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[Atariman]

I was looking at Jason's collection in the picture, but wasn't sure what one item was. It is the thing sitting on the third shelf from the top all the way to the left. Is that the Jagduo mockup, or what?

[t.skid]

Did you take a look at the 'photos' link? There you could see some bigger and clear images; BTW, I think you are talking about a part of the VR Unit
(if not, Jason please correct me!).

[patters98]

My tiny collection. The only thing I'm tempted to get that I don't have is BattleSphere but it's such a lot of money, and maybe Atari Karts or Iron Soldier I suppose.

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[t.skid]

Well, congratulations for your tiny collection; I'm sure it give to you lot of fun!
Tempest, Defender and AvP, great games; sensible soccer is fun, too.

Sure Atari Karts could be a great game to have; did you see on eBay? Often there is a seller that put on auction new "Karts carts" at US$39.99 BIN (BTW, the seller is in Europe).

And, BS:G it's one of the 'holy grail' for everyone here (obviously if not already an owner )

[jaysmith2000]

goatdan said:

Ironically, I don't have a GOAT Store JAMMA Joystick or a Team 13 Joystick, both of which I created :-(

Now Dan, that's hard to believe! You should at least keep one of each to enjoy for yourself. I guess you can always build more though huh? Just keep me in mind if you ever wanna sell that AVP proto.

Jason

[jaysmith2000]

atariman said:

I was looking at Jason's collection in the picture, but wasn't sure what one item was.  It is the thing sitting on the third shelf from the top all the way to the left.  Is that the Jagduo mockup, or what?

I think you're talking about the Motorola "Test Deck". I have some internals posted of it as well. There was a discussion on JI2 fairly recently about it. If you're interested check it out over there....

Jason

[Htbaa]

Ok my bro bought a new digital camera so here is a new shot of my collection

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[Stone]

Dad brought his digital camera home, so here is my collection

Stuff not shown:
several normal Jag pads (about 4)
second (unmodified) Jag deck
some of the carts/hardware that live in those boxes
some carts that I don't have boxes for (Primal Rage, VidGrid, Blue Lightning, IWAR, NBA JAM, FLashback etc.)
My 2 SCART cables

Notes:
the flash cart with the nice label isn't mine, it's Gunstar's in for a new PAL
Yes, that IS a Saturn gun converted for Jag use
If anyone's interested in closeups of the switches attached to that Jag I'm more than happy to provide them and explain what they're for.

Regards,
Stone

[more pics in the second post!]

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[Stone]

More pics. The highlights of my collection here

Stone

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[Hyper_Eye]

I love your use of shadows and lights... how nice...

[Stone]

Hyper_Eye said:

I love your use of shadows and lights... how nice...

That would be a combination of the sun streaming in through my window, all the room lights turned on to lighten up the shadows from the lead in my windows, the flash, the bits where I didn't notice my shadow in the way and a highly expensive camera

Stone

[Htbaa]

Nice collections!!!

That wooden box, is it a real atari product? And the gun, isn't it one from a sega console? Does it actualy works?

[Stone]

Htbaa said:

That wooden box, is it a real atari product?

No, it's a homemade thing by Randy Femrite: he was kind enough to give it to me (don't know why...I didn't deserve it I'm sure ). Just the right size to fit between my Jag and my subwoofer on the printer shelf of my PC desk, and fit 12 or so carts in.

Htbaa said:

And the gun, isn't it one from a sega console? Does it actualy works?

It's a Sega Saturn gun, and yes, it does work on the Jag (with a little help from a big knife, a soldering iron and some wire). There's only a couple of test programs to use with it right now though - I'm keeping it by just in case someone decides to make an amazing must-have game for lightguns

Stone

[Htbaa]

Sweet man! Im getting my iron kit soon I hope. I'm going to do some solderkits and all and I think I will get a third jaguar to modify

[jaysmith2000]

Stone said:

Htbaa said:

That wooden box, is it a real atari product?

No, it's a homemade thing by Randy Femrite: he was kind enough to give it to me (don't know why...I didn't deserve it I'm sure ). Just the right size to fit between my Jag and my subwoofer on the printer shelf of my PC desk, and fit 12 or so carts in.

Htbaa said:

And the gun, isn't it one from a sega console? Does it actualy works?

It's a Sega Saturn gun, and yes, it does work on the Jag (with a little help from a big knife, a soldering iron and some wire). There's only a couple of test programs to use with it right now though - I'm keeping it by just in case someone decides to make an amazing must-have game for lightguns

Stone

Sweet collection STONE! What's your opinion on SoulStar?

[Stone]

Thanks Jay

Soulstar is astonishingly playable, and definitely (as described) near to completion. It includes finished-looking FMVs, title screens/menus, sound test and a 2player mode that appears to work (don't have a second-player to test with though ).

In-game, it's a very nice space shooter, with nice detailed gfx and smooth animation. The view is from behind your ship, which is big but not to the extent of getting in the way of the action. You have both shields and hull which can be damaged up a fair amount before you die, but you still have to keep moving a lot - the enemies are pretty accurate when shooting. The shields make an amazingly cool metallic 'blap' noise when they get hit too

There are several weapons to collect, including (that I've found so far) bombs, locking/homing missiles, huge round laser shots, rapid-fire lasers, circular lasers etc. Of the missions I've played, the first is in 3 stages, explained by FMV: first of all it's you speeding in towards the enemy planet blowing up ships and so on, then follows an amazingly nice ground mission. You fly low to the ground, evading tall stalacmite-type things and shooting up buildings (this is where the bombs come in ) as well as mech-type things that eject away from you in the rush to evacuate the planet - a good source of powerups The ground texture is smooth and detailed, with impressive parallax-type scrolling as you pan back and forth across the play area (which is more than one screen wide). The third stage is another space-flying thing, although there are frequent gfx glitches in the opening page (all screen textures change to violent shades of yellow and green for a few frames every couple of seconds). This clears up quite fast though, and you're left hurtling towards the enemy ship, which gets bigger and bigger until you have no choice but to fly through the huge opening in it (predetermined - you can't fly around it). This starts the second mission: an isometric 3D affair *inside* this ship - your shi pis no longer 'on-rails' but free to move forward, back, left and right (height's not adjustable) with your craft hovering when you aren't moving. You have some objectives to complete on the inside - you're supposed to blow up the main computer, then activate one of three warp gates and escape to another sector in the SoulStar system. Sadly this is where the proto is a bit messed up - almost all the textures are corrupted (although some are as intended - a sort of industrial/metal look to them) and the game is very difficult to play with all the bright colours everywhere. I can't get past this point; I just die. The game also crashes on this level under some circumstances.

I'm fairly certain Clint Thompson's review of this game (on JagCube, sadly down right now) included something about a level after this, but I can't remember any more. Someone find me a cheat for levelselect, or invincibility

All in all a very cool CD, which would have made an amazing game were it ever released. The music's excellent too.

It's coming with me to JF:UK - come see it there

Stone

[Htbaa]

Oh my I will read that another time

[jaysmith2000]

Stone said:

It's coming with me to JF:UK - come see it there

Stone

Wish I could be there at JF:UK. However, that's a little too far to travel from the Bay Area....

[Stone]

jaysmith2000 said:

Wish I could be there at JF:UK.    However, that's a little too far to travel from the Bay Area....  

Well, your alternative is to find someone nearer you, or put up with not being able to witness it yourself

Stone

[t.skid]

Stone said:

jaysmith2000 said:

Wish I could be there at JF:UK.    However, that's a little too far to travel from the Bay Area....  

Well, your alternative is to find someone nearer you, or put up with not being able to witness it yourself

Stone

Stone, you have a good collection, too And, I hope that soon someone could take the decision to 'release' SoulStar, who knows...
I read about it on JagCube(when it was online ), and seems very good to me.

[GOVmole]

This is my first post and I've been following the Jaguar since I was about 14 or so, I know I bought it when it was being sold for $250.00 at ToysR'Us and my mom threy a fit when she found out how much I spent. Now I'm 23 and I still love the system and the fact that there are still being games produced for it. So here is a list of what I own:
Skyhammer
Attack Of the Mutant Penguins
Ultra Vortek
Battlesphere gold
Towers II
Iron Soldier
Syndicate
PowerDrive Rally
Super Burn out
I-war
Flip out
Doom
i think thats all, thank you for reading

[t.skid]

GOVmole, welcome to AA forums!

[Thunderbird]

Okay... here's a small portion of my collection:



P.S. The unit to the extreme upper left is PAL. The power supply is on the table in the foreground note the HUGE prongs on the HUGE transformer block.

[Hyper_Eye]

Holy crap...

[Htbaa]

Ah man it just isn't fare that you have so much stuff