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  • Fastest time to 999999 + Game Over
  • Luck manipulation
Improved Tetris run that beats nico's by 14 seconds. This was actually started in January, but I put it off for a long time until recently ...
Most of the improvement came from keeping the blocks as high as possible before each tetris, often high enough that no more can fit ... which was also harder to do, because I had to manipulate luck a lot more for this, as shown by the heavily boosted amount of straight bars. Since I also found a way to manipulate luck by holding Down in certain ways, that minimized the pausing needed.
You might notice that I hit 999998 from the last tetris, then get the last point while getting Game Over ... this wasn't purely by coincidence. I actually ended up with 999891 and had to go back and hex edit more Down button presses in to gain the missing points, and then thought about doing just enough for this interesting effect.
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Posted: 5/18/2006 10:48 PM
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Warp
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It's funny how some people see something in these videos which "shouldn't be possible" and immediately get suspicions of something not being honestly made. Why don't they realize that games are made by humans and can have *bugs*, programming errors which under certain circumstances allow doing things which normally shouldn't be possible. Most often bugs just crash the program, but not always. Bugs come in all sizes and shapes and colors and although crashing bugs are the most common, they are not the only ones. In some cases the trick being (ab)used is not really a bug but a conscious design decision made by the programmers, usually to save resources (which is relevant especially in small machines like the NES). These are usually things you can't or is very difficult to exploit in normal playing but with the infinite accuracy of a TAS you can. Lazy collision detection is the most typical example. And sometimes it's not a bug nor a shortcut, but it just works as intended, the viewer just might not be aware of it. This tetris thing is probably if this type, as explained.
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