TMNT Master System
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Update []:

xfixium has provided an update on their project to bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade to the Sega Master System.

In a new video on their YouTube channel, xfixium mentioned in the description that they've been getting a lot of questions about whether the project is still alive because of another project by Gustavo Valenzuela that aims to bring the game to the 16-bit Mega Drive/Genesis.

In response, they've confirmed that work on the project is still ongoing and that a demo is also apparently coming "soon."

Right now, xfixium says they are still working through the stage 1 logic (primarily in their spare time on weekends) to get the demo ready, but "it's getting there."

In the meantime, they've pulled together a few older videos they've posted on Instagram to show how the project is shaping up so far. You can watch that video below:

Original Story []: If you were an arcade-going youngster at the start of the '90s, chances are you will have put more than a few coins into Konami's superb Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coin-op. One of the most popular arcade cabinets of the period, this side-scrolling fighter continues to attract fans, even today – hence the recent popularity of both the TNMT Cowabunga Collection and the 'spiritual successor', Shredder's Revenge.

The original arcade machine only got ported to the NES and home computers back in the day, with Turtles in Time and The Hyperstone Heist scratching the Turtles itch for SNES and Genesis / Mega Drive owners, respectively. Poor old Master System owners didn't get any Turtles love whatsoever – but that's all set to change, many decades on from the release of Konami's classic.

Homebrew coder xfixium is hard at work porting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Sega's humble 8-bit console (thanks, Ray Castello), and things are already looking very impressive indeed, with the Master System's larger colour palette allowing for a much closer match to the original coin-op than the NES port achieved.

The music sounds pretty good, too; xfixium is working with Louis The SEGA Nerd on that element of the conversion:

This is one project you'll want to keep an eye on; let us know if you're interested in checking this out by posting a comment below.