Tetris The Grandmaster on DS

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:29 pm

Someone knows if there are online scoretables for positions below the top ten?

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:06 am

Maybe I'm just blind or something, but where can I download this?

Domino · Post by **Domino** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:07 am

http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.604

Which storage device to buy for the HB?

Also I'm looking for a used storage device for it as well.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:14 am

i hear that the 360 game tgm ace is a bit watered down compared to the arcade series. how much of a difference is there? i've got a copy, just don't have a j-360 to play it on yet....

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:17 am

the 360 d-pad is absolutely horrible to play TGM Ace on. the game is balls hard with the terrible control

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:38 am

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:Maybe I'm just blind or something, but where can I download this?

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=88318&st=60

Got there from "best of japanese homebrew" thread link. Usually I don´t hang around in places like this, with their DS "releases"

The guy who programmed it doesn´t put a dl link on his site, it seems like he just "let´s them appear" on the net

orange · Post by **orange** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:50 am

brokenhalo wrote:i hear that the 360 game tgm ace is a bit watered down compared to the arcade series. how much of a difference is there? i've got a copy, just don't have a j-360 to play it on yet....

it's very watered down, you can't actually play with the exact arika rotation rules

do yourself a favor and just download heboris or texmaster for the pc

Domino · Post by **Domino** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:20 am

FYI TGM2 and TGM2Plus are playable, but you must find a special version of MAME (that plays the game) plus the ROMs (Arika told the MAME team to remove the ROM from the MAME releases, lame). TGM2Plus is a lot better than the first game (of course).

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:55 am

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP wrote:the 360 d-pad is absolutely horrible to play TGM Ace on. the game is balls hard with the terrible control

sanwa modded hori ex2 fixes that. only problem is that when i play tetris splash i have to take off my headset or everyone can hear the joystick and buttons clicking away.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:58 am

orange wrote:
brokenhalo wrote:i hear that the 360 game tgm ace is a bit watered down compared to the arcade series. how much of a difference is there? i've got a copy, just don't have a j-360 to play it on yet....
it's very watered down, you can't actually play with the exact arika rotation rules

do yourself a favor and just download heboris or texmaster for the pc

d/l-ing heboris now. thanks for the suggestion.

LaserGun · Post by **LaserGun** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:26 pm

I just downloaded the DS homebrew, very nice presentation and the controls are great too, heavily recommended.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:27 pm

Frederik wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDJQP1xg5EY
As this video claims, you can´t actually patent a game idea.

Actually, it claims that you can't copyright a game idea (copyright does not extend to ideas), and that TTC simply didn't patent Tetris. Game rules actually can be patented, as perverse as the idea may be.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:40 am

orange wrote:
brokenhalo wrote:i hear that the 360 game tgm ace is a bit watered down compared to the arcade series. how much of a difference is there? i've got a copy, just don't have a j-360 to play it on yet....
it's very watered down, you can't actually play with the exact arika rotation rules

do yourself a favor and just download heboris or texmaster for the pc

Dropping pieces gives you NO credit toward going to the next level.
You have to clear 10 lines to go up a level in TGM Ace. There's also an Out Run style section timer which isn't appropriate for Tetris IMO. If the section timer runs out, it's an instant game over- I think the threat of topping out is enough risk. There's also that "infinity" system where the auto-lock can be delayed many times. Just rotate or move the piece.

It's a crime that TGM 3 hasn't been ported to a console. I think The Tetris Company needs to make a grandfather clause for older arcade releases so they can be ported. Maybe Arika can put out a Tetris TGM Ace II and sneak in the arcade titles as a bonus, like Namco did with PS2 Tekken 5's history mode.

mufunyo · Post by **mufunyo** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:29 am

Arika only has a Japanese arcade licence for Tetris. ACE was a one-time exception supposedly commissioned by Microsoft as a launch title for 360. Mihara has wanted to make console ports of his games since TGM1, but has always been given a red light from The Tetris Company.

But it seems Hong Kong pirates have taken matters into their own hands and fulfilled your wishes of the game becoming commercial-- that is, they've slapped NDS_TGM unmodified onto ROM carts and started selling them. The Tetris Company got wind of it and notified MeRAMAN in the form of a cease & desist letter. So that's it for NDS_TGM.

This was and is the latest binary available:
http://tinyurl.com/ndstgm0815

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:18 pm

Long live MeRAMAN!

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:37 pm

a few questions about tgm ace on the xbox 360.

1. how do you unlock "another"? i can't seem to play anything other than the 4 original single player modes (standard, speed+1, speed+2 and big), even though i've completed them all a few times.

2. is there any way to play the game using the d-pad? i can use the d-pad to navigate menus, but then it is disabled during a match. couldn't find anything in options and i want to use my sanwa stick.

3. is there a guide anywhere online that has the menus translated? the tetris concept wiki is a good starting point, but it's a bit incomplete.

oh, and heboris rules. thanks for that suggestion orange

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:51 pm

Turrican wrote:Long live MeRAMAN!

Yeah. His port will stay on my cart forever.

Post by **nZero** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:24 am

brokenhalo wrote:2. is there any way to play the game using the d-pad? i can use the d-pad to navigate menus, but then it is disabled during a match. couldn't find anything in options and i want to use my sanwa stick.

Yes, go to the Options -> Player 1 and look for the option that currently reads something like 左スチック and change it to either of the other options (which correspond to D-Pad only and both Stick/D-Pad IIRC)

Also I'm interested in how to get anything over Normal/HS1/HS2 or any of the other achievements aside from the clears. The lack of ranking system is deeply confusing to me.

mufunyo · Post by **mufunyo** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:36 am

brokenhalo wrote:1. how do you unlock "another"? i can't seem to play anything other than the 4 original single player modes (standard, speed+1, speed+2 and big), even though i've completed them all a few times.

Going online and beating the Road modes & the grade exam modes is required for unlocking more modes, and all other modes must be unlocked for Another.

brokenhalo wrote:oh, and heboris rules. thanks for that suggestion orange

Try Texmaster if you want more challenging/accurate gameplay at the expense of worse graphics.

Post by **nZero** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:36 am

mufunyo wrote:Going online

Fuck. Why do developers hate users?

mufunyo · Post by **mufunyo** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:48 am

nZero wrote:
mufunyo wrote:Going online
Fuck. Why do developers hate users?

Cause it's a 360 game.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:25 pm

thanks for the help guys. playing this game with a stick is so much better. now i'm going to try and figure out what all the online modes do. bizarre that they would stick a single player mode online, though.

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:17 pm

Infinite spin and normalized piece distribution must die.

Reading the comments of That Guy in charge of the ip... it's like versus mode is all that exists.

It's annoying to have to go to unlicensed parties for new, legitimate Tetris, or trapped in the old versions..

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:10 am

Thanks, mufunyo. I tried that 0815 version on NO$GBA (to see if the file works before buying the flashcart), but unfortunately it didn't do anything but a blank white screen. Being around 46M or so, does this 0815 version work on actual hardware only?

Errors per second -- 124,304
Total Errors -- 9,695,782
Low Power Mode -- Okay
Multiboot Support -- Unsupported (file too large)
Quality Rating -- Disqualified

It says "Unstable, contains hidden bugs".

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:08 pm

yeah, we all play it, it MUST work

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:27 pm

The later versions worked on my R4 that is specifially bought just for this, because they didn´t work on my EZFlashV. So it depends on the cart.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:37 am

It works on my actual DS. I just got the Acekard 2 and a Kingston 1GB Micro SD card. The background animations are nicely done.

Shame this got C&D'ed at such at time, when I'd guess it was 80% done. If it had Sakura & Easy modes (Easy being like Heboris UE's Tamaya Trial), the grading system, the Cool/Regret feature (get a Cool without any Section Time Regret and the game speed increases), and the "torikan" (i.e. if you take longer than 7 minutes to reach 500/999 on Master, your game ends with an "EXCELLENT! ...but let's go better next time!" message) it'd be pretty much complete.

Fuck those HK pirates.