Atari Jaguar SD cartridge (Everdrive)

[Pinball]

Very exciting news if you have an Atari Jaguar. The first Everdrive for it went on sale yesterday, enabling you to play EVERY Jag cart game. It may also support Jag CD games later (hardware in place, just needs firmware update).

https://new.retrohq.co.uk/shop/

[MojoJojo]

I don't know much about the Jaguar, except about it being a bit of a flop and some ho-haaa about it claiming to be 64 bits.

Are there any stand out games on it?

[madhair60]

Cool, now you can play all the awesome Jaguar exclusives, like Fucking Nothing and Shit All.

[biggytitbo]

The best thing about the Atari Jaguar was when they spray painted it grey and used it as dental equipment.

[NoSleep]

Are there any stand out games on it?

Tempest 2000 (by Jeff "Yak" Minter), which I purchased a Jaguar to play (and is awesome). Ended up getting Defender 2000 as well, which isn't in the same league but as a bonus plays a decent game of standard Defender. I have Doom and Syndicate as well.

I'm not sure what else you'd want a Jaguar for aside from Tempest 2000 (which'll cost you £50-£60 on ebay).

[madhair60]

Oh yeah I forgot about Tempest. Disregard my above post

[Pinball]

It is true that the number of good games was relatively small, but Tempest 2000 was superb and justified the license fee on its own, as it were. I even bought the OST on CD. Other great games IMO:

Defender 2000 (just beautiful and great music, and programmed by Minter!)




Breakout 2000
Missile Command 3D



Battlesphere (rare)
Raiden (accurate port)
Alien vs Predator



Wolfenstein 3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_Jaguar_games

What's great about the SD cart is you'll be able to try everything, and, in particular I hope, CD games at some point. There is also a lot of bootleg activity.

So, yes the Jaguar flopped, but there are gems therein.

[madhair60]

I take the piss but I'd love a proper go of the Jag. Emulation of it is a fuckin state

[NoSleep]

There is also a lot of bootleg activity.

Do you mean homebrew? It looks like the CD add-on has gendered a fair bit of "new" Jaguar stuff. I'd love to see Jeff Minter's VLM (light synthesiser) that was built into the CD add-on.

[Pinball]

Yeah sorry homebrew is a better term! AtariAge is also releasing new carts of course. Mainly the SD cart means you'll save a fortune not having to buy carts though.

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=57

[Pinball]

I take the piss but I'd love a proper go of the Jag. Emulation of it is a fuckin state

Emulation is shite, not much that works, although T2K does, thank Sky Fairy.

[NoSleep]

Yeah sorry homebrew is a better term! AtariAge is also releasing new carts of course. Mainly the SD cart means you'll save a fortune not having to buy carts though.

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=57

Llamatron, Revenge of the Mutant Camels (& Gridrunner as an easter egg)) for the Jaguar? I think I might have one of them.

Oooh, Xenon 2, too.

[Pinball]

I remember Xenon 2 (in B&W!) on an old Amstrad 1512, then I bought it for the MegaDrive, and now this :-)

The fan scene and fora have really kept things ticking along nicely.

More generally, I've been going through an Everdrive year across various consoles and handhelds e.g. new, bright McWill screens for Atari Lynx 2 and GameGear, and Everdrives for both (every game made on 1 cart). Nice.

[MojoJojo]

Tempest 2000 (by Jeff "Yak" Minter), which I purchased a Jaguar to play (and is awesome). Ended up getting Defender 2000 as well, which isn't in the same league but as a bonus plays a decent game of standard Defender. I have Doom and Syndicate as well.

I'm not sure what else you'd want a Jaguar for aside from Tempest 2000 (which'll cost you £50-£60 on ebay).

Huh, I was actually thinking about Tempest 2000 when I posted the question, but thought that was the weird one that was on a DVD player.

[NoSleep]

That's Tempest 3000 on the Nuon.

[Pinball]

I actually bought a Nuon back in the day specifically for T3K. Crazy really, but that's how much I liked T2K and Minter :-)

There is of course T4K for XB1 and PS4 now, as well as Polybius, and, for completion, TxK for the Vita, and Space Giraffe for Xbox 360.

Space Giraffe. Perhaps a bit too psychedelic :-)