Notes:Magical Tetris Challenge (Nintendo 64)

This page contains notes for the game Magical Tetris Challenge (Nintendo 64).

Pieces

The Tetris-like pieces used in the game are actually stored in two different sets, one for normal Tetris pieces and another for magical ones. You can change which is the set of the current piece using the code 811D267E ???? (US ver.), with value CC0C for Normal Pieces and value DB20 for Magical Pieces. You can then use the code 801D25F4 00?? to set the piece you want, with ?? being the value of the piece in each set below. Careful: Invalid values crash the game.

Normal Set

00 - "I" Red
01 - "L" Orange
02 - "J" Dark Blue
03 - "S" Green
04 - "Z" Pink
05 - "T" Cyan
06 - "O" Yellow

Magical Set

00 - "I" White Pentomino
01 - "I" Blue Tromino
02 - "P" Green Pentomino
03 - "P" Pink Pentomino
04 - "T" Cyan Pentomino
05 - "J" Blue Pentomino
06 - "L" Orange Pentomino
07 - "V" Purple Tromino
08 - "U" Amber Pentomino
09 - "F" Orange Pentomino
0A - "F" Blue Pentomino
0B - Staircase Aquamarine Hexomino
0C - "V" Purple Pentomino
0D - "W" Aquamarine Pentomino
0E - "Z" Pink Pentomino
0F - "Z" Green Pentomino
10 - Two "I" Blue Trominos
11 - "U" Purple Hexomino
12 - "X" Purple Pentomino
13 - "H" Amber Heptomino
14 - "U" Amber Heptomino
15 - "J" Blue Hexomino
16 - "L" Orange Hexomino
17 - "U" Amber Octomino
18 - " " Yellow Heptomino
19 - " " Yellow Octomino (looks like two "T"s merged together)
1A - " " Amber Decomino (looks like two "U"s merged together)
1B - Two "I" Red Tetrominos
1C - "W" Green Hexomino
1D - "W" Pink Hexomino
1E - "?" Metallic 2x2 Green
1F - "?" Metallic 3x3 Blue
20 - "?" Metallic 4x4 Red
21 - "?" Metallic 5x5 White
22 - "!" Aquamarine Right Triangle
23 - "!" Purple Diamond
24 - "!" Amber Equilateral Triangle
25 - "O" Yellow 4x3

If you need to, this image shows the entire set of Magical Pieces.

Vocabulary

  Tromino - 03-block piece
Tetromino - 04-block piece
Pentomino - 05-block piece
 Hexomino - 06-block piece
Heptomino - 07-block piece
 Octomino - 08-block piece
 Nonomino - 09-block piece
 Decomino - 10-block piece

The more you know.™

Other Things

Code 801D25F5 00?? will change the piece on the next window while 801D2682 ???? will change its piece set.

RAM Addresses:

1D261D - Falling Speed
1D266A - Amount of Pieces in Next Window?
1D2609 - Drop Shadow (00 - None, 01 - Yes)

It addresses the issue very well.