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August 11, 1997

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Tetris

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Nintendo 64

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Alexey Pajitnov H2O Entertainment Nintendo

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Normally, if you change the music selection to "Choose" in the Audio menu, the game will not allow the track "Prophetic - Title" to play. However, a glitch in the European version causes the song to play if the player loops through the list by pressing D-Right after the last song. This is the only way the song can be played in-game, though the game will change the song to "Azule Lux" every time a new level is loaded.

This is most likely caused by the game trying to play "Extol", as it was the last track in the US version. Since its placement was changed, the game loops the list and plays "Prophetic" instead.

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The song "Flim Flam" is not present in the European version. The Brick variation which used this song now uses "Extol" instead, which is also the song that replaced it on the Audio menu.

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The game contains a lot of debug text, starting at offset 0xC6370 and mixing with the rest of the game's text. Of note, two dates appear in the debug text that may be the dates the game finished development in North America and Europe:

North America: Jun 6 1997.21:45:51
Europe: Nov 17 1997.20:23:27

The rest of this submission contains a few examples of the debug text scattered throughout the ROM. Most of it is routine stuff, but there are some interesting gems in there. The developers were certainly not in a good mood or this was "kinda" a joke from them. Note that "tell dave" likely refers to David Pridie, one of the programmers:

"*** GAME CRASH CONFIRMED!!! ***

ERRRRRRORRR

*** WARNING! generatelevel.c -> PlacePiece is going to plot z+1!

*** ERROR! generatelevel.c -> PlacePiece did not function to avoid breaking a piece!

Killing the player for destroying an evil crystal

ERROR! generatelevel.c -> CopyLevelPuzzle. Unkwnown Dest!

Setting Quest Background to: %d

*** ERROR!! drop.c -> PlacePieceGame was called with a non valid Piece!!!

Dragging a used Piece!!

Sending some foul blocks!

Inializing heart skull animation thing

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******** NOT IMPLODING A PIECE BECAUSE IT IS BROKEN!
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ERROR!!!!!1 DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*********** WRONG LEVEL INIT TYPE!!!!!!!! ***********

If you see this let ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** ERROR!! drop.c -> PlacePieceGame was called with a non valid Piece!!!

*** THIS IS MAJOR FUCKING EVIL AND WILL CRASH THE GAME!!!!! TELL SOMEONE!!

*** (PREFERABLY SOMEONE SMART LIKE A CODER!)

evil piece: (%d) tell bailey

ERROR!! I Should NEVER Get Here in drop.c!!

I am a MEAN AI! Make XCount 21!!

I Have Sent enough black: %d, lets win!

PANIC!! LETS DIG TO WIN!

HMM, he is getting close to winning, lets send

Fuqing negative number!!!!

ABORT WIN CUZ ENDANIM

FUCK YOU %d

What the FUCK

BLOWPIECEGONNER!!

tell dave

***********************FREAQING DORQ.. LOAD GUI SFX FIRST

***********************FUQIN DORQ.. LOAD GUI SFX FIRST

Idiot!

Don't use HuffMan!

My God, That Musta Hurt! Memory available: %d"

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When starting a new game, if the player enters the word "VORTEX" and then presses and holds the Reset button on the console, a small animation will loop for as long as the button is held.