Battery in Tetris cart

[Opa Opa]

Save the high scores!

[DinnerX]

You would definitely have to make a hacked Tetris ROM programmed to read the high score from the NES's RAM and write it to the cartridge's SRAM. You'd have to hack the SRAM into the cartridge too. Other MMC1 games have SRAM so I suppose it'd be possible.

[vlame]

this could be an awesome homebrew project. i nominate tengen tetris.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

it's not so simple. No Tengen game ever made has the ability to save, so there's no suitable donors for SRAM. What you're talking about is something that the smartest minds at nesdev would have trouble with even accomplishing in pure ROM.

That said, this kinda thing has happened before with the porting of Castlevania II's horrid password system to SRAM..

[Ziggy]

Does that hack work on real hardware though? The ROM wouldn't run on the PowerPak.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

That's a good question. I've never been a big enough Castlevania 2 fan to even bother putting the SRAM hack on my Powerpak, it's only on my PSP.

[noiseredux]

Save the high scores!

fun fact: Frogger doesn't even have a high score screen.

[fastbilly1]

Your best bet on this would be a homebrew NES cart with a custom rom of Tetris that has save support for highscores. It would probably run you more than its worth. I suggest a whiteboard mounted on the wall with an expo marker on a string. I had this in my old gaming room, but dont have the setup for it now (my board is 8ftx4ft).

[Hobie-wan]

fun fact: Frogger doesn't even have a high score screen.

Um, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frogg ... arcade.png
http://www.gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/ ... Konami.jpg

[BoringSupreez]

fun fact: Frogger doesn't even have a high score screen.

Um, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frogg ... arcade.png
http://www.gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/ ... Konami.jpg

My Genesis copy has a high-score screen too.