Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection’s first major update is now available

Publisher Konami Digital Entertainment [1,001 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/konami” rel=”noopener”>Konami and developer Digital Eclipse [13 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/digital-eclipse” rel=”noopener”>Digital blackout released the first major update for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection [4 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-cowabunga-collection” rel=”noopener”>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collectionwhich adds new gameplay improvements, including highly requested changes to improve online modes.

Online Multiplayer [110 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/multiplayer” rel=”noopener”>multiplayer opportunities for Teenage MUTAN [8 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/mutan” rel=”noopener”>The peoplet Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time ( SNES [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/snes” rel=”noopener”>SNES) are included in this patch and online play is coming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES) in a future update.

Get the full patch notes below.

New additions

• The start menu icon has been changed on the field. ( Switch [12,757 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/switch” rel=”noopener”>Switching)
• PS4 [24,416 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/playstation/ps4″ rel=”noopener”>PlayStation 4 arcade controller is now supported. Joystick support for PlayStation 4 is now implemented ( PS5 [3,985 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/playstation/ps5″ rel=”noopener”>PlayStation 5).
• Xbox [21,668 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox” rel=”noopener”>Xbox Arcade stick is now supported. Xbox joystick support is now implemented ( Xbox One [11,722 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-one” rel=”noopener”>Xbox One / Xbox Series [3,086 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-series” rel=”noopener”>Xbox series).
• When creating an online lobby, the player can now set the size of the lobby for both Arcade [19 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/arcade” rel=”noopener”>arcade games. The host can limit it to two, three or four players.
• When creating an online lobby, the player can now set the frame delay to “Automatic”. When this is set, the input lag is adjusted according to the number of players.
• Added new enhancement to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES / Super Famicom). Ultimate-Attacks can now be activated in ON/OFF mode.
• Added new enhancement to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Famicom). “Group Mode” can now be enabled ON/OFF. (Only available in the Japanese version.)
• Added new enhancement to Ninja Turtles ( Arcade [357 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/arcade” rel=”noopener”>Arcade) (USA / Japan). The number of lives per coin can be adjusted from one to five.
• Added new enhancement to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) (USA). The number of lives per coin can be adjusted from 1-8.
• Added new enhancement to Ninja Turtles (Arcade) (US / Japan). Difficulty can be adjusted.
• Added new enhancement to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) (USA). Difficulty can be adjusted.
• Added new enhancement to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) (USA). Game Loop can now be toggled on/off. While ON, the game will restart from the beginning after the credits.
• New button Action [835 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/action” rel=”noopener”>action added to “Ninja Turtles (Arcade) (USA / Japan),” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) (USA).” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (SNES / Super Famicom)” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist (Genesis / Mega Drive).” Players can now assign a button to “Special”. This button simultaneously presses “Attack” and “Jump” to make it easier to perform special attacks.
• Added new color enhancement to all Game Boy” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/game-boy” rel=”noopener”>Game Boy games. Added Game Boy Color Mode ON/OFF. New colour Palette [4 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/palette” rel=”noopener”>Palette” option added to the pause menu for all Game Boy games. In addition to other filters, players can choose between four color palettes:
  1. black and white
  2. Game Boy Green
  3. Game Boy Pocket Green
  4. Game Boy Light Blue
• Audio for various games and tweaked main menu.
• Additional pages for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis) added to Strategy [73 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/strategy” rel=”noopener”>Strategy Guidance.
• Additional page for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist (Genesis) added to the Strategy Guide.
• Visual settings are saved for each game.

Fixed issues

• The German translation for “Punch Repeatedly” on Strategy Guide page 11 has been corrected.
• In the music player, the cassette icon for Ninja Turtles (Arcade) show now shows the correct icon.
• On page 5 of the Strategic Guide (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (SNES)), the Turtle Tip 3 screenshot has been replaced.
• in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (SNES), Stage Select enhancements now work even after changing the settings in Options.
• in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone HeistStage selection improvements now work when selecting two players.
• Improved easy menu navigation for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES) / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Manhattan Project (Famicom) are already working.
• Additional credit enhancements to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES) are now up and running.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (SNES) museum guide now includes missing pages 18 to 19.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC [16,572 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/pc” rel=”noopener”>desktop computer through Steam.

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