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Snipping to get back to the point Belief isn't good enough But you're right, all Jag games work on all regions of Jag, with the sole exception of the Readysoft JagCD games, which are carelessly coded. Stone

One does one's best Stone

You need a certain amount of technical knowledge, and knowing which end of a soldering iron gets hot and how to use it is a good place to start. For me the most useful mods to my Jag have been a BIOS switch for BJL (homebrew system allowing demo uploads) and Stub roms (official Atari ROM allowing use of an Alpine development board), a region switch and a reset button. Of those none will be any use at all in the grand scheme of things unless you plan to play with coding and/or doing strange things to your video output Stone

Only thing I'd make sure to check it with is the BJL ROM - you get all sorts of weird combos out of that Other than that I can't think of any off the top of my head...sounds intriguing, anyway Stone

Keyboards are definitely possible - I was working on an adaptor for PS/2 keyboards myself a little while back, but gave up due to lack of interest and hardware issues. I was using a small existing PIC project to convert the PS/2 information into a standard serial datastream and feed it into the Jag's DSP port - while this worked fine on the Jag side it's not really a perfect solution, because you're then prevented from using network adaptors. Ideally I guess the best solution would be to figure out some way of reading the serial keyboard data out of the keyboard and into a joystick port, but I have no idea if this is feasible - my idea was just the path of least resistance With regards the other possibilities, lightguns are definitely an option (I've done them ) but I think you may be slightly confused with regards the naming...as far as I'm aware Atari kept pushing the name ComLynx as being interchangable with 'DSP port' - I think there were some grand plans for interconnectability as with the GameCube and GBA, but I don't think they were ever realised. The only reason I bring this up is because lightguns and analogue interfaces use the joypad ports, not the DSP port, so my bet is someone somewhere along the line got confused Hope that helped. Stone

@xenomorpher: You have a fully-working JagCD if it can play audio CDs, go and get some games for it Personally I only have two Jags, one (heavily) modified and one stock, though I keep meaning to pick up a cheap base-unit only and remod it from the beginning; my modded one's had so much done to it in the way of hacks and patches that there's not a lot I can do before it stops working altogether Stone

Fever Pitch Soccer. I bought it used, but only ever played it once, and that on an Alpine Not abad game, as I recall, just not really my thing. Stone

Trust me, this thread was sticky waaaay back Stone

To be honest I'm still not sure I contacted the people apparently behind this ages back, and they stopped responding to mail when I asked how much of the game they'd done...I hope that doesn't completely answer your question, but I fear it might do Shame, it looked like a fun idea. Stone

Maybe I shoulda gone for this and shifted a 2MBer onwards...if I wasn't otherwise occupied and feeling poor after my recent Jaggie outlay Best thing for me right now would be a proper dead-tree dev manual; it'd be lovely to just be able to sit down and read through properly, it's not quite the same on a screen Stone

Also something Gordon always forgets to mention is that he fudged up the levelset when testing the BJL version, so there's a few REALLY REALLY HARD levels at the very beginning of the game. If you can beat those it gets easier, though I've never tried too hard at it The CD version is much better and has a ton more levels in though (and a MUCH more friendly learning curve) so my recommendation would be to go for that...there's no possible way you could be disappointed Stone

If anyone wants a BHH I'd suggest you get them pretty sharpish - my money's on the NHL trying to shut it down pretty fast if they find out the game's being distributed. Then again, copyright infringement's something that only happens to other people, right? Stone

One of my Jags powers up with no cart inserted...oh, hang on, I hacked it to do that Stone

Looks and sounds like my copy. @SteveW: Trust me, if you'd seen the more complete version you wouldn't even consider paying for this one. That's properly impressive; this one just gives the general idea Just a shame that everyone thinks it was/is me spreading my copy around when all I did was show a few badly-taken screenshots and take it to a JagFest Stone

I've a J9000E and a J9000E-2, both in the lighter-coloured cart cases. (at least one of them was J9000E-2, before I ruined the label taking it apart ). I'd be tempted to think that the shell variation is different from the ROM variation...but then there's a couple of games like this. Theme Park is one that I believe was recalled, back-in-the-day, and I know for sure I have two different versions of Iron Soldier, with different cart headers. Very bizarre, but not something that we're ever likely to fully understand Stone

I've attached the file; should work. (not tested it in a while, I bought Protector SE to save me the trouble). Coding is credit to Symmetry (I've lost the txt file that goes with it...) but just make sure you thank him when next your paths cross and I'm sure he'll be happy Load address is $4000. Rgs, Stone bjl_cdbp.zip

I haven't got or played Defender 2000, so no comment there, but Atari Karts is one big bundle of gaming joyousness you won't be putting down in a hurry. One of my very favourite Jag games and no mistake Stone

I should have some interesting new stuff soon... Pics when a certain person pulls their finger out and gets it delivered I love getting new Jag stuff Stone

You get what you pay for, in respect to image-quality. I've heard very bad things about quality on the cheap boxes. Also, it was the only one with an RGB input, and I didn't much fancy making a convertor box for my arcade setup when it really wasn't necessary. That's just stupid Plus, the image I get out of it when using RGB input is stunning. Reason enough, really Stone

I imagine it's because the data is stored serially - any small errors that creep in may not get fixed by the error-correction, or the Jag might not quite start reading fast enough to be in time to pick up the pallette info. If you're going to burn another disk, try adding a couple of seconds delay to the beginning of each track (with a corresponding delay in when the graphics are displayed) and see if it makes a difference - I'd bet this is another manifestation of the way the graphics get screwed up if you skip forwards or back in a CD+G track. Stone

Not overly surprising; very few VGA monitors can sync low enough to display video from a Jag. Solution here is to use an upscan convertor - I use the XRGB-2 Plus which I got from play-asia to display my Jag on my PC's secondary monitor. Note: only RGB and S-Video will give you a decent picture - while composite is usable it gets quite badly degraded in the multiple conversion steps that occur between the input and the output. Hope that helps Stone

One of my copies of Doom came with an overlay. The other one...is still sealed so I don't know I always assumed all of them were identical though Stone

So you did, my bad.... Curt Actually Shamus said it in the first reply Stone

It works, I've tried it. My dad has a singalong opera CD, so we had Nessun Dorma running on it The graphics aren't wonderful quality though, as mentioned. Stone

Thanks...Looks like I need a memory upgrade Stone