joeyaage Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Recently found out that there are lots of karaoke cd+g discs available that should be compatible with the Jaguar CD add on. I only have 'one' cd+g disc so far but it works perfectly. Might be good fun at a Jaguar party like silly venture. Now where do I plug in my microphone, hmmm...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I think you'd use an external/stand-alone sound system for the vocals. Probably more trouble than it's worth to set it all up, but it's your party. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Pics of a jag CD reading karaoke discs plz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 My sister, who is staunchly anti-videogame, once bought a CD+G karaoke disc not knowing she needed a special player for it. At the time I had no clue what CD+G meant, but I remembered it being mentioned in the JagCD's documentation. So I saved the day and had her singing "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in no time. It didn't change her dismal outlook on videogames, sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Dogs Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I have a Jimi Hendrix cd and a cns disk that are cd+g. They are not really karaoke, but the put cool pictures on the tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Isn't vcd a variant of cd+g? I seem to remember it was, and this format was Simi popular before DVD came out. I have some cd+g discs, but no vcd movies (this was more popular over seas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredifredo Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 CD+G work fine on my JagCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Isn't vcd a variant of cd+g? No, they're unrelated. VCD contain MPEG video files, CD+G are audio CDs with limited support for pictures (16 colors only). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 There's some cool CD+G music discs out there, off the top of my head Information Society, the one with that "pure energy" song on it is a CD+G has a bunch of fan art and other cool things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flux Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 (edited) You'd probably just want to pick up a little portable PA system and do your microphone through that. You could probably do the sound from the Jaguar through the PA as well but I doubt it would sound super great through such a system. Edited May 30, 2018 by flux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHATEIT Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I found that my Jaguar CD can play the cheapo Verbatim CD-R which has been nice. I wish my 3DO would read the cheapo discs better instead of going slow and forcing me to use the higher end CD-R discs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I found that my Jaguar CD can play the cheapo Verbatim CD-R which has been nice. I wish my 3DO would read the cheapo discs better instead of going slow and forcing me to use the higher end CD-R discs. CD-Rs are hard on the laser. A big concern for 3D0 especially since there is no replacement. I would recommend avoiding them if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHATEIT Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 CD-Rs are hard on the laser. A big concern for 3D0 especially since there is no replacement. I would recommend avoiding them if possible. What is recommended for the Jaguar CD and the 3do? I found that CD-R made by a better brand (Taiyo Yuden) seems to work fine on the 3DO. Am curious if there are other types to try for the Jag CD and 3DO that would be easier on the laser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 What is recommended for the Jaguar CD and the 3do? I found that CD-R made by a better brand (Taiyo Yuden) seems to work fine on the 3DO. Am curious if there are other types to try for the Jag CD and 3DO that would be easier on the laser. It's still going to be relatively rough on the laser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 I've found expensive CDRs fail far more often than the cheap ones, which mostly work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyaage Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 I have been using Verbatim CD-R from Amazon and DiscJuggler 6 as described by Reboot with a great amount of success. All my discs that failed have failed when 'writing' the disc. I have also found that DiscJuggler can be a bit picky about cd writers. I have two laptop writers that work (one on Windows 7, the other an old Compaq running Debian Linux and wine (remarkable) and two PCs with writers that don't. Are you sure that cd-r discs wear out the laser quicker? Please explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Cool to know. I learned something new today. About cdr wearing out drives, I never got this, with the exception of maybe dreamcast (which uses 1gig discs) I can't see how using burned discs would hurt a console. And in dreamcast caee, I'd figure the drive mechanism would be the part to wear out, rather than the eye of laser, due to the disc resolution being different than stock gd. Now, simply using the drive will eventually wear it out, just moving parts and a laser, but that will happen with stock factory discs eventually anyways. Has any actual testing or research ever been done to confirm or debunk this myth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gummy Bear Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 If it's a good disc and a good burn and the data can be read 1st time by the machine then I can't see how any additional wear could occur. I think the issue would be if the machine struggles to read data from a crappy disc and has to skip back and try multiple times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 There's some cool CD+G music discs out there, off the top of my head Information Society, the one with that "pure energy" song on it is a CD+G has a bunch of fan art and other cool things. This literally is the only one I remember having CD+G, and I thought it was a picture of the Enterprise? Something like that, since they had Leonard Nimoy on that song. SegaCD also supports it, I can't remember what the other ones were, but it was definitely a thing that didn't really catch on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Companies were still making CD+G's a few years ago, for Karoke machines. Not a failed format; just one w/limited uses. Can the Jaguar CD drive read Kodak photo disks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 CD+G was used for a variety of purposes... I think (correct me if I'm wrong), it means literally CD + Graphics. It's usually pictures with some other features... simple video / media... like a bouncing ball for Kareoke and some other stuff. Lots of music CDs had CD+G compatibility and people just didn't realize it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Westphal Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Go to eBay and get the Sega CD’s Rock Paintings “ CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 This literally is the only one I remember having CD+G, and I thought it was a picture of the Enterprise? Something like that, since they had Leonard Nimoy on that song. SegaCD also supports it, I can't remember what the other ones were, but it was definitely a thing that didn't really catch on. I haven't tested a SegaCD for CD+G use, but I can confirm this CD has CD+G on it. I own it and have played it back in that mode several times. What is actually has is basically what amounts to hand drawn pictures of different things and the pictures change out occasionally during the song playback. I think the lyrics are also shown but they are part of the picture and aren't really displayed as an overlaying of font text or anything like that. I'm sure someone on the web has the whole thing on YT to show what all that CD contains. Another fun fact, is that their 3rd release CD call Peace and Love contains a track of digital modem data at far ending of the song but I don't know that it has ever been decoded properly. I've heard similar on a few of their other albums as well, but I believe those to just be part of the sampling they are using for the song and not as an extra hidden thing. The track I'm talking about on the Peace and Love album is a hidden thing as the song ends and then like a full 1min or more of silence later, you start to hear the digital modem noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) Here's a quick video of it working with some Karaoke CD+G disks.Jag CD Karaoke.mp4 Edited July 7, 2018 by leech 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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