Atari Jaguar CD-Rom Case Modding

[Trigger58]

Hello,

i am a newbie in here and i ever was an Amiga fan but i got unknown years ago an Atari Jaguar and since this time i love this console.

 

The only thing i wanna know is, has anybody ever tried to build in an Atari Jaguar CD-Rom into an old Atari Jaguar case?

 

I'm a case modder and i love it to try impossible things. I modded different Amiga's and at the moment i have another A600/Raspberry Pi Project but that is not finished yet. Here a few photos of it.

[+madman]

You mean putting the CD-ROM into another Jag case? How would you plug it in? Or do you mean adding a CD-ROM into an existing Jag case that already contains a fully functional Jag?

[Trigger58]

5 minutes ago, madman said:

You mean putting the CD-ROM into another Jag case? How would you plug it in? Or do you mean adding a CD-ROM into an existing Jag case that already contains a fully functional Jag?

i mean to put a cd-rom into a normal jaguar case. for the plugin i will see how i can realize it. thats the way a need an old cd-rom for it. i wanna try to build this in and i think it is possible.

Edited July 17, 2019 by Trigger58

[Trigger58]

Atari got this to work too and i think you only need to modify a few things. like the case and a few other things to switch between cd-rom and normal rom slot.

 

[+madman]

Why would you need to modify anything to switch between the cd-rom and cart slot? That happens automatically when the CD attachment is plugged in and it is only connected via an extension card. Otherwise there'd be little point in the cart slot (other than memory track) on the CD and you'd have to remove it each time you wanted to play a cart game.

 

Edit: I see what you mean now...

[Trigger58]

14 minutes ago, madman said:

Why would you need to modify anything to switch between the cd-rom and cart slot? That happens automatically when the CD attachment is plugged in and it is only connected via an extension card. Otherwise there'd be little point in the cart slot (other than memory track) on the CD and you'd have to remove it each time you wanted to play a cart game.

Ok. Thats a thing i didnt knew, because i never had a cd-rom

 

But that sound great. make things easier

 

For now i only changed the power led. i am not a friend of green light. now it is blue. i think about to cut out the jaguar logo and fill this up with acrylic resin. after this i think i will put some red lights in there but this is only a think about for now. there was only one modding out there i could find with google. i wonder why not other people try to mod this great piece of game console.

 

Edited July 17, 2019 by Trigger58

[+madman]

Well the consoles are expensive, the CD attachments even rarer and more expensive. I can't imagine many people want to go cutting one or both of them up for what is largely a pointless act. Have fun if you're into that sort of thing.

[Trigger58]

7 minutes ago, madman said:

Well the consoles are expensive, the CD attachments even rarer and more expensive. I can't imagine many people want to go cutting one or both of them up for what is largely a pointless act. Have fun if you're into that sort of thing.

Thanks :). if i ever get one of these without to spent my whole salary then i will try it!

Edited July 17, 2019 by Trigger58

[sirlynxalot]

Someone already did a case mod that managed to cram the jag cd down into the standard case.  It looked a lot like how a jag and jag cd looks, just not as tall.  Here's a pic

[Gummy Bear]

27 minutes ago, sirlynxalot said:

Someone already did a case mod that managed to cram the jag cd down into the standard case.  It looked a lot like how a jag and jag cd looks, just not as tall.  Here's a pic

Ahh I remember that.

Real sweet work.

[Trigger58]

6 hours ago, Gummy Bear said:

Ahh I remember that.

Real sweet work.

Ahh, that work is awesome. Looks really nice!

[sirlynxalot]

There was also this case mod which was a similar concept

 

[+madman]

Wow, that looks like a horrible hack job with an even worse paint job.

[Retromills]

Some people have got too much time and money on their hands.

[+remowilliams]

That monstrosity on the right looks like it was made out of melted cheese and black shoe polish by an imbecile.

[+CyranoJ]

6 minutes ago, remowilliams said:

That monstrosity on the right looks like it was made out of melted cheese and black shoe polish by an imbecile.

Looks more like a cake that went wrong.

[Arcadia]

On 7/19/2019 at 2:26 AM, CyranoJ said:

Looks more like a cake that went wrong.

Looks more like a dark chocolate bar that's been left in a hot car on warm summer's day. 

[mckafka99]

On 7/18/2019 at 8:26 PM, CyranoJ said:

Looks more like a cake that went wrong.

(Someone has to say it, this is a video game forum after all ....)

 

'The cake is a lie.'

Edited July 20, 2019 by mckafka99

[Trigger58]

On 7/19/2019 at 1:16 AM, sirlynxalot said:

There was also this case mod which was a similar concept

 

I thought i read something about that this thing was the JAG2 that never got released. By the way the painting looks more then horrible!

And the "bump" to open the case.... . No Way. Looks like someone tried to push the case in with a hot air gun.

 

EDIT:

if you look carefully then you can see that the bottom tile of the case is much bigger then the normal one. either he build a new bottom case or this one is the JAG 2 Prototype.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Trigger58

[CD-i]

No it is a case mod of an infamous JS 2 member. [redacted]

 

Wow his user name is on the black list ^^

[sirlynxalot]

Now compare these to the Jag Duo, prototype jag and jag cd in one. Pretty slick eh. 

Since a prototype case exists in the wild, and a prototype motherboard pcb exists in the wild, there ought to be some kind of complex way we can marry the two and perhaps duplicate them