Submission #1386: Jaysmad's SNES Aladdin in 15:47.28

• Aims for fastest time.
• Takes damage to save time
• Uses no passwords

• SNES9x 1.43+ v9

• • WIP1 timing - On
  • Allow Left+Right/Up+Down _ On
  • Volume envelope height reading - Off
  • Fake mute desync workaround - Off
  • Sync samples with sound CPU - Off

The Super Nintendo version of Aladdin was developed and published by Capcom. Unlike the Sega Mega Drive version of the game, the player does not equip a scimitar. The storyline more or less closely follows the plot of its namesake, the Disney full-length animated motion picture, with Aladdin going from a street rat to a prince, who first woos, and then has to rescue, the Princess Jasmine. Most levels and stages of the game will be readily recognized by people who have seen the motion picture, but there are a few levels that have nothing to do with the movie - including an Egyptian pyramid and a surreal world where Genie - dressed in a tuxedo - serves as Aladdin's guide. The game features renditions of the soundtrack from the Disney motion picture, as well as several mini-games dependent on the player catching a golden scarab or collecting all diamonds within a stage. An extra challenge involved finding 50 red diamonds throughout the game. While they weren't necessary for ending the game, the credits screen changes slightly according to how many diamonds were collected.

Wikipedia®

........Level........	.........Time.........	Improvement
Intro/Lvl 01	00:45.43	00:01.68
Lvl 02	00:26.80	00:01.70
Lvl 03	00:33.68	00:01.78
Lvl 04/Boss	00:35.78	00:00.58
Lvl 05	01:01.02	00:02.82
Lvl 06	00:44.50	00:00.72
Lvl 07	02:15.57	00:00.00
Lvl 08	00:42.10	00:00.00
Lvl 09	00:54.37	00:02.18
Lvl 10	00:33.00	00:01.67
Lvl 11	00:47.37	00:06.02
Lvl 12	00:36.10	00:01.25
Lvl 13	00:26.95	00:01.67
Lvl 14	00:37.35	00:01.47
Lvl 15	01:45.88	00:00.00
Lvl 16	00:48.98	00:02.62
Lvl 17	00:23.38	00:01.72
Lvl 18/Boss	01:01.15	00:28.48
Final Battle	00:47.87	00:10.47
Total	15:47.28	01:06.85

In this run, a small modification was put into jumping and the turbo cape. I took care of pressing the jump button one frame before i touched the ground. This helped me save a lot of frames per jump from the last Aladdin TAS. In this run the turbo cape was carefully used. I noticed that when you grab diamonds (with the cape) or there is a lot of sprites on the screen, a fadeout lag occurs. I managed to avoid it by changing my button combinations. Also i try much more to be entertaining, by manipulating luck using unknown game features and combining my key input with the music.

• I noticed while playing
  • When pressing front one frame and down the other repeatedly, Aladdin skates... It is so cute... No but its more entertaining than watching him wait for nothing.
  • At the end of the first cave level, some would go straight to the end of the level, but waiting for Abu, (the monkey) helped me save some frames.
  • While wall climbing, there is a way to make Aladdin climb without even touching the wall, but i do not know how i did it. While climbing i did a combination of buttons just for entertainment and that's when it happened... It could be useful for short distance jump.
  • I grabbed 200 diamonds to gain two extra hearts, this allowed me to take more damage and save more time.I finished the game with 00 apple and 00 diamond.I used all 10 apples and 04 red rubys were grabbed along the way.The rubys are worth 10 diamonds.
  • While trying to avoid fadeout lag, i noticed that Aladdin can transform into a pixel box of some sort, but it only happened to me once in all the time i played. I doubt that it can be useful but it would be fun to be able to keep him in this form... just for a little while.

Jaysmad: Special thanks to every-one's feedback and for seeing this movie.

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adelikat: Very nice work. Accepting as an improvement to the published run.

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Processing by Maza.

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