yes, i updated it 

wRieDen, 0x900D0000 (timer) doesn't seem to be restored on exit. The OS value needs unfortunately to be hard coded (32).

Couldn't Ndless's sleep(ms) function have been used in your case by the way, to make things easier?

I'd like it if you added a hold feature.

Hi and welcome to the forums. Also what is a hold feature? Is it just making everything stop moving until you release a certain key so you think about where to put the block? That might be an interesting feature, although it would be nice to have an hard mode where it can't be used too.

It's actually when you can press a button to put the current falling block in a "hold chamber" where you can then substitute it out later to get combos more easily. Almost all tetris games have this so I'm surprised you've never heard of it.


See that box with the N piece? That's where the hold block goes.

@Lemmy: I've never heard of a "hold" feature either, but to be fair, I've only played the gameboy versions(original and gamboy color) of Tetris. As Stefan pointed out in the above screenshot, that box in the lower right hand corner show the next piece that is going to fall. Oh, and welcome to the forums!

Oh I see, but than its wrong to say: 'Almost all tetris games have this.'

Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on March 04, 2011, 10:04:59 am

Oh I see, but than its wrong to say: 'Almost all tetris games have this.'

There hasn't been a single version of tetris that I've played that didn't have hold. Even the ti-84 versions (at least the ones I tried) have hold

Then it looks like you haven't played the original gameboy one

Quote from: DJ_O on March 03, 2011, 11:12:24 pm

Hi and welcome to the forums. Also what is a hold feature? Is it just making everything stop moving until you release a certain key so you think about where to put the block? That might be an interesting feature, although it would be nice to have an hard mode where it can't be used too.

It's actually when you can press a button to put the current falling block in a "hold chamber" where you can then substitute it out later to get combos more easily. Almost all tetris games have this so I'm surprised you've never heard of it.


See that box with the N piece? That's where the hold block goes.

Well I didn't play the 84+ version very much and that was in 2001. The last time I played Tetris before was on a 40 MHz computer at school and it was a limited version with many removed features (eg: blocks felt instantly when hitting the down arrow and there was no way to make them go down one spot like in other Tetris games.). Besides that I only played the NES version around 1992.

Note, I'M not a big puzzle game fan, so I never got into Tetris as much as some other people.