The game is beaten IMO when you beat level 255 and rollover back to 0 avoiding any position that would result in a crash before then.
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A comment is just as valid as contributing to a conversation as a video.
After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quick glossary: DAS - "Delayed autoshift," the delay is between when you press the button and when the long keypress starts to register as multiple clicks, auto-shifting the piece to the sides. So this is kind of a software-based "convention" that everyone knows, you open your word processor, you press the down arrow, it goes "down" one line and then waits for a quarter-second and then starts going in a more fluid mo…
I must be missing something because it doesn’t seem like ‘DAS’ needs such a technical name. Isn’t it just ‘pushing the D pad the direction you want the piece to go, then letting go when it gets there’?
DAS is probably shorter than anything most people could come up with to describe the style. Do you think your own description: 'pushing the D pad direction you want the piece to go, then letting go when it gets there' is a better way to communicate?
Almost any sufficiently advanced community will develop jargon that those outside it find confusing or lackluster.
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
CRTs have better refresh characteristics at the same refresh rate, which is relevant to NES Tetris because it runs at a fixed 60.1Hz (slightly faster than NTSC). But LCDs are available with higher refresh rate than CRTs, so if the software supports it you can get lower average latency on an LCD.
Do the display controllers for LCDs not wait for an entire frame to be written, so it can display it at once?
There are LCDs with a refresh rate more than double 60Hz, so even with entire frames worth of latency they could still be faster than a 60Hz CRT
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do the display controllers for LCDs not wait for an entire frame to be written, so it can display it at once?
There are LCDs with a refresh rate more than double 60Hz, so even with entire frames worth of latency they could still be faster than a 60Hz CRT
The CRT's electron beam gets to "write" the video data onto the phosphor in real-time, as the analog signal comes off the wire.
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
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Man I would change your font, that is super difficult to read as large blocks of text.
Text looks normal to me. What's the issue?
The default font-family for that page is cursive, you see during the FOUC (before the webfont loads). Maybe the user has web fonts disabled?
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#107This guy is like Neo from The Matrix
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#108Been “solved” via playing forever, https://harddrop.com/wiki/Playing_forever#:~:text=If%20you%2....
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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A comment is just as valid as contributing to a conversation as a video.
The video is the topic of conversation, because it is a record of an achievement. A lowbrow dismissal of that achievement is, as you say, a valid contribution to a conversation about the video. But I would not put the achievement and the lowbrow dismissal on a level as you have suggested.
And for whatever it's worth, my kneejerk dismissal of the lowbrow dismissal is just as valid a contribution to the conversation. So, good day to you.
Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
#110The game is beaten IMO when you beat level 255 and rollover back to 0 avoiding any position that would result in a crash before then.
The video points this out as a potential future goal, and it outlines what would be required to actually accomplish it.
The definition of "beating" the game is simply a convention.