"Hacking" on Tetris DS- WTF?

[Intolerance]

I've been playing the heck out of Tetris DS for the past few months. Over the past few days, there has been talk on the Nintendo forums of someone who only gets "I" blocks and therefore demolishes any and all opponents. I dismissed it as impossible until I was matched up against the bastard last night. Check out the video I took with my digital camera. It's a bit shaky at the start, but when the new match starts, you'll see his initial pieces appear as normal but switch to "I" pieces a split second later.

I consider myself to be a pretty good player, and I was determined to beat him. It took me until out 20th match (the first 10 or so was me scrambling for camera/filming), but I pulled out a win and he promptly quit.

Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in how someone could do something like this. Not to do it myself, but just to understand how it was done. It's on the Nintendo DS handheld system, so I wouldn't even know where to start- I'd imagine that they somehow get it hooked up to a computer? I don't know. Thoughts?

[oscarmk1]

I've been playing the heck out of Tetris DS for the past few months. Over the past few days, there has been talk on the Nintendo forums of someone who only gets "I" blocks and therefore demolishes any and all opponents. I dismissed it as impossible until I was matched up against the bastard last night. Check out the video I took with my digital camera. It's a bit shaky at the start, but when the new match starts, you'll see his initial pieces appear as normal but switch to "I" pieces a split second later.

I consider myself to be a pretty good player, and I was determined to beat him. It took me until out 20th match (the first 10 or so was me scrambling for camera/filming), but I pulled out a win and he promptly quit.

Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in how someone could do something like this. Not to do it myself, but just to understand how it was done. It's on the Nintendo DS handheld system, so I wouldn't even know where to start- I'd imagine that they somehow get it hooked up to a computer? I don't know. Thoughts?

Either the video is very large, or its not working...

[Intolerance]

It loads up just fine for me, and I'm now on a different pc than I used to upload it originally (as if that matters).

Anyway, I actually have 2 vids- the 2nd is smaller (camera ran out of room):
http://media.putfile.com/Tetris-DS-hacker-part-1
http://media.putfile.com/Tetris-DS-hacker-part-2

[PatMaGroin]

It worked fine for me.

[ragnar_ii]

Why would you even want to cheat at tetris?

And how the hell did you beat him? It seems impossible under the best circumstances.

[Intolerance]

The randomness of the "garbage" system (and my ability to play extremely fast) is what allowed me to pull off a win. Whenever you clear 2+ lines, you send "garbage" lines to your opponent- 1 for a double, 2 for a triple, and 4 for a tetris. These garbage lines each have a single block missing, and while these "holes" in the garbage lines often line up, they are occasionally scattered (this randomness is my biggest complaint about the game in general). On the match I won, the garbage he sent me was lined up perfectly for fast tetrises while the garbage I sent him must have had scattered holes, resulting in an uneven play field and making it difficult for him to get fast tetrises with only "I" pieces.

I wish I could have held the camera while I played- I'd love to have my win on video.

[Merick]

Is there gameshark or equivalent for the DS?