Overview

Despite being the first Tetris game to land on a Nintendo system, Famicom Tetris is grossly unappreciated due to its unusual control scheme. This romhack updates the game to have the standard controls that players have come to expect from a classic Tetris game.

Features

- Hard drop (A button)—remapped to Up on the D-pad.

- Rotate counterclockwise (Down on D-pad)—remapped to B button.

- Soft drop—newly added; mapped to Down on D-pad.

- Rotate clockwise—newly added; mapped to A button.

- Bonus: exploit patched—holding down any button after a hard drop no longer stalls the game indefinitely.

For a demonstration of these features, see the video below.

History

Romhack created March 28 and July 2-4 and submitted on July 5, 2023.

Database match: Tetris (Bulletproof) (Japan) (Rev 2)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 218DBAA3827650C9AD9917F41F2D886AEB688C58
File CRC32: 8032BDB7
ROM SHA-1: 3542E1AD16969F1FFED2427C08AA231C0EDEA06C
ROM CRC32: 5C5A1AB8