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Spartan

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7 hours ago, Wonderm said:

Surely they can't be as bad as this thread suggests. 

 

Are there any good games worth emulating? I'm intrigued after reading all this; never even saw one never mind play it. 

 

Anyone who says it's shit has never played on one or just tried the bare minimum. The pads fine, the N64 is much worse to use.

 

Tempest 2000 is and always will be great, super burnout is basically super hang on, AVP, Defender, ultra vortek, iron soldier, Rayman, missile command are good. Just lots of weird, underdeveloped / prototype titles as Atari was in its death throes at that point. It had the power to really push loads of 2D sprites (look at super burnout) but they pushed hard for polygon based games which it really struggles with. 

 

https://youtu.be/_8K8yPNSW3E

 

I've a soft spot for it, it existed in that weird spot between the 16 bit consoles and full on 32 bit consoles when loads of companies tried to make the next big console. It's contemporaries would be the 3DO, CD32, CDI and Apple Pippen. 

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On 24/08/2019 at 23:00, Spartan said:

 

Anyone who says it's shit has never played on one or just tried the bare minimum. The pads fine, the N64 is much worse to use.

 

I had one and all the gamess you've listed.....but I freely admit it was shit....bemused that you could somehow think the telephone of a controller it came with was better than the ergonomically perfect N64 one. I could go on listing it's failings but would just be cruel to point out how pointless this was....suppose if they'd made it backwards compatible to work with all those old ET carts it could have been worse.

 

Frankly the thing was pointless it should have been released as the Panther 2 years earlier to give us an affordable western neo geo instead of overcooking it to launch with little to no games that showed off its superb handling of 2d to the fullest when everyone was jumping ship to 3d.

 

People that pay the silly asking price today to maintain a toe in the jaguar gaming pool need friends prepared to make an intervention.

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Spartan

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7 hours ago, SeanR said:

I mean, it does play cd-only titles, right?

 

Yeah I think it plays everything CD and cartridge based, commercial and homebrew stuff alike. Given the price of the Jaguar CD and a few of the carts are over £100+ it's not a terrible price but it's not an immediate buy either for me at least. I've already got most of the big titles and don't really care about the CD titles. If you were starting out collecting it would be a must buy though.

 

And I'd never buy the Atari ST ports atariage keeps peddling. Just pointless, hobbled versions of Amiga games

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To be fair to them, unless it's changed recently the Atari ST ROM conversions are freely available.  You were/are literally just paying for the process of producing the cart and box on those ST games, and it is to a high standard.  I wouldn't buy them either obviously*, but it'll be quite nice to fire up some ROMs on the flash cart rather than having to drag the ST out and get it all set up. 

 

*I bought the first one, Xenon 2, when I was collecting for the Jag as a bit of a nice to have novelty.

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You've also got the dubious nature where in order to publish Atari ST->Jaguar conversions, the likes of PikoInteractive are buying up the total IP rights to large parts of the original publishers (Head over Heels/Ocean means they've also bought Where Time Stood Still, The Great Escape and many others) and risking shutting down access to the original games.. So yeah, potentially killing off retro games in the process.

 

Also Head over Heels on the Atari ST was originally a Hit Squad £7.99 budget release, spending £50 on it now is nuts.

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10 hours ago, Nathan Wind said:

To be fair to them, unless it's changed recently the Atari ST ROM conversions are freely available.  You were/are literally just paying for the process of producing the cart and box on those ST games, and it is to a high standard.  I wouldn't buy them either obviously*, but it'll be quite nice to fire up some ROMs on the flash cart rather than having to drag the ST out and get it all set up. 

 

*I bought the first one, Xenon 2, when I was collecting for the Jag as a bit of a nice to have novelty.

 

Wasn't that hobbled by not having the original bomb da bass as the soundtrack?

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Nathan Wind

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I know all you Jagfans will be super excited to hear Reboot are still cracking on with their Slayer Edition of DOOM.  In game music, cheats, pro pad shoulder strafe, spectres, CYBER DEMON, SPIDER MASTERMIND, SUPER SHOTGUN!

 

This will be a definite boxed purchase for me if they do it.

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/295643-doom-slayer-edition/#comments

 

 

 

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