| GAME INFORMATION | |
|---|---|
| Game Name | Tetris (RPG Maker 2000) |
| Region | World |
| Console | Windows |
| Category | Homebrew |
| Game Release | 2001 (25 years ago) |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Publisher | Laughy |
| Developer | Laughy |
| Languages | English |
| Image Format | Windows Binary (.exe) |
| Downloads | 494 |
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Game Description:
This is Tetris created using RPG Maker 2000 way back on August 8, 2001, developed by a user named Laughy. It's one of the most impressive uses of the engine to create a game that's not at all RPG adjacent. It's a proper fully featured Tetris port with a lot of nice looking layouts (themes) and songs from Tetris (NES) and even Zelda, DK Country, and Final Fantasy. There's a very challenging Challenge Mode with 9 levels and a bonus multiplayer Pong mini game. The layouts, songs, and mini game have to be unlocked by getting high scores and beating the Challenge Mode completely. Since it's rather hard to do that, I went and used my Tetris skillz to unlock all the stuff for anybody who finds it too frustrating and a pain to get through. You can tell from the two screenshots of level 7 and 8 (the ones before the Pong one) that it's gonna be pretty tricky. Just load the game from my save file to get the game 100% unlocked or play New Game if you want to unlock everything naturally.
This plays super smooth and has none of the input problems that cause game breaking delay like in the few other existing ports of Tetris to an RPG Maker engine. So that makes this the best way to play Tetris through RPG Maker/EasyRPG lol.
I included the current version of EasyRPG for Windows in order to play this with some improvements like scaling, fast forwarding, fps counter, button mapping, and managing MIDI output. You can also play the game the original way using RPG_RT.exe from the game folder (Alt+Enter to switch to Window/Fullscreen using it)
As for the MIDI I included a soundfont based on Microsoft GM Wavetable which will be accurate to how the game would have sounded in 2001. In order to use it in EasyRPG go to Settings -> Audio -> MIDI drivers and turn on Fluidsynth and turn off Native MIDI. Then go back to Soundfont from the previous page and pick <Open Soundfont Directory> then copy/paste the .sf2 file into the folder it takes you to. After that you can pick that soundfont in the settings and it'll use it. If you wanna try some other soundfonts I have a collection here on my cloud of ones I frequently use.
Enjoy this crazy and unique way to play Tetris and of how impressive it is that this is literally heavily customized RPG Maker.
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