"TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist" for the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive gets a brand new DX romhack with new features

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The romhacking community is always a source for new ways to play retro games, from completely new levels or stages, characters, quality of life improvements, to flat out entirely new games based on the original game's engine.

Romhacker BillyTime!Games is one such person to give older games a great amount of quality of life additions and new features to completely revitalize the original games, with one such example being his Ghostbusters: Special Edition project, which is a romhack for the original Ghostbusters game released for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, and adds new playable characters and modes.

Similar to his Ghostbusters project, Billy has worked on another beloved titles from the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive catalogue, with his latest romhack being for the exclusive beat-em up game based on the TMNT franchise, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist DX".

This brand-new romhack adds a surplus of new features, like an extra difficulty setting, difficulty randomizer, survival mode, alternate Turtle colours and SRAM score saving.

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The full list of new features that this romhack features is the following:

This patch adds several addition features to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist for Sega Genesis.
Features:

• Super Difficulty (Selected within the options menu.)
• Difficulty Randomizer (Selected within the options menu.)
• Survival Mode (Hold B when selecting One or Two players, continue to hold until the character select screen appears.)
• Classic Mirage Comics colors (Selected within the options menu.)

Hi-Score SRAM

• Saving:

Scores save after Game Over and player returns to the sega logo.

• Loading:

Scores load upon boot. If checksum fails or it is your first time booting, default scores are loaded.
Further details and patching instructions can be found in the readme.

Those interesting in trying out this romhack, remember to use your own dumped ROM image of the original "TMNT: Hyperstone Heist" game for the Genesis / Mega Drive, and patch in the IPS file of the romhack into your ROM file to be able to play it.

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