brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) (04/10/91)
Ok, here's the situation: The guy who lives next door to me has a Mac. We play alot of Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris. I always kick his butt. I had the top scores (near 10,000) and he never even got close. Today, I noticed that his girlfriend was unusually enthusiastic about showing me the high scores on Tetris. It seems that they have figured a way to score several thousand points more than any previous games. How did they do it? I know they didn't get that much better overnight. We always play with the expert option turned off. Can this make a difference in the scoring? What other tricks are there? I don't think they sector edited the file (though that is probably how I will get my revenge!). Email would be appreciated since I can only read so many newsgroups in 24 hours. Thanks in advance and please skip the comments like "10,000? hell, I get 50,000 while blindfolded." -brian brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) (04/10/91)
In article <1991Apr10.062806.11518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes: >Ok, here's the situation: > >The guy who lives next door to me has a Mac. We play alot of Spectrum >Holobyte's Tetris. I always kick his butt. I had the top scores (near >10,000) and he never even got close. > >Today, I noticed that his girlfriend was unusually enthusiastic about showing >me the high scores on Tetris. It seems that they have figured a way to >score several thousand points more than any previous games. > >How did they do it? I know they didn't get that much better overnight. I don't know how they did it, but here's how you can generate an arbitrarily high score: get one of the Mac speed-control INIT's (Speed Chopper works well) and slow down the Mac to about 15% of its standard speed. Given enough time, even your great-grandmother could score 1,000,000 with this setup! (Kind of takes the fun out of it, though :-)) -Bill Leue leue@crd.ge.com
CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) (04/11/91)
He asked for a reply in e-mail. Here's a copy of my reply, for general interest. In article <1991Apr10.062806.11518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes: > high scores on Tetris. It seems that they have figured a way to > score several thousand points more than any previous games. > > How did they do it? There's a bug which can be exploited, but the easiest way is to just use ResEdit to alter the "scor" resource. Score what you can... then type what you need! - Chuck Hoffman, GTE Laboratories, Inc. | I'm not sure why we're here, cah0@bunny.gte.com | but I am sure that while we're Telephone (U.S.A.) 617-466-2131 | here, we're supposed to help GTE VoiceNet: 679-2131 | each other. GTE Telemail: C.HOFFMAN |
pdubois@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul DuBois) (04/12/91)
In article <1991Apr10.062806.11518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes: >Ok, here's the situation: > >How did they do it? I know they didn't get that much better overnight. We >always play with the expert option turned off. Can this make a difference >in the scoring? What other tricks are there? I don't think they sector >edited the file (though that is probably how I will get my revenge!). > Rest of problem deleted... > >-brian > >brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu There's a very simple way, not using hex editors or machine cripplers... hit pause, and then the space bar a bunch of times. "virutal" :) pieces will fall and give you points upon unpausing, but your game will be left otherwise untouched. pdubois@ocf.berkeley.edu