All the pirates on dagger wound island all have red bandannas and such even though they aren't all the same tier of pirate. I had the game on disc before and everything worked then, no patch was needed. but now all the enemies look the same. And i don't want to use that stupid colour tinting.

There was an issue with hardware accelerated 3D interfering with the game's color coding. You could try switching from hardware accelerated 3D to software accelerated 3D, or the other way round.

Also GrayFace' MM8 Patch is addressing an issue with coloring, but I think it was removing unwanted tinting in Direct3D mode.
https://sites.google.com/site/sergroj/mm#TOC-GrayFace-MM8-Patch-v1.5.1