we all get Highway hypnosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
That's the state in which you play the game 'automatically'. "In this state the driver's conscious mind is apparently fully focused elsewhere, with seemingly direct processing of the masses of information needed". I get that a lot.

I think it is none of those. I don't remember what it is called though.

[Belcebu]

It happened to me once. RIght after a marathonic RB2 session. (somewhere around 6 hours playing)
Never happened again since.

[LuigiHann]

It's called the Tetris Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

"They might also see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination."

Your brain is not used to the moving speed and is playing with your eyes. Most of Rock Band/Guitar Hero players get that when they start.

Edit: Also, we all get Highway hypnosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
That's the state in which you play the game 'automatically'. "In this state the driver's conscious mind is apparently fully focused elsewhere, with seemingly direct processing of the masses of information needed". I get that a lot.

No, it's not either of those here. What's happening is that his eyes/brain are adjusting to the fast scrolling, and gradually registering that as "normal," so when the scolling abruptly stops, the brain interprets that motionlessness as movement in the opposite direction

[bek_____2]

found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
also known as the waterfall effect

[Sveppi]

This happens to me after extended RB sessions.

[The_Jack_Of_Hearts]

It freaked me out when I first got GH1, now I'm just used to it.