I'm just in it for the asses.

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Getting screwy with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles prototype for the NES. This may also apply to the retail version, which is supposed to be nearly identical to the prototype available.

By editing the "current sub-weapon equipped" value in the RAM, I found some interesting results. For instance, many of the values yield friendly versions of enemies (Albeit with glitched graphics) that fight along side you and don't harm you (their projectiles may, though). There's a few variations on the friendly versions I've found so far, mostly friendly Foot Soldiers and some glitched thing that stays stationary and damages anything that contacts it. Other values produce glitchy projectiles that one fire diagonally downwards. There was one value that acted like a invisible temporary shield directly in front of the turtle that killed enemies; I couldn't determine if its duration was based on number of hits or time elapsed, because I quickly moved on to the next value.

I didn't go all the way to FF, but a lot of the results fell in to one of the aforementioned categories. Also of note is that these seem to one-shot ALMOST everything. Those that aren't killed in a single hit, like Shredder, are heavily damaged to the point that it only takes two or three hits.

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Originally posted by koolaidman

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(wacky Growl prototype stuff)

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This also piques my curiosity, even though I'd never even heard of the game before now. Googling the phrases I could decipher brought up nothing, but I'm gonna post some unorganized odds-and-ends regarding what I could gather.

• Incredibly obvious that the source material was a military setting, namely the ever-popular 1980s premise of Cold War tensions with the Soviets. The lines which appear to read "What are you doing back here? You haven't met any of the goals we set. Did you miss your mommy?", indicates that the source material's gameplay may of been a mission-oriented one in which the player could go back and forth to a home base to speak with an NPC.
• x17A56, where the intruding text begins, seems to be "day's work," possibly the last part of a sentence that went like "All in a day's work"
• Numerous uses of the phrase "blown to bits."
• I could make out "Soviet attack force" and "destroyed the Soviet germ weapon," along with "million dollar tank." Or maybe "billion dollar tank"?
• x17B5A suggests the words "My superiors", and x17B91 looks like some variation of "one look at your face" or "the look on your face", although there seems to be a possible adjective in there before "face" that I couldn't put my finger on.
• Unfortunately, the "Roldaer" namedrop you mentioned is almost certainly a corruption of "Soldier", with the line seemingly being "Soldier, you are in TROUBLE"
• x17E16 looks like "Allied" or "Allies," to which ties in to the later bit which appears to be "With little resistance from the Allies, the Soviets [indecipherable text, but given the context, likely refers to destruction] cities and took control of", then just descends in to more chaotic gibberish, with a phrase a few words later elaborating on someone who "lost a [something-something] strategic [something-something]"
• On a more general note, the fashion in which the text is corrupted is really far-out shit. It's really mangled in a serious way, and I can't really find any pattern to it. Just random.

Hopefully, these observations will help you find the source.

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I'm a mysterious man from a mysterious land.

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Originally posted by Dorito

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yo your pic's broken

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That's part of the mystique.


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From the debug menu of River City Ransom: Underground, you can access a few retro palettes that I've never seen in-game before.



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