Harry Potter, or Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, is an unlicensed game for the Sega Mega Drive loosely based on the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was likely made some time after the German release of the film, Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, as the game's title screen uses promotional material originally made for it. An alternate version of the game was released titled Pokémon II.
Overview[]
The game plays somewhat like a 3D Pac-Man clone, with a total of three isometric levels to play through. The levels take place in Hogwarts, the Forbidden Forest and an Arabian area resembling Agrabah more than any setting in Harry Potter. The player controls Harry Potter, who has to collect dots which move around the map while avoiding any enemies. The player can teleport if they walk off the edge of the map to another edge of it, which is decided at random. After beating the third level the player is sent back to the title screen, although whether this behavior was intended in original releases is currently unknown.
The music and sound effects are all PCM samples, which are somewhat good quality for a Sega Mega Drive game. The graphics appear to look pre-rendered, although there seem to be some tiling issues with the level layouts.
Pokémon II[]
Title screen.
Pokémon II is an alternate version of the Harry Potter game; it is unknown which game is a hack of the other. Here, Pikachu replaces Harry, the first level is now set in a bar/restaurant, and the second level is a copy of the one from Harry Potter, but now with an orange tint. The music in the first level of this game is a pitched-up PCM version of a song from Cool Spot for Sega Mega Drive, which is not present in Harry Potter.
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Pokémon II[]
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Trivia[]
- Both Harry Potter and Pokmon II make strange loud noises when starting up (static in the Harry Potter game, and some tones for Pokémon II). It is unclear if these were present on the original releases or the result of emulation bugs.
- The music in the first level is a PCM version of a song from the movie, and the one from the third level is a PCM version of the Street Fighter II theme.
- The second level uses graphics from the first level of Sonic 3D Blast, for the Sega Mega Drive.
- The "Ready? Go!" voice sample is taken from Puzzle Bobble.
- One known dump of Pokémon II mentions an SDK credited to Tommy Xie, formerly of Dragon Co.. However, the only known dump of the Harry Potter version alters this credit, seemingly from the ROM dumper (as it refers to an "emurussia forums").[1]
- A simplified version of this game, using only the first level's graphics and with one of the enemy characters replacing Harry, appears on the Sunnyflyer 30-in-1 plug and play system under the title 3D Bean.[2]
- As this title is produced by Hummer Software, the successor to Dragon Co., this further indicates that the development of both Harry Potter and Pokémon II were at least connected to them.
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