sirlynxalot

I think the homebrew game Pier Solar for sega genesis had a cart version that could play an accompanying soundtrack CD inserted into the sega CD for background music. The program on the cart would send signals for when to play certain tracks on the music CD so it was a more game-like experience than simply putting the soundtrack CD into a separate CD player in the same room while you are playing. Of course I'm a fan of this method, using the 3DO expansion deck for the Jaguar

Lol that Mac os on a genesis thing is so obviously a hoax.

Noticed these recently, looks pretty smart. If I wasn't satisfied with my china dish display stand I'd go for one of these. Looks like they also exist for game gear and other handhelds. https://www.etsy.com/listing/506330926/atari-lynx-ii-2-display-stands?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=atari%20lynx&ref=sr_gallery_2

I see that wikipedia quotes around 3 million units sold for the lynx, which would seem to make it about 12x more succesful in terms of units sold than the atari jaguar. On the other hand, the lynx was likely quite expensive to manufacture in that time period and I know atari had to cut the price to compete with the gameboy, so it probably wasn't making all that much if any profit on lynx console sales. A typical strategy for old (and current) console manfuactureres was to take a loss on the hardware and make the money through game development licenses sold to third party developers. However if you look at the lynx (and jag) it doesn't seem like there was that much 3rd party support, so atari couldn't have been making up their hardware losses with this economic model. In short, I can't see that the lynx was that much of a moneymaker for atari, although 3 million units sold doesn't seem half as bad as many other offbeat consoles from the 90s.

Hmm it's been awhile since this game was discussed. Hope everything's going ok with its development. Can't believe the first post was 2 years ago!

I guess the vlm pulsing to an audio cd would have been a pretty cool visual demonstration of the jags capabilities

Hm the description you provided sounds like it is just an audio recording, but the description from best electronics openly talks about it being an audio and visual cd to display the capabilities of the jag cd. That makes it sound like a cinepak video or executable to launch some demos...

Is it just jaguar game commercials and/or rolling demos, or is it a fantastic music and video collage? Tried searching youtube but didn't get any hits. It was an item at best electronics http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/jaguar.htm

Hm maybe I ought to revisit cybermorph. I played it for an hour or two one day and beat all but one of the first group of planets, but I didn't remember it saving anything when I booted it up on other occasions and played it casually. Maybe I wasn't far enough in, or maybe my cart's save ability is defective

Addicted to Cybermorph, that's something I've never heard before. How do you spend the summer playing through it, I think there's no password system and no saving, so you'd have to start from the beginning each time? Even though I think the game isn't bad, merely bland, that sounds like torture.

Was checking out videos of the PC version of the 3DO Road Rash, it looks much crisper in terms of higher screen and texture resolution. Maybe it will be relevant to the discussion here about Vlad's ability to render high resolution graphics.

Interesting interview!

Hey how do you know that I like the Battlemorph music and I think I would definitely play it if it were on cart and I could save my progress. As it is, I haven't justified the cost of entry to buy the CD version and get a memory tracker.

What was the contest and what were the proposed prizes?

I wish it had in game music. If it did I would probably actually play it periodically.

Haha there seems to be a lot of parts in this video that don't have to do with the jaguar. You guys are going swimming in a lake, what?

Cool pics looks like it was a fun event. Nice to see multiple people enjoying jaguar in the same place, compare this to me, a recluse playing jaguar by myself in a darkened room because none of my buddies are into it

Yes, I saw someone selling them on ebay a couple weeks ago. It looked like he had more than one to sell because you could choose how many you wanted. Not sure if he's still selling them though.

Looks cool. The creator of rez says he was inspired by tempest 2000 anyway so there's an unofficial connection there.

I got my jag used and didn't have it for several months. I bought it a short while later because it was inexpensive, 3d, exclusive to jag, and seems like a game you need to truly experience the jag and what it was like back in the day. It doesn't get much play but it's not an awful game, just a little boring compared to other titles.

I use an emulator called 4DO, it seems to recognize my usb joystick with no problems (actually a USB to 3DO controller adapter that I have a 3DO controller plugged into). Maybe give that emu a shot? It's a decent one.

^Good points on the programming side of things, but coming up with all the artwork, 3d models, textures etc to make a complete 3D game per 1994/1995 standards still seems like it would take a very long time in and of itself. It seems that having multiple people work on the artwork would greatly speed up the process.

For Val D'isere - I think a game that was about 95% the same was on SNES

No, the tv would just display images like in the first post. I've since been able to use those carts on the new system, so its not a dirty cart issue.

I took the plunge and bought an av modded unit. Its working out well and I'm pleased to see my old carts still seem to work. I'm using a genesis controller for the moment and noticed pole position is unplayable with it (it doesn't recognize the gas button being pressed), I guess this is due to it thinking the second 7800 button is pressed down at all times, so the brake is trumping the gas. I saw that best electronics sells an adapter for genesis controllers and jaguar controllers to be used with other atari systems - any idea if these adapter cables would allow for two button usage for 7800 games, or if it is designed only with the 2600 in mind?