My Temporarly Mame Atari Jaguar Cab

[Tadao]

Hi, i had this demo koisk to long time. I am working restoring a taito cab, buy the parts, but need a space to testing mame, froent end settings. and the result is this.

Is my Weird Mame Jaguar cab.  Sound via the Kiosk Audio Amplifier.

It's a temporarly "Mame config station", but don't look too bad.

forgett the dust in the second pic

Regards from Chile

[mrclean]

Speaking of jaguar, was this emulation ever finished ?

[BASS!]

Speaking of jaguar, was this emulation ever finished ?

Never got into this system, but I think theres gotta be a good emulator ( the usual spot has a full romset of it available).

[clok]

The emulation is fairly solid, (tempest and vurtualjag (i think are correct names) are the two emu's) I know i have one setup in my mame Cab. Strange as it sounds i was one of the suckers who bought it for ..hmm was it only $299 ...something like that.. when it came out.  Most games are unfortantly trash, but there are a few gems. Alien Vs Predator was a very good game (console wise) when it came out. Iron Soldier was quite fun.  And as far as TEMPEST goes, there is no better version (not counting arcade) it plays very well weith the Jag controler.After that it drifted into pretty avr to below avg games. I bought pretty much every game availble on E-bay and i can say other then the 3 mentioned, most where fairly poor.

The problem with Emulation for it is it was a gamepad + thumb pad with 3 buttons, then a keypad. Most games didnt require the keypad for gameplay (many did though) so useing a regular gamepad (or arcade panel) can be a problem. AvP and IS both require the keypad..

Overall worth a look, but if you dont try the right games you will be very disapointed i think.


Clok

[Tadao]

i can't run virtual Jaguar, and proyect emulation no is so good.  The control no is a problem.  Jaguar controll and direct pad via parallel port exist, so the controller no is a problem, all buttons of keypad are supported (jaguar use a vga 15 pin conector type).

I try to configure the virtual jaguar, but games don run.  I think the problem is a intregrated video card of my computer. This week arrive my arcade VGA2 and try run the emu newly.

Regards from Chile

p.d: sorry for my english

[Tadao]

The Schematics of Jaguar Direct Pad

[Timstuff]

Although I will always love Atari's arcade games and appreciate their historic importance in video gaming, when it comes to home consoles I'm of the opinion that Atari's were kind of trashy. Yeah, it's kind of blasphemy to say such a thing, but really the only Atari game I can ever remember liking was Pitfall, and even that was pretty archaic compared to the NES's offerings. I didn't own one, but from what I've played I'm still not sure if I couldn't get into it simply because I was spoiled by the NES (I'm a child of the latter 80's), or if it's because home game consoles really weren't all that good until Nintendo came around. But hey, who am I to judge?

Anyway, kudos for your inventiveness in making a MAME cab out of a console kiosk display. I never really thought about what one might be able to do with one of those, but Mameing one certainly wouldn't have been something I'd think to do. Pretty cool idea.

[TPB]

the only Atari game I can ever remember liking was Pitfall

Your favourite Atari game, is not an Atari game ... Pitfall was created by Activision.   

It was released on the Atari 2600 though.

[Turnarcades]

I used a hacked version of Project Tempest to get it working with Mamewah and it runs sweet launched in Windows, but for some reason I'm struggling with launching in Mamewah. Got the ini file set up correct and everything, but it just launches to a black screen.

Hope one day I can be bothered to get it sorted. Tempest 2000 is brilliant, and the soundtrack is excellent!