
Some of the best ports of the original Castlevania games out there, the Castlevania Aniversary Collection brings the classic games to modern audiences. Runner Up: Castlevania Anniversary Collection The overall package paints a magical portrait that peers into the world of Disney and video games in the era. In addition to expert emulation of the '90s Disney games, this package from Digital Eclipse features oodles of documentary footage and never-before-seen artwork about a pair of games that were made under tight circumstances with access to some of the best animators on the planet. We can debate the quality of Genesis Aladdin and the SNES / Genesis Lion King games for a long time, but it'd be hard to find a more loving collection of retro games in recent memory.
It uses a hacked version of PocketNES and includes the Aladdin by Hummer Team version of the ROM.Winner: Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King
A version of this was repackaged and re-released by an X-BOY group as " Aladdin" for Game Boy Advance. #Aladdin snes re release upgrade
The game got a music upgrade hack, available here. The bonus level, where Aladdin and Jasmine ride the magic carpet, has a glitched HUD in all versions, except for Popeye 2: Travels in Persia. The cobras in this game are seen in Waixing's Doraemon, a hack of Somari. Silvers Lin was credited in Tiny Toon Adventures 6 as the programmer. The name "Silvers LIN" is hidden in the game as ASCII text. This got fixed in the later revisions of the game. It's one of the few Famicom/NES games where the commonly-accepted controls for an NES platformer are reversed (usually, A makes the player character jump and B makes them shoot/run). The logo does appear in background tiles in the genie level, but isn't in the same style as others seen in Super Mario World and Mortal Kombat II Special, probably so that it would blend in. logo screen in the game as an Easter egg. This is one of the few games made by Hummer Team and published by J.Y. Final Boss (unused): Jafar, Jasmine, Jafar, Sultan. Jafar's Palace: Jasmine, Aladdin, Aladdin, Genie. Bonus Stage: Sultan, Aladdin, Jafar, Genie. Stage 4: Abu, Aladdin, Jasmine, Aladdin. in Popeye II - Travels in Persia, Aladdin's icon is replaced with Popeye's. The following can be entered on the "PASS WORD" screen and are valid for every version of the game.
You can also find "Hummer" in the tiles along with the same "SPECIAL" used in Mortal Kombat II Special which suggest Hummer Team made it. If you go through the tiles, you can find the unused genie graphics for the bonus rounds. Inside the tiles you can find a Hummer logo and "Special" text
However, another MMC3 hack exists which does not have the music issue.
Aladdin II (1996) - Aladdin 4 with a 1995 copyright and the 4 was changed into a II. Aladdin (1996) - Aladdin 4 with a 1996 copyright but without the 4. Aladdin 4 (1995/96) - Aladdin 4 with both 19 copyrights. The animated background graphics in the game aren't animated and the "The End" graphics are glitched. The music screws up so it plays a song once, leaving you with no music or the bonus round music for the rest of the level. Aladdin Special - Title screen hack of Aladdin.Īll the following versions were hacked to run on the common MMC3 rather than J.Y.'s custom mapper, resulting in several glitches and missing content. 45-in-1 version - The only difference between this version and Aladdin III is that the controls are reversed, following the usual control set up of an NES platform game. On multicarts made after 1996, Popeye 2 starts on Level 2 instead. This is usually bundled with Aladdin III on multicarts. Popeye II - Travels in Persia - Hack of Aladdin III that edits Aladdin's head into Popeye's. Aladdin III - another title screen hack of Aladdin found in Popeye 2 ROM, it was later reused for all J.Y. Aladdin II (1995) - Title screen hack of Aladdin, included in the ROM of that game, also released under JY-026 id. There are many other versions of this game. There's also a considerable amount of sprite flicker in the genie level. The physics are similarly programmed to that of Somari, making some of the later levels more difficult. Also, the huge snake is missing at the end when fighting Jafar. The game lacks Abu following you, guards being able to throw barrels at you and civilians. It has all the stages from the original and it even has the bonus game (although the genie is missing due to the NES lacking Mode 7).