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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:30:14 No.2765639 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2766127 >>2766663 >>2767550 >>2767564 >>2767743

Can we have an Atari Jaguar thread? I've never owned one for real, and it's been years since I've emulated, but from what I've seen of it on YouTube some of its games are actually pretty impressive for 1993 tech. Now, I've heard it has an overall shitty library, but it can't be THAT bad if it has decent versions of Tempest 2000, Wolf3D, and Rayman.

Also, how far along has Jag emulation come in the last few years? Last emu I used was Project Tempest, and it didn't even work with half the games I tried with it.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:34:49 No.2765647 Report Delete

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>Can we have an Atari Jaguar thread?
its because very few people have actually played on one. All you are going to get are a bunch of AVGN parroted opinions

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 00:24:50 No.2766067 Report Delete

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Nothing, eh? Not even an inane "where did you learn to fly?" comment.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 00:33:15 No.2766083 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2766334

Had a pretty good port of Doom, probably the best console version of Doom until the PS version (I hesitate to call Doom 64 a port because it's basically it's own game).

Lacks the music, but other than that it has most of the Game.

Has a kickass port of Wolfenstein 3D.

The CD addon was shit and really the only part of the console which can't in some way be defended.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 01:10:44 No.2766127 Report Delete

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>>2765639
Borrowed one from a friend in 2000. He had some really shit fighting game, really shit motocross game, AvP which was decent, DOOM which was good, and Wolfenstein which I played the most. The controller is shit tier and really the graphics are too. Friend said theres a Rayman thsts good but it went on the CD expansion he didn't have anymore. I think Atari fucked themselves like N64 did by using cartridges. Also standards were way too high and if they'd gone with 32 bit and made really quality games, undercutting the cost of Saturn, PS and nintendo, they'd have had a stable market.
During this era a lot of people dropped gaming due to the cost and the experimentalness of games. I did, it was a shock going from NES/SNES release of a system and 2 controllers and a game to one controller no game and no way to save out of thr box, at 4 times tge initial investment.

Oh well. Now we're stuck with mobile games.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 03:05:51 No.2766259 Report Delete

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I remember having fun with Flip Out, Brutal Football, and Attack of the Mutant Penguins But the Highlander being one of the worst games i've ever played

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 03:09:08 No.2766265 Report Delete

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Every time I'm feeling down, I remind myself that some people grew up on the Atari Jaguar, and I instantly feel better.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 04:40:40 No.2766334 Report Delete

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>>2766083
>The CD addon was shit and really the only part of the console which can't in some way be defended.

I take it you never put a music CD in there.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:27:48 No.2766374 Report Delete

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this one almost made me buy a jaguar

luckily there was a much better AVP game from tejh same devs out on PC just a few years later

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:48:50 No.2766380 Report Delete

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That reminds me I need to make a dentist appointment

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 11:33:34 No.2766630 Report Delete

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>>2766127
>AvP
Aw yeah, forgot about that one.

>>2766334
I meant more that how they would almost always break when trying to run.

The CD motor wouldn't be able to spin the disc freely because the lid clamped down too hard, so the motor would break, this was a very common problem and it's not unusual to find one which is broken. There was also some degree of connectivity issues.
It's undefendable because it was a shoddy piece of hardware.

Say what you want about the Jaguar itself, the thing works, a large percentage of the CD addons did not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 11:54:57 No.2766663 Report Delete

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>>2765639
>it can't be THAT bad if it has decent versions of Tempest 2000, Wolf3D, and Rayman.
yeah, when the list ends there and only gets worse
>inb4 avp and doom
yeah they're ok, but like anon said above the pc version of AVP is way better.

I even own a jaguar and I think it sucks, but I got mine for free so whatever

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 13:41:50 No.2766779 Report Delete

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I'd say that the Jag and the Lynx are Atari's best

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:21:44 No.2766827 Report Delete

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>>2765647
I've owned one. The game pad does suck, and whatever the stock game that comes with it with the floating green head is terrible, but there are some decent games on it. Tempest is a classic, and I enjoyed Busby 3 even though it was hard as hell. Great Rayman 1 port too.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:22:24 No.2766829 Report Delete

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>>2766779
>lynx
At least you could see the game you're playing on a Jaguar

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:35:29 No.2767550 Report Delete

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>>2765639
>I've never owned one for real
Did you own one in your imagination of something? It's a mediocre system with a piss poor library. It truly is THAT bad.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:45:25 No.2767564 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2767581 >>2767881

>>2765639

Only faggot idiots bought this crap over the glorious PlayStation.

Go fuck yourself Atari cunt.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:51:39 No.2767581 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2767881 >>2768087

>>2767564
It's not as good of a system, that's true, but despite a poor library, being a really fucking strange system to develop for, bad controllers, and a worthless CD unit, I cant help but feel there's something oddly appealing about it.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:12:13 No.2767619 Report Delete

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Coming from somone who actually owned a jaguar in 1994 it really wasn't bad at the time. It really could of gone somewhere if it came out a couple years earlier, it just really got btfo when ps1/saturn came around.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:50:18 No.2767660 Report Delete

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>>2766380
haha

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:29:22 No.2767713 Report Delete

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Jaguar is a pretty impressive 2D system, definitely more powerful than genesis and snes. Of course it wasn't really all that much more powerful than a 32x, but it tried.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:50:43 No.2767743 Report Delete

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>>2765639
Iron soldier looks pretty good.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:31:29 No.2767860 Report Delete

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>>2767743
Honestly metal head on 32x or gungriffon on Saturn are pretty much the same game but more fleshed out. Iron soldier isn't a bad game but it sort of just feels like a tech demo of the same concept.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:43:08 No.2767881 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2768087

>>2767564
OP here, buying one over a Playstation would've been bloody stupid, but like this anon pointed out, the system does indeed have a strange charm.
>>2767581

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:18:25 No.2768087 Report Delete

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>>2767881
>>2767581
It definitely has a character and appeal all its own. I think the problem with the jaguar was that it made the same mistake as the 5200 and the 7800, which is that it tried to replicate arcade games and not really try to do anything new or unique to the home console market, which is what ps1 and 64 ended up doing. Of course a lot of this may have just been a product of the time it was being developed. It used games like doom as a benchmark for what console technology should be, rather than the immersive story driven 3D games that would come to define the generation. Games like cybermorph and iron soldier had a lot of great ideas but they were just a couple years too early and ended up playing like tech demos rather than full games. I think had it been easier to program for, there might have been a larger library of impressive 2D games. Stuff in the same vein as castlevania symphony of the night or mischief makers would have worked really well on jaguar. Or more shmups, jaguar has great potential for shmups but instead we just got a taste of good with raiden and defender 2000 and then fucking godawful with Trevor mcfur.

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