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I thought the name sounded familiar. I do remember a store selling Jaguar system in 1998/99 maybe into 2000. It was your store, but after you moved to the regular store front. The Boulder/Longmont area had a pretty active game community. What I wouldn't give to move back to the area... It was amazing to see the mountains every day, and Boulder was an amazing city... I could probably go on for awhile!

Yep. that was the first thing that stuck out when I connected up a PAL Jaguar.

I'll be there Friday night. This was a lot of fun last year.

Can I sign up for one now? Wow, that's looking amazing!

The land where Frog Feast takes place has some weird physics.. I can't explain it. They do fall in and start swimming. The CD version is ready to play on any Jaguar CD system.

Anyone that has tried ordering Frog Feast and had problems, please try again. I've fixed both domestic an international shipping options. One misplaced line in a PHP script can cause a lot of havoc! Thanks for your patience.

The cartridge can be purchased from: http://shop.rastersoft.net/

I'd love to see you trying to operate all three at the same time.. It's would have to involve at least on foot.

Awesome detailed instructions.

The countdown timer has been corrected, it was generating the time based on the time of the computer. It should be correct now. Thanks Broonale for noticing that.

Details about the Frog Feast release event can be found at: http://frogfeast.rastersoft.net/CountDown.html And, for you convenience, there is a countdown to the release date.

The Jaguar CD version has out sold all other versions by a factor of two at least.

Hi justclaws, Thanks for the comments. Frog Feast has done surprisingly well, for a homebrew project. Of course, the Jaguar CD version is currently the biggest seller. The CD-i version generated a pretty big buzz, and we still see orders trickling in for the other systems. One of the things I discovered is that the excitement around a game can be as rewarding as the money coming in from sales. It's fun being part of the excitement of a new release. The methodology indeed has worked well. I need to make some changes to the code, for the next project, but a lot of the code is reusable. Developing on many different systems has been a positive experience; it helps maintain motivation, and has generated additional sales. Getting a game running on a new system is very exciting.

I think they would be more open to you licensing the roms, and doing it on your own or something similar. Probably the best idea would be to license then, and whore them out as a PC release with an emulator. You could probably, at that point, negotiate for a download license also. The only problem I can see is that they may want a sales guarantee. Gametap has done a decent job with what they've done, and they do carry some Atari (non Jaguar) games. Granted, you don't own them.

The Atari Flashback device seems pretty decent, but there are no 'killer' games on the system. Yar's Revenge and Food Fight are the best two, for me at least. The cost of those two games, on EBay, would run you $15 with shipping. You can have it shipped to a local Radio Shack, for the same price.

Would this Sparkfun Max 232 board work? http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Prototy...Shifter-SMD.pdf They sell for $14, and would seem to be easy to soldier to.

Those look pretty 'damn' good. Will you be selling any after the show?

If you have a bad CD, please follow the following instructions: I need a picture of a visibly broken CD (including a torn label), with the number still intact and visible. This needs to be sent from the same e-mail address you payed with paypal. Also, please include your address to speed up the process. Send these to: cdoty (at) rastersoft (dot) net.

I ran into trouble somewhere using Jag2Card. It worked fine on the developer flash cartridge, but wouldn't work on a 2 or 4 chip eprom board. I'm not sure what caused the problem. Does the Jaguar show a Red screen if there is an encryption error? The cartridge only showed a red screen if the roms were swapped, and would usually sit at the normal boot screen. But, that pushed me to figure out the problem with the original cartridge version. Moving the graphics into ram fixed the issue with the music slowdown. It runs flawlessly from the cartridge now. I was focusing on the wrong issue, initially.

No, I realize it can be used to put a BJL compatible program on a cartridge, but I would like use ALN to achieve the same results, and have with the exception of the mod file playing correctly. The Jag2Card version works fine, and I've elminated the speed issue, as the mod file has been moved to ram. It would seem to be more an issue of some unitialized data or something. Although I only use const 'data' and all global variables are uninitialized, and set in the program. Only local variables are assigned initial values. If I can't get it working properly, I may have to rely on the Jag2Card version..

I just realized that this could be used to see if the CD version, converted to a cartridge, has the same issues. This could help isolate the problem.

If money is truely not an issue, get the Panasonic FS A1 GT. This is probably the most advanced MSX computer available. If I remember right, one of these went for about $500 on Yahoo Japan a few years ago. For a little less money, you can get a Pansonic FS A1 ST. This is still a MSX Turbo R system, and should play all released Turbo R games (I believe). I got one of these for less than $200 on Yahoo Japan. Even with surface shipping and JapanShoppingMall.com fees, I think it was right around $200 total. The number of Turbo R games is small, so MSX 2+ is probably good enough to play 99+% of the games out there. There are quite a few MSX 2+ games (cart and disks) available. You might find a better price on Yahoo Japan, even with the surface shipping and fees, other shipping options get a lot more expensive. These are very common in Japan. The voltage difference isn't an issue at all between the US and Japan. I'm not sure there's technically a difference, probably just how it's listed. A US line can vary by 10% (or more) from 100v to 120v. I would assume the Japanese system is the same, and maybe they list the lower limit, rather than the nominal. The connector on the CX5M is the same as the C-64/Atari 400/800. I assume this is a standard MSX connector. Superb Articles from Japan sells MSX cartridges for a good price, and shipping from Japan isn't too bad: http://stores.ebay.com/Superb-Articles-Fro...1QQftidZ2QQtZkm I bought 4 of his cheap ($3 and $4 cartridges), and paid $24 including airmail shipping.

Thanks for the help. I've implemented the fix, just haven't tested it on the Flash Cart yet.

It was important that it was released on the Two Year anniversary of Frog Feast, as promised almost a month ago.

I may have jumped the gun a little. It looks like the 27c400/800 are pin compatible with the tc5316200. I'm not sure if the tc5316200 and tc5716200 are the same, though. If I remember correctly the 53x is a masked rom and a 57x is an EPROM (or something like that). Also, since I will be burning 2 4Mbit roms, but encrypting a 16 Mbit rom, how does that affect encryption? Should I pad the file with 0x00 or 0xFF?