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title	Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2
set name	tgm2
manufacturer	Arika
year	2000
genre	Puzzle (hof)
category	Puzzle / Drop (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	psikyosh.c
snapshots	PS: in game \| title \| select \| scores \| gameover zoom
rating	79% after 30 votes
clones	Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2 Plus

colour emulation	good
palette	5120
display type	raster
orientation	horizontal
resolution	320x240
frequency	60.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	stereo

players	2
nplayers	2P sim
controls	8 way joystick
buttons	3
coin slots	2

cpu	SH-2 @ 28.63635MHz
audio	YMF278B @ 28.63635MHz

version added

.129

last change(s)

.099u04

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
2.u21	524288	b19f6c31	tgm2	c58346c575db71262aebc3993743cb031c41e4af
1.u22	524288	c521bf24	tgm2	0ee5b9f74b6b8bcc01b2270c53f30d99e877ed64
81ts_3l.u6	2097152	d77cff9c	tgm2	93ee48c350110ebf9a80cca95c599c90a523147d
82ts_3h.u14	2097152	f012b583	tgm2	907e1c93cbfa6a0285f96c53f5ccb63e313053d7
83ts_4l.u7	2097152	078cafc3	tgm2	26e47c8f0aaa461e69e9f40ee61ce4b4cc480776
84ts_4h.u15	2097152	1f91446b	tgm2	81b43156c6a0f4e63dcc9e7c1e9dd54bcba38240
85ts_5l.u8	2097152	40fbd259	tgm2	6b8cbfc6232e04785fd232158b3f4d56fadb0c7d
86ts_5h.u16	2097152	186c935f	tgm2	0cab30c2ec4df3dc35b4c9de63d29bd0bc99afdb
87ts_6l.u1	2097152	c17dc48a	tgm2	4399bfc253fb1cd4ef1081d7350c73df3a0f7441
88ts_6h.u2	2097152	e4dba5da	tgm2	24db1e19f4df94ba3a22fba59e4fd065921db1c5
89ts_7l.u19	2097152	dab1b2c5	tgm2	114fd7717b97cdfd605ab7e2a354190c41ba4a82
90ts_7h.u20	2097152	aae696b3	tgm2	9ac27365719c1700f647911dc324a0e2aacea172
91ts_8l.u28	2097152	e953ace1	tgm2	c6cdfd807a7a84b86378c3585aeb7c0cb066f8a1
92ts_8h.u29	2097152	9da3b976	tgm2	ce1e4eb93760749200ede45703412868ca29a5e7
93ts_9l.u41	2097152	233087fe	tgm2	c4adb307ce11ef558fd23b299ce7f458de581446
94ts_9h.u42	2097152	9da831c7	tgm2	42698697aa85df088745b2d37ec89b01adce700f
95ts_10l.u58	2097152	303a5240	tgm2	5816d1922e85bc27a2a13cdd183d9e67c7ddb2e1
96ts_10h.u59	2097152	2240ebf6	tgm2	b61f93a18dd9d94fb57d95745d4df2e41a0371ff
97ts_snd.u52	4194304	9155eca6	tgm2	f0b4f68462d8a465c39815d3b7fd9818788132ae
tgm2.default.nv	256	50e2348c	tgm2	d17d2739c97a1d93a95dcc9f11feb1f6f228729e

info

0.129 [Guru]

0.99u4 [Guru]

Bugs:

tgm2, tgm2p: Sprite zooming effects are not pixel accurate. colour_thief (ID 03672)
tgm2, tgm2p: MAME boots the game faster than the PCB. colour_thief (ID 03674)

WIP:

0.136u2: Tourniquet fixed background color in the warning boot screen (tgm2, tgm2p). These games are the only games not to set the 'alpha' field to a non-zero value in the screen clear line-fill data.
0.129: Re-added 'Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2' (Arika 2000) and clone 'Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2 Plus'.
0.99u5: This game was removed from MAME.
0.99u4: Guru added 'Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2' (Arika 2000) and clone 'Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2 Plus'.
22nd August 2005: Guru - I've just finished to dumped the tricky surface mounted roms of tgm2_plus. There were 7 used on the PCB and each one had to be removed from the PCB and mounted onto this adapter, dumped, then removed and remounted onto the PCB. Luckily I'm a patient man.
17th June 2005: Guru - Tetris GM 2 and GM 2+ arrived from Japan.
4th April 2005: Dumping Project - Our Japanese contact bought with the help of massive targeted monetary infusions from two of the world's biggest Tetris fans, Arika's 'Tetris the Grand Master 2' and 'Tetris the Grand Master 2 Plus' !! (Those two buys were horribly, hideously complicated and expensive to arrange, but now what are arguably the best arcade versions of Tetris ever made will, hopefully, soon be dumped).

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Romset: 37889 kb / 20 files / ??? zip

history

Tetris The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 (c) 2000 Arika.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : SH-2 (@ 28.63635 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YMF278B (@ 28.63635 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Colors palette : 5120

Players : 2

Control : 8-way Joystick

Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

This game was released in December 2000 in Japan only.

If you enter the initials, they will be changed to 'ARK', which stands for Arika, the company that made the game :

'666'

'A '

'AA '

'AAA'

'AHO'

'ASS'

'AUM' (Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese new religious movement organization)

'DIE'

'ETA'

'FUC'

'FUK'

'HIV'

'IRA'

'KKK'

'OSI'

'PEE'

'PIS'

'PLO'

'SEX'

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Maintenance Code :

4-1-5-7-3 All Data Initialized.

4-1-7-6-5 Best Score Erased.

The following 4 are also tested for, but appear to be disabled :

1-3-5-7-9

0-2-4-6-8

4-1-3-7-3

5-0-2-1-3

- SERIES -

resource links

view in MAWS
view in mini MAWS
view in CAESAR
view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
view game bugs at MAME Testers
view driver bugs at MAME Testers
view in arcade-history.com
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive