Tetris 2 (Game Boy)

Tetris 2 is a multiplatform game featuring multicolored blocks, and sometimes multipiece multicolored blocks. There are also single-color blocks, but nobody cares about those.

A special version was released internationally in 1994 offering Super Game Boy support for palettes and borders which can be accessed by pressing Select while paused. TOSE was also tinkering with the idea to use Super Game Boy sound effects.

Debug Menu
Vr1d36bgvLU To jump to the debug menu after the next screen change, lock to  (GameShark code ). Disable after entry to the mode unless you want to loop back to it every time (I make this mistake a few times). Alternatively, use Game Genie code to start at the Debug Menu screen.

Pressing B activates the CPU meter.

Puzzle Construction Mode
And bricks were shat arranged.

CPU Meter
Much like StarTropics, this game has a CPU usage meter. The screen will dim to indicate free CPU remaining.

To enable, set RAM address to anything but.

Super Game Boy Function
In the original Game Boy release, Debug Start would take you to a cutscene. In the Super Game Boy rerelease, does nothing and no longer references to anything. This may have been used to test the unused Super Game Boy borders.



Super Game Boy Sound Test
when the enhanced version is played using a Super Game Boy, an incomplete Super Game Boy sound test will be available. Pressing Select anywhere on the debug menu will set SGB A in place of SE; pressing Select a second time will display the SGB B option. Pressing A will play the currently selected sound, and pressing B sets the Pitch/Volume bit to fading out the Super Game Boy sound effects.

TOSE was testing for potential sounds that could have been used in-game. The enhanced version of Tetris 2 was in development alongside the Super Game Boy, so it is also possible that this SOUND listing was used for additional purposes.



SOUND
More evidence suggests that Super Game Boy sound effects were planned: located at is a single SOUND  command which is completely unused and was intended to play a sound at startup. Game Genie codes will allow you to play any Super Game Boy sound and/or BGM setting upon startup.

Additionally, there is a second SOUND command located at  that is used for muting and fading out the sounds in the debug menu when pressing B. The Super Game Boy SOUND volume/pitch setting table starts at.

Unfinished Border Code


CHR for the clown picture was overwritten with the space border that is loaded during the initial CHR_TRN character tile transfers at startup, however the final border was never implemented. This is either a programming oversight or there was indecisiveness over using a specific border when they ultimately decided to make the borders hidden, and only accessible by pausing the game and pressing Select.

A single MASK_EN command which would freeze the screen with a black palette is listed but is never loaded. The PAL_TRN command is issued immediately after, so the effects are negated. This is also supposed to load with the initial border. Game Genie code will restore this setting.

Unused Super Game Boy Border
Game Genie codes will load a congratulatory border upon startup that is not used otherwise in-game.