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In this page, the very top row is row number 0, the row below the top row is row number 1, and so on, until 20 (TGM1 has 20 visible rows + 1 vanish zone row).

Tetris The Grand Master

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Gravity

Directly from Tetris The Grand Master, here is the gravity curve:

Internal Gravity[1]

Level	Interal Gravity (1/256 G)	Level	Internal Gravity (1/256 G)
0	4	220	32
30	6	230	64
35	8	233	96
40	10	236	128
50	12	239	160
60	16	243	192
70	32	247	224
80	48	251	256 (1G)
90	64	300	512 (2G)
100	80	330	768 (3G)
120	96	360	1024 (4G)
140	112	400	1280 (5G)
160	128	420	1024 (4G)
170	144	450	768 (3G)
200	4	500	5120 (20G)

In the following, Gcount is the current Gravity Count; Gspeed is the Gravity Speed, and is equal to one of the Internal Gravity entries in the above table. All values can be represented with unsigned integers, as no negative values ever appear. All division has the fractional part truncated, as in ISO C (60/256 = 0, 252/256 = 0, 260/256 = 1).

On the first frame of piece display, a soft drop input is simply ignored, so, for example, some variable representing whether soft drop "is pressed" or "not pressed" would be set to "not pressed" on the first frame. The second frame and later can have a soft drop input set, for example, as "is pressed"; this processing of input occurs outside this description.

1. Preparation for the pieces' first displayed frame (such as during ARE):
   • Gcount = Gspeed % 256
   • Gspeed is set to the appropriate value for the current level
   • Attempt to place the piece in row number 1 + Gspeed / 256, higher if necessary
2. Every frame this piece is displayed:
   • If soft drop is pressed:
     • If Gspeed < 256:
       • Attempt to drop one line
     • If the piece has blocks beneath it now:
       • Lock the piece
     • Go to 3.
   • If there are blocks below this piece:
     • Set Gcount to Gspeed
   • If Gcount is greater than or equal to 256:
     • Attempt to drop Gcount / 256 lines
     • Set Gcount to the remainder of Gcount / 256 (in C, this would be "Gcount %= 256")
   • Increase Gcount by Gspeed
   • Go to 3.
3. Further processing after gravity (processing will come back to 2. if the piece hasn't locked)

In the above, the line "Gcount = Gspeed % 256" may appear curious, as all Internal Gravity values in the TGM series are either <256 or an even multiple of 256, but it's purpose is to properly support gravity speeds such as 4.5G; none of the TGM games have gravity like this, but this makes this description more general. In ANSI C, one can use bitwise operators instead of the division and modulo (%) operators, because 256 is a power of 2; a simple example follows:

placeInRow = 1 + Gspeed >> 8; // equivalent to 'placeInRow = 1 + Gspeed / 256;'
linesToDrop = Gcount >> 8; // equivalent to 'linesToDrop = Gcount / 256;'
Gcount &= 255; // equivalent to 'Gcount %= 256;'

On more limited systems where division and modulo would be noticeably slow, using bitwise operators this way can significantly improve performance. Because only positive integers appear in these expressions, ANSI C guarantees these expressions are equivalent, on implementations following ANSI C. On very limited systems (such as the NES), these would be easy to translate to assembly.