Adventure Vision Turtles Game Editor

This was an editor for Turtles, a game for the Adventure Vision console.  I wrote it in 2019 as a tool to help confirm the results of my work reverse engineering the game’s code in 2017.  It was written in c# using Visual Studio on Windows 10.

ROM Game Editor for Turtles for the Adventure Vision

  • Map Editor
    • All four map layouts are fully customizable.
    • Maps can be imported from another ROM file.
    • Prizes and Bomb can be moved.
    • New Map Features
      • Trick Walls (invisible or walk-through)
      • Allows traveling off one end of the map to the other.
  • Sprite Editor
    • All sprites can be edited.
    • Sprites can be imported from another ROM file.
    • Copy/Paste sprites (within editor)
  • Music Editor and Playback
    • Supports all twelve melodies (including two hidden ones).
    • Melodies can played and edited.
    • Edit pitch, delay, volume, and effect of each note.
    • Copy/Paste/Edit single or multiple notes at once.
    • Melodies can be imported from another ROM file.
    • Crude ‘Sheet Music’ can be exported.
  • Option Editor
    • Bug Fixes and Patches
      • Map right border jagged line fix.
      • Draw map first column patch (for some custom levels)
    • Mods and Cheats
      • Ghost Mode (invincibility)
      • Bombs Away (unlimited bombs)
      • Bombard (drop new bomb anytime)
      • Play Forever (unlimited lives)
      • Easy Mode (save fewer Turtlettes to pass each level)
      • Demo Mode (Turtle ‘AI’ navigation)
      • Demo Mode w/auto-bomb
      • No Siren (disables ‘out of bombs’ siren)