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Very cool article about Virtuality. They were really ahead of the curve with their VR units. It sucks though that none of the games made vy Virtuality have been remade or re-released on modern platforms.

I think the Jaguar VR, as cool as it might have been, ate up resources Atari desperately needed for the Jaguar. The games Virtuality were slated to make for the Jaguar VR (Zone Hunter, Buggy Ball, Dactyl Nightmare, Exorex, Space Invaders VR, and Classic Trax) could have been reworked to function without the units. Heck, they did it with Missile Command 3D.

I believe Atari should have tasked them with adapting their arcade games to the Jaguar using the ProController and perhaps we might have still seen the games Virtuality had planned for the Jaguar. That's just My two cents on the matter...

(P.S. Simon Marston should really make about a book about the history of Virtuality and their games, featuirng interviews with former Virtuality devs )

@smoreon i could be wrong but i think Eek the Cat shares the same sound drive used in Waterworld and the unreleased Green Lantern for SNES: the SNES OctaMed.

Don't mind me if i do but for completeness sake, here's a link to the original Fanbyte interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20200922173005/https://www.fanbyte.com/features/before-tetris-effect-there-was-the-vaporwave-bliss-of-tetris-on-the-cd-i/

@BionicDodo Hmmm... That reminds me of a certain Atari "expert" author online, since he does that kind of stuff in online stores selling his poor-quality books with multiple accounts

So the engine targets platforms with the Motorola 68000... I wonder how hard it would be for the author to tailor the engine for the Atari Jaguar and X68000, since those are other platforms with the Motorola 68000 chip.

It's tail time for Gex XD

Although i would love to see the Total Eclipse and Solar Eclipse shooters being re-released as well if Evercade is going to do more Crystal Dynamics releases

@RetroGames Sorry but if you're copying, say Rich Whitehouse's work with his Atari Jaguar emulator BigPEmu down to the last minutes detail without crediting him within the ported version of said emulator, then you are disrespecting his labor.

That's why i don't feel bad this GBA emulator was taken down from the iOS. You're a scumbag if you don't credit the original authors, IMO.

All i want to see now regarding Xeno Crisis is a Atari Jaguar port... Well that and the PS1 and GBA ports that were teased in Debug magazine.

Is there anyway way to give Darran Jones suggestions for future "Making of" articles? I want to give him really good suggestions that would be really cool, as i am a fan and avid reader of the magazine 🙂

@Mayhem wasn't mentioned in a interview?

The only letdown i seen with the lineup of the Llamasoft collection is not the lack of Tempest 3000 but the exclusion of Defender 2000 😔

@JDulay well i would love to be proven wrong without issues. The only way i can see the game on the Jaguar is being 2D or something akin like the abandoned Atari Owl homebrew project: https://youtu.be/g4K7ABfzMeA?si=ILXpgZK5ZFx_CMtE

OK, even as a hardcore fan of the Atari Jaguar will admit that there is no way in hell the Game will run on the console XD The team probably doesn't know what kind of nasty hardware bugs are inside the Jaguar.

@RetroGames your 8bpp theory is simply not feasible, mainly because detailed visuals at that kind of bitrate fidelity would eat the SNES RAM like crazy. I would say to Eric that he better take his time in learning the SNES hardware slowly but surely to harness its features properly. If it does become a legit SNES game, i'll gladly look foward to it

@ArcadianLegend99 Oh great, it's the Panel de Pon 64 scenario all over again :/

@Poodlestargenerica well, i think it doesn't hurt supporting the official North American release of the Game. It's a pretty darn cool game for the SNES

That third publisher who wanted the game might have been Atari Corporation, as David Swan (another Perfect Entertainment member) recalled in a interview that Atari approached them regarding Discworld for the Jaguar.

https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/david-swan-interview/

I hope Hamster can re-release arcades games like Metamorphic Force, Violent Storm, Gaiapolis, the original arcade version of Cotton, Air Gallet, Sailor Moon, Raiden II, Over Heat (akak Konami Avenue), Cisco Heat, P-47 Aces, the two Irem Bomberman arcade games, as well as the other remaining Neo Geo games that's haven't been re-released via ACA such as Neo Bomberman, Andro Dunos, Goal Goal Goal, Tecno World Cup 96, Bang Bead, Ganryu, Neo Drift Out, Ironclad, etc.

It's insane that Hamster has kept a weekly schedule after these years!

It'll be a matter of time we'll see an Atari Jaguar port of Tomb Raider. XProger could do both a cartridge or a CD version with the FMV cutscenes 🙂

@Serpenterror Now that you bring it up, last year i decided to play Virtual Boy Wario Land on real hardware that i still have since 6th grade. At first, the left part of the system began displaying graphical errors so i thought i needed to replace pieces of that part.

Over the course of 2-3 dyas or so, i noticed that the left graphical errors stopped appearing. It might have been because it was years since I played on the console. I know that the VB is a delicate piece of hardware but your comment reminded me of what occurred to me so, i dediced to share that story of mine

@1040STF @Sketcz Everybody can say what they want about the original PS1 voice acting, but i do legit love Robert Belgrade as Alucard.

@Sketcz I read a comment by one of the guys working on the MSX translation on Twitter, saying that the text in the Mega CD version is almost identical as the one in the original MSX release. So, there's a real possibility that we might see the Mega CD port (and maybe the PC-98 and X68000 ports) translated to English in the future

@MoriyaMug in the case someone else decides to translate the PS1 and Saturn versions using your work on the Neo Geo CD as basis, would you give the team the A-OK?

By the way, congratulations for the release of the English fan translation

@ValZ i think it was the Majesco Genesis 3 unit but i could be wrong.

It's always worth mentioning the homebrew scene for the Jaguar, which is still going strong since 1995! Yeah, one of the very first homebrews for the Jaguar was JSTetris by Bastian Schick. After Hasbro declared the Jaguar as a open platform in 1999, the homebrew floodgates pretty much opened wide

What a fantastic interview! It's always great to know more info about the N64DD games

Truly, this looks to be one of the best homebrew games for the Famicom

I really do wish Unity came out for the GameCube. With Minter's eccentricity, it would have been one of the most unique titles for the console

I really do hope we see a playable build of Unity someday...

@John_Deacon Yup, that's pretty much the mindset i have with the Genesis and SNES, as well as other consoles. In the end, we the players ended up winning due to the sheer number of games we have to play until the end of times 🙂

I do hope those homebrew games are preserved Internet Archive or any other website capable of hosting them

This is actually the second attempt of porting Heretic to the Jaguar. There was a first attempt by Stormworks Interactive, which looked pretty far along but production stopped suddenly at some point.

https://youtu.be/9ubP2StMocU?si=mYOccPtyS4SUv_5x

@samuelvictor The only Bubsy game from the old era i consider decent is the first entry. The Jaguar entry has really good music by Imagitec Design but good lord the enemy placement can be downright just evil.

I've heard somewhat decent things about the two more recent Bubsy entries but nothing outstanding either. If somebody can make a Bubsy game that legit looks like a 90s cartoon then i would down with that

Compared to other entries in the Atari Recharged series, it doesn't look too Bad, although i like that we are getting an enhanced edition for the 2600.

It really makes you wonder if we'll see a new edition of, say, Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, featuring the tracks that were featured in the OST CD that were cut from the final release due to memory constrains.

@Sketcz I played some 3DO games via the Phoenix Project emulator. I really enjoyed Burning Soldier, Road Rash, Icebreaker, and Immercenary, to name a few

@Poodlestargenerica I mean, it doesn't hurt crediting who spotted the news in the first place you know?

It's a pretty decent list of games. Too bad Bound High, despite being 100% complete, didn't make it. It's legit one of top 3 VB games along with Wario Land and Jack Bros.

This is just insane! We are so close to having Jaguar Voice Modem support integrated in BigPEmu for online play in Ultra Vortek. I hope for Rich Whitehouse the best in his future endeavors

If MKII can get a 3DO port, so can the Atari Jaguar... right. Hell, the Jaguar was set to have MK1 and MK3 ports. I do hope both the 3DO and Jaguar homebrew scenes get to work on MK1, MK2, and MK3 ports soon enough

@RetroGames Things are looking up for the SNES homebrew scene so, maybe in the future we'll see a SGDk equivalent for the platform to ease game development on the platform. On the flipside, i don't understand why developers won't take some time to learn other programming languages :/

I mean, that's what Bitmap Bureau are doing with porting Xeno Crisis to other platforms, and that should be commendable

Seriously, the SNES had no shortage of RPGs!

Good to see that Yasuaki Fujita is doing well

Solid list of games! I will also give shoutouts to Solaris, Turmoil, Secret Quest, Klax (2600), Commando (7800), Ballblazer (7800), Halo 2600 (homebrew), Princess Rescue (homebrew), Zippy the Porcupine (homebrew), Rikki & Vikki (homebrew), and Dragonstomper

Cool! I just hope the same fan translations are applied to the other versions as well

I must also point out that the Atari Jaguar version of NBA Jam Tournament Edition has even more secret characters than any other version of the game (AFAIK): https://atariage.com/software_hints.php?SoftwareHintID=263

I also wanted to give a shoutout to the Jaguar of NBA Jam for being one of the very Best versions of the game

I said it before and i'll say it again: THIS, is the kind of stuff i want to read on the site! Excellent work Jack

This is the kind of stuff i want to see companies doing more often. Publishing unreleased games

That's cool and all Visco, but can we get ACA releases of your Neo Geo titles, especially Neo Drift Out? OK thanks

I really hope this means we'll eventually see the unreleased Mega Drive version of P-47 Phantom Fighter (retitled The Freedom Star) someday

That's pretty cool and all, but the remaining Big question is if Sunsoft does indeed have a copy of the prototype? They could easily release it via Arcade Archives or by other means.

I was born in 1996. I don't remember when i first experienced video games since i was very little at that time, but i can recall experiencing N64, PS1, Xbox, Dreamcast, GameCube, SNES, GBA, and a Famicom clone (since i am from Venezuela) in the 2000s, due to my family exchanging consoles frequently. When i started collecting games with my dad, we eventually obtained a 2600, Jaguar, TurboGrafx, Virtual Boy, ColecoVision, Intellivision, and other consoles along the way.