Hastor Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 (edited) 29 minutes ago, TheNameOfTheGame said: Just re-checked and my controller has spinner and dpad so I'm good. The Spinner interestingly operates the Tempest menu as well as the dpad. That's cool, I hadn't seen one with both. Does the dpad control the game in spinner mode? If so it might just be emulating the spinner signals. Btw, if you only have a spinner (and just realized a dpad) with no second controller, is it just a Tempest machine? I'd understand that, but don't understand what you'd get out of the flash cart. Only Tempest and a couple homebrew games even use the spinner. Edited August 27, 2019 by Hastor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Well, if the dpad won't work to correctly control games, then I'll buy a second, normal pro controller. I assumed this controller could do both but haven't tested it yet. Yes, this machine only came with Tempest, but back in the day, I bought the Jaguar and the CD new off the shelf and had quite a few games for it. Sadly I sold that collection long ago. Here's a pic of the controller. I've never opened it to check the mod out though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hastor Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Nice, both on one is cool. Mine has the spinner in the d-pad's place, but it does cycle the circle through a rainbow of led colors! I've also got several regular and two 6-button controllers. Everything I need but a CD drive (which maybe I won't need if we're lucky). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 8 hours ago, TheNameOfTheGame said: I assumed the spinner could cycle through the menu entries. Just curious, what is the reason that precludes the spinner cycling clockwise->down / counter-clockwise->up the menu items? Just re-checked and my controller has spinner and dpad so I'm good. The Spinner interestingly operates the Tempest menu as well as the dpad. Left / right are used for other purposes, and the spinner encodes motion using a quadrature encoding method using l and r, so you’d need to switch to a spinner mode for use. It could be as simple as hitting a number on the pad to switch, however. Not quite sure how useful it would be given only one game uses the spinner... if you only have a spinner controller you may as well just put T2K in the machine and be done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, hypochondriac said: Does the .jag extension work for this or .j64? Yes. (Both) Edited August 28, 2019 by SainT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Yes. (Both)Great thanks. My sd card is ready then just waiting for the cart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 Regarding additional features, I've opened up a topic here -- Add any feature requests here and I'll see what's feasible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1r Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 1 hour ago, SainT said: Not quite sure how useful it would be given only one game uses the spinner... if you only have a spinner controller you may as well just put T2K in the machine and be done! Not entirely true (though T2k has indeed been fixed to my machine for the past couple of years at least), one of the reasons I look forward to ordering a cart is to try the homebrew games with spinner support. A number pad solution would be perfect! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 You can even auto-detect the spinner: one of the four states is L+R down at the same time, which can't happen on a regular controller. So if you detect this and switch to spinner mode automatically, all you have to do to use the spinner is connect it and twitch it a bit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegoncology Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 21 hours ago, SainT said: They are over here -- (actually it's probably not what you meant, but grab them anyway!) Yes that's it, thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas-Prime Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Anyone having issues getting BattleSphere Gold to work? the Jaguar SD cart works flawlessly with all my Roms except for BattleSphere Gold. I get the Red screen of death every-time. all in all....a fantastic device with incredible build quality. Loving the Jaguar SD!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Tsk tsk. How many posts now till this epic thread is locked? P.S. PM me the answer if the thread does go tits up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanluma01 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I too have death screen with Battlesphere Gold and Air Cars. The other roms I play work perfect. Thank you very much Saint for make ours dreams a reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 19 hours ago, juanluma01 said: I too have death screen with Battlesphere Gold and Air Cars. The other roms I play work perfect. Thank you very much Saint for make ours dreams a reality. Interesting, those are both Catnet networking games. I wonder if that is a coincidence. Or just bad ROMs. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Mitch said: Interesting, those are both Catnet networking games. I wonder if that is a coincidence. Or just bad ROMs. Mitch Doom has networking and it runs on the JagSD cart but the code for the networking wasn't made by Thunderbird. Thunderbird did the networking code for BS/BSG and Air Cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 45 minutes ago, walter_J64bit said: Doom has networking and it runs on the JagSD cart but the code for the networking wasn't made by Thunderbird. Thunderbird did the networking code for BS/BSG and Air Cars. Yes, I know. That is why I specifically referenced the Catnet networking. As opposed to Atari Jaglink networking. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 6 hours ago, Mitch said: Yes, I know. That is why I specifically referenced the Catnet networking. As opposed to Atari Jaglink networking. Mitch Oh, I see! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGraham Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 On 8/27/2019 at 6:11 PM, GoldenGraham said: Mortified! Instead of seeing my JagSD Cart on my door step on my return from work today, I got a "We missed you" card from Royal Mail . It needs a signature so I've rearranged delivery for Thursday, bummer! Once I have it my report will be with you SainT Sorry, just wanted to share my pain with you guys! Received my JagSD cart yesterday (phew!), many thanks for a thoroughly professional and much needed product SainT. You have most definitely secured your seat with the Atari gods in the next life and you deserve every penny you get from this project in this life. The cart looks amazing and feels 'reassuringly' heavy. The interface is fantastic especially when used with MRQ files... I'd love to see a similar interface for the LynxSD. Looking forward to seeing your first efforts at a new Jag game SainT ! JagSD will breathe many years of new life and interest into my Jag. Looking forward to seeing what kind of things happen with JagSD... once all 600-700 people get their hands on one. I've been collecting ROM files of the carts I have for years whilst waiting for JagSD. The vast majority of them work fine which is more than I'd ever have hoped. Occasionally I come across a random graphics/sound demo ROM or such like that gives the red screen of death... but most probably they are duff roms or unsupported file type. It would be useful to add a list of supported ROM file types to page 1 of this thread (.jag, .j64, .rom). I haven't checked all of the main ROMS yet but the only one of any significance at this stage I've found doesn't work is 'Aircars (world)' which gives the red screen of death. Save games in PowerDrive worked fine for me but then I was using the mrq files that someone posted here. I'll apply the fix for this when I get a mo, thanks SainT. I'll keep you posted about any other issues I see SainT... but all looks great after day 1, very impressed. Does anybody have any tips/links on the whereabouts of harder to come by cart ROMS such as BS, IS2, Towers2, Worms, Zero5, Breakout2000 ? Does anybody know what [a1] or [a2] means in some ROM file names...? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SainT Posted August 30, 2019 Author Share Posted August 30, 2019 13 minutes ago, GoldenGraham said: Does anybody know what [a1] or [a2] means in some ROM file names...? Alternate dumps, quite often bad ones! The homebrew is the dodgiest to load, you will get very varied results. Some of it is setup for the skunk and does things which crash, other stuff there isnt actually any information about load and execution address, so they are really just useless unless that info is known. The default for those is $4000, which is sometimes right, but not always. If you get a red screen on one ROM and others work, the ROM is definitely bad! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kublai Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Anyone from the USA got their cart yet? Mine has been stuck at Langley since the 25th of August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 When it disappears like that it usually means it's changed carriers. Like UPS handing it off to the USPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 27 minutes ago, kublai said: Anyone from the USA got their cart yet? Mine has been stuck at Langley since the 25th of August. The CIA has to get their Jag gaming on too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 26 minutes ago, kublai said: Anyone from the USA got their cart yet? Mine has been stuck at Langley since the 25th of August. A guy on the Facebook forum Jag did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas-Prime Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 1 hour ago, kublai said: Anyone from the USA got their cart yet? Mine has been stuck at Langley since the 25th of August. I got my Jaguar SD three days ago, I live in Fresno, CA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Mine is still showing as being at Heathrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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