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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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  opened by paleface at 11:57:34 07/30/24  
  last modified by paleface at 12:07:08 07/30/24  
  paleface [sys=PCB; cat=Beat_em_up; reg=J]
           
Tipped off by Loki https://selectbutton.net/t/games-you-played-today-chronicles-x-ten-things-i-played-about-you/14969/500 , I found that the JP version of TMNT is a later revision: TCRF says it fixed a scoring exploit in the other versions, where you could destroy infinitely recurring projectiles for points https://tcrf.net/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(Arcade)#Regional_Differences .

A "tmntj.zip" extracts from The Cowabunga Collection. It's only a fraction of the size of tmnt.zip (172 KB vs 1.36 MB)--so I guess it probably just modifies that one?

isfet mentioned https://selectbutton.net/t/games-you-played-today-chronicles-x-ten-things-i-played-about-you/14969/491 a two-player JP version where you can pick your turtle freely, which would make for easier MAME set-up--but the CC JP version is a 4-player version, with Japanese characters where "TURTLES" would be on the title screen--and a date there of 1990 instead of 1989. (MAME refers to it as "Japan 4 players, version 2.")
 
Anyway it is a later revision so I guess I should be playing this one. ^ _^
 
Did a little testing of the timing of the input for the two-button attack; daphaknee mentioned that in the NES version (see the US arcade version notes), the timing for it is slightly staggered button presses--but in this JP arcade version anyway it does appear to require precisely times simultaneous presses, which I am just not great at.
 
  paleface 12:07:08 07/30/24
           
Story etc text still in English--the only Japanese I've seen is the text replacing "TURTLES" on the title screen.
    
references:
· Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PCB)
· Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (PS2)
· Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
· Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (PC)

 
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