PLAY SOME JAG!

Yes. I agree.

​@@ParrotMan01276, love how that says "translate to english"... Dont do it! 😂

Now that Dylan has the Juusenkyo curse, I want to see Jared spill some water on him while they play Atari Jaguar

Yes!

Sweet! Honestly thought that was Dylan's voice via a lot of voice modulation... now let's make some noise at Jerd and Dylan, make it so credit comes where it's due.

It also had a Motorola 68000 which I hear many developers used instead of Tom and Jerry and that's why most games looked like a 16bit game. Would be cool to see what the Jag was truly capable of.

​@@Gatorade69The problem is In order to live up to it's fullest potential we'd need to manufacture 100% stable Jaguars and Jaguar CDs that don't break if you look at them funny.

​@@Gatorade69 Yup! Most consoles and computers worked like this back then. CPU: It reads all of the instructions, does all of the math, and it's connected to the cartridge slot (where it gets instructions from the stuff programmers wrote), the system's RAM (memory so it can keep track of what's going on, like how many lives you have, your score, precisely where every abstract object is on screen, what level you're on, etc.) Controller: You press buttons. CPU looks at it 30-60 times a second, and runs or doesn't run code as appropriate. Video chip: Every frame, CPU updates it to tell it what to display Sound chip: Every frame, CPU updates it to change the sound coming out. On the Jaguar, the video and sound chips both were able to do their own thing. In fact, they were able to do a whole lot more, and faster, than the CPU! The CPU was meant to just coordinate that, and handle controller inputs, mostly. The video chip could do its own calculations, AND then tell itself what to output, and similar with the sound chip. But since that was unprecedented, and a large % of programmers back then knew how to make a Motorola 68000 (the Jaguar's CPU) do what they want, they just took the easy route to push games out the door. Ironically, just a few years later, 3d graphics accelerators started coming out for PCs, before PCs were shipped with good 3d capable graphics cards at all. Those cards would offload much of that 3d graphics calculations onto themselves, freeing up the CPU to do more. At the end, the Jaguar's faults were not having good development tools out to take advantage of this unique and powerful (for the time) architecture, and there were apparently some hardware glitches in Tom and Jerry, although I haven't looked into the extent of them yet. I do know they're fairly well documented, but I'm not sure how easy they are to work around. If they were easy to work around, and the development tools were there, it could have been a great success. It was aggressively priced for its time!

Atari Corp provided 2 different dev units - a PC one but to really access the Jaguar's potential you needed the TT030 dev unit.

​@@Gatorade69Battle morph, Iron Soldier 2,Battlesphere,Hoverstrike CD, Sky hammer are good examples of what Jaguar is capable of.

Historically speaking, that's actually why a LOT of parents bought Clay Fighter. No blood, no humans punching & kicking, just silly cartoony antics. Something similar happened with that game "Chex Quest" a little while later, too. Chex Quest was All the shooty-shooty fun & early 3D environments of DOOM, but none of the violence. Me having been born in 1994 & very much being a 2000's kid, it kind of makes me wonder what would have happened if a game in the 2000's had advertised itself as "All the fun of Grand Theft Auto, but no violence or s*x" - the closest thing we ever got to anything like that was "The Simpsons: Hit & Run" which didn't advertise itself that way, but kind of was that for the most part. Also, Bully by Rockstar games. No joke, I actually got my Mom to let me play the Wii port of Bully: Scholarship Edition by saying "But Mom, you're FIGHTING bullies in the game, you're not THE BULLY, you're fighting the bullies! It's not THAT bad!" (Bully still had its fair share of controversy, though.) Not only that, but in a lot of ways, Clay Fighter was such a product of its time. I mean, it was all about claymation! That was still common in the 90's, but ever since CGI became mainstream? Not as much.

People dog on Clay Fighter too much honestly, to me? Guess they hate having fun by being silly

Hi PeachyBoi

Altered Dylan scarily sounds like another few other channels I follow (Hungry Goriya and Sakura Stardust, or a mix of them). Great episode though all in all and a fun trip down Jaguar-memory lane!

Cool to find the artist of Editor Dilan in the comments.

Who voiced her? Was it just a voice-altered Dylan?

​@@Chaos89PSeconding this. That voice sounds so, so familiar

I miss the days when video game commercials actually showed gameplay. What happened to end that and why?

Try the sequel, Super Battle. It's a lot better.

Happy birthday

It was my birthday too dude, happy birthday!

Happy late birthday!

She is weirdly not credited which is odd

The manual states that a lot of Jaguar is deliberately made 16 bit for fast access by the 68k. The rest is 32 bit for easy access by 68k. Only DMA runs at 64 Bit. I think that full 64 Bit would have made the chip too big. The blitter and OP even read mini-bursts of 2 * 64 bit. There are some tricky flags in the OP to interleave these both. It would have been easier to have a fixed pattern for the memory interleave ( 4*64bit into cache) and then use 16 bit star topology inside the chip to save on transistors. Modern bursts match the latency. On Jaguar it would have created a slow N64-like CPU if bursts could not abort. So have two bits per cached byte: stale and dirty .

Does it have Atari Karts? That game actually looks good.

It also has the missing Sword Quest game never released until then!

I would love if Digital Eclipse did a full on documentary on the history of Atari. The collection featurettes was so interesting.

@@polycube868 Yes, it does.

@@DryDryOasis The thing that impressed me was how they gave Star Raiders its own GUI and a sensible button mapping. It's actually still fun today, when you know what the buttons do.

We did, a few times. Rayman and Super Burnout showed what it could do in 2D. Iron Soldier 2, Battlemorph and Skyhammer showed what was possible in 3D.

There's an even dumber fact about Cybermorph - it was designed for Panther hardware, not Jaguar which is why it has noticeably worse draw distances than any other 3D Jaguar game. It was supposed to be the Panthers pack in title and was developed on a panther dev kit. When the panther was dropped, Atari decided to keep the pack in title and the devs of cybermorph were like "oh cool, so we'll upgrade the visuals and stuff for the Jaguar release?" and Atari decided "nah. Let's not do that." So their pack in title was a game designed for a less powerful console, that doesn't make use of most of the Jaguars more advanced 3D capabilities, that they further ruined by cutting the size of most of its carts in half... And they were surprised the Jaguar didn't do well? That was what Atari really thought people's first impression of the console should be. And it wasn't like Atari was struggling at that point. Their computer business was easily finding development. They were just being cheap and it cost them dearly.

So does that mean the 50th Anniversary collection has the better version? That could explain why I haven't been able to reliably get Skylar to ask me where I learned to fly.

​@@medes5597That's a complete urban Myth, Sources from both Atari and ATD confirm Cybermorph starred life as a technical demo to showcase the Atari Jaguar, Atari asked ATD to turn it into a fully fledged game. No Jaguar titles ever started life on the Panther.

Atari deliberately had ATD remove elements from Cybermorph, to enable it to fit on a smaller cartridge, so they could reduce costs for the in-pack title on later runs.

@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 I was told that at a talk given by flare technologies at the computer history museum. And the fact Ataris internal documents, now on the internet archive, list multiple Jaguar games as panther titles, I am inclined to believe the people who designed the console and were heavily involved with it, over random internet dude.

Agreed. Let's call her Dahlia. She is adorable, I love her, she needs to be a recurring character

I love Tenchi Muyo! When i was a kid i only cared about epic battle animes like Dragon Ball or Yu Yu Hakusho, but then i saw Tenchi and started to enjoy the story more than just frantic action and until today it have a special place in my heart.

Ranma was huge in the early 90s. Not as big as sailor moon or yu yu hakusho but still...

@@TheRadiaforce Dahlia-chan!

Ranma was on e of my first animes, so this made me smile.

Lunch 4 me 😂

Nice. Micro'ed my dinner. Still glad

The English translation for Hard Battle had been done by Viz Media. My guess was that the game was translated to promote the series of then-upcoming TV series videotapes. It was also the most popular game that Redwood city-based DTMC published before fizzling out in 1994 with... Lester the Unlikely.

google BigPEmu from Rich Whitehouse, brilliant jaguar emulator for PC, and give it a try. There are some cool games...

I’m down for that.

Sequel isn't awful, but it's definitely worse Even if it being rushed wasn't noticeable, they had so little time the actual final boss went unused So instead we first saw Dr. Kiln with a different (and better) design in 63 ¹/³

I loved Earthworm Jim in that game! I think Dan Castellanata did his voice for it, too? Jim yelling his bizarre: “EAT COW!!!” war-cry made me laugh a lot. 😂

@@1Holbytla yessssss, that was awesome!!!