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Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by TheRoque on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:15PM (#38845716)
Memory. Past a certain point, the numbers can become so high (score, level or other) that it corrupts the memory and freezes the game
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Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by yakshaving_jgt on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:44PM (#38846110)
The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games can crash this way. If you cheat and enable perfect balance, then you can grind infinitely on a circular rail and eventually the score is so high it crashes the game.
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Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by dpkonofa on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:07PM (#38847181)
That’s what I think makes the Tetris feat so incredible. There’s no cheating needed. This is being done on the base game after something like 40 years.
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