Game for Game Gear
| Version | Date | By | Download |
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| 0.9 | 2 Apr 2022 | armixer24 | Tetris4GG-GG-0.9.zip (19KB) |
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Old Versions
| file name | size (bytes) |
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| total 2 files | 38K |
| Tetris4GG-GG-0.7.zip | 19K |
| Tetris4GG-GG-0.8.zip | 19K |
This is Tetris4GG, my first Sega 8-bit Homebrew project.
This is my tribute/homage to both the Game Boy Tetris and the Sega Game Gear, with a bit of Columns sprinkled on it!
In this version, you can only play the Type A mode. Try to score the highest amount of points!
All music present in the game was covered by me.
The only major adjustment I voluntarily made to the gameplay is allowing to move the shapes sideways faster than on the original game. This was always a source of Game Overs for me, so I essentially made things easier for myself!
This project taught me a lot about Sega SMS and GG homebrew development, including some mistakes that could require quite a big rework... Later, because I am doing this for fun :) But I am genuinely quite happy with the result, I never thought I would be able to get this far with a homebrew project!
I hope you enjoy the game!
~ Armix (armixer24 on the SMSPower forums)
Special thanks:
- sverx for providing devKitSMS and PSGLib. Z80 ASM (or really any ASM) is really out of my comfort zone and I find it amazing that the barrier of entry into Sega was lowered thanks to this C development kit. Thanks a lot! :)
- Maxim for providing BMP2Tile and that VGM Player program who made me wonder about homebrew development on Master System and Game Gear!
- Calindro for PSGTool and Emulicious, the debugger of that emulator is amazing for 8-bit sega homebrew development. I don't think I would not have gone very far debugging things, if I didn't have these tools to help me understand the effects of what I was doing!
- The SMSPower forums and wiki, all useful source of info!
- All contributors to the above projects.
- My brother Vivien, for generally being an enabler in my Sega-filled nonsense, and for play testing a quick and dirty SMS version of the game on real hardware a few months ago. :)
- My fiancee Hannah, for doing the first major play test session and really helping out with her feedback. Love you! <3