alucardx

This game looks great so far.

This is a very cool idea. I wonder how many participants would enter.

I don't think any work is currently being done on this. My guess is that many of the 3d rendering routines need to be re-written for the RISC chips so that the Jaguar has a chance at drawing a reasonable frame rate. That, of course, will need to be done in assembly.

Of course they should.

I think you're right about many PS gamers. I think there are some people that do have nostalgia for older playstation titles but overall would rather play a "remaster" than even think about the jumpy textures of the PS1. Also the PS mini was kinda %!#$& in how it handled it's emulation from my understanding. For old systems you kind of have to get people into the mindset of when the system was new. Get them into that world, understanding the story of the games, the system and the time and really immerse them in it because if you don't, there's not much special about some of those games. Especially looking at early 3D. We were in awe of it because it was new but now it looks terrible and what is there to appreciate if you have no interest in that history? I think Atari is getting to the correct approach with this but there is still a price gap where the value just isn't there for so many gamers.

I think the VCS is cool and it does offer something unique. Even though the amount of hardware you're getting for the price is not terrible, I still can't justify buying one right now. Maybe if it did receive the enhancements for Jag being discussed I'd look at trying to get one, but that is just me and I don't represent anything in the market 😉

I've toyed with the idea of getting a VCS and at the end of day the can never justify spending that amount of cash on it. A much better value for me was a used PS4. In any case, having hardware with a cartridge slot would be cool, much like the 2600+

Because so many of the original titles were simply terrible or mediocre at best I'd be more than happy to just stick to the Atari 50 compilation. It isn't worth my money to be some version of the Jaguar that plays the original library and that's that. Of course...I own a Jag so that changes my perspective. I would much rather see a Jag rebirth with something that developers can really toy with.

Defender 2000 is a game I didn't get a chance to play until a couple of years ago. Very challenging, very fun. I played it for a few hours and didn't realize how long it had been. Talk about an at home arcade experience! Having so much fun that you lose track of time.

I guess in those terms that's a tough question. Look at how the PS1 mini did in market. It's hard to say what is "worth Atari's time" in that regard. I'm not sure what method they'd use to produce such a chipset and especially if it had all the modes I talked about. That will determine a lot of cost. If they did produce the console this would give them another avenue for more retro style games like Mr. Run and Jump to be sold as well as another avenue for developers to find their way into the market. The gateway would be developing the game for the Jag with an opportunity for a wider sales market through other systems with a more modern and enhanced version of their Jag title. Perhaps a cheap solution would be to offer some packaged form of general purpose hardware running BigPemu and offer BigPemu features in the modes I talked about.

Well, not a "clone" in the terms most look at it. It is a free implementation of the game engine. So it can run the original games as well as enhance them. You can look at the code for it as it is under a Free Software license. 😁

I would love to see this come to the Jag but would also like to see some Jag-centric enhancements. The Jaguar can do some really cool sprite effects that other systems just can't do.

I'm on board with the idea of a port but am not a used of facebook.

I think that is a completely valid viewpoint. I'm not sure which I dislike more, the click bait or the million videos that show up of someone filming their television as they play a Jaguar game. Either way, I'd like some better stuff showing up.

I think it would be great to have the option. The Jaguar community is fairly strong and would likely support something like that. I'd love to see it capable of running in three modes: Mode 0 being standard Jaguar as released to the market in 1993, hardware bugs and all. This makes it compatible with all of the currently released software. Mode 1 being Jaguar with all hardware bugs fixed and maybe a different processor replacing the 68k. Maybe a processor that shares the bus in 32bit instead of 16? This would allow programmers to enjoy creating games that really show off what the rest of the chips were capable of. Mode 2 being a Jaguar II system as Atari might have released it.

I find that she often gets facts wrong and I don't think it is intentional but seems to be more that she is glossing over or missing details that someone more acquainted with the Jaguar might actually pickup on. I don't think I'd discredit her completely over it, personally.

Something like this on the 7800 would be great to see.