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Posted August 04, 2016
Embrace your adventurous inner child with The Lion King, Aladdin, and The Jungle Book!

Good stories never fall out of style. And if someone knows how to tell a proper fairytale, that's got to be Disney. Today, three of their most celebrated, charming platformers of yore based on such tales are coming back, exclusively on GOG.com. Disney Aladdin, Disney The Lion King, and Disney The Jungle Book are all household names that still captivate our imagination, decades after we got introduced to their cinematic and videogame worlds.

That's why GOG.com and Disney heave teamed up to bring these beloved classics of the 16-bit era to a new generation of gamers and Disney fans. All three titles have been meticulously updated to be compatible with modern operating systems while preserving the original graphics, sound, and gameplay.

Developed during the golden age of platformers, Disney Aladdin, Disney The Lion King, and Disney The Jungle Book established themselves as hallmarks of the genre, earning the praise of fans and critics alike for over two decades. That was due in no small part to their groundbreaking visuals. With the advent of Digicel technology, hand-drawn cels from Disney's animation team brought the characters to life with a level of vibrancy that was unparalleled at the time, and remains impressive today. Just look at how adorable little Simba looks when he roars at his enemies!

Return to these beautiful worlds, full of that unmistakable Disney charm and wondrous sense of adventure. <span class="bold">Disney Aladdin</span>, <span class="bold">Disney The Lion King</span>, and <span class="bold">Disney The Jungle Book</span> are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com and you can get them for 10% off individually, or for 33% off as a <span class="bold">bundle</span> of heartwarming joy until August 8, 12:59 PM UTC!


https://www.youtube.com/embed/LBbx41UaHVI
Post edited August 04, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted August 05, 2016
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tinyE: I didn't even know these were games. :P
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Niggles: In all honesty. me neither lol
My wife had the cartridge for Lion King which she played on her Sega Nomad. I didn't know about the other two or that either of them had been released on the PC.
Posted August 05, 2016
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MortalKombat2007: Cheap DOS releases, you pulled this crap with Earithworm Jim simply because it is easier to gain the rights to DOS over Sega games.
It's hilarious how you blame gOg for the available versions of Earthworm Jim, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, and Aladdin. As if they had control on what version they will release here. It's not like these games were made by CD Projekt Red, in which case it would be simple to change them.
Yes, they could refuse to sell X version, but this is a bad move.

Opinions vary. If they released SNES version of the games, some people would complain, saying they should've got the Genesis version, instead.
If they released Genesis version, some people would complain, because they think SNES version is better.

You can't please everyone.
And making the deal with Disney more difficult than it has to be, may have some consequences.
In the future, they may not be interested in selling stuff here, because it was not straightforward.

It's not like you're out of options - if you don't want these versions, get the 'perfect' version elsewhere.
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Antoni_Fox: You could just go and play them all on Kega Fusion and ZSNES right now.

Would probably take you less time to download the ROMsets than it did to type that list.
Isn't this illegal, unless you own the cartridges, or something?
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's piracy.
The fact your post got low rated, seems to confirm it, too.
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aruntahlan: I bought all 3. Now can we also have Disney's Tarzan and Hercules games as well.
It would be cool to have these, too.

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
Post edited September 25, 2016 by almabrds
Posted August 05, 2016
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igrok: As for proper emulation, is this even achievable? Looking at SNES games, "true" emulation requires at least a powerful i5 or i7 CPU. I don't know how well MegaDrive is emulated, but I can guess there are all sorts of issues with getting it to emulate exactly right.
Um, what now? Many SNES games ran perfectly through ZSNES with my Pentim 100mhz. And all of them ran perfectly on a 466MHz Celeron (the inferior sup-Pentium III version.)
Posted August 05, 2016
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kalirion: Um, what now? Many SNES games ran perfectly through ZSNES with my Pentim 100mhz. And all of them ran perfectly on a 466MHz Celeron (the inferior sup-Pentium III version.)
ZSNES has lots of compatibility issues and hasn't been updated for ages. But this is offtopic. If you are interested, just look up higan. And yes, I am no zealot and I've spent a lot of time with ZSNES, too. Also I wouldn't call the experience of using it on an early Pentium "perfect".
Post edited August 05, 2016 by igrok
Posted August 05, 2016
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kalirion: Um, what now? Many SNES games ran perfectly through ZSNES with my Pentim 100mhz. And all of them ran perfectly on a 466MHz Celeron (the inferior sup-Pentium III version.)
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igrok: ZSNES has lots of compatibility issues and hasn't been updated for ages. But this is offtopic. If you are interested, just look up higan. And yes, I am no zealot and I've spent a lot of time with ZSNES, too. Also I wouldn't call the experience of using it on an early Pentium "perfect".
IIRC only games using transparancies/layers and the like had issues on the P100. It's been a while though.
Posted August 05, 2016
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Antoni_Fox: You could just go and play them all on Kega Fusion and ZSNES right now.

Would probably take you less time to download the ROMsets than it did to type that list.
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almabrds: Isn't this illegal, unless you own the cartridges, or something?
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's piracy.
The fact your post got low rated, seems to confirm it, too.
GoG doesn't like us talking about emulators in their entirety. More group mob mentality almost.

Regardless since the cartridges aren't sold anymore you have to get them used, probably Ebay, LK - $15-20, JB $10-$20, and Al $16-$20.

Piracy (as it's called) generally exists due to a service failure. Something has to be easy, not too expensive, and with no nagging. Obvious comparisons of the hoops you have to jump through to do something legally make the alternative far more attractive.

As for legality, you're talking about Disney, who pushed copyright 20 years longer, pushed the 80 years+lifetime, in an effort to keep Micky Mouse under their control and copyright. A corporation that wants to own everything and charge for everything forever. That is the purpose of the current copyright law, to keep making large corporations richer while not doing anything for the actual creators, artists and talents.

In short Copyright needs to be totally redone (like a lot of things).
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kalirion: ...
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igrok: I am no zealot and I've spent a lot of time with ZSNES, too.
I love ZSNES too :) for many many years...
Post edited August 05, 2016 by rtcvb32
Posted August 05, 2016
I loved Aladdin, never played Jungle Book but was quite disappointed at the time by Lion King.

Were any of the three games but Aladdin made by Dave Perry? I remember how I first read of him when they released Cool Spot, and then in Aladdin you could enter a secret button Combo that opened a menu where his face would show. Quite a cool experience for a mega drive game.

Unless you are here for naostalgia and just would like to try out one of these game for the first time, I recommend to check out the Archive.
https://archive.org/details/sg_Aladdin_1993_Sega_Virgin_US
Posted August 05, 2016
Bought the three of them.
I'm a huge fan of Aladdin the movie (there was only one); I think it's one of the best movies ever and the best Disney movie.
The videogame is surprisingly decent. I started playing the cracked version in the 90s, with unlimited lives. It still took me quite a while to finish the game as I kept falling of platforms to my death and eventually had to turn off the computer (it didn't occur to me to keep it running for the sake of a game). I did get better and eventually graduated to playing the regular version, though the final fight always cost me a life.
... I wonder if I should look around for that cheat.
Posted August 05, 2016
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saluk: I don't think it's fair to charge so much for a dosbox wrapper, especially when I would much prefer to pay an emulated snes or genesis version of these games than the awful dos versions.
You're not paying for the "DOSBox wrapper", your paying for a digital license to use a particular piece of software WITH DosBOX.
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jamyskis: it's likely we'll see Toy Story 1 & 2, Hercules, Tarzan, Donald Duck: Quack Attack, The Emperor's New Groove, Aladdin: Nasira's Revenge and A Bug's Life.
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tfishell: Which would be fantastic in my book, but obviously it depends on if GOG can get them running well. I'd love to have a working copy of Toy Story 2 Action Game.

And we're still missing Lucasfilm's flight sims.

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yellowblanka: "Meticulously restored" lol, eg. they toss the files into an installer with an old version of DOSBox with a default config that will invariably require some tweaking. Don't get me wrong, It's great that older titles are starting to trickle in, but judging from the forums/issues with various games (usually Windows titles) they seem to do little/no work in ensuring compatibility beyond "does it boot up? Yep....well, time to upload it".
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tfishell: I'm curious: do you still buy GOG games, or is this the reason you've stopped? And is there anything GOG can do to ensure a game will run on all possible PC software/hardware configurations?

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MortalKombat2007: Cheap DOS releases, you pulled this crap with Earithworm Jim simply because it is easier to gain the rights to DOS over Sega games.
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tfishell: I'll also ask you, if it's okay: do you still buy GOG games or are you not interested in DOS versions of games? Is there reason to believe SEGA would have bothered to negotiate with GOG?
Every once in a while, if I'm interested in a release (and there is a new release I'm interested in, which is rare these days as it's by and large a indie game/movie shop with a sprinkle of select AAA titles now). I'm just annoyed when somebody re-releases a classic title and can't be bothered to say, adjust the number of cycles/core type for certain games in DOSBox, let alone include batch files to automatically switch graphics etc filters. It's great that they're re-releasing old games, I just wish they put a little more effort into it, like including the latest compatibility patches for older Windows games/including any workarounds needed vs. claiming something is compatible when in reality it may boot, but exhibits so many issues it's basically unplayable (I'm being a bit hyperbolic here, but there are some games like Myst that have compatibility issues which still haven't been addressed).

I remember when GoG started they were discussing how they were actually going through the code for the games and modifying them to be compatible, but from what I've seen, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Post edited August 05, 2016 by yellowblanka
Posted August 06, 2016
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yellowblanka: "Meticulously restored" lol, eg. they toss the files into an installer with an old version of DOSBox with a default config that will invariably require some tweaking.
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igrok: Why are people always whining? So you would rather have godawful MegaDrive versions in some proprietary Windows-only jerky emulator or maybe "remastered" versions with murky backgrounds and abominable sprites? Just look at what was done with Monkey Island games! I for one am happy to play the original DOS versions of these games without any "improvements".
What emulators are you using/machines are you running them on where Megadrive/Genesis emulation is "jerky"?
Emulators have been able to emulate the Genesis on commodity hardware since the early 2000's at full clip. My point was that the wording implies they did a lot of working updating it, when they've just thrown the files into a setup installer with their standard DOSBox config like every other DOS game release on here. Also, as I said in a previous post, the DOS versions of these games are overall inferior to the Genesis/SNES drives with jerky scrolling etc.
Posted August 06, 2016
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yellowblanka: Emulators have been able to emulate the Genesis on commodity hardware since the early 2000's at full clip.
I recall using a beta emulator back in 1996? Games ran fine on 200Mhz or so. So i don't know what would make it jerky.

Although i do remember windows versions of emulators tended to be a little wonky. Sound/input lagging slightly...
Posted August 06, 2016
It's great and all but $10 each is WAAAAAY too much. I remember when Tomb Raider 1+2+3 was released and it was 10$ for 3 games. I think collectively these are similar quality deals, yet this one is 3x more expensive. It's ridiculous. I'm not buying this until it's like $10 for all 3.
Also people are talking here about regional pricing on GOG - what's the deal with that ? I always thought GOG has same prices for everyone.
Posted August 06, 2016
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almabrds: Isn't this illegal, unless you own the cartridges, or something?
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's piracy.
The fact your post got low rated, seems to confirm it, too.
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rtcvb32: GoG doesn't like us talking about emulators in their entirety. More group mob mentality almost.
Mind giving me some examples? Links to posts, please.
I'm not seeing this hate you're talking about.
If you're talking about the post I quoted, I'm pretty sure he got derepped for suggesting something illegal.

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rtcvb32: Regardless since the cartridges aren't sold anymore you have to get them used, probably Ebay, LK - $15-20, JB $10-$20, and Al $16-$20.
Not true, many games you can get virtually, in stores like Steam.
Not to mention some companies (SEGA, for example) sell old consoles, which contain multiple games in memory.
If it's an old japanese game, yes, you may not have choice but to buy an used copy in the internet, but that's not always necessary.

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rtcvb32: Piracy (as it's called) generally exists due to a service failure. Something has to be easy, not too expensive, and with no nagging. Obvious comparisons of the hoops you have to jump through to do something legally make the alternative far more attractive.
I don't remember saying it wasn't tempting to just download the game for free, wear an eye patch and play the game.
But it's not legal.

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
Post edited September 25, 2016 by almabrds
Posted August 06, 2016
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almabrds: Mind giving me some examples? Links to posts, please.
I'm not seeing this hate you're talking about.
If you're talking about the post I quoted, I'm pretty sure he got derepped for suggesting something illegal.
From what i remember it's in the TOS (for the forums at least), or i remember reading somewhere form an official post not to get too involved in emulator talk. I really don't feel like looking for it right now.

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almabrds: Not true, many games you can get virtually, in stores like Steam.
This is fairly recent, as only a few years ago did they put the golden axe games on Steam, which are actually emulated since they contain the sega roms. But that's little different than actually doing it yourself. Are the games that old really worth the price? I hesitate to say they were worth it back when they were released.

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rtcvb32: Piracy (as it's called) generally exists due to a service failure. Something has to be easy, not too expensive, and with no nagging. Obvious comparisons of the hoops you have to jump through to do something legally make the alternative far more attractive.
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almabrds: I don't remember saying it wasn't tempting to just download the game for free, wear an eye patch and play the game.
But it's not legal.
Does it matter?

As for Piracy, there exists real piracy still in the world. A year or something ago where boats are being held up at gunpoint on the open sea. THAT is true piracy. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing some depiction of holding up people in a boat using a mouse and keyboard and telling them to hand over the goods :P Tempting to commission from my ex for that. Be funny to see.
Posted August 06, 2016
Wow, this brings back memories. I (or my parents) bought a Sega Mega Drive just to play Lion King and Jungle Book. Both were fiendishly tough for a kid -- I managed to beat Lion King, but never Jungle Book. Now's my time to go down memory lane and beat the games again!

And just when I thought GOG was neglecting the purpose of its name... big thanks GOG and Disney for bringing back these venerable old games.
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