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"Good stuff comin'..."
This is it, the reason I got a Game Boy Player (entry 86) for the GC. One of the very first GB games I got way back for my brick-shaped GB. I almost like this version better than the NES version, maybe just out of pocket nostalgia. The music is fantastic and the gameplay is spot-on. I wish it saved high-scores but I suppose a battery would probably have died by now anyway. Great version of the game--later ones, to my knowledge, don't have these original "Russian" tunes, which nearly make the game all by themselves as far as I'm concerned. |
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| | | | I checked out the diffs of the JP GB Tetris, which goes for slightly less on eBay: doesn't appear to be much except the first run of 25K carts was a slightly earlier version--and has different Type-A music, not the classic Russian folk music type thing! It's called the "1.0" version--vs the later, 1.1 version--and usually lists for about 4.5x the price--like, $60. This other person's video shows some of the differences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF0TcQnmynw . |
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66336 pts--oh, I got to level 11, I don't think I'd realized that.
It just isn't Tetris for me without that A-Type music, which is a huge part of why I wasn't happy until I got this version I guess. Of course, there's a copyright claim on it that makes any video posted of it share the ad revenue with the copyright holder. Oh well, I guess I can't blame them (much : P), it's a worthwhile tune! ... The capitalist running dogs! ^P ^
The name of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov--or, that's how his Russian name is rendered in Roman characters these days--is spelled "Alexey Pazhitnov" on the game's start-up screen. |
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| | | Tulpa says of the spelling of the creator's name https://selectbutton.net/t/games-you-played-today-vi-iii-in-the-west/13438/1217 :
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Neither is quite a standard romanization but romanization of cyrillic tends to be up to the preference of the person more often than not (my own real name is not romanized in the standard way because the standard would be too confusing for english speakers)
Алексей Пажитнов in standard romanization would be Aleksei Pazhitnov, so I'm sure he went with Alexey Pajitnov when he immigrated to the US simply because english speakers are more likely to get the pronunciation close enough with that spelling.
the zh/j is the same sound as the 'g' in genre'
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I gotta remember to set SGB2 input to Type A! Otherwise the rotation buttons are backwards from how they are in my head. = o
71480 pts--well, better than last time. ^ _^
I like a lotta these weird SGB2 palettes but most of them are slightly washed out, and I was starting to feel a bit of eyestrain--gotta remember to go into the color mode and up their contrast a little. |
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NES and GB Tetris in Mesen with "modern Tetris" romhacks:
Nostalgic by @Candiman6502 : https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7594/
Hard Drop by @gridbugstv : https://www.gridbugs.org/reverse-engineering-nes-tetris-to-add-hard-drop/
Excel by Controllerhead: https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/6536/
Rosy Retrospection by Ospin: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/
0:58 - NES Hard Drop
3:51 - NES Hard Drop w/o ghost
5:08 - NES Excel
13:45 - NES Excel & Hard Drop
18:10 - NES
19:02 - NES Excel (2)
19:48 - NES Nostalgic
21:44 - NES (2)
22:25 - NES Nostalgic (2)
24:10 - NES Excel & Nostalgic
28:24 - NES Nostalgic (3)
31:46 - NES Nostalgic & Excel
35:11 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (2)
36:11 - NES (3)
36:44 - NES Excel (3)
37:25 - NES Excel & Hard Drop
39:00 - NES Excel (4)
41:23 - GB Rosy Retrospection
49:15 - NES Nostalgic (4)
51:27 - GB Rosy Retrospection DX
55:09 - GB Rosy Retrospection (2)
56:19 - GB
57:09 - GB Rosy Retrospection (3)
57:45 - NES (4)
58:18 - GB Rosy Retrospection (4)
58:43 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (3)
1:01:29 - SGB2 Rosy Retrospection
1:05:47 - GB Rosy Retrospection (5) Mesen colors
1:18:16 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (4)
1:26:56 - NES "Floating" patcher
1:28:02 - NES Hard Drop & Nostalgic
1:29:44 - NES Nostalgic & Hard Drop
1:32:05 - NES Excel & Nostalgic & Hard Drop
1:32:41 - NES Nostalgic (5)
1:40:35 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (5)
1:59:39 - GB Rosy Retrospection (5)
2:14:01 - GB (2)
2:17:13 - GB Mesen inverted etc colors
2:25:01 - NES Nostalgic (6)
2:35:25 - GB Rosy Retrospection (6)
2:42:05 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (6)
2:49:02 - GB Rosy Retrospection (7)
2:51:43 - NES Excel & Nostalgic (7)
2:59:51 - NES Nostalgic (6)
I'd love for someone to make a Rosy Retrospection type romhack--you know, bringing in the modern Tetris gameplay, basically--for NES Tetris--'cause the bright "inverted" (compared to the NES version) background of GB Tetris scorches my eyeballs, it turns out. ; D (A day after recording I finally realized that in Mesen I could just lower the brightness of the BG color--making it a nice medium mauve, for instance--and that seemed to solve the eyeball scorching. ^ _^ More on that two videos from now!)
And I can't handle the twitchy control of Excel, or the not-toned-down Tetris strobe effect of Hard Drop--which isn't compatible with the Nostalgic romhack--so I'll be sticking to regular ol' NES Tetris, with Nostalgic for reducing the flashing a bit, and just the nice cool look.
(Also after recording, I went and tried Tetris the Grand Master 4--but it wasn't doing anything for me and my decidedly non-grandmaster ability that NES Tetris doesn't do, and the graphics and sounds weren't as much my thing--so again, it's still gotta be NES Tetris for me, apparently! ^ _^) (Anyway, see next video for my experience with TGM4. ; D) |
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In Mesen, with the Rosy Retrospection modernization romhack and a color tweak so the BG color doesn't scorch my eyeballs!
0:48 - Mesen default colors
3:53 - mauve
Modern Tetris play with wall kick and super rotation system and ghost piece and all that is easier than the less forgiving "classic" Tetris of the NES--but with the faster pace given by hard drop and so forth, it's also kinda more stressful! ; D But it plays really well and I can't seem to shake it as a fun and viable alternate flavor to the more chill NES Tetris. And you can play it with GB Tetris aesthetics--which I don't like quite as much as NES Tetris, but which I still like way more than any other Tetris ^ _^--with the Rosy Retribution romhack. And although GB Tetris' light background was kinda burning my eyeballs with prolonged play, I finally realized that if I switch BG color 1 to a sort of medium color, like this mauve (7A7FFF), then my eyeballs SEEM--so far--pretty okay with it (the default grey GB palette in Mesen didn't see too bad, either, although maybe with time my eyes might find it slightly more work to focus on its somewhat faded out tones, I dunno; I'd been using the "high contrast" palette 8o).
Anyway I for now it looks like GB Tetris with the Rosy Retribution romhack and a palette tweak in Mesen will be my modern Tetris flavor. : ) |
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