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The Jaguar version of Cannon Fodder is probably the best version, simply because it doesn't have any load times. The only other version that doesn't have any load times is the PAL Genesis version. The CD32 version isn't as bad as the floppy Amiga versions, but the load times seem long.

After an unexpected trip to Ottawa, I got the JagLink in and built up the JagLink to serial adapter tonight. I shouldn't even say built, since it was just a matter of placing the wires from a serial cable under the screws of a telephone jack. I encrypted Frog Feast without any problems. Everything worked the first time... how many times do you hear that? Excellent job Matthias, on the encryption tools/cd. Unless I find any last remaining bugs, this should be the final image that will be available on Aug 20th. The CD includes the 'normal' Frog Feast audio track as the first audio track, and the standard jagcd1st.wav as the second audio track. OlderGames.com should have news about the release soon.

Would an exit option make any sense for the Jaguar CD version? Would it return to anything useful?

Yeah, the cartridge version will come out after the CD release (probably a month or so later). The cartridge numbers might be limited by the number of donor carts available.

I am wondering which music you are talking about?? As far as I know the FrogFeast preview does not have the flies or sound and music. He's a private tester, and the man who will be assembling the Jaguar carts, once that version is ready. He's testing what should be the final version. The corrupt screens have been fixed in this version. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was. It could've either been recording speed, data alignment or, padding.

It looks like this was pretty easy to solve: The crt0.s provides the video_width, so I added the following line to offset the screen: DisplayPtr->y = 8 + ((video_height - NTSC_HEIGHT) >> 1); The initial line was: DisplayPtr->y = 8; I decided to use A, B, and, C as the action button. I personally prefer the C button.

This is good news. Thanks for testing it.

Does the title screen Show ''Press A Button"? If so. this is the older version. You need to redownload the file.

Work toward accuracy, and let a multi-core cpu handle the optimzations. Can't wait to see a new version of VJ.

I'll check that out, thanks for the link.

No, it's the same BJL file brought into Jaguar CD creator as a boot track. I use the prepend word. I'll try padding out the BJL file before creating the CD. Is PadCD needed for creating a Jag Free CD, or is it for the encryption process? Wouldn't the screen object problem show up in the BJL version also? And, it would seem to be a little less random. I've seen it corrupt the top of the background image, corrupt the top of the title image, even change one color on the title screen. I'll check my lengths to make sure I'm not overwriting something. Weird stuff...

Not that I know of. Could it be related to the speed it was burned at? I burned my at 48x, I will try another at slower speeds. What software did you burn it with, and at what speed? Look at the top of the screen, you should see some garbage pixels.

That's the only place I see it also. Could this be a problem with loading it under a encryption bypass cart/Jag Free? I used Protector SE? It's random, so it's either a loading issue or I need to insert some sort of delay somewhere. If it was a loading issue, it would probably corrupt the program at some point in time, but it doesn't seem to do this. The program loads consistently.

I figured I would have to adjust the screen position based on PAL/NTSC. I will switch the button. I was tempted to make all three buttons work. Thanks for testing this.

Hi, thanks for your dedication to the Jaguar. I am having difficulties to get "behind" the "Press A Button" screen: This is the old version. The new version allows you to select one or two players: The file uploaded to the ftp is the wrong one.

You can try two player mode. If you have a second joystick, you can control the other frog. This version is more of a testing version, to ensure it works on the real system. The flies, music and, sound are implemented, but disabled in the preview version. I also had a lot of problems getting the BJL version to transfer correctly. But, isn't this a problem with the connection to the Jaguar, rather than the game? It's probably made worse by the size of the file. I had no luck under window 98 MS Dos prompt until I set it to full screen.

It's probably a problem with FlashFXP. If a file exists, it wants to resume the upload. I've reuploaded the CD image. The BJL version was re-uploaded also.

The preview version of Frog Feast is now available from: http://frogfeast.rastersoft.net/Jaguar.html The preview is available as either a BJL or unencrypted cd in Disc Juggler format. If someone would like to encrypt the image, please feel free. It loads correctly under Protector SE. The final version will be encrypted, I just bought a JagLink from myatari on ebay. This version allows one or two player play, but does not have the flies or sound and music. There is some corruption of the image data at the top of the image. This will be fixed over the next few days. Also, I'm not sure this will work correctly on a PAL Jaguar. I will verify this shortly. Please post any issues you find.

I might be wrong, but I don't think any of them saw any real releases so far, just emulator stuff. The NES is pretty close though and I think you'll find people that will make you NES cartridges if you want too. Frog Feast was released on a Genesis and SNES cartridge. And Sodoku is being released for the NES at CGE. Frog Feast is also the first homebrew released on the Philips CD-I.

Has anyone gotten the examples to compile under cygwin (under Windows 98)? Everything 'appears' to work. but aln does nothing.

I remember these. They were pretty close to the original.

You can't play them unless you open them, and that's what games are for!

http://www.mamedev.org has the debug version available for download: http://mamedev.org/release.html

Would this also work with the Atari Jaguar Flash rom cartridges?

I programmed a little on Total Mayhem, and wrote most of the low level code for Revenant (published by Domark/Eidos. developed by Cinematix). I've also developed Frog Feast for a number of game systems.