KAN and KevinDDR have both suggested keeping an I-piece in Hold and rolling the preview until you get a start other than SZ before entering the M-Roll. You can afford to spend a handful of pieces at the level stop to give yourself a big grade advantage.
Yeah, sometimes I do wait at 998, though it risks getting messed up, even blocking the I-hole. But being S8.x at 99x, I just cannot help myself taking out the I to clear 4 lines
Hahaha! I love it! >> Talks about it >> NEED >> Plays right after talking about it Nice play, Invis MK is some sick stuff, looks like you even could've gotten a tetris back there! Edit : Oh nevermind, I should put my glasses on.
What exactly does "rolling the preview" mean? Can you skip pieces during the small break between the game and the m-roll (like in Sakura) or do you just mean that one should wait for good pieces before he clears the last line?
This is actually precisely why I stopped sonic dropping. Also, it kills my fingers and makes me misdrop. As far as I can tell, time doesn't play a huge part in how you're graded. The only time not sonic dropping really affects me is that sometimes I miss the first section cool for taking more than 52 seconds on 0-70, but as I've played like this more it basically never happens. Sonic dropping in level 100-199 makes me play too fast, because at 200-299, I have to wait longer to make sure the pieces go where I want before I lock them. Either wait for them to drop to the stack and play like it's 20G, or immediately DAS, but still have to wait before I lock to check it didn't skip a hole I would expect it to get stuck in 20G... So I usually end up 2 seconds slower than my 100-170, even if it was fast for a 200-270. Just regular soft dropping lets me keep the pace for the section cools. Yeah, it's lame and makes your times terrible. But if I ever manage to get classic GM, I'm not gonna care that I have the slowest time ever because basically no one ever gets GM anyway. I wouldn't have even thought of burning pieces before clearing a line at 998. Usually my stack is so high I can't afford it, but I'll keep that in mind.
http://youtu.be/nNgf2spOWwk Slightly better time and first full invisible on Texmaster. Plus Gold SK. Code: Kasumi ---------- M7 999 6:18:083
Video Basically the beginning was complete garbage and I'm surprised I didn't restart after about 30 levels or so but I kept going and my 300-500 was fairly clean. Oh, and after 500 I threw away the game out of surprise, oops.
new promising (?) record Heyyyyy! Where is the 1200 line in the leaderboard! Bring that 1200 line back!
Slightly time improvement S13 (my 12th) in 5:31:01 Video Replay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBhkTrFPrY
Can I have your attention please? I just killed the beast. Thank you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDF1y0Jh1lg&feature=plcp