2nd Western TGM3: Arcade Infinity in Rowland Heights, CA

[Kitaru]

Installed two days ago, apparently.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread. ... 05460#3633 (http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?p=6805460#3633)

[km2]

;>

[mat]

wow. awesome.

[K]

long time i didn't visited shoryuken but awesome logo idea

http://forums.shoryuken.com/aria09/misc/srk-logo.png

[Meroigo]

Congratulations, Rowland Heights!

[KevinDDR]

Wow...although it was not too surprising.

Kitaru when I come down to Cali we'll make a roadtrip all the way down to AI and we can destroy all the machine records.

[muf]

Kitaru when I come down to Cali we'll make a roadtrip all the way down to AI and we can destroy all the machine records.
What if the high scores weren't reset and this happens to be one of the Ti machines that kan, jin8 and zab have played on... http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif

[lee n]

I approve this trend.

[colour_thief]

Too bad none of us are local! Here's hoping it does well regardless and some new people find their way here.

[m:)]

no TC posters in LA?
who's closet? that's about 5 hours from me. they need on in Arizona!
imagine a world where all arcades have Ti
world peace would certainly follow

[Blink]

its about an hour from me, i guess i can record a video if i ever go visit and post it on youtube. not anytime soon though, busy with school and finals.

[Ray Ayanami]

I say Kitaru, me, and the other California TGM players make a road trip to AI and prove why what most perceive as yet another Tetris game deserves to stay in an American arcade.

[mikehaggar]

I'm 45 minutes from there! I'll definitely go there over summer break.

[K]

one Hour is not that bad !

[Amnesia]

yes but one hour or not..Blink sucks at TGM..

http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif

[Zircean]

Anyone up for dragging Digi there? I know he's too cool for legitimate TGM games, but we need to make sure he's still playing, at least O.o

[Meroigo]

Zircean: He is still playing. This was uploaded today on his account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc4CRgJNEkA He's just too cool for us on the forums and IRC, Skype etc... Ridiculous I say. I am disappointed in him for just disappearing without any words... :S

[rednefed]

It's too bad I'd suck hard with a stick, otherwise I'd be down for a road trip to put at least an m6 in the rankings. Surely the hiscore is worse than that, right? Why couldn't this have been in the Bay Area?!

(I am in Europe, btw, for a month, so no tetris for me)

[Ray Ayanami]

So I hear AI regularrs are warming up to TGM3, but think Classic Rule is a load of crap.

All the more reason to one day roadtrip down to AI and evangelize ARS. ~_^

[colour_thief]

So TC's mikehaggar went down there recently. Ti is set up in a lovely candycab with sanwa sticks and buttons. The sticks were set to 8-way, but he made them change it to 4-way. Now everything is perfect if anyone else wants to make the trip.

He's going to make another trip soon... He said he'll take some pictures too.

[mikehaggar]

I went again and spent the whole day playing Ti. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Ti is now in a Megalo cab (one of these):
http://www.system16.com/cabinets/megal0410.jpg


The reason this is bad is because this cab has a widescreen monitor, and so the game graphics are stretched to fit the screen. Though it looks funny, it's not so bad and you get used to it after playing a handful of times.

However, the good news is that now the game is just 25 cents instead of 50 cents!! Just a quarter to play Ti, a complete steal. The sad thing is though that they probably lowered it to 25 because hardly anybody plays it. I hope people start playing it, or it may be removed in the near future.

I'll post some pics soon.

[Ray Ayanami]

Ew, 4:3 on a 16:9.

Are the sticks 4-way and all?

[mikehaggar]

oh yes, they definitely are 4 way. I know the stretched graphics are funny, but honestly, you get used to it pretty quick. And once you do, you have Ti with japanese controls for 25 goddamn cents (about 1/4 what it costs in most Japanese arcades). I'll take that any day!!

[Anonymous]

it's back in the old cab, yay!

[TWF]

I'm down in LA for the week visiting my grandparents so I managed to make a trip to AI today. Pics commence.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2817/img2131vn.jpg
I don't recognize this kind of cabinet. It had some sort of scrolling LED display in place of a normal marquee. Regardless, the screen was beautiful and the controls were in perfect condition.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7434/img2140k.jpg
Two games, two m3's.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4422/img2137w.jpg
Classic Master ST's. All mine!

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4206/img2141u.jpg
Apparently people do prefer World down here. It's a shame.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/74/img2136ch.jpg
World Master ST's.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5424/img2139f.jpg
New Shirase record for me!

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/727/img2138uj.jpg
Classic Shirase ST's.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2059/img2142.jpg
Proof that you can actually get section REGRET's in Shirase!

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5335/img2144j.jpg
Well, Los Angeles County, I really don't know what to say. I'm very disappointed in these World Shirase section times.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2646/img2147t.jpg
Classic Sakura.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/785/img2148b.jpg
World Sakura.

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6405/img2146d.jpg
I managed to get in a pretty bad game of Classic Easy.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4283/img2145p.jpg
And to round it out, I took these names on the World Easy record screen. Seattle-Tacoma TGM represent! B)

[colour_thief]

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2059/img2142.jpg

I mean no disrespect to the players, but I couldn't help but LOL at this picture. I'd expect at least S5... Come on guys... You can do it...

Also a friend tells me AI may soon be no more. :( Let's hope this rumour is unfounded.

[TWF]

Yeah, I cracked up when I saw that ranking page, too.

[Rosti LFC]

TWF, you should have played some World Shirase and beaten those scores. It wouldn't be that hard.

[TWF]

In hindsight it would have been cool, but my distaste for world was too great at the time.

[Ai]

Nice coverage TWF and good job. ^^

On the Sakura leaderboard when it says 100% clear is that the same as the ALL (including extra stages) displayed during play?

[KevinDDR]

I believe it's not. ALL is more than 15 stages anyway. IIRC, Clear is the percentage of levels that you successfully completed. You can either fail a stage's time limit or skip out of it, and that would cause your percentage to drop. Additionally, you could have 100% clear and then not get the EX stages.

[Ai]

Totally missed the number of stages played shown on the leaderboard. ALL is the 20 regular stages plus 7 EX stages. ^^;

[KevinDDR]

TGM3 is gone from AI. Sad. Replaced by Monkey Ball. I went down there yesterday to confirm this.

[mikehaggar]

The owner told me that the motherboard broke (or something like that) and that it will be back soon.

Monkey Ball did not replace it, where'd you get that idea? Monkey Ball just happens to be a new game that they attained (it's not even in the same place that Ti used to be).

BTW, what were you doing in LA Kevin????

[KevinDDR]

Bah, someone told me that! What a fool I was to believe people!

Anyway yeah I was in LA during my California college tour thing I have been doing for the last two weeks. Mostly in Norcal but I had a couple of days in LA. I would have loved to have met up with you but I honestly had a hard time even cramming in my trip over to AI.

[a1r gear]

i checked it today too and its still down sadly.

[SWR]

Terror Instinct is back at AI of Rowland heights. All the scores and user accounts are still there too, so no worries to anyone.
Got S7 on master and S4 on Shirase today. Feels good man. ^^

[colour_thief]

That's great to hear! Nice to know it's back in working condition.

[mikehaggar]

awesome! i can't wait to go back! i was about to call them tomorrow to ask, but you saved me the trouble!

[KevinDDR]

Would someone who lives in the area mind taking a full set of pictures of every records screen? I would appreciate that!

[SWR]

Gahh. I was there last night too. I think all the scores are the same though. Next time I go, I'll have a camera handy.

Also, got S5 on Shirase last night and S7 on Master. Need to speed up my Shirase timing. I suck at handling the arcade joystick.

[SWR]

Went to AI and got some scores. I need to shrink the pics, until I do, here is the collection on Images Hack (http://img198.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=dscn0011d.jpg).

[TWF]

Hahaha... SEA TAC TGM continues.

[colour_thief]

That was interesting, thanks for sharing SWR! You definitely look like the best local Classic player, so congrats!

[SWR]

Thanks. I'm not sure if it's noticeable, but does it feel like Shirase is easier on the actual TGM3 than on mimics like Texmaster or Nullpomino, or am I just crazy?

[KevinDDR]

It's actually harder than Texmaster due to garbage inaccuracies.

[Zaphod77]

Perhaps, but its' more responsive.

WHen you play on a laptop, there's usually a bit of LCD lag. PLaying on a crt in arcade, ti's all removed.

You also remove all pc converter lag, and all the lag programmed into the PC game itself. I've found Texmaster to be somewhat laggy at the higher speeds.

Whearas in the arcade itself, there's no lag at all. That helps. a LOT.

[KevinDDR]

Maybe on your laptop. I play Texmaster on a desktop using a CRT and a native USB stick and there's no lag. Turn Vsync on/off, see if that helps you. As for Ti, there is actually a small amount of lag induced by the JVS I/O board or the JAMMA/JVS converter, whichever applies to you. Ti also actually drops below 60fps when two or more line clear effects are on screen at once, which is kind of funky.

[SWR]

I must be crazy then. I oddly perform better on the arcade version. Oh well, that's what counts most.

[colour_thief]

Ti also actually drops below 60fps when two or more line clear effects are on screen at once, which is kind of funky.

I don't think it's that bad. I don't think anything within the game is bad enough to slow it down. But if the system has just booted, various Windows whatevers happening in the background can slow it down.

[SWR]

Got to level 915 with all cools. Unfortunately, I do not know what my final grade was because it was during an exam (S6 which I obviously achieved). My guess would put me anywhere from m3 to m6 give or take. I'm scared to get to the credit roll. I can do fine on vanish I'm sure, but the invisible roll will kill me. D:

[Ray Ayanami]

Anyone here (preferably a Classic Rule user) wanna pimp the Ti machine when it arrives at AX (courtesy of AX and AI pulling some strings)? I'd hate to hear "oh, no one played TGM3 except those people whose only experience with Tetris is Game Boy."

[TWF]

I don't think it's that bad. I don't think anything within the game is bad enough to slow it down. But if the system has just booted, various Windows whatevers happening in the background can slow it down.

Yeech, this is why windows is a terrible choice for this sort of embedded implementation... :rolleyes:

[SWR]

I played TGM3 at AX all weekend. Must have spent $80 on it. Got m5 a few times and finally reached the credit roll. (vanish and I failed due to being clumsy at the start)

[KevinDDR]

Didn't happen to run into any TC members, did you? :P

[Samael]

I doubt he would have-- I mean, why would someone randomly be in SoCal? BI

[SWR]

I actually did. But I didn't catch her name. We played a few rounds. It was aright. Nice to see someone get to at least the S-range and manage cools on classic.

[KevinDDR]

See above.

[a1r gear]

I was at AX for 4 days playing on TGM3. The competition was lackluster and boring.

[SWR]

a1r. Where you the Team Rocket cosplayer?

[a1r gear]

nope. I was the asian with the no rim glasses. Last day i wore a blue hat. I don't think that would help though. But I was really surprised they even had Tetris here at AX. First time ever.

[SWR]

I think I saw you a few times. You were playing World rule weren't you?

[KevinDDR]

You were playing World rule weren't you?
http://bemaniso.ws/static/common/smileys/emot-iceburn.gif

[Samael]

Oh snap. And SWR- are you joking or did you really not catch my name? I'm the one who was playing there (with you a few times, nonetheless) :v

[SWR]

I'm sorry. You caught me on a day of no sleep and I have trouble hearing. It's not that I forgot, I just couldn't hear. My bad. =(

[a1r gear]

lol yup, i was always picking world rule.

[mikehaggar]

I'm heading down to Ai soon for a session, and since I see many people here actually play there, does anybody want to meet me for a Ti session? I'll probably be there for several hours as it's a bit of a trip for me and I want to make it worth my while...I'm thinking of going there Monday or Tuesday evening probably (I can't make it there over the weekend unfortunately).

Who wants to play?

[SWR]

I usually go on weekends. How good are you? I'm interested in meeting people better than me or who are good with world.

[colour_thief]

He's not as good as you, but he's a solid Classic player. He can get to 999 in TAP Master for reference. I'm not sure exactly what his Ti records are but he's a ways away from clearing 999 there.

[SWR]

Ah. Well he could school me in TAP then. I've never quite mastered the original ARS style. I need my I-kicks. D:
Good news, been getting Silver SKs on 600-700 now. Getting better. 8)

[mikehaggar]

I'm not very good at Ti since I hardly play it...TAP is my game of choice at the moment. I think I could get close to clearing Ti now though...i mean, isn't it just TAP's speed curve with extra wall kicks to help? It does have cools and regrets, but besides that is there a difference in terms of completion?

I haven't played Ti in a while, but I remember I used to get to around the same level as TAP....it's just that when you saw me play last CT I couldn't get far in TAP either...

[Kitaru]

i mean, isn't it just TAP's speed curve with extra wall kicks to help?
Haha no, it gets quite a bit faster. See http://tetrisconcept.net/wiki/TGM3#Speed_Timings vs. http://tetrisconcept.net/wiki/TAP#Speed_Timings_2

[mikehaggar]

actually, i'm right...if you don't get any cools, it's the exact same speed as TAP all the way through

[Kitaru]

Yes, granted. However, the circumstances under which you would earn no Cools and still clear are very slim.

[mikehaggar]

I see now that getting just two cools (even if undone by a regret or two in those sections) would result in having to survive at least a section of something comparable to 500+ in T.A. Death. That will be tricky, seeing as how I've never survived past the 400 section in T.A. Death.

I guess I do have a long ways to go. I dunno though...the extra line wallkicks are DAMN helpful, though I'm not good enough at Ti to utilize hold and several piece previews at all...

[SWR]

You get used to it after some time.
Regardless, the speed timing is pretty hardcore (IMO). For me, it's not the lock delay, but the ARE which seems to screw me up.

[Rosti LFC]

I see now that getting just two cools (even if undone by a regret or two in those sections) would result in having to survive at least a section of something comparable to 500+ in T.A. Death. That will be tricky, seeing as how I've never survived past the 400 section in T.A. Death.


It's less tricky when you've got three previews, hold and floorkicks.

[SWR]

Going to AI tonight. I don't remember who brought it up, but someone wanted to come by on a weekday. Not sure if it's too late, but thought I'd bring it up.

[a1r gear]

I went yesterday afternoon in the blazing heat.

[SWR]

hahaha no way! I was there! 7 to midnight

[mikehaggar]

couldn't make it after all....i hope to go soon but have shit i'm working on at home.

[SWR]

Yuck. I don't play for two weeks and I miss two cools. I'm getting out of practice! I can't even handle the level 1200 speeds as well anymore. I got S9 as my highest, so at least I won't be downgraded for a while.

[Ray Ayanami]

With the possibility of AI shutting down in the near-future, I just wonder where Ti is going to go if it does happen. bring it to SVGL or MGL plz

[SWR]

I will buy it. Srsly, I want that machine! That and DDR Extreme

[mikehaggar]

Going today at around 5 or 6....can anybody meet me for some tetris good times?

[mikehaggar]

Ai is closed, last weekend was the last one.... :'(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdKSyNAgx0

[SWR]

Yeah. I would've brought it up, but the thread got buried. I'm very sad and not too sure whatever happened to my Ti machine. Yes, MY Ti machine. hehe ;_;

[mikehaggar]

I'm very sad and not too sure whatever happened to my Ti machine.
Apparently, one of the people close to the owner purchased the machine...he may have been an employee...

[SWR]

I hate my life. I bugged the owner so many times telling him I'd buy it. I wonder who got it. Surely it's someone in the community. >.>

[mikehaggar]

I used to bug him all the time for the same thing. I don't think it's anybody in the community....hopefully he'll become someone in the community.