Pandora's Blocks

About

Tetris: The Grand Master is Arika's series of competitive Tetris arcade games, built around a dan ranking system and rising speed levels. Pandora's Blocks (formerly DMGTRIS) is a block-stacking game for the original Game Boy written in assembly, heavily inspired by the TGM series. It implements features such as IRS, hold, lock delay and DAS, runs at 60 FPS on a 20x10 grid, supports Game Boy Color mode, and offers several randomizer, rotation, drop and speed-curve options.

How it differs from the original

Its grading systems are inspired by, but do not exactly mimic, TGM's, and scoring is a hybrid of TGM1 and TGM2. It adds options beyond the TGM games, such as a slow "CHILL" speed curve and a MYCO curve modeled on the game Tromi.

Getting started

It can be played in the browser on the project's website (without sound), or by running the prebuilt Game Boy Color ROM in an accurate emulator such as bgb or SameBoy. Older emulators like VBA should be avoided, because the game uses the Game Boy's initial memory state as a source of randomness.

Known issues & limitations

• platform: Do not attempt to run on older emulators such as VBA; this game uses semi-randomness of initial Game Boy memory as RNG entropy.

Controls

• In-game, A and B rotate, Select holds, Up is sonic/hard drop and Down is soft drop/lock; the online version uses arrow keys, Z, X, Space and Enter.

Media

Additional notes

Feature

Includes invisible rolls, big mode, bone pieces and torikans.