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  2. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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...

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    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. 

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    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?

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    On 2/21/2021 at 1:26 PM, KidGameR186496 said:

    Hey doctorclu! You might want to download this as a MP3 for preservation sake. Someone at YouTube finally uploaded the Jaguar-exclusive track Metal Blockage of Zool 2. This song actually doesn't appear at all in the Amiga versions of Zool 2 :)

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McepqEfOI0w

     

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

     

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    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:

     

    Wow. I guess we left something behind. We were in fact in the Atari buildings working on the Jaguar SDK (on the very day of OJ's slow speed chase -- I flew between LAX/John Wayne and SJC that day). It was the final days of Atari. The place was deserted. No one was around except Aaron O and me. We had the run of the place. We neglected to realize that Aaron was under 25 and couldn't rent a car -- LOL. I forget where he stayed, or how he ate.



    This looks like a rapid prototype model that we made a few of for testing the feel and button layout. This was made of a very heavy plastic resin type material (probably from a rubber mold). We may have hollowed out some of them and put a ciruitboard in. It would go on to become the Spaceball Avenger.

    It's maybe worth $10, but I wouldn't even pay that. Makes a nice boat anchor.

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  11. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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.

     

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  12. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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:
    atari_01.jpg

     

    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.

     

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    This controller was found in a box in the Atari HQ when the company closed its doors. It was at one time in the Atari Museum, I eventually purchased it from owner of the Jaguar Sector. It is a very unique and one of a kind Atari Jaguar controller.

     


    The controller has one button on the bottom, two buttons on the front, one of the overlays has been taped on to prevent it from becoming lost. There are two buttons on the top. The controller has never been tested and I have no idea what it was to be used for. I do not know if the ball spins, it does not seem like it.

     

     

    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

     

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    Wow. I guess we left something behind. {at Atari}


    This looks like a rapid prototype model that we made a few of for testing the feel and button layout. This was made of a very heavy plastic resin type material (probably from a rubber mold). We may have hollowed out some of them and put a circuitboard in. It would go on to become the Spaceball Avenger.

     

     


    Several years later, in 2017, one of the developers of the controller chimed in on the discussion again to add more interesting information:
     

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    That was not only meant to be connected to a Jaguar, but was. In fact, when OJ was on his slow speed chase in LA,

    we were at Atari in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara/wherever it was, incorporating support for that device (maybe that very device) into the Jaguar libraries and some games. It was a pretty sad place--no one to be found. We had the run of the place, such as it was. Of course, nothing ever got released. But if you plug it into a Jaguar, it might do something, but probably nothing useful w/o a game that supports it.

     

     

    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!

     

    andy_c_avenger.jpg

     

    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.

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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 $$$

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  14. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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 ;)

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  19. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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.

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    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.

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  25. Posted · Edited by sirlynxalot

    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 :)

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