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Posted: 2/26/2019 11:26 PM
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Steelix100
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Joined: 2/14/2019
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It's any line clear that isn't a Tetris that wastes frames (technically, the Tetrises wastes frames too, it just wastes the least frames). It's simple math. There's an entry delay (known to most tetris players as ARE) between pieces, and a line clear delay between pieces when a line is cleared (replacing entry delay). Depending on the section, these numbers will vary. In section 0-99, entry delay is 19 frames, and line clear delay is 27 frames. Thus, every line clear slows you down by 8 frames. Two extra line clears is 8x2=16 frames. In sections 100 and 200, entry delay is equal to line clear delay (13 frames each), thus no matter which lines are cleared in which amount in only these two sections, no time will be lost. This is mentioned in the description. In section 900, whether or not there is a time penalty for clearing non-Tetrises is a bit unclear. Since the game is about to end, what is more of a time waster is placing pieces that are not cleared. Each piece takes anywhere between 7-12 frames to be placed on the board (most will be 8-10). The frame difference between entry delay and line clear delay is 4 frames (less). Thusly it is of the most importance that no line is left uncleared, and that the final line clear sets me to exactly level 999. Most of this is also in the description. Now, there are a couple of non-Tetrises outside of those sections, less than 5, I think. As for those, well, sometimes RNG just gets you down, even in a TAS...
Posted: 2/26/2019 3:42 PM
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Steelix100
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Whoa, nice. However, as 2 extra lines clears are made, 16 frames are dropped, so if I did that, I would lose an entire 16 frames off the final time. In order to have a "lagless" Gold AC, all 3 all clears need to end in a Tetris (like the first one). So it's not just all that RNG to get the all clears in the first place, it's even more RNG to get them all with a Tetris. It took about 20 restarts to get an RNG seed that allowed for an all clear Tetris. I was able to get a non-Tetris all clear on about the 3rd try. I left all that out of the description because I thought there was too many words in there already.
Posted: 2/18/2019 5:40 AM
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Steelix100
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That happens only in Master mode. There's two types of credit rolls in Master mode, the first is the fading roll. In the fading roll winning or losing has no effect, and blocks disappear after about 5 seconds of being placed. The other roll is the invisible roll in which they disappear immediately. You have to play exorbitantly well for the invisible roll to happen in place of the fading roll. If you die in the invisible roll, you are awarded the grade M, if you clear it, you are awarded the elusive GM grade. In T.A. Death, you achieve GM for just clearing it, so the credits roll in T.A. Death has no differences from the levels before.
Posted: 2/18/2019 3:44 AM
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Steelix100
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Ah, I just realized, I made a mistake in the title of the game in the submission, it is actually Tetris the Absolute: The Grandmaster 2 PLUS. This is a very important distinction since T.A. Death isn't in vanilla tgm2. I did, however, provide the correct rom name (tgm2p.zip).
Posted: 2/16/2019 7:17 AM
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Steelix100
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Link to video If you want a video recording of the TAS, I have uploaded one to my Youtube channel.
Posted: 2/14/2019 3:24 PM
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Steelix100
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The 3.25.58 is the moviefile length autogenerated by this bot, the time (2:42/2:48) is the ingame timer's time. I don't know what to do about that. Most of that time is indeed added by the credits roll as well as roughly 9 seconds on boot. Edit: Hello Mihoru! Thanks for the warm welcome~
Posted: 2/14/2019 9:38 AM
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Steelix100
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What do you mean by overextended? Do you want me to upload the recording or a savestate or (???)?