13 year old beats Tetris

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/tetris-beat-blue-scuti.html

https://tech4gamers.com/tetris-cham...ELTC5_HNH4eZ60lJ2ApWP3mKdd-Tx2xU5nnrFWBgxwBiU

Willis got to Level 157, reaching Tetris’s “kill screen,” the point where a video game becomes unplayable because of limitations in its coding.

For decades, gamers “beat” Tetris by hacking into the game’s software. But Willis, who in the last year has become one of the country’s top Tetris players, is thought to be the first to do it on the original hardware.

“It’s never been done by a human before,” said Vince Clemente, the president of the Classic Tetris World Championship, adding, “It’s basically something that everyone thought was impossible until a couple of years ago.”

Reporter covering the event promptly told him that shouldn’t be a life goal and he should go outside.
 
.... BEAT. Tetris????

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Zarathustra[H] said:
Interesting. I never knew Tetris had an end.

I just figured it got faster and faster until it was no longer possible.

I guess for most people that is still true. :p
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This ARS article is the best in depth dive on how the game works that I could find. The original NES version stopped getting faster after level 29.
Lakados said:
He wrapped the score and crashed the game, can’t go any further than that.
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Theoretically, it is possible to loop the game by hitting level 256 and restarting at 1. That would mean having to avoid every crash opportunity from 155 to 255, something AI hasn't even done yet. The highest programmed scripts got to was level 237.
 
Tsumi said:
This ARS article is the best in depth dive on how the game works that I could find.
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A friend sent me this article, that's how I found out about it.

Red Falcon said:
Excellent video of this is well worth the watch.
He literally "beat" Tetris almost as far as anyone can do by causing the killscreen.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU
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I was actually about to post this very video. I don't normally care about stuff like this, but I found this to be very interesting.
 
This got my interest after having seen the tetris movie and the journey that this game went through haha. But damn how much time did this kid put into this game??
 
I love tetris.... this is fly.. i knew there were tournaments but not on this scale.... thanks for posting...
 
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