Case study
Turtles in Time: a three-region SNES disassembly
The Turtles in Time SNES disassembly covers the USA, European PAL and Australian PAL ROMs of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV. It uses the author's SNES ROM framework and an asset extraction script that reads the user's clean ROM.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 6
- Last commit
- 2025-02-14
- Language
- Assembly
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-3.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: A clean, headerless ROM of one of the three supported regional versions is required for asset extraction.
- Prerequisites: The project uses version 1.4.0 of the author's SNES ROM framework.
- License: GPL-3.0 licence.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{tmnt-iv-turtles-in-time-snes-case,
title = {{Turtles in Time: a three-region SNES disassembly}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/TMNT-IV---Turtles-In-Time-SNES-Disassembly}},
url = {https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/TMNT-IV---Turtles-In-Time-SNES-Disassembly},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmnt-iv-turtles-in-time-snes-case/}}
}Plain text
Turtles in Time: a three-region SNES disassembly. https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/TMNT-IV---Turtles-In-Time-SNES-Disassembly (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmnt-iv-turtles-in-time-snes-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- readme.md GitHub · Yoshifanatic1/TMNT-IV---Turtles-In-Time-SNES-Disassembly · Revision b80a727
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