Glitches in N64 The New Tetris

First off, I really like this version of Tetris, what with the great music and 4 player modes. I am however very pissed off with the glitches that seem to be in the code.

If you clear a line at exactly the same time at the clock reaches zero in a timed game, then the game will freeze and crash.

Also if you unlock certain bonuses during play then it can also cash crashes.

The main problem with these crashes is that it can destroy the cart saved data, which in my case was some 500,000 lines from years of multiplayer use. Along with these lines went all the extra music tracks and backgrounds. Very irritating to say the least.

I suspect that these glitches are not confined to my cartridge, but to the whole production.

Could anyone else confirm this?

They made TNT for the N64?

oops, I meant to say "The New Tetris"

moonwhistle said:

oops, I meant to say "The New Tetris"

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Oh, my bad.

Wow those are pretty bad bugs to release with. They are easily reproducable. How that game passed Nintendo Customer Quality Control is beyond me. Nintendo checks every game for obvious bug before release and I'm surprised these bugs got by.

You should contact the company and have your cart repared. That's the big craze these days.

Big Shady said:

Wow those are pretty bad bugs to release with. They are easily reproducable. How that game passed Nintendo Customer Quality Control is beyond me. Nintendo checks every game for obvious bug before release and I'm surprised these bugs got by.

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Having done BUG testing for the BIG N, I would say that we do a good amount of testing but something always manages to get threw. It's impossible with the time constraints they have. They delay games enough already.

It is suprising how that game got threw with those easily reproducable bugs. I've seen worse, though.

My wife is utterly in love with this game (and the similar mode that is in Tetris Worlds... or what ever the one is for Xbox). She would be really pissed off if one of these bugs happen to her (she "building" the last building/country thing). But since the game came out she has played it at least once a month (usually more) and has had no problems.

Those are bad bugs though.