[TAP] Death

[Kitaru]

Holy shit your style is fucking crazy! 8D Sick overhangs man, I love it.

Congratulations, and enjoy your day of infinite happiness!

[COL]

Thank you dudes, for all support and kind words.
I also thank this forum for being an amazing source of information, without it things would have been different; haven't you noticed the overall community level is improving?

[cyberguile]

hell, I hoped we would have achieved it at the stunfest :)
congrats, I hope to be next (even though I only play tgm1 now)

[Amnesia]

If you do it, France will become the 2nd world nation of DEATH mode. Which would mean a lot of thing...

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4056/42011tapdeath664.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg1F-SdbZEk

yeahhhhh!!!

Death 500, you are nothing to me.

[Goplat]

Finally made it to 500! :D
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1355/0047i.png (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/0047i.png/)
I had some great luck during the 300-399 section, managed to get almost all the way down to the bottom... which I really needed since in 400+ the pieces seem totally out of my control, it's like they just move wherever the heck they want to move :o

[steadshot]

http://i.imgur.com/NX3yl.jpg

Just a teaser, next post will be M for sure ;)

[clincher]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10032635/0077.png

3:26, 3:28, 3:26 and 3:25 so far

[Key]

0.18 seconds away from breaking the torikan!

[necrosaro]

http://i.imgur.com/XdTjJ.png
finally hit 500! now to get consistently faster...

[Key]

New record for TA Death: level 434 @ 3:31:68. It was the first time I reached level 400 after the Carnival of Death. I was able to take a better control at 300-level even though the field got messy at times. Sometimes I used manual lock, so it was kinda cool. 400-level was very messy, but I'm getting closer to level 500!

80

[Kitaru]

Hey hey, good stuff. Keep it up! :D

[Key]

Thanks, you too!

[steadshot]

As promised: ;)

http://i.imgur.com/KJ3t7l.jpg

Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtWZZwK_1w)

[TWF]

Hey, you finally got it! Enjoy your day of happiness. Your style is clearly developing. Something I notice in your video is that you hesitate a lot with each piece in the first 3 sections -- to get faster you should work on making faster placement decisions and pre-charging DAS more during ARE. Nonetheless a really nice clean game and a great first M.

[steadshot]

Thanks!

I'm working on getting faster and increasing the M rate ;)
The first three sections are my main problem, like you said, I think this will look much better in a month.

[Kitaru]

Confirmed. 999 @ 6:20:58 on stick. Had a 991 on my first attempt, and I think the 999 was my fourth or so.

[Qlex]

Congrats man!

I'm eagerly waiting for the videos!

[Kitaru]

Haha, I don't take video in the arcade. :< I don't have a good way to set up a camera there right now and there is no video capture system.

[muf]

there is no video capture system.
We can build it. We have the technology.

[Kitaru]

Yeah, perhaps. I haven't bothered Eric about that sort of thing yet since I know he's busy, but I might ask about the feasibility of video out or controller ports at some point. It all depends on whether he'd like to spend time on such a project.

[rednefed]

Not a new PR, but:
GM, 999 @ 6:26:55 with gold SK. (Okay, the gold SK is a personal best)

[tet2brik]

Here is the result of my first session on TAP Death !

I can't believe that i was unable to get level 300 ! Shame on me :oops:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8323/0000at.png

But i am confident !

Controls have been improved in TGM2, right ? It seems that tetromino "slide" better than in TGM...or maybe i feel that because i have change my emulator :confused:

[COL]

I can't believe that i was unable to get level 300 ! Shame on me :oops:

This is NOT easy!
keep practising!
273 isn't bad especially if you haven't ever played at death speed before.

[Amnesia]

Controls have been improved in TGM2, right ? It seems that tetromino "slide" better than in TGM...or maybe i feel that because i have change my emulator

1: the ratio lock delay/ARE makes thing easier and more sympathic on TAP.
2 : the input lag is really shorter on this MAME with TAP than the other you played for TGM1.

[SYN7HOR]

tet2brik: Dude, you improve insanely fast. It'll be interesting to see how you'll handle death 300+, which I have struggled with for like a year now...

May I ask how old you are?

[tet2brik]

I'm 30 and i know tetris since i have a gameboy, 20 years ago (like most people of my generation !).

ahhhh i remember those gameboy years playing great games like "double dragon 2", "zelda Link's Awakening", and of course Tetris ! :p

[nicofromtokyo]

That's a good news for the 30 years old-like guys like me, our brain is still efficient even after 30 :).

How long do you play per day? You have maybe a secret tech to teach us? :)

[SYN7HOR]

That sucks for me. I was hoping you were like 16 or so. I'm 34 and also had a Game boy. Got mine on Christmas of '88 I think, so that's 23 years soon... damn...I never really liked Tetris before I discovered TGM though. Arcadestick+ARS+20G is where it's at.

[tet2brik]

Level 300 at least !
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1203/0003rd.png
Ok it's not incredible but i used a technic which can be useful to you, newbie like me :p

Yesterday, i've read the post from EDO "TGM2:TAP, TGM2:TA and TGM mame cheats". So i used cheats just to see what's level 300 in TA Death.
The first time, i tried level 300, i thought that the gaming was bugging as the speed was so high O_O

Today, i've trained again in level 300 using cheat : my mission was just to clear 1 or 2 lines which i was able to do after 3 or 4 games.
After that, i play T.A Death with no cheat and i was able to get level 311 very easily for my first play.
It seemed that playing in very high speed "train" my brain :confused:

By the way, now that i've tried level 300, i must say that you guys who are Master or GM are just cyborgs :D

[Edo]

Yesterday, i've read the post from EDO "TGM2:TAP, TGM2:TA and TGM mame cheats". So i used cheats just to see what's level 300 in TA Death.
That thread is really old; I don't think I've updated it in years. Also, just so you know: from about mame version 0.126 onwards, the internal cheat engine has been completely recoded, so the old cheat format no longer works. If you want to use a recent version of mame, you'll need an .xml cheat file instead of the older .dat file. There's a version floating around somewhere that I wrote about half a year ago, but again, it's not been updated since.

[nicofromtokyo]

Ow, I didn't know about this method. I am using MAMEUI32 0.141, is there any possibility to use a cheat mode, on TGM or TAP ??

[Edo]

Download this (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8467027/cheat.zip), and place it in your MAMEUI32 folder, alongside your MAMEUI32.exe. Make sure you go to
Options--->Default Game Options...--->Miscellaneous
and tick the box that says "Enable game cheats". Then when you're playing, press the TAB key and go to the Cheat menu. So far, I've only written cheats for tgm2p in the new .xml format. Hopefully this will be enough to keep you going for a while.

If you want to practice Death mode at higher speeds, because of the level 500 torikan, trying to set the level above 500 doesn't quite work right. You might like to try using the Start at Level 499 cheat instead, and just play on from there.

[nicofromtokyo]

Thank you so much for the tips, it works perfectly.

I tried to play Death at 500... And I understood one thing... I will do my best to become GM at TGM... and give up TAP :D

Btw, is there something similar to TGM? Is is possible to play TGM at Death speed?

[Ai]

I tried to play Death at 500... And I understood one thing... I will do my best to become GM at TGM... and give up TAP :D


Clearing TAP Master isn't so difficult once you can clear TGM. You only need to get a little used to Death 300 speed.


Btw, is there something similar to TGM? Is is possible to play TGM at Death speed?
There are cheats for TGM, but only for very old MAME versions. 20G in TGM is constantly the same speed. You can use the 20G code (press down 8 times followed by C,B,A) to play 999 levels of 20G which is a nice challenge. ^^

[Samael]

http://ompldr.org/vOTdmZA
:3

[Ai]

Woah, congratulations!! I hope there's a video and nice time. Was that your first time reaching level 500? ^^

[Samael]

Woah, congratulations!! I hope there's a video and nice time. Was that your first time reaching level 500? ^^
Thanks! :D There is no video, sadly because I can't follow easy instructions for recording q_q
It was my first time reaching 500. I think I had a 49x run before that I didn't post, though.
I'm hopefully going to play a better game and get a video in the (near?) future. I can hopefully learn to successfully manlock in 300s to get an even better time :3

[nicofromtokyo]

http://dp14110399.lolipop.jp/TGM/deat310.jpeg


I am playing exclusively 20G in TGM these last weeks to improve my stacking abilities, but need to relax sometimes by playing some Death games. Thanks for the cheat mode, I am now able to train the speed of Lvl. 300, so I guess it allowed me to reach that level today.

But for the moment, I need to keep on concentrating on that f<3<3<3<3g TGM's 20G ! One day GM I shall be!

[K]

http://dp14110399.lolipop.jp/TGM/deat310.jpeg


I am playing exclusively 20G in TGM these last weeks to improve my stacking abilities, but need to relax sometimes by playing some Death games. Thanks for the cheat mode, I am now able to train the speed of Lvl. 300, so I guess it allowed me to reach that level today.

But for the moment, I need to keep on concentrating on that f<3<3<3<3g TGM's 20G ! One day GM I shall be!
Vive la france :biggrin:

[TWF]

small improvement.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1179275/0069.png

[Caithness]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9002997/3-32.png

Seven more seconds to go.

[muf]

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

[COL]

brand new slowmotion death run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0AC1lMytU8)

f****n framerate bug!! It doesn't beat my previous time

[Amnesia]

M rank reached in 2:56, video coming soon.

[Amnesia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMMECsqy4f8

[tet2brik]

M rank reached in 2:56, video coming soon.

Your 300-500 section is very impressive ! ;)

[Amnesia]

My 3rd DEATH GM, I feel better now, I had not performed even one since January.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7955/deathgmrecord.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/deathgmrecord.png/)

and silver SK btw..:$

EDIT : can someome make a video maybe ? from an inp where there are 15-20 min of game before the good one..

[tet2brik]

small improvement :
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4873/0000jr.png

[Amnesia]

So strong..:$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1n5UNnQFM

I can't even select the mode as fast as him ! :biggrin:

[Key]

The last section was truly epic.

[COL]

here's some Kan footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMyTa7qoPg&feature=channel_video_title

O_O

[Amnesia]

Bon moi c´est heeuuu....C´est un ptit peu moins jolie quoi..:$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0_bQkMBYrA

[nicofromtokyo]

With the cheat mode, from 300 to 402.

[an ass]

it only took me a year to improve !!!

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/166897_10150464787193289_771923288_11153676_320540 866_n.jpg?dl=1

[Amnesia]

THE photo :


http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8636/309vh.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/309vh.jpg/)

[KevinDDR]

WTF

[Kitaru]

:sowsuser: :sowsuser: :sowsuser: :sowsuser: :sowsuser:

GODLIKE

[Zircean]

HOLY SHIT :sowsuser:

[Key]

No wayyyy O_O

[TWF]

Stupid good. No video?

[cyberguile]

lol
it's decided, once I've gotten Gm, I'll quit definitively playing this stupid mode :p

[Amnesia]

Have you seen him playing in real ?? he looks quite sympatic actually, with his "beret". Kan confirmed that he is a nice guy.

I could cut a part of a video and show a quick sequence of 309.

[cyberguile]

yup, jago had sent me a video where you could see him play (and answering the phone while in death 300 :p)

edit:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/cyberguile/784.jpg
I will beat you f* game, I swear I will beat you !

[mikehaggar]

500 @ 3:38:26

Gettin' closer!

[tet2brik]

Level 400 for very soon !

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/544/0002nx.png

[nicofromtokyo]

Level 400 for very soon !

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/544/0002nx.png
GL ! FMI, how long do you play per day ?

[tet2brik]

Hi Nico !

I try to play everyday and i always do small sessions (2 or 3 games maximum for each session). My session never exceed 45 min, the more i play the more my skill decrease.
Anyway, my recent improvement appears before 2 weeks without playing TAP (holidays and no computer).

[nicofromtokyo]

Hi Nico !
Anyway, my recent improvement appears before 2 weeks without playing TAP (holidays and no computer).
You mean *after* without playing, maybe ;). Do you manual-lock anywhere in the game ?

When I play to TAP : Death, I usually do 10 games at Lvl.500, then 10 games at Lvl.400, then 10 at 300. It's the best way I found to make improvement ta high speed (Best from 500 : 55, from 400 : 62 :oops:). No way to manual lock after 200 :p.

[DeHackEd]

http://dehacked.2y.net/pcb-death998.png

PCB Death Lv998 in 6:17.40

Oh goddammit...

[Amnesia]

I would not like to be at your place. This is one of the biggest nightmare of TGM. See the positive side : if you had resisted the last section at the bottom of the field you would be GM under 6:10.

[nicofromtokyo]

314 @ 3:19:73

So tired to play TGM... Death may be relaxing sometimes...

[Caithness]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9002997/1more.png

[Kitaru]

omg :o

Keep running 'til death!

[Ai]

Such a shame DeHackEd. I hope you have more luck next time!

Go Caithness! ^^

[an ass]

455 at 3:03 something

gonna be M soon :D

[Kitaru]

ownnnnnnn :D

[cyberguile]

I have finally decided to start a special GM training.
Will post my new record very soon grrrr !

[cyberguile]

24 M ranks today
Death GM, you'll soon be mine :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

[COL]

24 M ranks today
damn.. In how many games?

[cyberguile]

Have played something like 3 hours

[Shuey]

Have played something like 3 hours

Man, I wish I had time like that to practice! :v

[K]

Man, I wish I had time like that to practice! :v

me too

[cyberguile]

I don't have that time usually but yesterday afternoon was free :)

[Caithness]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9002997/M.png

[Kasumi]

Congrats on the torikan break, Caithness!

[cyberguile]

Caithness, now, don't do the same mistake I did, stop playing death mode from 0.
Use edo's cheat, "set level 401, start at level 401, lock level 401" and train train train train on level 401 until you can play as long as 6 minutes. Then, play again from level 0.
I made more progresses this way in 1 month of training than for the last twelve months T_T

[COL]

congrats!

[Ai]

Congrats Caithness!! ^^

pier21 superplay video:

TETRiS THE ABSOLUTE+　Death 04:54 player 309 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPsqEYj90nY)

m at 02:35:--.

[cyberguile]

can you believe there's place for improvement ? he only got silver SK on the first section :biggrin:

edit:
damn !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XahdCQp7780&feature=channel_video_title

[Caithness]

Caithness, now, don't do the same mistake I did, stop playing death mode from 0.
Use edo's cheat, "set level 401, start at level 401, lock level 401" and train train train train on level 401 until you can play as long as 6 minutes. Then, play again from level 0.
I made more progresses this way in 1 month of training than for the last twelve months T_T

I've been playing from 500 almost exclusively for months. I've made it to 999 a few times already.

[an ass]

getting closer to M

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/381667_10150534049183289_771923288_11582066_849597 917_n.jpg?dl=1

[Ai]

Almost there! Just keep playing!! ^^

[clincher]

I have been pushing for m lately
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10032635/0088.pnghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/10032635/0087.pnghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/10032635/0086.png

I have bunch of screenshots on my laptop too. This is getting painful

[Ai]

Keep playing! I also struggled for weeks even though I was very close to m on many occasions. It's bound to happen one of the next times you reach level 500 if you keep pushing yourself. Not everyone can clear the torikan at the first try like Deeem2031. ^^

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8158/0026d.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZMMeYiac

On stick. Nothing can stop me now. >=D

[Kitaru]

Congrats again! :D It's just a matter of 500 consistency now.

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

No sweat. The best thing about this is that I know the torikan is no longer an issue for me, and I know that I can do 500-999 since I've done it in TexMaster before. So it really is within reach...

[mikehaggar]

500 @ 3:33:03
11/6/2011

[Ai]

Keep it up mikehagger! ^^ Another superplay video, this time from the Japanese player kashiwa0903:

T.A.DEATH[Gm] 5'02''16 184804points + α (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WSzYYtHz0)

This is sub 5 minutes material as he lost a handful seconds at the end and he obtained the Gold SK medal. ^^ Some more interesting bits from other games can be found in the same video (I linked to the exact time spots below):

Lv300 1'35'' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=l7WSzYYtHz0#t=299s); Lv500 2'34'' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=l7WSzYYtHz0#t=397s); Lv200-300 ST 26''46 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=l7WSzYYtHz0#t=553s); Lv500-600 ST 24''88 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=l7WSzYYtHz0#t=584s)

[Kitaru]

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/307763_10150381628460675_515950674_8312440_2109384 862_n.jpg

[mikehaggar]

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/307763_10150381628460675_515950674_8312440_2109384 862_n.jpg

Wow, what an improvement! :o One more to go dude!

[cyberguile]

still one minute to go :p

[nicofromtokyo]

325 @ 03:06:05 (ST bronze)

Manlock until 200. TGM is SO frustrating, I play Death to exteriorize my hatred.

With the cheat mode, from 300 -> 410, from 400 -> 485.

[nicofromtokyo]

Can someone give me the required time list to be on time on each section to get the M grade ?

000 - 100 ---> ? sec ---> ?:??
100 - 200 ---> ? sec ---> ?:??
200 - 300 ---> ? sec ---> ?:??
300 - 400 ---> ? sec ---> ?:??
400 - 500 ---> ? sec ---> 3:25

Thanks !

[Kasumi]

I'm pretty sure all that matters is 3:25 at 500 for M. Unless you mean what are good times to shoot for for the early sections in order to break the torikan.

[nicofromtokyo]

I'm pretty sure all that matters is 3:25 at 500 for M. Unless you mean what are good times to shoot for for the early sections in order to break the torikan.
Yep, sorry, that's what I wanted to ask.

[LadyLily]

100 @ 0:45 (45)
200 @ 1:25 (40)
300 @ 2:05 (40)
400 @ 2:45 (40)
500 @ 3:25 (40)

knew i saw something like that somewhere. thanks TWF!

[KevinDDR]

I would even push the first section a little faster if possible. It shouldn't be out of your reach if you can get to level 500 at all.

[nicofromtokyo]

Merci !

[cyberguile]

From my recent training:
If you reach 300 at 1:59 or less, you don't need to lock at all from 300 to 500 to reach 500 at 3:24 (but still need to play clean and don't loose time at counterstops)
1:55 is perfect because you can make plenty of mistakes without locking at all (well, unless you loose 10 seconds at 399 ^^)
If you reach 300 at 2:05, you won't need to lock IF and only if you play perfectly clean, get some tetrises and so on (I frequently start to lock at around 485 because I realise I won't make it). If you lock a bit now and then, it's perfect.
In my opinion, the easiest section to improve massively is the 200-300 section. It's still "not that" difficult and you get really fast time if you lock aggressively.

To conclude, I would say that if you can lock all the 300 section, you won't have any problems reaching M grade consistantly.
So... play only the 300 section from now :)

[nicofromtokyo]

Thanks for the advices.

BTW, update:

357 @ 03:14:71

[COL]

the problem is that reaching 300 in 1:55 requires much more skill (on a western scale at least) than simply surviving 300-500, i've done it maybe once only

[Ai]

Concentrate on reaching level 300 between 02:05 and 02:10 and surviving 300-500 for now nicofromtokyo. Check out my first m that I linked to in my signature. It's a good example on how to obtain m without manual locking through 300-500. ^^

[nicofromtokyo]

requires much more skill (on a western scale at least)
I really wonder why, we white people, should suffer any kind of complex compared to any asian players :confused:

[Kitaru]

It's just a matter of time, I think. Beside a few players that saw exceptionally fast improvement, the Western community is about where it should be considering that it sprouted up a few years after TGM first hit Japanese arcades.

[COL]

I wanted to stress that 300@1:55 is very very good altough some guy like 309 can reach it in less than 1:40. I believe that if you can do that 1:55 you are already at M level.

[cyberguile]

I really wonder why, we white people, should suffer any kind of complex compared to any asian players :confused:

because we haven't been playing TGM since 1998 ;)

[Key]

My record from 2011/10/29: level 449 in 3:23:00 :)

[rednefed]

I shoot for...
100 @ 0:40-0:47
200 @ 1:15-1:25
300 @ 1:58-2:07
400 @ 2:35-2:42
500 @ 3:15-3:25

I am usually 1:58-2:07 at 300. Manual locking 300-400 gets me to 400 at about 2:35-2:40. I can manlock 400 but usually don't, training for the m speed, and get m at 3:18 or thereabouts.

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

I think your own manual-lock comfortability and style (osaka-style? >=D) should determine where you should manual-lock, given the rough constraints. Clearly you need to lock all of 0-300, but beyond that you have some flexibility.

I myself prefer to go through 0-300 trying to go "pretty fast", but not blazingly fast because that ends up making me slower as I end up making more mistakes. Then I manual lock all of 300, possibly making a few mistakes in the process. Once I hit 400 I stop manual locking immediately and focus on clean stacking and downstacking, which helps me hit 500 with a lower stack (and therefore better time).

Basically, exactly what rednefed said.

Here's a video of my first M where I got a stupidly terrible 50-second first section time, hit 300 at 2:08, and then manual locked till 400 at 2:44, where I focus on downstacking and reach 500 at 3:20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9g7mssvOwQ

Again, you may choose to try and get through 0-300 faster, using either smart stacking (though, keep in mind that line clear is more negligible in death mode), or osaka-style bruteforcing, and then manual lock little (or even none) of 300. Or you may choose to manual lock the whole thing, even 400-500. I think crazedreveng does this and was probably doing so when he got his M. If you're one of those people where not manual locking seems to throw you out of control, you might want to try it if you can handle the speed. On the other hand if you're like me and you handle non-manual lock finesse a lot more comfortably, I think manual locking 400-500 is really unnecessary considering you can focus on downstacking instead (it'll prepare you for the transition into 500 anyways).

I also personally don't recommend "lock half of the time" for any section. Maybe other people have had more success with it, but I find that I need to either commit myself to locking or commit myself to not locking--if I try to "lock when I feel comfortable and then stop when things get hectic" it leads to a very unstable feeling of play trying to transition between the two modes.

[cyberguile]

My biggest problem is that if I don't lock at 400, I don't feel like I control the game ,therefore, I play the 400 section better if I lock.
However, if I lock at 400, I absolutely need to lock at 500 (which is rather, er, HARD lol) or else, I will do a lot of "IRS misdrops" (pressing one button thinking I will IRS when the previous tetromino wasn't actually locked).
Damn do I hate that 400 section T___T

Edit: felt like I didn't improve for ages
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/cyberguile/789.jpg
I wish next time, I'll improve a lot more ;)

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

I think I mainly do better when not manual locking not because of the raw speed, but because I can spend lock delay time thinking about and preparing for the next piece's placement, which is a lot longer than ARE alone. I guess the technically the ramifications of shorter lock delay + ARE are similar to as if you had cut lock delay yourself by manual-locking, but it still feels different since you're "done" with the current piece earlier.

Theoretically you could learn to recognize situations where rotations or horizontal motions won't affect the current piece, and use it to your advantage to "pre-" IRS or DAS the next piece, but that's probably too complicated to really think about seriously, and shouldn't be necessary anyways.

[Kitaru]

Exactly 2 seconds faster. :p It's too bad the ending was so messy!
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/315809_10150401231870675_515950674_8380048_4782087 53_n.jpg

[clincher]

Very nice, Kitaru!
As for me... I just got this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10032635/0091.png

EDIT: Here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bh7WV6tzs).

[Kitaru]

Yay, congratulations! :D

[Ai]

Congratulations clincher!! Thanks for topping out a level before my personal best. ^^

[tet2brik]

small improvement. Level 400 is so hard and i'm still too "slow" :(

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/104/0019n.png

[an ass]

low stack going into 400, one mistake and everything comes crashing down

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/384025_10150599957118289_771923288_11860743_201759 043_n.jpg

[COL]

999 @ 6:29:96
under 6:30 (at least :|)

edit: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6HN89u2j6Q

[Amnesia]

After 2 good months spent 90% on DEATH, I finaly make something

DEATH GM 5:51

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOn0uSeLt0&feature=youtu.be

[cyberguile]

I will make it this year grrrrrr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliuZp9DgmY&feature=youtu.be

[Burbruee]

316 in 3:16, which is also slower than my record which is 324. But it's in the 3XX range. :)
Practicing for this year's Carnival.

[Ezzelin]

325 in 3:03. I seem to be doing a little better since I practiced at 300 for a night.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6237/0007n.png

[Yoshiki]

Here is my score in Death mode :

Yoshiki------------ 364 @ 3:29:63 |

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/2290/death3642121532963.png

^_^

[an ass]

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/395858_10150764976873289_771923288_12466372_122291 8580_n.jpg?dl=1

[COL]

Congrats!:)
great feeling isn't it ?

[Kitaru]

Oh Ed~ <3 I knew you had it in ya! :D Congratulations!

[an ass]

thanks :D i knew i was capable of pulling it off for months, it's just nice to finally do it

[rednefed]

GM, 6:17:61

20-21 tetrises.

[cyberguile]

Carnival is coming

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/cyberguile/926.jpg

[K]

carnival ?

[an ass]

519, 3:26 something

[Key]

Level 500 or m, I'm getting close!
New personal best: level 494 @ 3:28:15! Medal: ST gold (no SK).
Unfortunately, I didn't record this game. This was one of the best games I've had in TAP Death.
I played on a more powerful computer today, and I think the game ran smoother. This definitely helped my speed and rhythm :)

Picture:
http://harddrop.com/gallery/view/id_4140/
162

[tet2brik]

hum...almost there
http://i45.tinypic.com/zmxj7b.png

[cyberguile]

just seen this on tetrisholic:
2012/04/22(Sun) 17:46:47 T.A.DEATH SQR Ｇｍ 04:59:93

[PetitPrince]

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2880/0007x.png

PetitPrince ------- 500 @ 3:54:10 |


Sub-4 !

[COL]

999 @ 6:22:41
and 8 seconds lost because of stop abuse!! I've started to manlock 500 on the other hand