Model S Tetris Game

[kylelerner]

So, I haven't seen it posted anywhere, but "Pole Position" is clearly not on the Model S.
Understandably so, as the MCU is in portrait, rather than landscape in the M3, but perhaps we deserve a game of our own!

I think Tetris would be perfect for our MS screen.
What are your thoughts? Any others you can think of?

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[Penfold]

So, I haven't seen it posted anywhere, but "Pole Position" is clearly not on the Model S.
Understandably so, as the MCU is in portrait, rather than landscape in the M3, but perhaps we deserve a game of our own!

I think Tetris would be perfect for our MS screen.
What are your thoughts? Any others you can think of?

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Would be interesting to play a bit of Tetris, but pole position is in newer MCU S/X’s but not in the MCU1 versions (pre March 2018’ish)

 

[HankLloydRight]

The original arcade Pole Position was portrait mode.

Actually, I take that back. It was in a square or 4x3 mode. So neither portrait or landscape.

I was thinking of the SEGA Turbo arcade game, definitely in portrait mode:

 

[ShibbyRomes]

I would love tetris. Would be much easier to control with the touch screen than the other games in my S.

 

[f205v]

The original screen for Pole Position was a CRT color monitor, with an aspect ratio of 4:3 in horizontal position.
The game was using 256x224 pixel of the available screen.

 

[jto654]

Would be interesting to play a bit of Tetris, but pole position is in newer MCU S/X’s but not in the MCU1 versions (pre March 2018’ish)

I don't get why MCU1 can't support Pole Position? We are talking old school 8bit games - they shouldnt need that many recourses

 

[f205v]

MCU1 supports it, it's been proven by @verygreen on his rooted MCU1 ModelX
It's a deliberate choice of Tesla not to enable it (at least for the time being)

 

[ramonneke]

We are talking old school 8bit games

Incorrect, its a very crappy port of an 8 bit game which is very likely developed in some high level language.

 

[talels]

I have Pole Position on my Model S. Tetris is a good idea!

 

[KSnyd18]

Great idea on adding Tetris.

 

[hulk2k17]

+1 for Tetris, but I sure would they'd at least add controller support for MCU1. Playing Tetris with the touchscreen sounds awful.

 

[Penfold]

+1 for Tetris, but I sure would they'd at least add controller support for MCU1. Playing Tetris with the touchscreen sounds awful.

Could just use scroll wheel to move left and right and press to turn the shape

 

[f205v]

Incorrect, its a very crappy port of an 8 bit game which is very likely developed in some high level language.

Sorry, but this is not correct.
Mars Madness is 100% the original Pole Position hacked to use Tesla steering wheel for control and putting orange color on the background.
To be very precise, "Mars Madness" is an hack of "Speed Up", which in turn was an un-authorised bootleg of Pole Position manufactured in Spain.
You can even burn the ROMs for Mars Madness onto the original EPROMs of Pole Position and play it in your arcade cabinet on the original PCB.
So, Mars Madness is most definitively an "old school 8bit game".

 

[ramonneke]

Mars Madness is 100% the original Pole Position hacked to use Tesla steering wheel for control and putting orange color on the background.

After reading your reply it seems you are right and I just responded under wrong assumptions. In that regard the hardware is emulated instead of running as native executable.

Thanks for the info!

 

[GlmnAlyAirCar]

Clearly Tetris is going to upload massive amounts of data to train the autopark neural net.

 

[drklain]

Clearly Tetris is going to upload massive amounts of data to train the autopark neural net.

At least for the Tesla Semi (with trailer) autopark...

 

[jbducote]

...
I think Tetris would be perfect for our MS screen.
What are your thoughts? Any others you can think of?

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PacMan ?!?

 

[HankLloydRight]

TRON, of course.