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Title: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: councilface on October 29, 2007, 06:06:15 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo&feature=bz301 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo&feature=bz301)

 :cheers:
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: Level42 on October 29, 2007, 06:10:48 pm
That's not playing a game.

Looks like he memorized every next brick and where to put it. The randomizer on this machine sucks....
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: NoOne=NBA= on October 29, 2007, 06:56:39 pm
I can't even WATCH the game that fast, much less play it.
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: Kremmit on October 30, 2007, 02:30:23 am
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.  :dizzy:
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: councilface on October 30, 2007, 04:55:03 am
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
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: Thenasty on October 30, 2007, 01:15:34 pm
I wish it was me  :hissy:
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: Agent Davis on October 30, 2007, 06:39:35 pm
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.
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: brandon on October 31, 2007, 12:01:33 am
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 :)
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: councilface on October 31, 2007, 10:02:29 am
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
Title: Re: OMG!! Tetris Grandmaster!!
Post by: Glaine on November 01, 2007, 12:15:43 pm
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.