Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game: TMNT2 - Turtle Swap

This hack allows both player to switch the turtle they're playing as by pressing "Select":

- switches the turtle ID, the palette, the name on the hud and plays a sound
- both players can select the same turtle, even on the character select screen

This hack is fully compatible with the "TMNT2 - Bugfix & Polish" hack.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game


Turtle Swap


v1.0, 08th of Feburary 2021


1) General Info
2) Patching & Compatibility with other hacks
3) Credits & Thanks




1) General Info

This is a romhack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game.
It is made for the NES NTSC-U version of the game.

It allows both players to switch which turtle they're playing as by pressing "select":
it will change the turtle ID, the palette, the name on the HUD, and play a sound.

Both players can select the same turtle, even on the character select screen.

Yes, I am well aware that all turtles play the exact same in this game!




2) Patching & Compatibility with other hacks


Made for and tested with this rom:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - The Arcade Game (USA).NES

Using an IPS patcher such as Lunar IPS to patch the rom.
You can find the rom on archive.org.

This hack is fully compatible with my other hack: "TMNT2 - Bugfix & Polish" !
First, patch an og rom with this hack, then with Bugfix & Polish, or vice versa.
The order of patching should not matter. You can grab "Turtle Swap" on romhacking.net.




3) Credits

ASM editing: MetHy aka Ness

Thanks to the FCEU X and YYCHR devs.

Feel free to use this hack in your own hacks, no need to ask me, just a small credit is enough.




Database match: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - The Arcade Game (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180803-121122)
File SHA-1: 40FF068D2A7BE1202D843C2A9DC1220F087A094A
File CRC32: C9FFBBDB
ROM SHA-1: DEE9CF8DCC91DE3F9C65181A07E7E84F7570363D
ROM CRC32: A9217EA2