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BDA: 2009-10-20 07:07:16 pm
Let's fight to computer!
Tetris Grand Master is awesome. Unfortunately, for various reasons emulating it has always been tricky. Luckily there's Texmaster, described by the Tetris Wiki as "the most accurate TGM clone available." Texmaster is, admittedly, not new, but it's apparently not well-known outside the Tetris Concept forums, so it's new to me and hopefully it'll be new to you as well.
TGM should be a natural for you speedrunning types because not only is it the most hardcore of hardcore games, it's also basically designed to be speedrun: Once you get good enough to clear the game (usually by reaching level 999) it becomes a competition to see who can reach Grandmaster rank the fastest.

The Tetris Wiki describes all of the game modes (as well as having pretty much all of the other Tetris info you could ever hope for) but here's a quick rundown:
NOVICE - Normal mode from TGM2+. Ends at level 300 and never reaches 20G speed during normal gameplay.
NORMAL - Master mode from TGM1. Ends at level 999. More or less normal Tetris gameplay, except faster. A lot faster.
ADVANCE - TGM+ mode from TGM2+. Adds some new features to Normal, most notably the "Sonic Drop", which allows you to instantly drop the piece while still retaining the normal lock delay once it lands. Also periodically adds garbage lines at the bottom of the stack.
SPECIAL - Master mode from TGM2+. The same feature set as Advance, minus the garbage lines. Speeds are even more hair-raising.
SUDDEN - TA Death mode from TGM2+, AKA 20G mode. Pieces drop instantly. Various delays become shorter as you progress.
DOUBLES - Doubles mode from TGM2+. Ends at 300. 2P co-op mode with various options.
SPECIAL TI - Master mode from TGM3. Similar to Special, but it previews three pieces instead of one and adds a "hold piece" feature. Also goes even faster.
SUDDEN TI - The notorious Shirase mode from TGM3. Ends at level 1300. Pieces drop instantly, like in Sudden, but the lock delay has been drastically shortened (and will get even shorter as you progress.) For masters and masochists only.

A very nice graphics/music pack called "Termino Velocity" is available here. Also visit the Tetris Concept forums for more info and high score boards. There are some crazy good players there.
Supposedly there is a soundpack somewhere that adds the TGM sounds but I haven't been able to find it yet.

Anyway, I know we have some hardcore Tetris players so I hope you'll have some fun with this.
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Posting so sid doesn't whine on IRC.
Waiting hurts my soul...
Tetris is still around?
everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music
It's new to me.

Then again, TGM1 and TGM2 are already in MAME. Also I suck too much at Tetris (much like everyone who only played traditional versions and not TGM) and don't really care to get good at it.


BTW the hardcore players are at TASvideos instead of SDA. Any good Tetris players we have on IRC are just transplants. Tongue


Zenic: Not only is Tetris still around, there is this insane organization called the Tetris Company and they dictate all these inane and arbitrary rules that any Tetris game produced has to follow. They basically almost stopped Arika (makers of TGM) in their tracks, but TGM4 is coming out after a long hiatus. BTW I don't really follow so if I'm wrong, someone please correct me about any of that.
Let's fight to computer!
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Then again, TGM1 and TGM2 are already in MAME.

I know they are, but the TGM2 ROM is imposible to find and TGM1 is on the notoriously badly-emulated ZN-1.
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There is this insane organization called the Tetris Company and they dictate all these inane and arbitrary rules that any Tetris game produced has to follow.

This in no way reveals a flaw in the ruleset.
everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music
I don't think you're saying this, but I have the TGM2 rom if you want it. Or you could just google tgm2 rapidshare or megaupload or whatever.
spread the dirt to the populace
fyi this is the game that triforce is good at

how he went from this to sponsoring justin wong i have no idea, but apparently theres a documentary on the whole thing coming out soon
everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music
So this documentary wasn't destroyed during 9/11? Grin
Hail Discordia!
I haven't the slightest idea how to configure the controls so that they are actually usable. (Lots of rage goes here.)
Let's fight to computer!
The key.html the .ini refers to is right here.