Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

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These are new palettes for the four turtles, 100% matching with the exact colour values that were used in the 1992 SNES Turtles In Time game for its "Comic" skins. These palettes were actually based on the classic Playmates toys line colours, so the nostalgia is strong with whis one!

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INTRO

I was born 1979 and grew up in the ages of arcades fever. When Turtles In Time was released for SNES, it was a dream come true... I really played the heck out of that game.

One of my favourite features of it was the option allowing to change the turtle colours to "Comic Mode", a look that resembled to the ones in the toys that I had and loved. So many hours playing and watching those colours in my old little CRT, really harwired them into my brain. When Shredder's Revenge was announced in March of last year, I dreamed of having this same colours available as an option in the game.

Finally the game was released without this feature, and as soon as I purchased it, I started to investigate a way of modding the files. While I was inmerse of that process, another mod with "Comic" skins was released, but I instantly noted that it had nothing to do with the 1992 TiT comic colours. I'm a professional 3D/FX designer and video compositor/colorist, and I'm used to perceive the most subtle colour variation. As a die hard purist fan of TMNT, this other mod being referred as "comic colour" was kinda sacrilegy to me.

The day after, with a little of work and patience, I managed to release my mod,  bringing the real 1992 comic colour palettes to Shredder Revenge's, in a more complete state than others, with HUD and cutscenes recoloured, being it also the first one to include auto install/uninstall scripts.

I hope that you enjoy as much as me watching the turtles wearing their true colours again.

DESCRIPTION


This mod will recolour every single sprite where the turtles appear in the game, giving them the authentic 1992 Turtles In Time SNES game "comic" look, easing also differentiation in multiplayer. 

Instructions:

1. Copy the "1992 Turtles In Time High Fidelity Colour Palettes" folder inside the TMNT Shredder's Revenge main folder. Steam's and XBOX Live's versions folder structure differ a little bit, so ensure that the mod's folder is located at the same level that the game's main exe file (TMNT.exe).
2. Double click on the install.bat script which is within this mod folder, or the install(no slash).bat  script if you don't want to install the Slash recolour mod.
3. Enjoy!


CHANGE LOG:

v5.0. Fixes and additions for the new game update (December 24th).




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v4.1. Fixed Raph's and Mickey's tongues in knocked out states (June 29th).


Thanks to NeoZero35 for spotting this!


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v4.0. Added Slash high fidelity recolour (June 28th).

This new version adds a recolour of Slash following the philosophy of this mod; 100% fidelity regarding Turtles In Time's coulours, providing also an option for those who want to keep untouched Tribute Games' original sprites, with no custom art added to them. 

The recolour include the following changes in respect to vanilla's colours:

  • Darker green skin
  • Dark blue/grey bandana
  • White spikes, shoulder pads, blades and belt
  • Purple elbow/knee pads
  • Darker yellow plastrons

 
With this version is also included a No Slash install script, which is provided for those who only want to install the four ninja turtles recolours. 


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v3.0. Added tongues and frozen states recolours (June 22nd).


I realised while playing that, by default, the turtles don't have separated colours for their tongues, they use their bandana colour for them instead. It bugs me a bit, specially when playing with Leo or Don, in their case the blue/purple tongue stands out a lot.

I decided to recolour all of them using the same colours that the tongues show in the game's cutscenes. After a couple of hours playing find Wally with all the little tongues on each sprite, I think I manage to change all. If you find any sprite left to recolour please let me know.



The more I spend time working with this game's sprites, the more I realise the amount of effort and love that Tribute Games have put in their design. They are a truly piece of art, and I can't help but feel a profound admiration for the team behind this game.

This patch also includes adjusted recolours for frozen states that matches perfectly these comic palettes, as well as an uninstall script that allows rolling back quickly to vanilla colours.


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v2.1. Fixes a colour mistake: Leo's Skin Lo (June 21st).



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v2.0. Added the missing screens and a .bat script that takes care of all the tedious file renaming thing (June 20th).


  • Stages outros and ending screens
  • Map icons
  • Multiplayer icons


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v1.0. Initial Version (June 19th).


  • Turtles sprites
  • Title screen
  • Menu screen
  • Character select screen
  • Intro screens
  • Player hud