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Some pipedreams: River Raid 2000, which I imagine as a rail shooter version of Battlemorph. Battletoads Arcade with Trevor McFur as a bonus character. A fighting game with good controls. A JRPG, even if it sucks.

This game looks like a Sega CD game made by a top notch dev team, great work! Im not a programmer so I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, but I will suggest giving the hero a big dramatic death animation like in Rondo of Blood ?

I have fast cards and slow cards that all seem to work roughly the same, but some are better at some games, or crash games in different ways. The best run I ever got on Battlemorph was on a slow 4gb card.

What games do you still need converting?

It seems that the price had gradually dropped to $189 by March of 95 before the big drop to 150. Its too bad they didnt have more software support, seems like they were getting a lot right besides that. Its funny to hear all these clearance sale stories. I was a kid going to game shops in the late 90s so I probably saw a Jag at some point but none of the kids at school talked about Jaguar and I have no memories of it at that time. I didnt even know it existed until I read the Atari wikipedia page around 2005.

All those Nintendo kids mocked us for saying it was the future of gaming, but now we are vindicated!

Never seen tits in a licensed Nintendo game before.

Hey friends, I was wondering if there is a known timeline of Jaguar price drops. I know it launched at 250 USD and by 1995 it dropped to 150 to try to compete with PS1, and eventually it ended up going on clearance at 70 bucks when they were trying to liquidate stock, but beyond that I dont know anything else. I wonder if for example it got dropped to 200 when early expectations were not met.

Awesome. I wonder if it will be censored for consoles.

Thats my plan, however I cant get to the boss levels unless I finish the normal levels in the sector without the game freezing and so far Ive yet to make it to the first boss once. I could play every level besides the boss levels but that just seems like I would be ruining the overall experience of the game for myself.

Today I was able to trigger some kind of glitch that let me get farther. After completing paramer I went to the bonus level where you collect ammo. I messed around there for 30 seconds or so, collected an ammo cube or two, then left and went on to silur. When it dropped me at silur though the game had no music, yet it did have sound effects and there was no drop in frame rate, it even seemed to be slightly smoother. I finished the level with no issues and for every new level I would once again not have music but would have the sound effects and there would be no crashing. Until finally my luck ran out. On the last planet of the first world, when it dropped me the music was back. I crawled through the level at a snails pace trying not to trigger the crashing but eventually it did. I was on kalmer and went thru the teleporter hidden in the building and the game died. Oddly enough though the music kept playing and the screen was frozen black.

Finally finished Trevor McFur. The classic combo of difficulty and joylessness. I kinda cheated by using a Japanese style arcade stick that wouldnt be available back in the day, but the game plays dirty so I play dirty haha. And yeah this one is bad. Less polish than a flash game from Newgrounds in the early 00s lol Though tbh a part of me wants to see some kind of enhanced and cleaned up Crescent Galaxy 2.

Just curious has anyone successfully converted it to .jcd and got it running on GD?

In a sense SCD doesnt really belong with them, but in an ironic twist all the resources it got simply because it was a Sega console gives us the best glimpse at what it might have looked like if the Jag had the chance to be the cool kid and make some nice ports from SNK, Konami, etc. SCD could be considered a failure but I suspect Sega's MO was to use it as a tool to drive Genesis sales. I also think its perception gets colored by the 32X which was a flop on a much more colossal scale.

Check my original message, I didnt mention power at all. I said it makes more sense to compare the Jag to the Sega CD, 32X, and 3DO than it does to the N64. N64 was fully in the 3D era, Jag was part of the awkward transitional era is basically my point. Hardware changes with the era but what I was getting at was more of the style of games being made. To use your example Doom on Jag is more like Battlecorps on SCD than it is like Golden Eye on N64.

Consider a game like Stellar Fire on SCD, the polygons are less impressive than games like Cybermorph and Hoverstrike, but it runs way faster and gives more fluid gameplay. Not saying its better or more impressive, just that its in the same ball park.

What games would you say are head and shoulders above anything on Sega CD? Im not talking about how many colors displayed on screen at once or anything like that, I mean in terms of the gameplay provided. If you mean that Jag's clunky 3D games look nicer than Sega CD's clunky 3D games I agree, but it doesnt really change the gameplay experience in my humble opinion.

This was basically what I was getting at. The two are from the same era but unlike the Jag, Sega CD had all the resources it needed to realize its potential. The Jag would have had a higher ceiling though so I see your point.

Im getting it from having a lot of experience with both libraries. Not really all that concerns with who has the better specs if they cant actually use it to amount to anything. For all its power the Jag manages some clunky 3D games and some nice 2D/pseudo-3D games, basically the same as Sega CD. The only game where the Jag really looks head and shoulders above the Sega CD in terms of power is Battlemorph.

Gunstar made a good point that it makes more sense to compare Jaguar to Sega CD, 32X, and 3DO. When you think about it Sega CD is basically the Jaguar if all of its problems were taken away in exchange for only working if tethered to a Genesis lol

It might have to do with this:

I tried that on all three memory cards and got the exact same behavior.

I was finally able to get by it using a card that came with my dashcam. Its the MicroSD 1 HC I Class 10. The first time I formatted it and tried it, it gets past paramer, I then do the level with the caves which causes freezing a lot but I go really slow so it survived that level too. Then did the water level because the water freezes it often but it survived that. At this point I thought I was home safe and I would finally be able to do the first boss, at which point I could just use a password to restore any lost progress, but then it froze on penter, a super basic level it usually never freezes on. I tried to replicate the process but every subsequent time it would freeze on paramer and often only halfway thru the level. I noticed that if I reformat the card the first time I try it, it works the best. So I started constantly reformatting each of my three cards to try and find success. I did this probably 5 times for each and I was only able to survive paramer once more, but it then froze on the 2nd level I tried. I noticed what happens is that when the game gets too busy there is an audio glitch where there is a loud hissing sound constantly coming out of the game and the framerate drops. In this state you can continue to play the level, but when it tries to exit the level after you complete it, it always freezes. Hopefully this info is of some help, for now my next plan it to simple buy more microSD cards.

@Songbird Got any old pictures of the JJJ Game Controller?

It was listed on a Jaguar FAQ that can be found here: myatari.net : Jaguar 64 F.A.Q. (exxoshost.co.uk) It seems like it was one guy making them but it seems pretty professional so maybe a situation like MAS where it was 1 guy making a lot of them in high quality. The FAQ was described as "old" back in 2005 but not exactly sure when they were in production.