Starglider II

[Starglider II]

Any update on this?  I see the last post was back in 2015.

[Starglider]

I don’t suppose anyone is working on porting Starglider and Starglider 2 to the Jag?  These were my favorite games on the ST.

[CD Game Support]

Do we now have a set process for ripping the CD’s?  If so, can someone articulate it?

 

Thanks,

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

Just now, UHATEIT said:

All good. I've got them all ripped previously and saved as ISO or Bin/Cue. I have no issues waiting until the program is released, but didn;t know if I should even bother with it if the GD will read ISO or Bin/Cue. 

It won’t read them.  Saint has a proprietary format for the files.  His conversion tool will convert the images to the correct format.

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

13 minutes ago, UHATEIT said:

To make sure I am understanding this correctly, if I ad a rip of one of my Jag CD games in either ISO or BIN/CUE it will NOT load on the Jag GD? I would have to rip them with Clone CD and they need to be in what format?

 

From watching this video there is a conversion tool not yet released which per the video mentioned it will convert them to .JCP I can always wait for the conversion took but wanted to know what toher formats are able to be used in the meantime. 

Until Saint releases a new update to the GD, it doesn’t support CD game play.  In his tweets, he indicated that his conversion tool will support CloneCD.  No other information has be provided since.  The best guess is the appropriate way to rip the cd’s is with the data option, but until it is released and Saint gives the official information, you’re own you own

[Atari Lynx II Recap and Power circuit]

On 2/26/2021 at 2:35 PM, sramirez2008 said:

I highly recommend @-^CrossBow^- and I'm not the only one.

Crossbow just did the recap and power circuit replacement on my Lynx.  His charge for doing the work is very reasonable and his work and communication was excellent.  Anyone that needs to have their vintage electronics worked on, I can highly recommend him.

 

Ken

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

Just now, Goochman said:

 

Mine are different - you just choose DataCD for CloneCD correct?  Any other settings?

 

Battlemorph - 387kb

Blue Lightening - 1523 kb

Vid Grid - 2692 kb

I’m using Clone CD and I picked they Data option.

 

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

1 hour ago, Goochman said:

Do your numbers match what I was getting with CloneCD?

These are what I got:

Battlemorph -  615.5 MB

Hover Strike - 415 MB

Vid Grid - 732.4 MB

Blue Lightning - 546.1 MB

 

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

3 hours ago, UHATEIT said:

What format does the Jag GD read for the CD games? Mine are all in ISO or bin/cue

The JagGD supports a custom format.  Saint will provide a tool to convert the image file to that format.

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

16 minutes ago, ls650 said:

No offence, but aren't folks jumping the gun a little bit?  I'm waiting for there to be an official announcement from SainT that includes details as to file formats, etc.  What's the point of putting in a lot of effort ripping CDs if you guess wrong?

Hey, it gives us something to do .  Saint did say his conversion tool supports clonecd so in case I got it right, I now have 20 CD games converted  

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

1 minute ago, Hastor said:

Just to be clear, they need to be in the .ccd format? As opposed to ISO, Bin/Cue, etc.? That seems to be the format what I have so far is in.

I'm not converting my own yet, but do have a lifetime license for Clone CD and wanna know how when needed!

Saint said that his tool supported CloneCD.  He told me today on Twitter that it will convert ccd and cdi image files.  CCD is CloneCD.  CDI I think is Diskjuggler.

 

Ken

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

Saint says that his conversion tool works with CloneCD image files.  I’m wondering if the read errors are irrelevant.

 

Ken

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

3 hours ago, glorfindeal1 said:

It looks like the proper selection is data, not audio.  Next question, on a lot of my game cd’s I get a couple of sector read errors.  Is this normal?  I can’t believe that I have that many games going bad.

 

Ken

I think the bad sector reads are due to copy protection.  Is there anyway around this or will this not cause a problem with use on the GD?

 

Ken

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

It looks like the proper selection is data, not audio.  Next question, on a lot of my game cd’s I get a couple of sector read errors.  Is this normal?  I can’t believe that I have that many games going bad.

 

Ken

[Alpine Games reprint coming early 2021 from Songbird]

Ordered both!!

[Atari Lynx game: unnamed]

Ordered!!

[Centipede for the Atari Lynx]

Ordered. 

[Atari Lynx II Recap and Power circuit]

Does anyone in the US provide recapping and power circuit replacement (mosfet and diode)?  Looking to have mine done.

 

Thanks,

 

Ken

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

I asked him and he said he didn’t know.  He said he has never ripped a cd before so didn’t know the best option.

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

After talking with Saint, it looks like you can use clonecd to create your image files.  Anyone know what is the best image option?  Clonecd gives a choice of audio, data, game, multimedia and protected PC game.  I would assume game.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

I'm looking to get ready for CD support on the JagGD.  What is the best way (program) to create ISO images of my CDs.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Ken

[Tempest 2000 and spinner]

1 minute ago, Zerosquare said:

I don't have one, but from I understand, it should work the same.

It does.  I just set it and the spinner works.  I turned off the system and restarted.  It saved the setting

[Upcoming Jaguar Game Drive Cartridge]

My bad.  It seems I forgot about the hidden controller type option.  I set it and it is working properly now.]

[Tempest 2000 and spinner]

Is this the same for the GD, once set it is saved during future use?

 

Thanks,

[Tempest 2000 and spinner]

5 minutes ago, Hastor said:

I played, honestly just long enough to test, 5-10 mins, and didn't notice any difference compared to my cartridge. Using spinner on port 1, swapping controllers as soon as I use my regular controller to select the game.
Some Spinners have D-pads as well but mine doesn't.
SainT said a firmware update will allow you to pick it with the numpad if you don't have a Dpad on your spinner.
But no issues for me... I've also used a mouse on other games with no problem, as well as the spinner on Arkanoid.

 

Edit: I guess I should ask, is it from the start, or does it happen off and on? I can test further this weekend most likely if needed.

Mine has the Dpad.  The spinner is on the back and it has a switch to go between dpad and spinner.  But when I use the spinner with the GD the thingy spins sporadically around the playing field.  If I turn it back to the dpad, the dpad works perfectly.  Using the tempest 2000 cart, I have no problems at all.  I wonder if it could be the rom file, though the fact the game runs perfectly using the dpad seems to negate an issue with the rom.