[TAS] NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by DreamYao in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/4543M.html. TAS originally published on 2021-10-31.
In this game you get to control all four turtles and draw use of their different abilities ― or, at least that was the intent, but Donatello has both better reach and damage than the others, so he is used more or less constantly. The game features a well-written in-game dialogue, such as “Here.” and “Oh!”
dreamyao improves the previous movie (tasvideos.org/4074M.html) by 8.75 (525 Frames @60 FPS) seconds, thanks to improved lag reduction and overall better optimization.

[@uptown710]

Ok lemme get this straight. Shredder defeated by stubbing his toe, tripping over a shuriken and bursting into flames… Never underestimate the power of the TAS

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

Shredder was humiliated worse in the original cartoon. Trust me, this is completely in-character.

[@Midee]

I guess they really did have her support.

[@StuffisStuff]

This kill is also used in the regular speed run. It’s always funny

[@adamb89]

He shit himself to death. Do you have any idea how much shit it takes to self-destruct? A lot. Just.... A lot. And he totally delivered on that end.

[@XenoGuru]

2:29 My childhood nightmares will come back to me again after not having seen this game for years. This game was so freaking difficult. Beat it once and gave it away. Never again 🤣

[@Mega_Mikey]

Haha that’s still very impressive! I blame this game for giving me severe anger issues growing up 😆

[@XenoGuru]

@@Mega_Mikey I feel you on the "anger issues". I chucked this game across the room a few times before I beat it. I'm surprised it still worked after a few of those throws 🤣

[@GerardPinzone]

You have my support.

[@darklordojeda]

I beat the underwater level and considered that beating the game.

[@JeroenZM]

Using the flying Samurai head to bypass the first two gaps in level 4 is a genius move

[@PrimeIsCrime]

I accidentally discovered that weird flickering glitch as a kid and used that to beat the game. Just like the TAS, I beat Shredder without moving (Not from the shuriken trick though). One of my proudest accomplishment.

[@willjohnboy]

As opposed to beating the game without glitches?.

[@PrimeIsCrime]

@@willjohnboy You mean to ask have I beaten this game without glitches? I have but it's on an emulator. I beat it few years ago. No save states or glitches. Just from practice and my non existent skill.

[@isaquielsantosdelimasdoka548]

@@PrimeIsCrime é só poder ser porque não tem como buga ou jogo no game estick

[@isaquielsantosdelimasdoka548]

Como vc fez consegui isso eu tenho muita vontade de zera esse jogo mais nunca consegui

[@PrimeIsCrime]

@@isaquielsantosdelimasdoka548 The catch is that you also need a turbo controller. If my memory serves me correct, then all I did was just mash every button at the same time and the game would flicker and give me that glitch (Every turtle had different glitch outcome). But if you want to beat properly then you can check some other guides available on KZbin. Just keep practicing and you will be able to beat it like I did. Just don't let a few game overs discourage you. As April would say, "You have my support"

[@porkstamina]

Absolute chad move bypassing the full pizza on the ladder. And I loved the jabbing of the staff in time with the music.

[@DouglasZwick]

4:34 I have always loved how Shredder's hand comes out of the TV

[@user-up6pn4ud9c]

Teenage mutant ninja turtles nes tv shredder

[@kl4969]

He's clearly in the TV because he couldn't figure out how to send a video message.

[@Fougu]

RIP Mikey. He never got to ride the Blimp. :(

[@Max_Toons]

@@hawaiidkw1Yeah, and I’m pretty sure after (somehow) beating the game, any turtles that were caught will be freed.

[@themcc1879]

Another TAS that makes an already tight run tighter. The enemy maniulation and constant morphing is insane. The most noticeable improvements seem to be the boss fights, the driving and keeping lag down in enemy heavy areas with very shallow/no jumps. This record probably isn't going to broken any time soon I think. Only thing left is finding more glitches for time saving.

[@QueenSydon]

This bloody game was hard enough without the INTENSE FLICKERING ACTION

[@MidnightWonko]

The IBM version was literally impossible, due to a ceiling being too low over a gap in the sewers in area 3. You could not jump over the gap without hitting your head and falling into the water/pit and dying.

[@QueenSydon]

@@MidnightWonko Great. Some versions are straight up unwinnable.

[@ArchsagePent]

Good job to dreamyao and TASVideosChannel. You have my support.

[@sarcasticguy4311]

Beat this game legitimately once. Never again. Can't count how many times Shredder ended my games with his OHKO. Beat him the one time by stockpiling scrolls and spamming them to the end of the game.

[@syokusanagi]

same i only beat this game once when i was little. i tried again but never could. lol

[@taiteakopyte1504]

This game was the hardest version of the TMNT series in NES verse IMO

[@XenoGuru]

​@@taiteakopyte1504I don't think anyone who played this behemoth of a game will disagree. 😂

[@Skunky48]

Awesome work on this!! Thanks so much for all of your tips and info that you shared. Really cool to see the finished product.

[@slickestrick4117]

"Don't let the Foot clan destroy the dam. You have my support!" Oh yea, what are you gonna do, yell nice things from the top of the dam? *Go call the friggin bomb squad!*

[@Cool750Boy]

That music transition from the title screen to the city map was perfect!

[@The_Wandering_Nerd]

You'd think the cartoon would have paid more attention to Donatello's ability to float through the air while shapeshifting into his enemies... maybe that was a comic-only thing :D

[@rocko7x]

my favorite turtle transformation was when they became bebop that was pretty neat, and that shredder fight where the turtle didn't even move LOL!!!

[@mariutunio]

I have no idea what's going on most of the time, but it's very entertaining.

[@Leviathan5213]

PLEASE just grab some pizza! I know it's a frame-perfect run, but my heart can only take so much!

[@stephensanders2104]

THIS GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY THIS GAME NEXT MONTH ON Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection PS4

[@darklordojeda]

I never consider it a true TAS if you have to sacrifice lives.

[@questionblock8949]

@ 5:35 getting the missiles somehow lol

[@meeiclonn5486]

This was the first video game my dad got for me several decades ago

[@heiznet1]

Old school that remians me of my days.

[@Slashstar314]

Goodness gracious. 166, 445 rerecords. That is some hardcore editing and dedication. I have this game backlogged. Maybe I should buckle down with some hardcore discipline and get the game done myself for the first time.

[@amandawashington4239]

LOL, I doubt I could ever last through the first 100 rerecords! I kinda have rage issues....

[@questionblock8949]

Very cool to watch

[@MurseSamson]

The pain train at 15:07 was fucking awesome. 😂

[@kujo62]

I could never beat this without Game Genie. Technodrome was f'n impossible.

[@sceneitallwithjeffandjon6984]

As I recall, the Game Genie codes were not very useful in this game. No invincibility cheat, for example.

[@CharlyHyo]

But it is not that difficult, I do not deny you when I was 16 years old I dominated the game without problems, now at 30 years I can not, but I can make it to the techno-drome

[@sceneitallwithjeffandjon6984]

Speaking of the TDrome, did it commit suicide in this run? What was that about? I'll have to check the notes on that one.

[@kujo62]

@@sceneitallwithjeffandjon6984 I knew there had to be... I remember using it.. so I looked it up and there's one for "immune to most damage". Can't remember what still damages you.. maybe the seaweed? There's a separate code for seaweed.

[@kujo62]

@@CharlyHyo I was 8 so i was getting my shell handed to me.

[@Numinor31]

8:03 😀

[@ilovemybeard3394]

Donatello with Shang Tsung abilities...very nice

[@rendyajadech1957]

2:05 you can jump to that ledge on the left by the door directly, why didnt he do it?

[@ammiebaker2911]

I love in a good TAS you look at the health bar and think for a sec he Better not get hit but immediately go yup let it ride!! Programmer got this!!!!!!!

[@AriochStarr]

So, I've always wanted to know; is the pizza at 11:57 actually possible to get?

[@-Keith-]

Nope, it was put there to dash players' hopes on the rocks.

[@seanmarsh8411]

That music though!! 🤘

[@nitroglitch45]

Who'd of thought Donatello was such a badass

[@mastercontrol469]

Bro went so fast even the Pixels couldn’t keep up.

[@MetaGrave]

7/10, didn't get the impossible pizza in Aera 4. :P j/k, this was fun to watch. :3

[@Sonicgott]

I remember beating this game when I was a kid. Felt similar to Castlevania.

[@kryptokrypto702]

Why does the turtle glitch out like that? It seems to take on the form of whatever enemy is sharing the same screen space. Also can someone explain why the shurikan stayed at the same spot and killed shredder? Sometimes the turtle didn't seem to do anything and still kill the boss, weird?

[@StuffisStuff]

If you throw a projectile then while that first projectile is out you press your turtle against a platform and throw a second one it will stick in place. The second one must be thrown before the first leaves the screen.

[@Dedicatedtolivinginthepast]

This popped up in my notifications right as I was thinking "You know what I want to watch? A NES TNMT TAS"

[@Winslinator]

Nice early input ending lol

[@joe718gt4]

Never realized they had a fully furnished apartment in the sewers until now

[@Bram25]

I remember this game as one of the first AVGN reviews I ever saw....... (Yes. When you had a 10 minute limit of uploading content and you needed a special "director's account" for it.....Yes. I am that old. And it is only 15 years ago)

[@benjabear4102]

The original Dark Souls

[@maxsteiner686]

Oh it's famous legend of splinter: tnmt awakening game.

[@ARonsoInEorzea]

imagine seeing this level of play in the 90s lol

[@user-kn2pd1ps6m]

вы знали что кнопкой селект в меню можно было выбирать уровни?

[@NFITC1]

I hate this game for how many hours I sunk into it as a kid and I never got past level 5. It was somewhat of a miracle that I ever got that far. I only ever played the C64 version of this and loading times really killed the fun. I do remember it was impossible to die during the bomb diffusing section though so I'd always sacrifice Raph to it.

[@LittlePlant888]

Whats going on when he changes into other characters in the first couple levels?

[@solarflare9078]

RAM issue.

[@NietypowyKurde]

It's a pretty old glitch: When you hold up+down and attack (different result if you jump+attack), the character you control will change sprites and something will happen (in case of Donatello a damage-dealing piece of Leo's sword will appear a certain distance away). Doing this with Raph will make him be able to pick up items that are way above him. Since regular controllers don't allow you to press 2 directions at once without breaking the plastic, bugs like that could pass during programming

[@frankwhite2072]

That was both beautiful and disgusting at the same time. The Technodrome was gorgeous. I miss random mechanical crap. Everything has to be streamlined nowadays, and it's turned me into a curmudgeon.

[@osaka_phong]

Watch out, James.

[@franciscojavierlopezavitia5331]

Esos bugs aplican o aparecen en un cartucho original de NES?

[@Aethelia]

There's a rest of the game after the dam

[@Just-J-10]

I beat this game once, barely. Got close plenty of other times.

[@GamerGee]

The dam stage was and is still hard. Fuck that stage

[@Nickle_King]

Anyone else get irrationally angry when seeing the completion time of 15 minutes?

[@3rdalbum]

Why do the sprites get so glitchy and change occasionally?

[@joshuasharrock466]

My first guess is there pressing left and right at the same time which you can't do on a real controller. My second guess is they're doing that at a specific frame. Ultimately though I have no F idea

[@solarflare9078]

It just looks like a RAM issue, with the sprites loaded into RAM already to compensate for some animation frames unable to be properly displayed in time.

[@enerc2333]

Huff this game is hell, we are 4 brothers and each one was a turtle, I was Ralph the rebel, and each one of us took turns doing a level with his turtle, the water was the most difficult Hell, I remember that we barely got to pass 3 or 5 times, but we got lost in the search for the master splinter and we did not arrive, a friend helped us in telling us the way to get to rescue to the sensei, but only once did we get there and then we didn't know the next way and we lost, that's why when we reached the water level it was a martyrdom and we believed that after rescuing splinter it was over the game, but as I said once we arrived we saved it, but then we couldn't, I don't know what happened, a few years passed but we were able to pass it, how horrible.

[@adi_2]

I have never seen anyone beat this game ever

[@updoottales]

You mentioned dialogue like "Here" and "Oh", but you forgot "MASTER!"

[@dmitriycherepenya]

Shredder suppose to be badass in this game, but tas makes him same clown as he was in cartoon

[@fefyfona4318]

how are they changing into the enemy like that? 0:21 0:28

[@joshuasharrock466]

On a real controller you cannot press left and right at the same time. You cannot press up and down at the same time either the stick has a spring in it that won't let you do it. This is a computer playing the game not a person and that computer is hitting multiple buttons at the same time at a specific time. It's impossible for a human

[@fefyfona4318]

@@joshuasharrock466 so since it can't recognize 2 opposite directions being pressed it just bugs out? Thats so weird. Interesting tho

[@joshuasharrock466]

@@fefyfona4318 if you watch TAS Super Mario brothers by Happylee... they make Mario walk and swim backwards by hitting both at the same time

[@andriaryanto8102]

How on earth is 5:38 & 8:04 possible?

[@rifty86]

Cowabunga!

[@ocioman]

Hard game best character Donatelo worst character Raphael opposite day.

[@Yos_Belmont]

Cawabanga

[@kryptokrypto702]

*Cowabunga 😉

[@slickestrick4117]

Not if you're a crow

[@barbugia123]

You just... glitch over it

[@user-oz5oe1rn9f]

Teenage mutant ninja turties

[@user-lv9xu3xp5i]

Teenae mutant ninja tuties leo nes action

[@madianantar7842]

2:19 fk this jump 😡

[@user-oz5oe1rn9f]

닌자 거북이 돌연 변이 특공대 한글화 패치

[@user-lv9xu3xp5i]

Teenae mutant ninja turties nes

[@user-oc8gz4dw8g]

Teenage mutan ninja turties 1989.1991.1992. Nintendo nes action game rom nes

[@user-oz5oe1rn9f]

Teengae tutiles 닌자 거북이 라파엘 레오 나르도 도나텔로 미켈란 젤로 코와 봉가 거북이 닌자 만세

[@user-up6pn4ud9c]

Leo paph mike don

[@shuushirakawa]

This is really buggy.

[@rafterscott]

15:37 Dumbest. Shredder. Ever.

[@user-kr9mq1wj9s]

Че за хрень

[@Pr0matic]

I hate this game with a passion

[@Cerkes_09]

Что за глюченная игра🤦🏻‍♂️👎🏼 читерская что ли

[@bltvd]

Not very interesting to watch without a commentary.

[@solarflare9078]

The first Konami TMNT game. What a mediocre start that was and the ports were even worse. TMNT arcade, which came months later, was MUCH better with just as bad ports (minus the pretty competent NES one).

[@pkal244]

This game was bloody horrible but it's all we had back then. I was a kid and a huge tmnt fan, but now that I'm older I can't believe how disgusting this game design was. They must have been outsourcing this to crck addicts

[@JOAKED]

Glitched =Cheater?