D-pad

d-pad English Noun en d-pad. en Kyle Orland 34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen” w:Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/someone-has-finally-beaten-nes-tetris/ 2024-01-02 The first known way past the brick wall of Level 29 was a technique that became known as hypertapping. By using a special grip that lets you vibrate a finger over the D-pad directions at least 10 times a second, you can effectively skip the "delayed autoshift" (DAS) that limits how fast pieces can move laterally when the D-pad is held down. https://web.archive.org/web/20260815103149/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/someone-has-finally-beaten-nes-tetris/ 15 August 2026