TMNT Tournament Fighters
 

TMNT Tournament Fighters is one of my favorite fighting games ever(along with Street Fighter and others). You can talk about any version of it, the SNES, NES, or Sega Genesis. You can also talk about who are your favorite fighters and what are your favorite stages as well. 8) 8)

Huge fan of that game. I loved the Urban feel it gave to the turtles and their stages. I really liked Raph's stage. I beleive that one was the little resteraunt or bar or whatever, But my favorite fighter was donnie.

Why not, I had the SNES one but I played the Sega Gen and NES ones. The SNES one is my fav, it has the best sprites and it was the most fun with the best cast of playable characters. The Sega Gen one blew ass because you could only play as hero characters and none of the bad ones. And the NES one I never understood how to play it and the computer would just stomp me.

So I like the SNES one the best, Don is my favorite good guy character and either Aska or Armaggon are my favorite bad guy characters. As for levels I like the Train you fight Karai on and the Pirate Ship.

My favorite is the SNES version as well. It just felt so complete like there was nothing wrong with it at all. I love all of the fighters and my favorite fighter is Mikey and my favorite stage is his Sky Palace Stage. It just looks so shiny and you can even see the whole city with the billboards. What are your favorite super moves? 8)

I've only played the SNES version. I was a big fan of Donatello, but Mikey had my favorite super move.

I vaguely remember playing Tournament Fighters over at a friend's house on the Super NES, though I'm afraid I don't remember much. I did recently play TF for the NES, though, and...

Well, the music was good. :|

Here's a review I wrote a little while back:

http://forevergeek.com/games/nintend...t_fighters.php

Got the SNES and Genesis final bosses mixed up by accident, though.

Anyhow, I love the game and it still remains one of my favorite 2D fighters. The SNES version is my favorite of the bunch, though I've never had the pleasure of playing the NES version.

DrSpengler, I totally agree with you on the part about Aska in your article. I also hate patience (which probably made me lose a good number of fights).

What was Krang like in the Genesis one? I never got around to playing it...

Pretty much describes my experience with tournament fighters. For me I only played the NES one through roms because the actual game is so rare, which added a bit to its hardness so I gave up on it. I bought a used Genesis and tournament fighters for it years after both their releases, probably around the time n64 was old, so I played it much later than I played the SNES version which I bought new back in the day.

Don was my character whenever I wanted to win. No one can stop the twirling bo staff move. I'd just continually press it (which made it sort of cheap). I didn't like how 2 of the turtles could slide while the other 2 could only crouch and kick. Don was a slider which made it even more unfair. My favorite bad guy was wingnut, if you learned his dive attack it worked really well though it was long.

Which tournament fighters gave you the toughest time. I mosty definitely know that Karai has to be one of them since she's good in all areas.

I used to have the SNES version. Don was definitely my best fighter, but Cyber Shredder would always kick my ass. Sadly, I still remember the code to play as Karai or the Rat King. X, Up, Y, Left B, Down, A, Right, X, Up.

Yeah, Shredder's very tough and he loves to block alot too. his special moves will always get you. Also, it's sometimes tough to not get close to Chromedome because he loves to piledrive you which takes off alot of health, but he usually does it on the higher difficulty levels.

The SNES version was great. It was an interesting mix of the TMNT universes. From Mirage there was Rat King and Karai and from Archie there was Armaggen, Wingnut, and War. All in all it was a pretty good fighter for its day.

Yeah, it's kinda like Street Fighter, but TMNT Style which is great!! Rat King and Karai were extremely powerful.

Chrome Dome on the higher difficulties and Karai usually gave me the most trouble.

Ooh, is this thread still alive? I loved the SNES Tournament Fighters! Might even be my favorite fighting game ever.

Karai was easy as greased crap on a high fiber diet, though. Granted, she was tougher depending upon your character of choice (I did not enjoy fighting her as Shredder or Raph), but she was pretty simple if you had Mikey, Leo, Don, Aska, Wingnut... I think even War could take her down pretty easily if the player kept doing the Y+B headbutt (shel just kept blocking) until his/her bar got charged up. Pull a super, rinse and repeat.

By far, my favorite character was Chrome Dome. Extended kicks and the electric piledriver FTW. :D

With CD, my toughest fight was always against Raph. Leo and Mikey could be trouble at times, but once I maneuvered into the right position they went down fairly easily. (If you're standing midscreen while he's cornered and time it just right, Leo will keep throwing shining cutters, but you can extended kick-sweep him before they ever get out -- same thing happens with Mikey and the dragon breath. Excellent.) Everyone else was a cakewalk. For the most part, the same tactics that work on Goro in Mortal Kombat (that is, jumping backwards in the corner and kicking opponents when they get within range -- except with CD, that range is quite broad) work for the Chrome in TMNT:TF. Try it! If you're patient, double perfects on Karai are fairly easy to get. 8)

Admittedly, however, it's much more fun (and exciting) to go after her and trade blows with the mistress.

I never found any of the super moves to be all that useful (fights with Karai notwithstanding), but Wingnut's is capable of killing an enemy at full power if you nail it just right. Now that SNES emulators sport video capture, I should make a movie of that!

i never had a snes, as i was a rare sega fan, so hence i had the TF on the megadrive. The game i loved, i watched and played the snes version and obviously the graphics kicked ass and i loved the characters they had (especially me, the ratking!). I did how ever like the gen version better, which there isnt really a specific reason too, as clearly the snes owned it.

I notice the sega version also had characters that the snes didnt have (and vise versa) such as Triceration, Krang, Ray Fillet etc.......dam im too tired to finish this post:sleep:

Okay, I made a video of the Chrome Dome/Karai victory tactic. For some reason my attempts to upload it to YouTube kept failing, so I tried it with Google Video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...34880549&hl=en

Also, I figured out (or remembered, since I'm sure I used to know this) a relatively easy way of beating Raph tonight! Whereas it's best to go on the offensive when fighting the other Turtles, Raph requires a decidedly defensive approach. Good stuff. :)

EDIT:

Since nobody's said anything, here's another one I made of Chrome Dome and Aska:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...18104050560358

Good times, yes.

Very Cool videos Wes!! I didn't know that you can defeat Karai with Chrome Dome easily like that. I usually can defeat Karai easily with Raph(thanks to his Power Drill move connected with his Suplex move at a right timing). Which fighter do you guys think is the toughest at the highest difficulty and the highest speed at the same time? 8) 8)

Oh man I wish they would bring this game back, I always had a great time with it, they really need to bring it back!

That works? I've never known Karai not to kick Raph out of that move every time I've ever tried it -- her standing short is pretty much a guaranteed counter. I've never had much luck throwing CPU opponents either, though -- I like the piledriver because it keeps Chrome at a relatively safe distance. :)

As far as the difficulty and speed settings go, upping the speed doesn't make them any harder -- just faster. So provided that one can see what's going on, I'd say they're about the same on the toughest setting. I used to have to play on high speed 3 (I played the game for hours every day, and before long the lower settings started feeling reeeaaaaaally slow), but nowadays everybody looks lightning quick to me on that setting.

I still think Raph is probably the toughest CPU-controlled fighter, though given my tactics that only means that I'm probably going to take more than 2-4 hits fighting him. :D I can't score perfects every time on everyone, but Raph is the only fighter I sort of have to try to beat. ;)

With Chrome Dome, that is... even War can be pretty tough if you're fighting with, well... War.

Yeah, it's sometimes tough to get a perfect when it's one the highest difficulty and speed at the same time and Shredder can be tough sometimes seeing with his ability to reflect projectiles and his Aura Crusher.

I think I've had more difficulty with Tournament Fighters than any other fighting game, especially the NES version. Just can't seem to get very far.

Even more so than the Genesis version? I found that one to be the hardest of all -- the computer opponents have routinely killed me within three seconds of the start of a round on the hardest setting. I can't get anywhere in the bloody game on that level without using cheat codes!

The NES version is pretty hard too, but at least it's fair in that the computer isn't insanely strong and fast in comparison to your own player. I seem to recall it being kind of cheap too, though.

Heck, even in the SNES version the CPU characters never have to charge in order to pull off certain special moves. Evil. :|

Speaking of this game, did you know that Aska is censored in the english version!? She's actually hotter in the Japanese version of the game...

Same here. I never actually managed to get past the evil Ninja Turtle you had to fight in the SNES story mode. Not exactly one of my proudest video game moments. :sweatdro: