Tetris NES -- oh man, B-TYPE!
1Playing modded NES Tetris in Mesen!
Nes Tetris Nostalgic (background mod) by @Candiman6502 : https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7594/
My Tetris playlist: • smbhax's Tetris adventures!
0:00 - start
0:25 - A-TYPE
12:46 - B-TYPE
31:35 - hi score run
34:55 - wrap!
I think as a kid I decided I didn't like B-TYPE and subsequently ignored it.
But in A-TYPE I pretty much always hit the same speed limit wall ie I get to level 11 or so at best and then it's too fast and I just croak so I was kinda out of things to do in Tetris! But with B-TYPE you set up your own parameters with LEVEL and HEIGHT and just go for 25 lines and try to maximize your score and that's kinda feeling more interesting to me, 'cause you're clearing random garbage lines rather than just trying to build for Tetris all the time--my A-TYPE at best would go: build for Tetris, build for Tetris, build for Tetris, (...) oh hit the speed wall, GAME OVER--which felt like being stuck in a rut.
Eh I mean I'm horrible at Tetris so I guess that's why I have to play this weird way but whatever it's working for me at the moment. ^ _^
After recording I figured out that I can sort of get Tetris to keep my high scores--the NES cart itself has no battery back up so doesn't save its scores between sessions--by combining two Mesen command-line parameters: --preferences.gameSelectionScreenMode=PowerOn and --loadLastSession. Not very intuitive, but seems to work: now when I start the emulator back up from my shortcut, it picks the game right up where it was when I last closed the emulator; it, keeps it going as if you're in a never-ending single session, so the scores are maintained. Like using "-autosave" to (sorta) keep my Pac-Man high score going in MAME, for instance. ; )
11/25/24
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