Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse HARD MODE (1990) - 4K Megadrive Real Hardware Playthrough

Описание: Full playthrough of Castle of Illusion, Starring Mickey Mouse, released in 1990 for the Sega Megadrive. This is the raw footage I captured for my COI Retrospective, you can watch it here    • Mickey's Public Domain Adventure - A Castl...  . Castle of Illusion was one of my favourites back in the day, on both the Megadrive and Game Gear. The animation was groundbreaking, used to showcase the abilities of the Megadrive, and although short, is a very fun game.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse are enjoying each others company, when the evil which, Mizrabel, takes Minnie to the castle to steal her youthful beauty. Upon meeting the castles rightful king, Mickey is told how to defeat Mizrabel's castle of illusion, and it's up to us to save Minnie.

I have been playing this game since I was a kid, so nothing but the hard mode would do. This is a challenging game on hard, and the perfect mode for someone that knows the game. The bosses are faster, with more hit points, and the levels are filled to the brim with enemies with your starting health spheres reduced to two. This is a bigger deal than you might think, considering on every level, regardless of how much health you had when finishing the last level, the game sets you back to two spheres. I'm only documenting this because it's actually quite hard to find the differences listed on the web.

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******** Notes on this Video ********
Please note, this game is captured from a VA1, Asian, Model 1 Megadrive. I have modded the console with a custom RGB Triple Bypass with proper pull down resistors, to remove noise and the dreaded jailbars. This is arguably the best picture output possible from any Megadrive/Genesis. The Asian VA1's are hard to find, so if you are a creator, and need any footage for a video, contact me, and I'll sort it out for you.

This playthrough was captured on real hardware using component RGB (https://retrogamingcables.co.uk), upscaled by the Retrotink 5x, and recorded in 4K, using the Avermedia 4K Live Gamer capture card.
Retrotink Settings -    • Set OSSC NTSC optimal timings for Sega Gen...  ‪@wobblingpixels3921‬

I upload these playthroughs, mainly for real hardware footage preservation, which is why I use no watermarks or overlays. Feel free to use it as you wish, all I ask, is you don't just reupload it in full. Credit would be greatly appreciated to help my small channel, but not required. Youtube, obviously bit-crushes video and audio while compressing, so if you want the raw footage of this video, with or without the intro/outro, contact me. While the video is 60FPS, 90's consoles rarely hit that, any slowdowns in framerate are genuine, and due to the consoles hardware.

******** PC used for capture ********
Ryzen 9 7950 X3D Processor
Asus ROG X670e Extreme Motherboard
Geforce RTX4090 24GB
128GB DDR5 RAM
Avermedia 4K Live Gamer PCI-e Capture Card
Minor editing done using Adobe Premiere