Tetrisphere
Puzzle Solutions
From: Mike Stoler
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.nintendo
Subject: Tetrisphere - SPOILER - Puzzle solutions (20-50) and other Codes
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 08:01:03 -0700
Do you want the solutions to the Tetrisphere puzzles?
For some reason (no reason?) I've been saving the
solutions the the puzzles I've solved beyond #19.
But there really is no reason why you would need
these solutions.
There is a cheat that gives you access to any level
you want. If you're stuck on a puzzle, just enter
the code, skip that puzzle, and record or remember
the moves you do to solve puzzles beyond the one
you're stuck on. (If you solve use the code to skip
a level, it won't remember that you beat that level
when you don't have the code on. That's why you
have to record the solutions to the puzzles you
solve this way.)
Personally, I was stuck on #27 for days and #50
for days. In both cases I am glad I figured them out
for myself instead of getting help on the net.
Don't read my solutions to the puzzles.
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To get to any level on Tetrisphere, do the following:
1. Go to the screen where you enter a new name
2. Hit R, C(right), and C(down) at the same time.
This changes the numbers to wierd things.
3. Enter the name that is the bottom line of
wierd characters, each one once.
It is 5 characters long.
4. You can now skip to any level
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All the Codes taken from www.n64.com: (29-Aug-97)
> The following codes are all entered at the
> "NEW NAME" entry screen:
>
> At the "NEW NAME" screen press L
> (the button on top of the controller),
> C-RIGHT, and C-DOWN to bring up
> the secret characters.
> Enter the name "CREDITS" to view the
> credits.
>
> Enter the name "LINES" to play the
> hidden game.
>
> Enter the name "G(alien head)MEBOY"
> for hidden tunes.
>
> Enter the name
> "(saturn)(spaceship)(rocket)(heart)(skull)"
> for access to all levels.
>
> Enter the name "VORTEX" for ???.
>
> Contributed by: Curt Mac
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Some more SPOILER space.
Do you really want spoil your fun by seeing how
I solved the puzzles?
Don't do it. Delete this message now.
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Tetrisphere PUZZLE solutions
20
1. Slide each of the three green bars up one.
2. Drop a block on either exposed blue square.
21
1. Slide the upper/left-most yellow bar up one.
2. Drop a block on it.
22
1. Slide left-most purple "L" to the right one.
2. Slide the top-most yellow bar down one.
3. Drop a block on the left most purple "L"
23
Slide right-most red "T" up, then left.
24
Slide lower/left-most "Z" two to the left.
25
1. On the right side of the "pyramid", there are
four blue squares. Select the second blue square
from the top and slide it right one square then
down one square.
2. Drop a block on the square you moved.
26
1. Slide one yellow bar down one.
2. Slide one green bar to the left one.
3. Slide another green bar to the right one
4. Drop a block on the yellow bar you moved
27
1. Slide the right-most red "T" up one.
2. Slide one yellow bar right one
3. Slide another yellow bar right one
4. Slide the lowest yellow bar to the left two
28
1. Slide both top blue squares down one.
You will have to grab each by the corner
2. Slide the upper-right-most blue "Z" up one
3. Slide the lowest (now upper-left-most) blue
square up one.
29
1. Slide the left-most blue square to the right
twice
2. Slide the right-most yellow bar to the left
three times.
3. Slide the right-most blue square down one, keep
it held, then up one as soon as you can.
30
1. Starting at the bottom of the stack, I'm numbering
the bars 1 through 7.
2. Slide bar #2 to the left one
3. Slide bar #5 to the left one
4. Slide bar #6 to the right one
5. Slide bar #3 to the right one
31
1. Slide the lower-left-most blue "Z" left two
2. Slide the right-most purple "L" down
3. Drop a block on the purple "L" you moved
32
1. Slide the upper-most red "T" down two.
33
1. Take the right-most blue square, slide it up
one, keep a hold of it, then as soon as you
can, slide it down one
34
1. Slide the left-most purple "L" to the right two
2. Drop a block on the center purple "L"
35
1. Slide the only yellow bar you can grab down one.
2. Drop a block on this yellow bar
3. Drop a block on the only blue "Z" you can see.
36
1. Slide the lower blue square you can see two to
the left. You will have to grab it by a corner.
2. Drop a block on the upper-most red "T"
3. Slide the lower-right-most blue square up two
*** Amazingly, I am left with one slide I can do.
This is the first time that has happened.
37
1. In the big tower, slide the top-most red "T" to
the left one
2. Slide the red "T" that was below it two to the right.
38
1. Drop a block on the bottom-most blue square.
2. Slide the bottom-most green bar to the left one
3. Drop a block on the green bar you moved.
39
1. Take the upper-right-most green bar, (the power bar)
and slide it three to the left
2. Drop a block on the left-most green bar.
40
1. Slide the lower-most blue square up eight
2. Drop a block on this square.
41
1. Slide the right-most purple "L" down one
2. Slide the purple "L" that was below the one you moved
up one.
42
1. Slide the top-most two light-blue "T"'s up two each.
Total: 4 slides
2. Drop a block on the light-blue "T" you didn't move
*** Amazingly, I am left with 2 slides left.
This is the second time that has happened.
43
1. Slide two top-most yellow bars down two.
Total: 4 slides
2. Slide the green bar you can see to the right one
3. Drop a red "T" where you think it's best
44
1. Slide the lower-most red "T" that you can see to
the left one.
2. Slide the red "T" that was below the "T" you moved
to the right two.
45
1. Slide the left-most light-blue "Z" that you can see
down two.
46
1. Get rid of all the blue squares by:
a. move the blue power-block off the play area
b. slide the purple "L" that was next to it one
to the left
c. put the blue power square over where the purple
"L" used to be.
d. slide the purple "L" to the left one
2. Now get the purple "L"'s together.
3. Drop a block on any of them
Strange puzzle
47
1. Slide the left-most purple "L" to the right one.
2. Slide the right-most purple "L" to the left one.
3. Drop a block on the right-most purple "L" (the one
you just moved)
48
1. On the top of the tower, slide the purple "L" down one
2. Slide the purple "L" that was below the one you moved
down two.
3. Slide the lowest red "T" down 2
4. There is a stack of red "T"'s left. Drop a block on
them.
49
1. Take the left-most light blue "T" and slide it up one
2. Slide light blue "T" that was below the one you moved
down one.
50
1. Slide the upper red "T" up one, the right one
2. Slide the red "T" that was below the "T" you moved to
the left one.
3. Drop a block on the lowest yellow bar
Fun
Glitch
Aligning geometrical
pieces has never been more fun than in Tetrisphere. But is it
mathematically correct?
David and Marty Green,
hobby mathematicians and avid Tetrisphere players found out that
the game is based on a mathematical impossibility, and set out to
enlighten us that what you've been rotating on screen, ain't what
it seems.
The first problem:
Creating a sphere out of square blocks is impossible. But let's
assume that the Tetrisphere ball is a true sphere: Imagine a
vertical Tetris piece at the center of the screen. If you were to
move this piece up to the north pole of the globe then down to
the left until it was on the left part of the equator then slide
it to the right back to your original starting point -- it would
now be a horizontal Tetris piece.
Try making a map of the
Tetrishphere ball and carve a dividing line along the equator.
When mapping the sphere you will soon find that instead of having
half of the sphere, you now have the whole thing mapped out. The
surface of the sphere actually seems to double its would-be
realistic surface.
After examining the map
more closely, the Greens uncovered that the game hundreds of
thousands of gamers are playing as Tetrisphere, should more aptly
be called Tetrisdoughnut. Yes, the sphere is really a doughnut.
This should explain
everything: The enlarged surface area, the fact that none of the
lines converge, the way the game's developer mapped the entire
sphere after carving a line around the center, and why the pieces
do not rotate properly. The "sphere" is an illusion.
It's not a rare occurence that video games "bend"
reality, but the way the eye and mind gets tricked in Tetrisphere
is quite impressive. Nevertheless, a fun game -- but remember
that you're actually having a ball with a doughnut.
Vortex
Revealed
Type in the word VORTEX
and press and hold the reset button on the machine. After a
couple of seconds, an animation sequence with all the cool game
robots will show them being sucked into a vortex. This sequence
will loop until the reset button is released.
Cheats/Codes
The following codes are
all entered at the New Name screen. If one of the codes requires
a special character entry, just press L, Right C and Bottom C at
the same time to toggle between the numbers and the special
characters.
Enter the name CREDITS
to view the credits. Who knows, maybe you'll see someone you know
in there?
Enter the name LINES
to play a hidden game of "Lines." In "Lines,"
you have to remove a big enough area from the core of the ball
for your friend to escape. You can remove pieces by lining up
three in a horizontal or vertical line.
Enter the name G(alien
head)MEBOY to access some hidden tunes in the game. To access
the tunes, go to the "Audio" screen either in the
Options or when you Pause the game. You'll find nine new tunes;
however, you'll notice they are very "8-bit-ish" in
nature.
Enter the name (saturn)(spaceship)(rocket)(heart)(skull)
to receive access to all levels in all game modes.
Enter the name VORTEX
and ??. No one knows at this time what it does, so when you find
out, send it in.
