The Obscure Genesis bootleg Aladdin game you never played ! - Aladdin II Review

[@OriginalMasters]

I love Virgin Games’ Aladdin for the MD (not Shiny as someone else wrote here, although some key members went on to start Shiny) and Capcom’s Aladdin for the SNES equally, and I’m not sure where this one would have found its place on the market. Anyway, this looks like it was a commendable effort, and a fascinating comparison between the two! The colors might not be as vibrant, but they do indeed look quite smooth!

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

For some reason it looks REALLY good on that new curved screen Philips CRT I bought. :)

[@jaimecavazos9090]

Great video Gaming Pal Ollie, it should be difficult not having the original mechanics as the jumping after a bounce, or the kicking; but as you said, if someone just had this game available, is still a good option, I really liked the original SNES one !!

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

Thanks! This is such a weird game and I think the music makes even more surreal, it's like Aladdin SNES but from an alternate universe lol

[@jaimecavazos9090]

😂 that’s a very good description , also if you add the different colors too

[@Tim1337rocks]

This doesn't seem THAT bad, shame it seems to have had a lot of potential as you say. Very interesting to learn about all these weird bootleg games indeed. You guys had some weird stuff over there in the post Soviet world.

[@gravious]

nice video, my only (constructive) criticisms are that your CRT filters are nice, but KZbin destroys fine detail at 1080p uploads, there's not enough bit-rate. however, a hack is to render your video in your editing software to a high bit-rate 4k video. KZbin biases 4k, giving it more bit-rate and the macro-blocking is 4x smaller. this also gives better bit-rates to people on 1080p and again, looks better. If you don't want to do that, maybe don't use CRT filters 😕 Also, i liked the video, but you missed all the context for who made this port, why was it made, was it released commercially, and where? it might be confusing to people who know about the Shiny version, and know that is was a whole separate company doing a whole separate version on each console. otherwise, as i said, great stuff! 🙂

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

yeah I've been thinking about rendering/capturing at a higher resolution for the CRT Filter but man those videos take up so much space. I personally can't see that the filer doesn't look good because I'm kinda not that good at seeing stuff, looks fine to me, so we'll see. I have a ton of videos recorded like this so it's here to stay for while, after that I'll decide what to do. As for who made this one, ALL I know is that it might have been made by ex Chuanpu developers like the bootleg games wiki says, but I forgot to mention that in the video. I tend to not be overly interested in stuff like that and am more interested in the actual experience I've had with the game hence why I sometimes forget that stuff. EDIT: I just re-watched the video on youtube at 1080p, filter/shader looks fine to me, granted my eyesight isn't a fraction as good as that of most people but it's fine, it'll be fine....im not re-recording a year worth of gameplay footage just for this, legit looks perfectly fine

[@cherryjeary]

this video is confusing, but knew there was an Aladdin2 in the game mags lists. But Aladdin plays worse on the SNES than the MegaDrive and controls and responsiveness are slow - so this video is confusing me saying the SNES Aladdin is good.

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

The video is not a comparison between the SNES and Official Mega Drive version of Aladdin, I personally think both the SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis Aladdin games are great. In this video I look at an unofficial version, a bootleg version of the SNES Aladdin released/ported to the Genesis/Mega Drive around 1997 or 1998 which attempts to replicate the visuals and gameplay of the SNES version but doesn't do it as good as the original on SNES. I hope this cleared it up a bit. This is not a very well known version of Aladdin so that's why you were probably confused.