- #ALADDIN SEGA GENESIS CARPET RIDE STRATEGY GUIDE ARCHIVE#
- #ALADDIN SEGA GENESIS CARPET RIDE STRATEGY GUIDE CODE#
This indicates that the build was produced several weeks after the show had taken place.
The CES demo build is labeled as a Chicago CES demo, but as noted in the build’s TCRF article, the SNASM-generated timestamp reflects June 27th, 1993. This reveals a few interesting things exclusive to that build, including some additional sketch material that does not appear to be accessible in the build through normal gameplay. It’s also worth noting that Noesis can dig the Chopper data back up out of the Aladdin CES demo build. While it won’t give you access to the materials that didn’t actually make it to retail, it will allow you to flip through frames and observe tile usage in the finished product. The resulting data can then be viewed directly by Noesis. It includes a script, fmt_virginmd_chopper.py, which will allow you to dig all of the Chopper tile data out of any known (commercial or otherwise) Aladdin ROM image. In case you aren’t familiar, in short summary, it’s a tool built on a framework to assist in reverse engineering and exploring all manner of data. If not, well, there are pictures! (and you can skip straight to the cool section) You might also want a copy of Noesis on hand to explore along with me. Hopefully you like technical talk, because I’m not holding anything back. That includes finding a plethora of unreleased material, and even re-implementing entire objects and enemies that had been removed by the time Aladdin saw its commercial release! I’m going to walk you through the journey and reveal my discoveries at each step of the way.
#ALADDIN SEGA GENESIS CARPET RIDE STRATEGY GUIDE CODE#
I quickly started piecing processes together, and began working on getting the source code (which is written entirely in M68K assembly) built into a working binary.
#ALADDIN SEGA GENESIS CARPET RIDE STRATEGY GUIDE ARCHIVE#
It’s also a large part of what made it such a joy to discover an archive featuring the complete source code for the game in the Video Game History Foundation collection! In addition to being a treasure trove of data, this archive represented a great opportunity for me to begin establishing standards for source code archival, curating practices, tool dependency tracking, and a lot of other process-oriented things at the VGHF.Īlmost all of the development tools and materials were still intact in this archive. This unique blend of artwork and technology is a large part of what gives Aladdin a special place in video game history. It did so not by leveraging any particularly fancy raster effects or obscure hardware techniques, but rather by pairing effective artwork and design with just the right technology.
Aladdin’s beautifully hand-crafted, surprisingly well-quantized artwork set new expectations for many in the realm of what could be accomplished on Genesis hardware. Powered by what eventually became known as “Digicel” technology, along with a solid selection of middleware and some impressive talent, Aladdin managed to set itself apart from other Genesis titles of the era. If this does not work the first time, try it again.When it was released back in 1993, Disney’s Aladdin for the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive, depending on which side of the pond you lived on through the early 90’s) was really a visually striking game. There should be an extra life in the middle of the apples. Walk forward until the apples are out of view.
Keep walking until the game will not let you go any further, and you will get an extra life.Īt the beginning of the Desert level (level 2), there are four apples lined up in the shape of a diamond. Turn around, and walk all the way back to the beginning, or where you started from. Start the Desert level by walking to the right, but stop when you get to the second tree. You will hear a sound and get an extra life. Make sure that his head is directly under the bikini top. When you are in the Desert level and you pass the clothes line with the bikini top and the boxer shorts, move Aladdin around a couple of times. In rare cases, if you pause game play at the exact moment it hits you, as soon as the game is resumed, swing your sword, and it will vanish. Press or hold, then press the sword button (,, ) for the Quadruple Slash.įor the bonus levels, such as where Abu is in the village and the falling pots must be avoided while trying to gain gems, if you see that a pot is in your direct path and you have no way of moving in time, swing your sword to slice the pot before it gets to you.
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