Planet Puzzle League: Score Attack 182,930 (x77 Chain)

[FerSave1]

O.o this guy is good...but not gooder than me :D!

[TehMadWaffle]

Now I feel unsurprisingly inferior..

[nin10doadict]

Time lag is definitely key.

[ExiledBowser]

My best is 93151 with a 52 chain on normal speed. I played every version since Tetris Attack (panel de pon US) and owned at one time very single version since except for the SNES and GC Puzzle collection. I never seen someone like you. I wish I could send you my vid over wifi. I usually average 75k most days. my ds lite is too old now to play it properly as I use the old school style of play with buttons and triggers to raise stacks. Everything is busted and barely operable.

[vampyreslayer007]

I see what I have been doing wrong...I have the exploding lift on but I clear everything all down to he last few blocks then raise it back to the top. I see I have to keep it going to the top. Been playing for the past 3 years and my best score is 28,000. I should be ashamed of myself. I've had my theories about this game. This video is the single most awesome thing I have seen in a long time.

[reincidentepunk]

Hey man, I wanna play with you. Interested? (This goes to everybody)

[alterego1092]

ughhh. I played pokemon puzzle league for 6-8 years, ppl for 6 months and the best I can do is a 20 chain with exploding lift, no garbage. any tips for a n00b?

[PoochyEXE]

@alterego1092 Well, if you can get a x20 chain, you must be at least pretty good, in which case I suggest you work on avoiding some common problems that can stop a chain in its tracks.

1. Try to keep your stack somewhat level. If you have your chain built 1-2 hits in advance, move tiles from your tallest column(s) to flatten out your stack, and then use the lift. Tall spires make things harder to work with.

2. If your chain is towards the top of the stack, use vertical clears to move it down.

[PoochyEXE]

@alterego1092 (Continued from previous comment)

2 cont. The lower down your chain is, the more blocks above it can fall down, meaning the more blocks you can work with.

3. If you have your chain 1 hit in advance but it's in an inconvenient spot, just clear a line somewhere else. As long as the second hit of your new chain hits before your first chain ends, the game will count both as the same chain. See 0:18 in this video for an example of this.

[jeffthedove]

Can anyone explain to me what is exploding lift???

Haven't touched PPL yet.

[PoochyEXE]

@jeffthedove In the game, you can hit L, R, or the blue button in the lower right corner to manually add a row of blocks to the bottom without waiting for them to rise up by themselves. In the original Panel de Pon, you could only use this when there are no blocks exploding, limiting your chain to using the blocks that were onscreen at the moment the chain started. Exploding Lift removes this restriction and lets you use it anytime, allowing for potentially infinite chains.

[jeffthedove]

@PoochyEXE Thanks, i'm gonna get a ds lite 4 bday mebbe, and get this at K-mart. Awesome chain btw, I probably can't do it.

[SystelCyrus]

And my friends called me an android for getting a 47x chain. 8|

[devouringone3]

Tetris Attack guy.

HEY, you've got the tool it takes to record the DS screens? what does it look like? I didn't know these were available to the average customers.

[PoochyEXE]

@devouringone3 I don't have the official tool. The audio came from recording the headphone output on my DS, and the video came from copying the save data from my (fully legit) copy of PPL, loading it in an emulator, and recording the replay playback in the emulator screen.

[devouringone3]

Oh wow, that is a pretty ingenious way of capturing the image (I wouldn't have figured it out)... oh yeah and you can save replays in this game, it helps.

You look pretty good in the video.

[manaseater]

very talented, double/multi chaining intense.

reg combos during chaining adds to chain this version?

[PoochyEXE]

Any clear made while a chain is active elsewhere nets you a bonus equal to the value of the most recent hit of the chain. It doesn't add to the chain; it re-counts the last hit.

It's been a game mechanic since the original Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack, except it was less noticeable back then because of the bug that made the 14th and subsequent hits in a chain worth 0 instead of the intended 1800 each.

[manaseater]

im now able to pull of 40x chains consistently ( even one or two 50+)

i guess this video was very inspiring!

[argonomic]

I'm up to 138k.. this vid is a good challenge to shoot for! Do the point bonuses per chain cap out at a certain chain level?

[PoochyEXE]

Yes, starting with x13, the point bonus is 1,800 per chain hit from there on out.

[glmathgrant]

I haven't played this in a long time, but my high score is only barely over 100K. I'm not good at making huge chains like this very consistently. Still, I'm very proud of my 6-digit score -- hooray for exploding lift! :D

[Edgy183]

@glmathgrant Yup if wasn't for exploding lift we wouldn't be able to do stuff like this, esp since they didn't have exploding lift back in Tetris Attack's days.

[Cubo420]

damn i do like 10k with stylus

i wish i could understand this game like u.

[argonomic]

I just found out they have this game on the DS so I finally picked up a DS. I logged over 435 hours on the Gameboy Color version (it logs your time).

This version is much easier.. they seem to give you full combo credit just clearing while a combo is going.

Should be neat to see how far I can push it. Went 45k after a few tries.

[PoochyEXE]

Actually, the chain bonus for just clearing when a chain is going has been in the game since the original Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack, and as far as I know, Pokemon Puzzle League and Pokemon Puzzle Challenge have it too.

But the original had a bug where the 14th and subsequent hits were worth 0 points, instead of the same 1,800 as the 13th hit, which is why the bonus is often unnoticed.

This version is indeed easier though; blocks take longer to clear on Hard than they did on Easy in PdP.

[argonomic]

Upon playing more, I think I was just confused by the sound fx. They play the same pitch of sound for clearing blocks as for getting another step in the chain, which made me think it was adding to the chain.

I'm starting to get my sea legs back, chained for 2 minutes straight for 97k. I like how I can just close the DS and then open it and I'm right where I left it, and I'm getting pretty used to playing with a stylus.

Is there a way to watch replays with a non-default theme?

[JaundiceJaun]

This is extremely good - but I don't like the stylus - if you could do this with the d-pad I'd be more impressed, the stylus makes it WAY easier to spank out combos like that.

[PoochyEXE]

Well, if it counts for anything, I just dug up my old Pokemon Puzzle Challenge cart, and my high score on there is 156,303.

[Blazethe4th]

Oh my god you are the best player I have ever seen

I thought my 48,000 or so was good but woah

[Minan3]

i'll play you my FC is

056042

996773

[technoairplaneman]

DANG! My highest score on hard mode is 1/6 of that (32,400). How do you do it?

[PoochyEXE]

In a word, practice. I've been playing this game since it was Tetris Attack over a decade ago. After a while, I just started being able to almost instantly recognize patterns I could use to make chains. Also, TetrisAttack (dot) net has some useful tips.

[popertop]

holy shit. I was playing this in my room a couple days ago and I came up with a new technique (two chains going on at the same time) and here it is perfected. wow, that's awesome.

someday I will surpass you lol

[sidekike3]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[technologick1983]

Damn! I like that! x77 Combo! Bravo! The highest I've ever gotten was 6,500+ so you did FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR better than I!

[PoochyEXE]

Well, this is the highest non-TAS score I've seen. Though I've seen a few videos of Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack / Pokemon Puzzle League which are much better than anything I can do, but they end up with lower scores due to the lack of Exploding Lift.

[technoairplaneman]

Um, what's TAS?

[PoochyEXE]

TAS means Tool-Assisted Speedrun. Basically, the use of emulators and/or repeatedly pausing the game to play the game in slow motion and/or rewind whenever you make a mistake. Emulation is the more popular method for most games, but for PPL, there are a lot of videos that were done by frequent pauses.

[technoairplaneman]

Thanks :-)

[GrayfoxSama]

Awesome. Nice dual chaining. Is this the highest score out there? I'm to find the highest score ever legitimately on 2 m in time attack in this game.