Atari Jaguar

[Nathan Wind]

It's getting closer

 

 

[SeanR]

someone's slowly selling their jaguar collection, one post at a time, in the retro for sale FB group

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/retroforsale/

 

he's just posted a bunch of JagCD games, so youd think there'd be a Jag CDdrive listed soon (unless it's gone straight to eBay) right?

 

Then I noticed most of the games are sealed...

[Nathan Wind]

Another update!  SainT says lots of things I don't understand but the crucial part is at 1.30 with a game booting up and running

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

 

'From a hardware point of view, it's pretty much complete'

 

 

[SeanR]

so I'm going through the pile of games ive never played, and decided to finally stick the custom end labels on.

 

 

[ulala]

10 hours ago, SeanR said:

so I'm going through the pile of games ive never played, and decided to finally stick the custom end labels on.

 

 

 

extra labels?

 

Ugh, dont do it!

[SeanR]

4 hours ago, ulala said:

 

extra labels?

 

Ugh, dont do it!

 

naaaah, it's really handy for all my unboxed carts!

 

I'll post pix soon...

 

 

obvious potato-shot

Edited October 4, 2017 by SeanR

[Spartan]

Picked up Alien Vs Predator cartidge only for £28 of the bay.

[Nathan Wind]

Jeff Minter Classics, available from Atariage in November.  Llamatron and Mutant Camels on the same cart, new soundtrack, with the blessing of Mr Minter. It's a dead cert for me.  I love those games.

 

 

 

There are a couple of other games releasing at the same time too, but they're not Jeff Minter classics. Astro Storm looks a bit pants but Escape 2042 does look rad.  Depends what it costs.

 

 

[Revival]

Saw this on the weekend, Had no idea they officially released it in Japan...

 

[SeanR]

yeah, for sure. My mate in Japan? he sent me a video of the shop where he picked up some neogeo stuff. There's a jag in a cabinet

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

Yup, they got an AvP pack in over there.  Just a tiny bit better than our Cybermorph one.

[Yartek]

I decided I wanted to play Tempest 2000, only problem was getting the Jaguar working on either of my LCD tellies with only the RF cable. I know you can get a dedicated SCART cable, but at £16, I n wanted to make sure the console still worked. Luckily I still have the massive CRT I used for a couple of months when I moved in here in a cupboard, so dragged it out into the hall and connected everything up.

 

It works! Also discovered through research it's an NTSC Jaguar, which I didn't know when I bought it for fifty quid with seven games from GameStation back in 2007.

 

It came with Tempest 2000, Doom, Wolfensteins 3D, Cybermorph, Syndicate, Chequered Flag and Hover Strike, but I honestly just bought it for Tempest 2000.

[Nathan Wind]

Hi, do you want to be best friends with me?

[mwaawm2]

I have to track down where my jag and carts gave ended up but whilst I was a great enthusiast for the system back in the day honestly can't understand the sustained interest in the machine. I had almost all the decent cart based games back in the day, glad I had the sense to not invest in the CD drive. Tempest, Iron Soldier, Atari Karts, AvP, Doom, Skyhammer and that's about it for memorable games from the many karts I owned. Would've liked power drive rally but never managed to track one down.

 

Of the atari consoles I'd expect the Lynx to be far more collectable and have more interest in it than the unjustified efforts put into the mess that was the Jaguar.

[bankies]

At the time I had 2 consoles, CD unit with memory cart, Jaglink, pro controller, +30 carts and about 15 CD games. Imported lots of cheap games from Videogame Liquidators when Atari went under.

 

Sold it several years ago for a fair amount but I don't think there are many games I would want to play again.

 

2 consoles, jaglink and 2 copies of Doom was great!

[SeanR]

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/271862-brand-new-atari-jaguar-pro-controllers-production-campagin/

 

repro jag pro controllers anyone?

 

originals go for silly money on the 'bay, these wil be $50-60 each,  sold in pairs, apparently

[Spartan]

Oh God

 

Help

 

I've been hunting cheap deals on ebay the last 6 months, grabbing carts where i cant justify the price or its too cheap to ignore, buying replacement cases for a few to complete them afterwards or making my own when its impossible to find one.

 

I've 3 more boxed carts coming. Missile command, hover strike and flip out. £40 the 3 was pretty good i thought

[Nathan Wind]

I feel for you.  I just flicked back through the thread - the money I spent on Jag games is ludicrous!  £75 on drivel like Hyperforce without a second thought.  What was I thinking?  So glad I cashed out while the cashing was good.

 

I'm much better off forking out sixty quid or more on mediocre Mega CD games in shit condition.

[Grey Fox]

I'm so glad I picked up the games I have for various systems where the prices seem to have rocketed either at the time or when super cheap deals were common as people traded stuff in for the next wave of machines/games

 

Having said that the thrill of landing a bargain such as the £40 for 3 mentioned above is hard to beat.

 

Likewise as I have said many times - if you pay the going rate, play the games and then sell them on for close to what you paid (sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less) then effectively it has cost you nothing or a few quid for an extended rental

[SeanR]

wait, play them!?!

 

Ah...

[Spartan]

Yeah, I'm not going to spend still money on some of the carts, I just can't justify it. Most of the ones in that picture have been bought at knock down prices, probably £20 quid or under on average. Atari karts, defender 2000 and ultra vortex are probably the last few I'd want but their prices are stupid. 

 

Just got lucky and ran a search on eBay every few days on most of them. 

 

I've an affinity for the Jag to my shame. I remember lusting after one when it was released and seeing them in rumbalows back in the 90s. 

 

And I've got a mega cd already!

[Nathan Wind]

Oooooohhhhhhh, it's close now!

 

 

[Spartan]

Hopefully the cart prices will come down once its out or at least stabilise.

 

Been thinking of modding mine to 60hz, simple enough to do, just remove a resistor from the board and its good to go. You can install a switch but I cant see the point, the mod seems to improve every game I've seen running with it on youtube (Stretches the screen out to fill the display, higher framerate in some games)

[MattyP]

Have a NTSC Jag that I'm pondering over getting rid off! Only have the console (boxed) with Cybermorph. For some reason these things seem to have increased in value a fair bit - not sure why?! At one point I was going to bin this

 

Had since back in the day (traded in a SNES and games to get it it... D'oh!!!) ... although sold all my carts back in mid 90's ... Really should have held onto them... bah. 

 

 

[Nathan Wind]

2 hours ago, MattyP said:

 (traded in a SNES and games to get it it... D'oh!!!)

 

Christ, imagine that.  I came to the Jag late but just imagine being there at the time!  Trading in that ancient 16-bit nonsense for 64 cutting edge bits of POWAHHHHHHH.  What a day!  I can imagine your face when you started that baby up, saw that cube spin around and heard that roar for the very first time.  Your tiny eyes lighting up at the sight of Cybermorph!  Those incredible smooth polygons, bending and pulsing, the near infinite draw distance, the crystal clear sampled speech! 

 

I imagine you looked something like this but younger (probably in a similar hat though) -

 

 

 

[Lorfarius]

2 minutes ago, Nathan Wind said:

Christ, imagine that.  I came to the Jag late but just imagine being there at the time!  Trading in that ancient 16-bit nonsense for 64 cutting edge bits of POWAHHHHHHH.  What a day!  I can imagine your face when you started that baby up, saw that cube spin around and heard that roar for the very first time.  Your tiny eyes lighting up at the sight of Cybermorph!  Those incredible smooth polygons, bending and pulsing, the near infinite draw distance, the crystal clear sampled speech! 

 

I imagine you looked something like this but younger (probably in a similar hat though) -

 

 

 

 

Then the joy seeing it brand new 12 months later for £30 in Game. Happy times 

[MattyP]

5 minutes ago, Nathan Wind said:

Christ, imagine that.  I came to the Jag late but just imagine being there at the time!  Trading in that ancient 16-bit nonsense for 64 cutting edge bits of POWAHHHHHHH.  What a day!  I can imagine your face when you started that baby up, saw that cube spin around and heard that roar for the very first time.  Your tiny eyes lighting up at the sight of Cybermorph!  Those incredible smooth polygons, bending and pulsing, the near infinite draw distance, the crystal clear sampled speech! 

 

I imagine you looked something like this but younger (probably in a similar hat though) -

 

 

 

 

 Yep. Cybermorph was "interesting". Think Doom, Tempest 2K and AvP were the best games on it. Doom was really impressive back then considering I didn't have a PC capable of running it at the time! Thankfully never bought Katsumi Ninja, Fight for life or Trevor McFur ... wasn't that silly. Jeez they were laughably bad. Fight for Life Vs Virtua Fighter.. hmmmmm

 

What I don't understand is *why* people are paying silly money for the crap titles (McFur etc noted above). Some people have too much money IMHO....  

 

It would have beeninteresting to see what they could have done with it TBH. It wasn't a bad machine... 

[MattyP]

5 minutes ago, Lorfarius said:

 

Then the joy seeing it brand new 12 months later for £30 in Game. Happy times 

 

 Think it was a couple of years after I got mine but yes... think they even went down to £9.99 at one point!

 

CEX are buying them in at silly prices (IMHO) at the moment... wish I'd stoced up on those £10 ones now...

 

[SeanR]

hell, when stores had the jagcd at £50 I contemplated buying a bunch...