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Tetris Forever (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. ???)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Tetris Froever on Nintendo Switch.

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Tetris Forever – Ver. ???

  • Release date: February 26th/27th 2025
  • Patch notes:

Tetris Time Warp Updates:

Blast Off To Level 30

The single-player modes in Tetris Time Warp, which previously topped out at Level 15, now go all the way to Level 30! Can you handle even higher speeds of play? Starting at Level 20, the Time Warp Tetrimino piece will no longer feature the golden-colored Tetrimino, so you won’t be able to create Matrix-clearing cascades. And starting on Level 28, the lockdown speed of Tetriminos will greatly increase.

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Time Warp Shield
In Tetris Time Warp’s multiplayer mode, the Time Warp Tetriminos now have a new power – Shield! Lock down the Time Warp Tetrimino while the Shield design is showing, and you’ll earn a Shield that will stop other players from sending you into a Time Warp. It disappears after being used once.

1989 Mode Upgrades
We know fans enjoy playing Tetris with black-and-white graphics and chiptune sounds, so Tetris Time Warp’s single-player 1989 Mode now offers a variety of fixes and new options. You can choose to turn off “Modern Gameplay” for more historical accuracy, plus you can choose to play the game with 18 rows in the Matrix, as opposed to the modern-day setting of 20 rows.

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Take the 40-Line Challenge
Ready for a new mode? Celebrate Tetris’s 40th anniversary by trying to clear 40 lines as quickly as you can. You can test yours skills in both Modern and 1989 modes.

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Options, Options, Options
We listened and delivered! A vastly expanded Options menu lets you customize the visuals, sounds, and gameplay in Tetris Time Warp to your liking. Turn individual graphic effects on or off, tweak your gameplay with new options like the Initial Hold and Initial Rotation systems, Diagonals, and more.

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…and of course, we’ve squashed some minor bugs as well, because there are always a few of those lurking about!

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Additionally, two more MS-DOS games can now be found in the Tetris Forever library, and both offer unique gameplay elements of historical importance.

Super Tetris
Released by Spectrum Holobyte in 1991, this was an early attempt at creating a “sequel” to Tetris. The gameplay is quite different — the Matrix is half-full of garbage when a game begins, and players can earn and use Bombs to clear out the spaces and find power-ups buried in the garbage. It includes Cooperative and Competitive multiplayer modes, in which two players play in the same Matrix!

Tetris (AcademySoft) v. 3.12
This is the final version of Tetris created within the Soviet Union in the Academy of Sciences, ported from Alexey Pajitnov’s original Pascal code by Vadim Gerasimov. Dating to 1988, it is notable for its inclusion of Phantom mode, in which all O-Tetriminos (square-shaped pieces) are invisible!

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Just like the other MS-DOS games in Tetris Forever, you should definitely poke around in the Game Settings for each of these games to see how you can customize your experience to reflect what the games looked and sounded like on various configurations of classic IBM compatible computers.

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And there are more improvements to be found all over Tetris Forever.

  • The gameplay behaviors in the recreation of the Electronika 60 version of Tetris have been updated to be even more historically accurate to the original version.
  • And we’re now including language support for Korean and Traditional Chinese.

Tetris Forever – Ver. ??? (Saving the Saves Update)

  • Release date: January 17th/18th 2025
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:

 

  • updates the way game progress is saved in certain games. For console games that originally had battery backup – meaning that high scores, player profiles, and game progress were saved between play sessions – the versions in Tetris Forever now work the same way.
    • If you leave or reset the game, your progress will be retained, without having to use the Save/Load features in the in-game menu. As you work your way through the challenging campaigns of games like Tetris 2 + Bombliss on Famicom or the various modes of Super Tetris 3, you’ll be able to retain your profiles and progress with ease.
    • Additionally, the high score leaderboards for two MS-DOS games will also be persistent between game sessions, recording your accomplishments for all eternity.

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The games with these upgraded save features are:

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Famicom:

  • Igo: Kyū Roban Taikyoku
  • Tetris 2 + Bombliss

Super Famicom:

  • Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss
  • Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss Genteiban
  • Super Tetris 3
  • Super Bombliss

MS-DOS:

  • Tetris (AcademySoft)
  • Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte)

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  • expands the graphics modes for Tetris (AcademySoft), Tetris (Spectrum Holobyte), and Welltris.
    • Choose the Game Settings option in the in-game menu, and you’ll be able to select from display settings including CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy, and Hercules, depending on the game.
      • We know some players grew up with these specific visual settings, so we wanted to present them as accurately as possible.
  • MS-DOS games now also have key-repeat functionality, so holding down a button will now result in repeated presses (letting you slide a Tetrimino piece without having to repeatedly press the key, for example).
  • brings a few other bug fixes as well, including a fix for the Apple II score reset issue, as well as for the haptic feedback settings during multiplayer games of Tetris Time Warp.

Tetris Forever – Ver. ???

  • Release date: December 20th 2024
  • Patch notes:
  • Adds a new game: Welltris (MS-DOS)
    • Pieces — Tetriminos, of course, but also other polyominoes! — fall down four sides of a well, and your job is to get them to form lines at the bottom. Can you handle Tetris times four? Much like the other MS-DOS games in Tetris Forever, Welltris has never before been officially re-released. Now you can play it from the comfort of your couch!
  • All four players can now remap their controls in Tetris Time Warp.
  • Remappable controls are also now available for MS-DOS, Electronika 60, and Apple II games on all platforms.
  • We have fixed the audio stuttering issue that affected some games on the Nintendo Switch platform. This was being caused by a conflict with the Rewind feature, which has now been disabled on Switch in certain games. We will look into restoring it in a later update, if possible.

How to download updates for Tetris Forever for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Tetris Forever, you have three options:

  • let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

  • try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

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  • select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.

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