5. (60 FPS Genesis) Escape From Pleasure Island - Disney's Pinocchio

Описание: Please pick the 720p60 or 1080p60 resolutions to play back in 60 frames per second. (Internet Explorer, surprisingly, appears to be the best browser for playback.)

Playlist:    • (60 FPS Genesis) Disney's Pinocchio  

Hey, there! This is a series I've been wanting to do: Sega Genesis at 60 frames per second! Why? Well... have you ever watched an older game on YouTube and noticed the main character turn invisible when hit, or some other such nonsense? That's because some older games use some ridiculously high speed flicker effects to achieve those crazy hitflashes on bosses or that "ouch I'm hurt!" flicker! These are not displayed properly at 30 fps, but now that we're able to upload at 60 fps we can see all the special effects that older games would use! (They'll be smoother, too!)
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Pinocchio finds out he's made an ass of himself by ignoring his father's wishes and partaking in brick throwing balloonery. Sucks, man. Now he has to climb some seaside cliffs while avoiding the spectres of the Coachmen's thugs. Let this be a lesson to you, kids! Be cool, stay in school!
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Virgin Interactive is known for doing great things with their games, especially Disney-wise! This one though... this one... I didn't even know this one existed! And well, it's kinda, uh, haphazard, to put it nicely. You'll go through the Disney movie with totally random minigame-type things thrown in, like fighting fireflies as Jiminy, or riding a ROLLERCOASTER (???) at Pleasure Island. There's also a memorization game during the puppet show when you perform as Pinocchio.

Anyway, this game just feels like it coulda had a bunch more polish applied. I mean, it has some neat ideas and the animation is pretty good for the parts they focus on (Oddly, Pinocchio has Mickey's weird standing pose from Mickey Mania), but it just feels slightly incoherent/not... "good". I'm happy I gave it a go, though, Virgin Interactive makes solid stuff! It was crazy when I found out they made a PINOCCHIO game of all things! (And somehow I never knew about it!)
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Some additional notes for those technically inclined:

This was captured from an original Sega Genesis system via composite output along with stereo sound to get as authentic a recording as possible. The Genesis used is one of the "good" models with proper sound and video output. Genesis can also output an RGB signal which is clearer, but I vetoed the idea because it breaks the dithering effect (color blending and transparencies) as seen here:
http://retro-sanctuary.com/comparison...
Also, the vast majority of people could not use the RGB signal even if they wanted to, so the experience they remember would be the composite signal as shown in this video.

There are a couple things to note about the quality of the video, however. Sega Genesis has a very dirty video signal that often "breaks" attempts to capture it with a capture device. The capture device I use is considered one of the most capable when it comes to older systems, but the Genesis' video signal still introduces some inconsistencies. These usually manifest where there are extremely thin lines in game, mostly the text, and in some other places as well. As a whole, it is more than manageable, but it is worth noting.

Also, the original sega genesis resolution is, in essence, 240p at 60 frames per second. To take advantage of YouTube's higher bitrate offerings and to enable 60 fps I need to upscale that resolution to 1080p. There is also a step of video deinterlacing before that to create crisp video. That is a significant amount of video processing to the image, so I want to note that here as well.