This is the difference between the original game, and the game with a small community patch.
The first “ending” was on the original Tetris game. This crashes at some point because data is written incorrectly, which can happen at several times at very high levels. This was the first “ending” to Tetris.
The second ending, rebirth, is because Tetris is actually played most often on a community patched ROM. This can keep up with the higher scores that people achieve nowadays, instead of constantly overflowing, but as a side effect this version does not suffer from the crashes that the original has. This allows you to overflow level 255 to 0, or rebirth, which is what happened here.
Because the community patched version has been widely accepted by the community for a long time, both endings are valid. By the way, there is a third ending to Tetris, namely a rebirth of the original. To achieve this, someone would have to memorize an entire spreadsheet of what could cause the crashes, and then dodge them all at maximum speed. It seems impossible, but never say never with Tetris.
[Reactie gewijzigd door jaxxil op 9 oktober 2024 14:43]
