OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!

[councilface]

 

[Level42]

That's not playing a game.

Looks like he memorized every next brick and where to put it. The randomizer on this machine sucks....

[NoOne=NBA=]

I can't even WATCH the game that fast, much less play it.

[Kremmit]

That's not playing a game.

Looks like he memorized every next brick and where to put it. The randomizer on this machine sucks....

It looks like that, but I don't think so.  I just can't imagine anybody would make a Tetris machine with no randomizer. 

But, there's a 3-piece preview and a "Hold" box up at the top of the screen.  His mind is playing 3 pieces ahead of his hands, with the ability to skip a piece by putting it in the hold box and call it out when he gets a better spot for it.  I think that's how he does it.  Still fricking incredible, I'm a good Tetris player and I could never, ever do that. 

[councilface]

That's not playing a game.

Looks like he memorized every next brick and where to put it. The randomizer on this machine sucks....

The randomizer maintains a history of the 4 most recent given pieces.
Every time it needs to generate a piece, it will impartially choose one of the 7 pieces.
The randomizer checks if this chosen piece is found in the history. If it isn't, this piece is given. If it is, it picks one of the 7 pieces randomly again. If after a certain number of attempts (4 for TGM, 6 for its sequels), it still does not succeed at finding a piece outside the history, it settles for this recently given piece

[Thenasty]

I wish it was me 

[Agent Davis]

That was sick!

The question we should all be asking (I'm sure some of you know)....  What controls does this panel use?  It takes unbelievable precision to do that and I'd love to know what types of controls this uses.  It looks like one of those small japanese cabinets.

[brandon]

I believe those are Sanwa controls... never used them so I'm not sure how they compare to Happs.  This guy seems to be doing quite well with them though

[councilface]

I believe those are Sanwa controls... never used them so I'm not sure how they compare to Happs.  This guy seems to be doing quite well with them though

Look like standard sanwas to me too mate

[Glaine]

Lots of candy cab fans over at www.killercabs.com if you want to read more about those kindsa controls, especially check out the gallery subforum, awesome pics. I don't have an account there, I just read it a lot.