Get The Best Video Output From Your Crappy Atari Jaguar Games! OK... There Is A Couple Decent Games! 

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One of the trippiest & classic Atari Jaguar games was Jeff Minter’s (aka Llamasoft) Tempest 2000. Awesome game!

Back in the day I used RGB SCART on mine

I'm somebody who actually sees mainly only the positive in every system. I also used a SCART cable back then, it had a perfect picture on my CRT. It contained a flatband cable similar to an IDE cable, guessable its easily possible to just solder it by yourself. The Jaguar has really many positive sides. I love the design, and also the design of the CD drive is really nice. I also love the gamepad, the slightly angled D-pad is a bit unprecise and the angle is not that ergonomical, but the idea with the keypad 1-0 * # and the plastic card to put on top is really cool. There is also the pro controller that maps some keypad buttons to reachable top buttons. Also the idea with the universally usable DSP processor was great, if there wouldn't be the mistakes and problems to properly program it, it could have had potential. I also like the EEPROM inside the games, if you plug in your old SNES or Game Boy cartridges from that time, all game saves are gone by now, but not here. Features like JagLink or the never released Jog controller for Tempest 2000 are interesting. To look at the games, considering that many ports use only the 68000 processor, which was never meant to be used for this kind of purpose, cause the game quality to look weak on the first view, but games that use the Jaguars full potential, if thats even possible, look really good. Alien vs Predator has a really good atmosphere and its really tough. On an NTSC Jaguar it runs quite smoothly, of course nothing smooth compared to PC titles that time, but the game design and the possibility to play all 3 parties was never anywhere before. Tempest 2000 maybe didn't show any hardware capabilities, but it is just the best version by far. I don't even know why, but the PC, Saturn and PS1 versions just don't have the same feeling. One of the best games ever, I cannot even tell why the Jaguar version is just genius and one of the best games of all time. My favourite game by far is Iron Soldier. Again I don't even know why, its just like that. It runs well and its just great, it has few textures, OK, but nevermind, the game was just very fun. I also enjoyed the game Club Drive that time. It has senseless gameplay, has really weak graphics and bad steering, the Gartners music just gave the fun to that actually aweful game. The Doom port is really good, but I never understood why the music only played at the "level complete" screen. Atmosphere? Or the use of the DSP for other calculations and no power left for the music? I have no idea. Fight For Life is also an example that even 3D fighters are possible for the Jaguar. Considering the budget, time pressure, the amount of programmers, the self developed engine and the non existing software-hardware optimization programmers, its a miracle that this game was even released. But saying that, the game was nothing compared to Sega or Namco fighters. Weak controls, but an interesting feature to learn moves during the progress and a complete 3D arena where you can fully zoom through in pause mode. The characters are actually interesting, but the game is weak overall. Kasumi Ninja, another striking out game, average character design, weak controls, average graphics, but an outstanding amount of gore, no game offered something like that at that time. Rayman of course, the legendary jump 'n run, ported or sequeled to every big system. But there are other exclusive games for the Jaguar, Bubsy, Atari Karts, White Men Can't Jump, Zero 5, Ultra Vortek, Trevor McFur I.C.G., Supercross 3D, World Tour Racing, Blue Lightning, Checkered Flag, Hover Strike, Attack Of The Mutant Penguins, Super Burnout, Ruiner Pinball, Breakout 2000, Power Drive Rally, Air Cars, Baldies, Missile Command 3D, I War, Hover Strike, Flip Out, Defender 2000, Cybermorph, who are all average or partly weak. Battlemorph and Highlander are also good Jaguar exclusive CD games. But the Jaguar has many great ports too, like Theme Park, Syndicate, Wolfenstein 3D, Raiden, NBA Jam TE, Brutal Sports Football, Pitfall, Myst, Pinball Fantasies, Space Ace, Canon Fodder, Primal Rage, Flashback, Brain Dead 13, Dragon The Bruce Lee Story, Double Dragon 5, Dragons Lair, The Humans. So don't just simply say the Jaguar is bad, if you haven't concidered the companies budget compared to Sony, Sega and Nintendo that time, also see how few people programmed this enjoyable games under what conditions. And even if the outstanding games are countable on one hand, you got lots of solid ports and lots of average exclusives too.

My cousin has a Jaguar. I'm going to get him hooked onto those adapters and HD Retrovision cables.

Good to see the Jag get a little love.

I REALLY wanted a Jaguar back in the day, having been a Lynx owner. Aliens looked so cool and the fact the system had Raiden, NBA Jam, and Doom really enticed me. Rayman looks so good too! By the time I found one for sale in my small town it was at a pawn shop for $200 and the system wasn't being supported anymore.

Can't believe I'm fascinated by these Jaguar Vids!

Unless it's nostalgia driven I can't see anyone whose never played on the Jaguar to play on it and enjoy it in 2021 but maybe I'm wrong. It's definitely cool from a nostalgia gaming enthusiast perspective.

My jaguar didn't come with an AV cable, so I just bought the right sized edge connector, and soldered up a new cable. Works great.

I have the jag2gen I love it with my hd retrovision component cables to my retrotink 2x.

I personally use my official Atari Jaguar S-video cables with stereo. :)

There are some good Jaguar games. The ports of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, plus several others.

5:32 DOOM: how it was meant to be played: WITH NO MUSIC /s

As someone whose played most of the retail jaguar library, a lot of the games are actually better than they're given credit for. Yes, there are a few bad games on the Jaguar, but every other console has those kinds of games, even the most beloved consoles like the PS2, NES, and Mega Drive have their fair share of awful games. Hell, one could make an ironic argument that those consoles have an even greater number of bad games than the Jaguar since they have much bigger libraries, and yet no one considers those bad consoles. The point is, just because the Jaguar has a small library with like 3 bad games doesn't mean the entire console is bad. That's a ridiculous statement.

You're making me want to go out and buy an Atari Jaguar now. :-)

I got a Jaguar S-video output cable and ran that into an S-video-to-HDMI box I got from Amazon for about $30 and it looks and runs pretty good. I'm sure the options you have give a better picture but I don't play mine all that often so I went to budget route to get it running on my TV.

I love how people have recently rediscovered "hidden gem" consoles like the Dreamcast, Saturn, TurboGrafx, etc... But seriously people, the 3DO and Jaguar are pretty much proceeded by their well earned reputations. Emulation is your friend! 😂

Just get Scart cables for Jaguar!

Seems interesting, but probably not getting an Atari Jaguar anytime soon, if ever.

What do you think of the jag so far? I had one when it was released and a couple more times over the years. I guess I didn't have the right games, because I always sold it and moved on.

That SNES one looks great through HDMI. I might go down that route as that seems to be the easiest way to hook the Jag these days while having great picture quality.

Nice review Ron!

I use an RGB Scart going through an OSSC = best possible video output. Great video, thanks.

Dawg the games look 100times better. Why wouldn’t they advertise this type of connection????

Hey MLP, would you mind doing another short video using the OSSC (maybe SCART vs Component / Gen vs SNES adapters)? I know the thinking might be that 480p is good enough for these old games but I felt the image quality across the board was pretty poor. The HD Retrovision cables were obviously the best but I'd also like to see footage without the brightness switch activated. I want to know what the Jaguar looks like at its absolute best. I say all of this with the utmost respect. My taint just wasn't sufficiently tickled.

Thanks for sharing. These videos help me decide to just go with emulation for this system. The original hardware doesn't look worth the cost of the system secondhand.

Nice! I want both of them.

What games were being featured in this video? Really anoying when game footage is used in a video but the name of the game isn't listed or mentioned anywhere.

hey MLP, have you ever messed with the SCART cables? i have one on the way and am probably going to match it with the RetroTink 2X-Pro or something. i hope it works but don't know enough of the technical aspects of it all.

Alien looks nice and NBA. Thats all she wrote. !!! Thanks

Thanks.

I need that SNES one

I must have gotten a bad jag 2 gen cause I connect my retro vision cable and its loose doesn't grip at all. I have to be careful and not move the console otherwise I lose the picture. I'd rather have the jag to SNES, but they are all sold out.

it's really hard to compare visuals when you switch the game every time you switch inputs...

I thought in the middle of of this review I had accidentally started a Bad Apple video and it somehow kept playing over MLP!

Why don’t you guys buy CRT tvs. They’re not very expensive today. Retro consoles were not meant to be play with flat tvs. One the biggest problem with flat tvs are the input lag. I use my hd retrovision cables connected directly to my crt and the picture looks fantastic, no scalers, no scart, no input lag.

RBG SCART plugged into a Retrotink 5k will yield the nest picture.

Why not just use a jaguar rgb scart cable.straight into a tink?

Why not show each game with all of the cable options? It's hard to judge the quality of each video option like this.

The music sounds terrible on a Jaguar. What was Atari thinking?

I have ten Jaguar games, but I mostly just play Tempest 2000 on it.

Had the atari jag about a year after it came out bought it from a guy I worked with he had maybe half the North American releases in the Box complete I completed the entire North American collection by purchasing at clearance prices but ultimately gave the whole system and all the games away because I was moving and honestly it wasn't even worth moving thank you for reminding me how terrible the jaguar games really are and how stupid it is that they have such a high value.

Image looks too soft IMHO.. Maybe try scart to Retro Tink for a sharper image.

I had the Jaguar, I had the piece that hooked up to the same spot but just had composite video coming out of it. I hated the jaguar, only a handful of decent games the rest sucked. I play retro games and no way was that system comparable to anything that was out back then.

Interesting. Level hike snes looks best

Jag2HDMi ? or just a simple RAD2X ... c'mon RetroTink !

Dude I spent so much time playing this system it's not even funny. It was like the best crappy thing ever. Ther controller overlays for games blew people's minds! Why do I have 15 different buttons? Shut up and play...

If only the Jaguar had sone decent games…. It’s amazing people are charging $5-600+ for that p.os.

Seeing the gameplay footage of pretty much every single Jaguar game makes me want to thank my parents for talking me out of selling my SNES for a Jaguar when I was a kid.

Sure the jaguar was bad but it had one great game (tempest) and like 5 ok games.

"play your crappy games" LOL

I always had an interest in the Jaguar. I no longer have an interest in the Jaguar.

4th!

Dude, except for a few ones (and even these, probably better played elsewhere), what a load of junk...

God the jaguar sucks. Just looking at this, you can tell it’s terrible.