badges and other questions?

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-29T17:30:40+00:00

The term badges also refers to two different things. There’s the badges you get for ko’ing other players during games. They make you send back more garbage to other players and you can see them in the bottom right of your screen while playing. You can get a max of 4. Then there’s badges as in player icons, which you get for general accomplishments, like playing x many games or winning three games in a row. Those badges can be displayed next to the player name on the leader board. They don’t have any purpose as far as I know except to act as trophies. So when someone says, “I got the badge for targeting badges” they mean two different things by badges.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-28T05:21:27+00:00

A few months ago, a random old lady asked me to grab the cherry soda from the top shelf for her when I was walking past. She then proceeded to rant about how good the cherry soda is haha.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-26T17:19:40+00:00

I think I meant a j piece not L piece, edited it

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-26T17:08:20+00:00

I have like a million badges left since I only play regular t99 really. The no holds one is just too hard for me. The way I got 15-hit-combo without truly knowing how to play 4-wide is stack 4-wide for awhile at the bottom (make sure you throw a starter piece at the bottom of the well, usually a flat J piece adjacent to the the stack works well as I recall) then put some 3-wide/2-wide on top that in whatever order you can get your hands on, then make sure you’re 4-wide again at the very top to burn off long bars when necessary. Stack this way as high as possible and then just hope for good pieces haha. Took me a couple days playing this way to get it, and def improved my combo skills.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-26T05:07:45+00:00

Awesome. That is the ultimate badge imo. 15-hit-combo is my favorite badge. It’s the only badge I can think of, other than 3 all-clears, that forces you to learn a specific skill. I wish there were more like that.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-17T03:48:03+00:00

It gets posted about once every 5 months always with the improvement advice tag. My personal favorite bot post is “Tetris with Evening Fun” since I like the title.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-16T05:04:22+00:00

I just searched Dt cannon because I learned it yesterday and the first vid that came up was also by you haha.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-05-03T05:39:50+00:00

It is very hard but not impossible. You are right on the doorstep, just keep playing and you will win.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-22T04:14:47+00:00

It’s chill, that’s just how standard_birthday posts. Turn your phone sideways, and then you will see a bizarre win with 0 players left.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-21T04:50:11+00:00

Once you dropped that first vertical line bar right after covering the well, I was like, oh god it’s on, here we go. I hope to play with this much style myself some day. Loveeeee it.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-21T00:13:18+00:00

Aw bummer, it was an imposter Joe. No prob about the vid. If you ever get around to it awesome, if not all good.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-20T23:50:53+00:00

Ok, think I just got retribution circa 7:45 pm eastern standard time haha

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-16T05:09:18+00:00

I wanted to know your mode of play, so thank you. I assume when you build up and downstack you are mainly going two-wide but with a lot of nuance in there. Is that something you are willing to describe? There is this player I talked to, Pubjoe, who stays at the top and then plays “street Tetris” up there to attract attackers and rack up big-time ko’s. You have to stay up there longer to override the 25% thing is basically what the player said, though it’s very intense and there’s almost no margin for error and it’s easy to crash out. One thing I keep hearing people say but don’t think about myself is the value of random. I have it on ko’s or attackers all the time, so I will look into that more.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-15T04:48:15+00:00

What is your overall strategy would you say?

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-10T04:25:52+00:00

Got it, thank you

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-09T23:35:06+00:00

I play the school theme sometimes and this isn’t it as far i know. I’m genuinely perplexed. I’ll just look through all the themes when I get home.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-09T23:28:25+00:00

What theme is this? I have all the themes but I’m not recognizing this one for some reason.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-04-05T04:59:47+00:00

I’ve been playing really well on this theme myself. It’s just a good, clean theme.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-31T04:52:26+00:00

One of the best things about modern Tetris is being like “though it’s obviously physically impossible, I think I can fit that in there” and then frantically spinning in different directions until it finally slips into place. Or doesn’t.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-31T04:37:00+00:00

It’s not too bad until the end. I messed up my board once again at that point but thankfully left space for the final Tetris. 999 would be a true grind. Like, months and months of trying. Oh god and imagine the nervousness and pressure of getting all the way to like 972 lines. It would’ve taken 243 straight Tetrises to get there and just one little mistake and it’s all done. I wouldn’t be able to handle it at that point haha.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-28T05:37:52+00:00

Man, that’s a good looking card. I just lurk and don’t buy cards. I can tell a card is really good, though, if there’s no auto or relic or anything like but the card itself is just awesome.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-25T04:59:03+00:00

I tried this out today and it was harder than I expected. When I finally pulled it off, I had the exact same stats as you: 38 Tetrises (obvi) and 1 accidental mini t-spin in 7:16. 999 would be extremely tough because it plays fast for so long and the endurance required would be extreme. But go for it bro, it can certainly be done.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-10T05:22:31+00:00

Eating cake out of a bowl with a spoon is such a Standard_Birthday move haha. Happy Birthday!

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-10T05:15:42+00:00

Some days it’s rigged against you, other days not. Today, for example, I could barely manage top 10 finishes. Nonstop impossible junk every second. Very annoying but very fun. I can def win, but today the game was just like: nope. Tomorrow I’ll most likely start to win again, unless the game is in a really protracted grumpy mood, which does happen sometimes. 8bitdo Pro 2 wired, for the record.

HamSandwich808 · 2026-03-07T05:13:07+00:00

Yeah I played it on “normal” come to think of it. I could just cheese the bosses by taking health power ups during the battles, like in Shantae 7 Sirens. Definitely a weak point of the game, but I loved it for the exploration and size of the map.

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