bring back the Soviet Union with this one weird trick
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First off, no that’s just his handle it’s not literally a dog playing Tetris.
Damn clickbait
Level 255 Tetris is absolutely bonkers and i have only a vague understanding of what triggers the killscreen
The overly simple explanation is, there’s too much for the processor to handle within the refresh rate window and because of that it ends up reading the current screen output information as instructions, which produces a bunch of errors and freezes up the program.
So basically the default state when you go to high is the thing kills you but this nerd figured out a narrow set of conditions that he had to undergo to have it not kill him?
Also I guess this is the last achievement right? Bc from this point you can just do this over and over?
So basically the default state when you go to high is the thing kills you but this nerd figured out a narrow set of conditions that he had to undergo to have it not kill him?
It’s not a default state, but yes he had to know all the conditions for each level and avoid them. Ironically, the killscreen is treated as the player “beating” the game as normally the game ends with the game overwhelming the player, but killscreen is the player overwhelming the game.
Also I guess this is the last achievement right? Bc from this point you can just do this over and over?
Yeah pretty much. Obviously there’s always potential in new high scores and fastest to rebirth, but this is the summit of technical achievement in the game.
That's pretty sick
I don't follow the Tetris community too close. Is Rebirth a previously theoretical achievement or like a TAS specific thing or similar?
TAS was used for some of the theory crafting and testing, but the human potential was always there as the game speed never gets any faster than it does at level 29. It’s just that combination of killscreen avoidance, skill, endurance, and RNG makes it extremely tricky.
The real big advancement was the controller technique required to get past level 29, which was clearly intended to be the “you can’t get past this” level by the devs. That didn’t happen until 2011, and it wasn’t until 2021 that a technique was found that was reliable enough to get runs into killscreen/rebirth territory.
Aye that's cool thanks for the explainer. I'm pretty much just a casual g@mer but I really dig shit like this.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: