it's not much but it'll do. i try not to do TAP, cause of the unusal framerates i get from it. SUGGESTION: in heboris, there should be a "preset" amount of game configs that'll mimic TGM1, TGM2, TGM3, blah blah. and have it show up in like a config note in a corner or something, so in JPEGS and stuff you can see what's up. and we all trust each other here. i hope. and totally...if i knew how to dev stuff or program or any of that, i would but i'm kinda useless. sorry.
Does the time bonus scale in fractions of a second? If you finish in 3:30:50 do you get 1253 * 89.5 points?
Nice, that improvement puts you ahead of Kotetsu and DeHackEd. The time bonus rounds the number of seconds up. So in your example you get 1253 * 90 points.
This is the best I could do in the few hours I played during the weekend. I am disappointed in myself as this is only a minor improvement compared to my previous personal best. At least I entered the top 10 on the leaderboard and I expect to get over 400.000 soon if I keep trying. Speed is nowhere near what I can do in Texmaster Novice Mode, but I'm slowly getting better. I've had some time attack runs close to 03:40 when not comboing. There have been a few games where I believe I could have gotten over 400.000, but I always managed to screw up at some point. In Texmaster I feel in total control from beginning to end and I can do the up-down motion without a problem. In TAP on the other hand I lose control when things get a little faster over level 200. Doing the up-down motion then seems to slow me down and I make a lot of misdrops. These are my score targets in Texmaster for very good games: - level 100: between 60.000 and 100.000. 60.000 is good when the stack is still high going into the 100 to 200 section. I've managed to get 100.000 before level 100 a few times with a low stack after level 100. This is also possible in TAP, but it's more difficult to achieve. - level 200: between 170.000 and 220.000. I can do it, but this happens a lot less than in Novice Mode. - level 300: between 340.000 and 400.000.This isn't as easy as in Texmaster as I have difficulty keeping comboing. Not lucky enough most of the time and a lot of misdrops. I have at least a dozen games with a score of 450.000+ in Texmaster so it's possible. The 2 special pieces are no real problem if you now how to deal with them fast. In Texmaster I finish most of my best runs in 03:40 which gives me a 100.000 time bonus in most cases. In TAP this bonus is limited to about 80.000 at the moment. So at the moment I can only achieve a score of about 300.000 without time bonus in TAP. I have also been experimenting with the bonus pieces "Free Fall" and "Dell Even" to see if there's no secret game mechanic for bonus points. But I didn't find anything unfortunately. Is it possible to fast forward through inp files? EDIT...
FINALLY one of my 2009 Tetris resolutions has been achieved! This is the best I could do and I probably won't be playing for a while. Maybe I'll try to do better again after playing some TAP Master Mode. I clearly need to improve my control over the pieces when things speed up a little. This was a lot harder than expected. This is NOT Texmaster Novice Mode is what I learned!!! Code: 9--Ai--------------------------401671 pts @ 3:43:33 EDIT: Creepy how the O-piece is the next piece at the end of the game in my last 3 submissions. EDIT 2: Just noticed I messed up with my second screenshot.
Nice cyberguile! Code: 6--Ai--------------------------426505 pts @ 3:49:45 7--DeHackEd--------------------415603 pts @ 3:07:63 8--Kotetsu---------------------410658 pts @ 3:12:46 9--Rosti LFC-------------------407977 pts @ 3:25:13 Convincing comfirmation! I now believe getting 450000 is doable if keep playing. Look at that time! I wasted some time at level 299 because I thought another tetris would up my score a little more than just finishing as fast as possible. If I stack high and concentrate on clearing tetrises I can get sub 03:30 with scores around 350000 now: Still playing from time to time in the hopes a bravo will lift me over the 500000 mark. I once performed a comboing bravo at the start of the game and ended up with around 128000 before level 70. Too bad I got too excited an messed up soon after. So next time I get lucky hopefully it will be near the end of the game during a good run. Just for fun I compiled this ranking with the score one has just before the time bonus score is added: Code: 1 colour_thief 345804 2 Ai 337542 3 gila 331746 4 Amnesia 325152 5 cyberguile 324960 6 rednefed 323178 7 Rosti LFC 288942 8 Kotetsu 275334 9 DeHackEd 274014 10 elph 264222 11 Kitaru 235698 12 Ken_P 225844 13 Bou 218418 14 nguman 201924 15 statikeffect 199944 16 Gaby 183594 17 mufunyo 175626 18 kapat 146904 19 md` 117738 20 schnappy Score not available
