Infected with the tetris virus

[segfaultii]

I am reading the forums for a while now and I am hooked on Tetris. So far I have played Tetra Blocks, Tetris Zone and some tgm. After turning the internet upside down and shaking it a lot tgm2 and tgm2+ fell out, which even run on mame++. However they don't run as you would expect, sound stuttering and slow line-break are disrupting the game experience. DDEmeMame works somewhat too but setting it up is impossible, the UI is in japanese. Is there a way to get the most out of this?


I also got Hebrois with the most recent patch, the program is in japanese though and I can't read any of it. No way to set it up this way, is there an english client? I somewhat doubt that but who knows :)


Having the original Arcade cabinet would pretty much be the ultimate thing but I guess an Xbox360 with tgm:ace is a lot cheaper. Too bad the rest of the world is being left out of the tetris pleasure.


edit: ok I have understood Hebrois now and it works wonderfully. ONE thing bugs me though, is it possible to mod the Sound?

edit2: for_english_users.txt holds all the answers. Doh.

[lee n]

I also got Hebrois with the most recent patch, the program is in japanese though and I can't read any of it. No way to set it up this way, is there an english client? I somewhat doubt that but who knows http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif


Open heboris.ini and..


// English mode (Hide japanese text in game)
// 0=OFF, 1=ON
english = 1;

[Rosti LFC]

tgm2 and tgm2+ fell out, which even run on mame++. However they don't run as you would expect, sound stuttering and slow line-break are disrupting the game experience... ...Is there a way to get the most out of this?


I have no problems running TGM2+ on Mame++ (version 0.118). However, it is notoriously draining on PC resources, so you might want to try closing all background programs while you're running it.

[segfaultii]

Thanks, after setting the thread priority to 1 the game runs smooth http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

The problem I have with Heboris is this:

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On the first two you can see that there is a strange shadow on the blocks, no matter what kind of graphic. How can I fix this?


The third is obvious, with a setup dialog like that trying to fix anything is hard http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

[lee n]

disable_giji3D = 0;

Change that value to 4 to remove the shadows..


and don't bother with the setup dialog, I think that's a leftover from the original Heboris. All important options are either handled in the .ini file or directly in the game.

[DIGITAL]

Haha, am I the only one that's not bothered by the 3d imitation?


And yeah, the setup utility is obsolete once you install the unofficial expansion.

[lee n]

Haha, am I the only one that's not bothered by the 3d imitation?


Not at all.. I play with it on.

[sixb0nes]

If you're still interested in tgm2, you could try find the special hacked version of mame which removes the background, but supposedly gives a big performance increase. I think it's called ``PsiMAME'' which can be found on the googs.

[Rosti LFC]

If you're still interested in tgm2, you could try find the special hacked version of mame which removes the background, but supposedly gives a big performance increase. I think it's called ``PsiMAME'' which can be found on the googs.

Yeah, removing the backgrounds would probably give a pretty big boost in performance.


Another thing that might help is running it fullscreen, rather than in a window.

[caffeine]

i don't like the shadowy thing either. seems dumb.

[cdsboy]

The psiMame version of tgm2 doesn't give me a big noticeable increase. I however could be blind ; )