Tetris NES & GB romhacks: Excel, Hard Drop, Rosy Retrospection, Nostalgic!
0Playing NES and GB Tetris in Mesen with "modern Tetris" romhacks (using Mesen's overscan setting to make the NES blocks bigger onscreen)!
Nostalgic by @Candiman6502 : https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7594/
Hard Drop by @gridbugstv : https://www.gridbugs.org/reverse-engineering-nes-tetris-to-add-hard-drop/
Excel by Controllerhead: https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/6536/
Rosy Retrospection by Ospin: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/
My Tetris playlist: • smbhax's Tetris adventures!
0:00 - start
0:58 - NES Hard Drop
3:51 - NES Hard Drop w/o ghost
5:08 - NES Excel
13:45 - NES Excel & Hard Drop
18:10 - NES
19:02 - NES Excel (2)
19:48 - NES Nostalgic
21:44 - NES (2)
22:25 - NES Nostalgic (2)
24:10 - NES Excel & Nostalgic
28:24 - NES Nostalgic (3)
31:46 - NES Nostalgic & Excel
35:11 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (2)
36:11 - NES (3)
36:44 - NES Excel (3)
37:25 - NES Excel & Hard Drop
39:00 - NES Excel (4)
41:23 - GB Rosy Retrospection
49:15 - NES Nostalgic (4)
51:27 - GB Rosy Retrospection DX
55:09 - GB Rosy Retrospection (2)
56:19 - GB
57:09 - GB Rosy Retrospection (3)
57:45 - NES (4)
58:18 - GB Rosy Retrospection (4)
58:43 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (3)
1:01:29 - SGB2 Rosy Retrospection
1:05:47 - GB Rosy Retrospection (5) Mesen colors
1:18:16 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (4)
1:26:56 - NES "Floating" patcher
1:28:02 - NES Hard Drop & Nostalgic
1:29:44 - NES Nostalgic & Hard Drop
1:32:05 - NES Excel & Nostalgic & Hard Drop
1:32:41 - NES Nostalgic (5)
1:40:35 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (5)
1:59:39 - GB Rosy Retrospection (5)
2:14:01 - GB (2)
2:17:13 - GB Mesen inverted etc colors
2:25:01 - NES Nostalgic (6)
2:35:25 - GB Rosy Retrospection (6)
2:42:05 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (6)
2:49:02 - GB Rosy Retrospection (7)
2:51:43 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (7)
2:59:51 - NES Nostalgic (6)
I'd love for someone to make a Rosy Retrospection type romhack--you know, bringing in the modern Tetris gameplay, basically--for NES Tetris--'cause the bright "inverted" (compared to the NES version) background of GB Tetris scorches my eyeballs, it turns out. ; D (A day after recording I finally realized that in Mesen I could just lower the brightness of the BG color--making it a nice medium mauve, for instance--and that seemed to solve the eyeball scorching. ^ _^ More on that two videos from now!)
And I can't handle the twitchy control of Excel, or the not-toned-down Tetris strobe effect of Hard Drop--which isn't compatible with the Nostalgic romhack--so I'll be sticking to regular ol' NES Tetris, with Nostalgic for reducing the flashing a bit, and just the nice cool look.
(Also after recording, I went and tried Tetris the Grand Master 4--but it wasn't doing anything for me and my decidedly non-grandmaster ability that NES Tetris doesn't do, and the graphics and sounds weren't as much my thing--so again, it's still gotta be NES Tetris for me, apparently! ^ _^) (Anyway, see next video for my experience with TGM4. ; D)
4/27/25
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