/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4487925]

Let's settle this, SNES or Genesis Aladdin?

My vote is for Genesis, better appearance game play and even sound. Only glaring bad thing was the shit end boss.

[Anonymous No.4487931]

Both unremarkable games. Instead try these: Super Mario World (SNES), The Revenge of Shinobi (MD).

[Anonymous No.4487938]

>>4487931
>Super Mario World
Never heard of it, is it new?

[Anonymous No.4487948]

>better appearance
Only the sprite animation, the actual spritework and backgrounds on Virgin's game aren't as detailed and polished as the Capcom game.
>game play
In your dreams
>even sound
Debatable, both games have acceptable sound quality.

[Anonymous No.4487950]

Capcom's, only kids who couldn't afford a SNES back in the day and are blinded by nostalgia for Perry's game think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.4487963]

>>4487948
SNES is bouncing off of enemies, poles and other items. Sega you for to climb ropes, jump over coal, swing your sword, etc.

[Anonymous No.4487969]

>>4487963
The problem is not the sword or "jump over coal", the problem with the Virgin game are the hitboxes and the level design.

[Anonymous No.4487974]

>>4487925
Having enjoyed both I'm still going to have to side with the MD version simply because it's presentation was way above the SNES version. The thing is with the SNES version they were developing a game, with the MD version they were developing Aladdin shrunk down for a console. So while the SNES version is better designed as a game, the MD version is better designed as an Aladdin product and panders better to that desire, which was the only reason I was playing an Aladdin game in the first place.

[Anonymous No.4487979]

inb4 100+ shitposts of console war faggotry like last time
I haven't played either of them but since fans of the Genesis version can't seem to shut the fuck up about muh sword and muh animation, I'm more inclined to believe that the SNES version has better gameplay. Capcom had a good rep with Disney properties anyway.

[Anonymous No.4487992]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6at99d4aH0

[Anonymous No.4487997]

>>4487992
>this is official
Even the Game Boy port was less shit than the Europe-only NES port.

[Anonymous No.4488017]

>>4487925
I never understand this. They're different. Why would you ever want to pick just one?

[Anonymous No.4488027]

>>4487948
>Virgin's game

[Anonymous No.4488032]

>>4488027
I just noticed Al's pants on the genesis game look like Gloop from The Herculoids

[Anonymous No.4488037]

>>4488027
>not Chadcom

[Anonymous No.4488068]

>>4487925
Neither. Master System Aladdin is where it is at.

[Anonymous No.4488073]

>>4488027
>Developed by Japanese weirdos

[Anonymous No.4488080]

News flash: both games fucking suck.

[Anonymous No.4488086]

>>4488080
Nah, the capcom game is a solid platformer with some unique traits, and the virgin game, while not great, is still decently playable. Both have very good presentation.

[Anonymous No.4488120]

>>4487974
Aladdin isn't really a violent guy though, it's pretty weird for him to do all that swordfighting, it's like in Super Mario RPG where Mario just suddenly becomes really violent and starts punching the shit out of people.

[Anonymous No.4488176]

>>4487969
I'll agree with you on the Hit box, it's def the weaker of the two.

>>4487979
Play the superior Sega version for yourself and find out what you've been missing.

>>4488080
No you.

[Anonymous No.4488193]

>>4488086
>Both have very good presentation.
I hate how overly flamboyant and homosexual the SNES version looks. Pastel style doesn't really work in a middle eastern setting.

[Anonymous No.4488209]

>>4487925
>Let's settle this

We have this thread every god damn day

[Anonymous No.4488212]

>>4488193
>overly flamboyant and homosexual
Isn't that a bit exaggerated?
I think the color palette works fine and allows for good shadowing details and stuff. The sprite animation on the virgin game is great, but the sprites look flat.

[Anonymous No.4488217]

>>4488120
I don't know about that, at the end he does stab a snake with a sword so it's not beyond him.

[Anonymous No.4488219]

>>4488217
What would you do if a giant snake-man monster is going to kill you and the girl you love?

[Anonymous No.4488221]

>>4488219
Demand that the genie give me near-genie like power so I could bully the snake.

[Anonymous No.4488241]

>>4488217
yeah but an evil wizard turned into a giant monster isn't really the same as taking a sword to town guards and stuff

genesis aladdin basically goes around murdering all the police officers that get in his way

[Anonymous No.4488248]

>>4488241
The sword in Virgin Aladdin isn't actually a sword, it's a magic wand that looks like a sword.
Didn't you see how it makes enemies disappear?

[Anonymous No.4488281]

>>4488248
I don't really think that in terms of narrative that's any less violent, you're still attacking him with a sword in order to permanently erase him, you never go to any genie dimension where they show up again, they may as well have been vaporized and sent directly to hell in excruciating bloodless pain.

[Anonymous No.4488289]

>>4487925
Both of them are bad games. Neither is worth playing.

[Anonymous No.4488291]

>>4488289
That's very far from the truth.

[Anonymous No.4488339]

da hitboxes are bad cause da gard blocks my attacks

[Anonymous No.4488376]

>>4487925
They need each other to coexist since no one would give a flying fuck about either of those games if the debate didn't exist.

[Anonymous No.4488387]

>>4488339
It's fine if you have nostalgia for the game and don't like to read criticism, but sketchy hitboxes are a trademark of Dave Perry, not only in Aladdin.

[Anonymous No.4488572]

>>4487925
Genesis is definitely the superior version. Aladdin has a sword in that one. Unlike the SNES version.

[Anonymous No.4488595]

>>4487925
Let's settle this, Capcom or Virgin Games?

There's your answer

[Anonymous No.4488602]

>>4488339
>B-Bad game design? Just git gud! XD
Everytime with you fags.

[Anonymous No.4488607]

>>4488572

Mikami, go home. You're drunk

[Anonymous No.4488712]

>>4487925
The Genesis game is broken as fuck. We had this thread before, SNES is simply the better game.

[Anonymous No.4488732]

One has actual Disney animation, hidden Mickeys, and bosses. The other was shit out crapcom.

[Anonymous No.4488743]

>>4488732
>bosses
Which were a joke including the final one.
>crapcom
This is 90s Capcom we're talking about, anon jr.

[Anonymous No.4488758]

>>4488743
The final boss being so fucking awful really left a sour taste in my mouth for the Genesis game. For all the sword shilling, you have to go kamikaze to use it against Jaffar. The game very clearly expects you to carpet bomb him with apples, since they regenerate during the fight, and this method means you barely get to see Jaffar or actually battle him. You just throw shit at him and he's dead in five seconds.

The animation on the SNES game is worse, but everything else is better. Controls are tighter, level design is more fun, and the game actually ends on a high note, that fucking snake was awesome.

[Anonymous No.4488762]

>>4488602
What I can surmise from this post is that you're insecure about being bad at videogames.

[Anonymous No.4488767]

>>4488762
Not him but the other guy was being overly defensive of his childhood nostalgia.
Virgin Aladdin is an okay game, but it does have issues both mechanically and desgin-wise. Sprite animation is really good though.

[Anonymous No.4488817]

i was rich enough to have both back then and i considered them both equally good in terms of gameplay

anybody who thinks the SNES version has better visuals is lying to themselves though

[Anonymous No.4488830]

>>4488817
Virgin = better sprite animation, decent everything else
Capcom = better overall graphic detail, decent animation

[Anonymous No.4488840]

>>4488830
i don't know if i agree with that, the environments on genesis are pretty detailed, but everybody seems to post the image of the first place you spawn in when you start the game which is just a wall

also the genesis version has a higher resolution

[Anonymous No.4488850]

>>4488840
They are less detailed than the Capcom game, which have a lot more stuff going on in the backgrounds. The sprites themselves are also more detailed.
This is not a surprise, you mention the Genesis' higher resolution, and the SNES has more colors, which is why there's more detail.
That's not to say the Virgin game has bad background though, they're still decent, just not as rich.

[Anonymous No.4488852]

>>4488850
once again it's down to animation which you can't easily see on screenshots, you get a lot of parallax scrolling clouds in that desert level on genesis

[Anonymous No.4488858]

>>4488852
Funny you mention that because on my screenshot there's also crazy parallax scrolling on these city buildings.
And yeah I already given Virgin's game the nod about having the better sprite animation, my point is that the Capcom game has more overall detail due to more color density.

[Anonymous No.4488859]

>>4488852
But parallax scrolling clouds aren't detail. It's animation. Which was exactly the point >>4488830 made: Genesis has better animation, but SNES has better overall graphic detail.

[Anonymous No.4488870]

>>4488858
i think the difference is that capcom made aladdin on SNES look like a typical 16-bit game

you've got your regular sprite animations, and some detailed layered backgrounds with parallax

on genesis they tried to make it look more like a cartoon with the detail up front and with the background detail / parallax more subtle, like a supporting element rather than the focus of detail

i still think the genesis version looks a lot better overall due to the fantastic animations and big sprites, i mean that's the reason it got so much attention back then while aladdin on SNES looked good but it wasn't doing anything new

[Anonymous No.4488881]

[Anonymous No.4488889]

>>4488881
fuck it's like american kirby or something aladdin just looks fucking pissed

[Anonymous No.4489574]

>>4488767
the fucking hitboxes are fine though when you hit a guard with your sword they die unless you get into a sword fight with them you can clearly see the guards swing animation too. so its a blocked attack its not a bad fuckin hitbox. You idiots wail on the fucking sword button and you wonder why hes not dying cause youre too stupid to take a hint then you blame the hit boxes.

[Anonymous No.4489589]

>>4489574
calm down, the hitbox issue is not only something that happens on enemies, it also happens on aladdin's land detection, and also it's not about enemies "not dying", it's just you can notice the hitboxes aren't very tight, and it's not something exclusive to Aladdin, it's something people have noticed in other Perry games like Cool Spot and Earthworm Jim.

[Anonymous No.4489605]

[Anonymous No.4489717]

>>4489589
thats just the way they are programmed though where you have to get both your feet or most of the bottom of your hit box on the hitbox of the platform its not like a japanese game where you can have the corners of the hitboxes just barely touch and it counts as a landing. There aren't any jumps in aladdin or earthworm jim or jungle book that are that difficult

[Anonymous No.4489719]

>>4489717
I agree, there aren't many parts where jumps are important, I can think of a few but in general levels aren't designed around actual platforming and more designed around finding an exit in a semi-maze. But that still doesn't change the fact it feels sketchy and unpolished.
Graphics and sprite animation is great, but gameplay lets a lot to be desired.

[Anonymous No.4489726]

>>4487925
We only "settle this" about 12 times every year

[Anonymous No.4489770]

>>4487925
OP here and I decided to play both of them again. So here are my thoughts.

Genesis has the better soundtrack and level design but fuck it has some cheap baddies such as the bats and ghosts. But the bosses are forgettable and Jafar especially is a joke.

SNES on the other hand has more interactive pieces despite the detection on some platforms being shoddy. Last boss is easily better and overall being more comfy.

If I had to pick one now, nostalgic aside, I would go with the snes.