Windows Tetris (RPG Maker 2000) PC Windows

[CSmith327]

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.

Download Links​

• Tetris (RPG Maker 2000) PC Windows

 

[sun0wl]

I've been haunting the online RM community since the year this came out and I never heard of it somehow. Seriously, if you know Rm2k you know this is some insane Velsarbor-level black magic of eventing in the engine....Is Laughy an English pseudonym for Lachsen, the German RM2k(3) wizard?? That would make sense lol

 

[CSmith327]

Indeed, on top of that it's also historically interesting. This version of Tetris was made in RPG Maker 2000 by a Western hobbyist in 2001. Not only was the tool and engine still very much new, it was also during the time in which ASCII/Enterbrain were still only officially releasing the software in Japan, with the only translated releases being done through hacked, pirated versions done by folks like Don Miguel (there wouldn't be official releases outside of Japan until RPG Maker XP in 2005, and RM2k and RM2k3 wouldn't see official English releases until launching on Steam a decade after that).

It not only took inginuity and knowhow to futz around with the RPG Maker engine pre-Ruby scripting to make a puzzle game work in it, but also just scouringing the right parts of the web in 2001 and learning that such a tool existed and that some Russians sailing the high seas thought that more people should try to neat little game creation software out.

I found an interview with Don Miguel. I didn't watch it, but I might eventually. For historical reasons. Check it out:

 

[AmedeusMaximus]

Cuz it's neat as hell to use an engine made for a completely different sort of game to make something unconventional. Tetris isn't the only puzzle type game made using RPG Maker, someone also made a nonogram/Picross game using it too. Like that crazy time someone ported Doom into a PDF file that could be played in PDF viewers (that was wild lol)

Indeed, on top of that it's also historically interesting. This version of Tetris was made in RPG Maker 2000 by a Western hobbyist in 2001. Not only was the tool and engine still very much new, it was also during the time in which ASCII/Enterbrain were still only officially releasing the software in Japan, with the only translated releases being done through hacked, pirated versions done by folks like Don Miguel (there wouldn't be official releases outside of Japan until RPG Maker XP in 2005, and RM2k and RM2k3 wouldn't see official English releases until launching on Steam a decade after that).

It not only took inginuity and knowhow to futz around with the RPG Maker engine pre-Ruby scripting to make a puzzle game work in it, but also just scouringing the right parts of the web in 2001 and learning that such a tool existed and that some Russians sailing the high seas thought that more people should try to neat little game creation software out.

 

[CSmith327]

BUT WHY?!?

Cuz it's neat as hell to use an engine made for a completely different sort of game to make something unconventional. Tetris isn't the only puzzle type game made using RPG Maker, someone also made a nonogram/Picross game using it too. Like that crazy time someone ported Doom into a PDF file that could be played in PDF viewers (that was wild lol)

 

[Rafa-dono]

BUT WHY?!?

 

[CSmith327]

So when I decided to look up information on this fanmade version of Tetris, I accidentally found out that another person had made Tetris in RPG Maker 2000, in 2001 no less. This one was made by JKB Productions, and while it isn't as customizable as Laughy's version, and appears to have a couple bugs, it seems to want to rival the official CDi release in terms of odd visuals and music choices, including a MIDI version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and the full track of Terrence and Philip's "Uncle Fucka" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut paired with a prerendered image from the South Park game. RPG Historia has a page and YouTube video showcasing the game (14:44 if you want to see the South Park stage).

Tetris

Created by: JKB ProductionsReleased: June 2001Engine: RM2000 Okay so we’ve all been enamored with the battle royale Tetris that came out of nowhere on the Switch recently. But hold up, alrigh…

rpgmakerhistoria.home.blog

Here's a download for that btw

 

[AmedeusMaximus]

I have that too, but I didn't want to upload it since the gameplay is terrible because of how the piece movement is. It has a bad awkward delay that makes it impossible to play it like normal Tetris. Plus the music kind of sucks.

Honestly, that's fair. I'm intrigued by the choices of music and backgrounds, very "made by a teen at the turn of the millennium", but it definitely looks like it'd be difficult to control even before the bugs.

 

[CSmith327]

So when I decided to look up information on this fanmade version of Tetris, I accidentally found out that another person had made Tetris in RPG Maker 2000, in 2001 no less. This one was made by JKB Productions, and while it isn't as customizable as Laughy's version, and appears to have a couple bugs, it seems to want to rival the official CDi release in terms of odd visuals and music choices, including a MIDI version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and the full track of Terrence and Philip's "Uncle Fucka" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut paired with a prerendered image from the South Park game. RPG Historia has a page and YouTube video showcasing the game (14:44 if you want to see the South Park stage).

Tetris

Created by: JKB ProductionsReleased: June 2001Engine: RM2000 Okay so we’ve all been enamored with the battle royale Tetris that came out of nowhere on the Switch recently. But hold up, alrigh…

rpgmakerhistoria.home.blog

I have that too, but I didn't want to upload it since the gameplay is terrible because of how the piece movement is. It has a bad awkward delay that makes it impossible to play it like normal Tetris. Plus the music kind of sucks.

 

[AmedeusMaximus]

So when I decided to look up information on this fanmade version of Tetris, I accidentally found out that another person had made Tetris in RPG Maker 2000, in 2001 no less. This one was made by JKB Productions, and while it isn't as customizable as Laughy's version, and appears to have a couple bugs, it seems to want to rival the official CDi release in terms of odd visuals and music choices, including a MIDI version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and the full track of Terrence and Philip's "Uncle Fucka" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut paired with a prerendered image from the South Park game. RPG Historia has a page and YouTube video showcasing the game (14:44 if you want to see the South Park stage).

Tetris

Created by: JKB ProductionsReleased: June 2001Engine: RM2000 Okay so we’ve all been enamored with the battle royale Tetris that came out of nowhere on the Switch recently. But hold up, alrigh…

rpgmakerhistoria.home.blog

 

[OldFartMk.II]

Incredibile game, given the base engine

 

[CSmith327]

For me, the best version of Tetris is the 1992 PC version called Tetris Classic.
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That has some nice backgrounds, is that for MS-DOS? It looks a lot better than the Tetris versions that were on Amiga back then

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

I was half expecting that JuiceAla was the uploader of this.
Anyways, CSmith and JuiceAla the most recurrent repo uploaders for the repo

 

[Signos]

For me, the best version of Tetris is the 1992 PC version called Tetris Classic.

 

[Zen341]

When you want to make a puzzle but you only know how to use RPG Maker =D

Jokes aside, this is very impressive.

 

[YoShoeMitsu]

This is super cool. Gonna check this out later