Aladdin Deck Enhancer
From Free net encyclopedia
Image:Aladdin-desk-enhancer-box.jpg The Aladdin Deck Enhancer, produced by Camerica, was a device that one would plug into a Nintendo Entertainment System. It contained a bypass chip which would work with the lock-out chip inside the Nintendo Entertainment System. With this hardware in the deck, one would then insert a much smaller cartridge containing a game into the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.
The idea behind the Aladdin Deck Enhancer was to provide a cheaper means with which to make the game cartridges, mainly due to that for each cartridge requires its own 10NES lock-out chip, RAM and extra circuitry. Camerica was one of the major purveyors of unlicensed NES games, so the Deck Enhancer was a logical creation for them. Also, since the slot for the actual game was much smaller, less material was needed to produce a cartridge. However by the time the product was released the Super Nintendo and Sega Megadrive were already released and the product never had a large installed base to warrant large amount of software. Camerica never recuperated from the release and shortly was forced to close down.
Codemasters' game Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk designed by the Oliver twins was enhanced for the NES and retitled Dizzy the Adventurer and originally bundled with the Aladdin. Only another six titles were ever released all primarily from Codemaster's library.