Aims for fastest time to obtain 999999 points and Game Over
Manipulates luck.
Description
This is a 399 frame (6.65s) improvement to the existing Tetris run submitted by Acmlm. Emulator used was FCEU 0.98.13 with the rom Tetris (U) [}}!].nes. Input ends at the earliest posible frame when further input cannot prevent game over.
The time saved can be attributed to several factors. A large improvement is the starting platform which requires two less pieces to build, saving around 70 frames. Another thing I tried very hard to improve upon was the hieght of the stacked pieces. Most of the time it was hard to save any time, because Acmlm had done a very good job, but there were a few notable gains. Other than time saving improvements, this run does not use pause to manipulate the pieces, but rather left+right+down to delay the next piece, as discovered by alden. Doing this causes the current piece and next piece to flash, but this is far less distracting. I also found a small window for manipulation after the current piece has landed, but before the next piece appears. This causes only the next piece to flash, which is even less disruptive. This form of manipulation is also faster than using pause, because it only delays the next piece by one frame, instead of a minimum of three as pausing does.
When the run ends, the entire board is clear except for a single line of pieces up the middle. Not only is this the fastest possibility (not a single piece was wasted), but it also looks rather nice.
Thanks
Thanks goes to Acmlm and nico for their previous runs, and to alden for discovering the new manipulation tactic.
This explains why progress is so slow on the Pokémon run. jk
Good improvement (though not nearly as much as Baxter's to that other Tetris video), yes vote.
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Excellent improvement to an already good movie. A few interesting points about this movie:
-I noticed you used music 3 :)
-Once or twice, a block landed so that it was partially above the screen top, and that part of the block was absent when it appeared lower on the playing field (interesting glitch/oversight)
-I like how you managed to keep the music going at 2x speed for most of the movie (the previous movie kept switching between 1x and 2x speed because of the changing block levels)
-Ending with no blocks left on the side was a very nice touch, it must have required a lot of planning.
Also, after making my own tetris run, I've come to appreciate the amount of work and planning necessary. This gets a yes vote from me.
-Once or twice, a block landed so that it was partially above the screen top, and that part of the block was absent when it appeared lower on the playing field (interesting glitch/oversight)
Dr. Mario also has the same method of "disposing" part of the piece by sending it out the top of the screen (except the bottle opening in the middle, of course).
-Once or twice, a block landed so that it was partially above the screen top, and that part of the block was absent when it appeared lower on the playing field (interesting glitch/oversight)
Dr. Mario also has the same method of "disposing" part of the piece by sending it out the top of the screen (except the bottle opening in the middle, of course).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the intended behavior.
Yes vote.
I thought someone said that using the "LUR" glitch takes away the holding down bonus
It's negligible compared to the score for a tetris... both movies clear 164 lines (41 tetrises), so the bonus points would just be "overflow" :)
Great job primo!
I thought someone said that using the "LUR" glitch takes away the holding down bonus
It's negligible compared to the score for a tetris... both movies clear 164 lines (41 tetrises), so the bonus points would just be "overflow" :)
Great job primo!
Oops, guess I should have said "any *more* bonus points would be overflow" :P The movie wouldn't be any faster if you still got bonus points when doing LDR, right?
So are you going to take on the A game next Baxter?
I thought someone said that using the "LDR" glitch takes away the holding down bonus
It would, but I don't ever use LDR while the pieces are falling (with exception to one piece at the very end, where I needed a larger manipulation window). Instead, I use it after the current piece has already landed, which causes it not to flash, as written in the movie description. Also, holding down as the piece lands often (read: usually) causes the next piece to appear one frame earlier. So in general, it should always be done, unless for purposes of manipulation.
