sirlynxalot

Since you're using a pc with launchbox, why not buy a usb spinner for use with the pc instead of taking apart the jag controller?

No, there is not enough demand to make a custom part because it would require modification to the plastic shell of the jaguar to have a hinged flap like the genesis/n64. There are probably only few people who have the skills to do a good looking job and would want to go through the trouble to mod the jag's shell when jag's now sell for $300. And in the end, what do you really gain from a dust flap? I've never heard of anyone's console breaking down because the cart slot was exposed to dust for too long...

I think I saw a 3d printed piece you could stick in the cart slot on etsy many years ago. Imo it didn't look that great aesthetically, and you'd have to manually remove it each time you placed a cartridge in the slot. Many people just leave a cart in the slot, if you're concerned about having a circuit board in the slot, you could just use an empty plastic cartridge shell to basically cover the components in the slot without actually having a circuit board in contact with the slot pins.

Would like to see Leonard Tramiel's bug testing memo about Tempest 2000.

True, when there isn't a 3d model of a specific console in emuvr already, it uses a placeholder generic black rectangle console. That's whats to the right of the tv.

Anyone tried emuvr, the virtual bedroom experience for playing retroarch emulators? As a proof of concept, I got the virtual jaguar core running

If all you did was move Phoenix from one HDD to another on the same computer, I don't know what would me messing it up. I've personally copied Phoenix over to a different drive on the same computer and had no issue. Does it work if you put it back on the old drive? Like if you moved it from drive C to D, move it back to C and see if it works?

Cool song, kinda reminds me of the Tempest 2000 soundtrack!

These atari jaguar postcards offered by the same seller are interesting, too. I've never heard of Jaguar postcards before... though I never thought to look for them either. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-Of-7-Oversized-Atari-Jaguar-Postcards-Jaguar-CD-Varunas-Forces-BlWN/174709813578?hash=item28ad84314a:g:ymAAAOSwY81gYKtj

Here's one of the forum threads where a developer chimed in back in 2012. https://forum.3dconnexion.com/viewtopic.php?t=1338&start=135 Looks like I didn't have the full quote before:

Judging from reviews and youtube videos, in practice, its basically ideal for a game like Descent, where the controls allow you to move your ship in more than four directions, such as by hovering up and down like a helicopter. I forget if Cybermorph/Battlemorph/Skyhammer allows you to do similar up/down hovering... but it seems like it could have been an interesting controller for those games. The pc controller was also apparently supported by FPS games of the mid 90s like Quake, where you could use it to not only run and turn, but also smoothly look up and down, all by just twisting, turning, pushing and pulling on the ball. You could also use it for games that had fewer movement/looking options, like Doom, and just not use the full 6-axis functionality because the particular game doesn't need or use 6 axis of movement.

If you are like me and periodically searched for atari jaguar prototype stuff on google in the last 15 years, you might have seen an image of this controller: According to the website for this picture (http://spacemice.org/index.php?title=Mystery), the images come from an old ebay auction where the seller claimed it was found at Atari HQ during the time atari was going out of business and stuff was being liquidated. Years later, this controller was the topic of conversation on another forum, and one of the developers chimed in on the discussion to offer some details Several years later, in 2017, one of the developers of the controller chimed in on the discussion again to add more interesting information: The company went on to release a couple variations of this controller on the PC, and license the 3d ball orb thingy to agetec/ascii to put on a PS1 controller. But I find the first commercial iteration of the controller, released for PC, the most interesting, because the darn thing looks like a cross between that prototype and the traditional Atari Jaguar controller! Sega Saturn 3d pad eat your heart out! So, considering that this wasn't just a device that was being shown to Atari, but was actually a device for which the developers were at Atari HQ implementing software support/drivers into development libraries and games... could this be like the Missile Command VR headset, where if you're able to get one and connect it to the Jag, there might actually be some hidden support for it? Anyone have the ability to test this out? Looks like the PC spaceball avenger uses a 9 pin serial port.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I happened on it when I was looking for images of jaguar controllers earlier, found it endearing, and thought it needed more exposure now that its been 15 years and there's a whole different crowd on the forum. Wonder if the original poster still has this cardboard and electrical tape controller and whether it has stood the test of time As a one of a kind, its also the ultimate collectable $$$

That's a cool picture! It's neat to see it laid out like this. I've had my best luck on this minigame by just playing it a lot and unconsciously having a feel for when certain obstacles will come up. I can't imagine trying to directly memorize it from these images, sounds too much like homework

Any idea what the kiosk weighs with all pieces in place? The wood, the metal plate and the monitor ought to add a bunch of weight, but is it under 200 lbs?

I'd be interested in the atari lynx system box. I'm located in MA.

Can the plastic with the jaguar eyes and game cover holders come off to make the kiosk narrower? Or is it all bolted onto the wood and not easily removable?

Looks fantastic.

I seem to remember someone on this forum a couple years ago discussing that their saved highscores in certain Jag games got corrupted and wouldn't save anymore, and there was a fix, like pressing *0# on the controller that would reset the memory and allow it to save again. It sounds like this is a slightly different issue though since your cart currently saves fine. Personally, my Raiden cart stopped saving highscores at a certain point, never tried the button combo though.

Would be sweet if through that sega games on atari systems deal we got Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, Nights into Dreams, on carts for the Jag. You can tell what Atari wanted from their lynx advertisement though...

I read on another forum that the Jaguar emulator within Phoenix is IrataJaguar.

Do you think it could be caused by the audio clipping? Does it only happen with stuff like drum beats or sharp staccato notes or sfx?

It's actually the button that makes the jaguar console itself more powerful than the saturn but slightly less powerful than the playstation.

I think it was the 64bit mode button that applied high res textures to every 3d model and upped the framerate. It was part of the original Flare design but the Tramiels took it off so they could sell it as an add on part, like the AV cable.

Btw, Phoenix supports save states for atari jaguar games. In fact, I couldn't get ordinary game saves to work with the games I tested, but its kind of a moot point since I can just do a save state. No one mentioned it yet, so I'll say, that Phoenix was last updated in 2017, so that's a bit more recent than 2014. I haven't heard any info that anyone is still working on it though, and since its been about 4 years since the last release, it probably won't be further updated anytime soon. I mentioned this in another thread in the jag forum, but Project Tempest, the emulator last updated around 2004, is the only one that will play any Jag CD games. I heard it will pretty much only play Primal Rage and World Tour Racing, though since the commercial jag cd library is so small, that's probably like 15%-20% of the library