Genesis TF Bosses Playable after 17 years

[Ninjinister]

Yes, after almost two whole decades, someone has finally figured out how to play as the bosses in the Genesis version of Tournament Fighters. He's not divulged the secret just yet, but he has uploaded a video of Triceraton's movelist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZKjNrr04Qs

I never knew the stomp move was his Desperation o.O

EDIT: Dude sent me a 'trainer' program to use to utilize the bosses. It feels so good to finally have these three under my control. Leads to awesome setups such as this:

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Yes, after almost two whole decades, someone has finally figured out how to play as the bosses in the Genesis version of Tournament Fighters. He's not divulged the secret just yet, but he has uploaded a video of Triceraton's movelist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZKjNrr04Qs

I never knew the stomp move was his Desperation o.O

Dude, I felt like all of Triceraton's moves were Desperation attacks.

That's awesome that he's found how to play as bosses, though he says he using an emulator. This seems to be what he's said about his accomplishment so far.

Also...

Junanagou:

"I found a way to play in Jurassic Planet, Technodrome and The Dojo. . . .

But this time, I wasn't able to do it using Game Genie codes. I used Cheat Engine instead. And Gens32 Genesis emulator...

Next (and final) step : Make turtle clones playable in 2P-Mode ! =)"

And:

when Jurassic Planet is activated, ALL chosen Stages will teleport you to Jurassic Planet ! No good... I'm currently making a Trainer instead. But you'll have to use the same emulator as me, Gens32 Surreal 1.86 HD... Sorry about that but that's the best I can do for now.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

EDIT: Dude sent me a 'trainer' program to use to utilize the bosses. It feels so good to finally have these three under my control. Leads to awesome setups such as this:

Think you could PM a link to that program?
Playing as Krang would be awesome!

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Think you could PM a link to that program?
Playing as Krang would be awesome!

Not unless I get permission from #17 himself.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Not unless I get permission from #17 himself.

Cool, man, do you have his contact info?

EDIT: Eh, I guess I'll just try send message on youtube channel.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

EDIT: Eh, I guess I'll just try send message on youtube channel.

Feel free, and if he gives it to ya, have fun!

[oldmanwinters]

Back in the day, it was always strange to me to see Krang and Triceraton on the back of the game box in what looked to be playable scenarios. The description evened bragged about having "11 Brutal Opponents and 11 Awesome Backgrounds!" I theorized that being able to play as the bosses might have been the reward for beating "Survival Mode," which I never once came close to doing (now that was brutal!).

[Ninjinister]

Even if that were so, the game has no battery back-up, so you'd need to go through the mode each time you wanted to play as them.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Even if that were so, the game has no battery back-up, so you'd need to go through the mode each time you wanted to play as them.

Yeah, the "bit" generation was evil like that.

I actually called the Nintendo Tip line to figure out why my high scores would never stay saved on some games, and they educated me on the significance of battery back-up.

[Mini-Turtle]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Back in the day, it was always strange to me to see Krang and Triceraton on the back of the game box in what looked to be playable scenarios.

That's because they WERE going to be playable!

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Mini-Turtle

That's because they WERE going to be playable!

Yeah, all signs point to this; from the fact that they have player 2 colors, to them being more or less fully playable (although I'm unaware of if Krang and Karai have Desperations at this time), with movelists that actually correspond to the characters' moves as they are in the game, as well as the notations fitting along with the rest of the cast. Normally, if a character isn't meant to be played and they are forced into that role by a cheat device, their moves will be out of the ordinary, have weird notations, and there will be high chance of the game glitching out. The only glitches I encountered were some minor graphical glitches on the select screen due possibly to monkeying with the code to make these folks playable.

The final piece of evidence I found was that at the select screen, Krang's Android is shortened to "Krang". This shows that his name was made specifically in that font for the purpose of the select screen, because if it was just some algorithm that forced the character's name into that font on the screen, it would have shoehorned his entire name (this is the same with other longname characters, such as April).

[gobo]

My guess is that they were always intended to be playable, but they got bricked-in by an oversight or by missing a deadline. Has it been said that all possible avenues for unlocking this feature without adding-on a modifier have been exhausted?

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by gobo

My guess is that they were always intended to be playable, but they got bricked-in by an oversight or by missing a deadline. Has it been said that all possible avenues for unlocking this feature without adding-on a modifier have been exhausted?

Button code is the only logical method. Of course, logic isn't always appreciated.