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Sure! I will have the old lady do that for you, as she did the parts run and could list them better than me. I'm glad you're interested! I may make one for sale one day! Once she get's back from work today I'll put her right to it listing up the instructions and parts here!! If you want 7800 compatibility it may go beyond novice for the wiring!

Two sizes of cylindrical bits, yup! The button size can be used for all the cuts on a panel that uses Zippy joysticks. As this one uses Happ controls we used a slightly larger one so as to not interrupt the throw. The key to cutting holes is to use pilot holes and start with the bit spinning backwards until you get through the plastic, then switch to forwards for the wood. I use skateboard bolts to attach the joysticks before the art and plastic is put back on, to hide the bolts. My older design had exposed bolts, but my last two before this one.. (..,the white cab on the right,..) (..and this one..) ..use the flat topped locking bolts to hide the joystick fittings. (The bend at the top of the front art on the last one has been fixed, by the way.)

A Zippy stick could be used that has a plastic plate that can be switched to restrict the joysticks diagonals turning it into a classic 4-way! This was what we did for our vertical Multicade system. ..The Hello Kitty art for the top is in preparation.

The back is opened to allow access to the two shelves. Games can go on the top shelf as the systems are both on the bottom. Simply reach down and put in a cart. I found that playing games with the front panel was very easy! Hoverstrike is extremely fun, launching missiles and locking on to targets with the top three buttons is very easy. Doom is very fun, reaching down to swap out weapons. This is my Jaguar game list.. Doom Hoverstrike Rayman Trever McFur Cybermorph Checkered Flag Flashback Skyhammer Wolfenstien 3D Pinball Fantasies Ruiner Pinball (and yes, the side buttons are pinball flippers) Syndicate Raiden Ultra Vortek Kasumi Ninja Total Carnage Alien vs. Predator Iron Soldier Theme Park ..And my 7800 collection combined with my 2600 collection are well over a hundred games! This was built for games like Rampage and Double Dragon that use the extra button. There is a custom made switch box in the back that swaps the controls over to the 7800 or back. The buttons on the front feel really great when pressing and have a strong arcade feel! Using a stool while playing more time consuming games, like Syndicate or Doom, line up your hands so that the buttons are extremely easy to use! I used to have Defender and Tempest for my second or third Jaguar (or fourth..) and will likely be getting them again soon. I would also really like to get Protector, as the background movements in Defender were dizzying and I've heard a lot of good things about Protector.

This is a step-by-step of our newest creation..The Atari Jaguar Arcade Cabinet! It also houses a 7800!! First we build a frame (this is our own plan devised by me..Papa.).. ..if you look in the background you can see that we've done this sort of thing before.. Shelves are added. The lowest shelf lifts up for easy access to power. The others are screwed in with room on each side for cords to drop down through. We use a 4X8 cut down the middle and shortened for both sides. The angle cut from the top flips over and becomes the sides for the panel! A basic layout for the control panel is conceived.. ..as are the art schemes. Everything is done in a certain order. The marquee is added and stabilizes the top. The paint is added.. ..the panel is cut (special methods are used to cut plexiglass without cracking!!) Panel art is embedded. The panel is finished!! The panel is added, the screen is set, and inside paint is done (not in that order..) The front panel is prepared.. ..and test fitted! A massive amount of soldering went into this cabinet.. Ultimately, 164 solder points are made!! Trim is added. The system is tested and safety corners are added. Plexiglass is added to the front along with the decorative cover.. I present.. The Jaguar Arcade Cabinet!! From Rayman to Rampage! Jaguar and 7800 (and,of course, 2600) compatibility!! Thanks for viewing!!

I'll have to check this out when I get a chance!! If I come up with anything I'll be back..

There are ways to make the lines disappear and still use lines and get the player1 sprite colors! Just use the same background color as the parts that you want to lose lines on. I use this in a couple of my games and it works nicely.

Do you have a weight problem? Your sprites are AWESOME!!

I'm a house husband and a real life Papa!! I take care of kids all day and watch my hair leap right off of my head!! Right now I am detecting the need to chocolate a child!!

Actually sabo means "shoe" and tage means "throw" or "toss".. I agree that the Jag didn't get the 'citizenship' it deserved, yes.. ..I will program on it, though!!

His girlfriend broke up with him and now he's homeless! That blows ropey goat chunks! I mean, she could have broken up and given him a transitional period to find a new place rather than dump him in the gutter. People. On a contrary note, I would give him back one system (although he already has one, so maybe not..) and a few games you don't necessarily like that much and tell him you're even!

Is hiring a programmer that can't write music into a game that has PC music for a system touting 64 bits, when a 32 bit computer can play it, not sabotage? I think the real team behind Doom stood to make more off of the Doom/Doom 2 PC double packs all over the place rather than worry about an already sinking ship that was the Jag in it's own time! Not conspiracy, and yes, people sabotage things! They could have told someone that the companies reputation was on the line, but as it sits it makes the system look like it can't handle it's own titles! I didn't think it really was as much an act of sabotage as an act of throwing something out the door unfinished. I very much enjoy the PC games music and play it by itself with the sound effects turned down because I like my midi that has nice little violin sounds and a real orchestrated feel to it. I also felt this way about the Jaguars music. It didn't stop me from buying it eventually, but I think that if the original team for Doom was going to suffer at all from the sales of the Jag port, they would have stuck a foot in and said "Wait, we NEED MUSIC during the GAME!"! I also think that if my suggestion is sabotage then every single arcade to NES port that was ever made (with the exception of Gyruss, which is considerably better than the arcade version) would also have to be shoes being thrown into the machine!! When companies were forced to sign on with Nintendo to sell a watered down version of their awesome Z80 and 68000 based games it was quite a downgrade to the art within the programs, the music, and in many cases the playability of the game. This was to protect the profits of Nintendo and not to better suit the companies who could have sided with other hardware manufacturers simultaneously and made even more profit and directed the consumer away from Nintendo. The Sega Genesis did this to the western world programmers when they refused to license already existing 68000 games like Desert Strike, Bubsy, Road Rash and so many other long cartridge style unlicensed titles! The companies wanted more profit from the already existing titles, while Sega wanted to protect their own programs like Hang On or Afterburner II from being passed over for games like F-15 or Road Rash. I don't know if it's sabotage, but the Genesis versions of those games are extremely good and must have cut into profits for Sega! So, yeah..I think that if a 64 bit system with great midi sound can't play music on a 32 bit computer game port it STINKS, sabotage or not, and if you hire a programmer who can't code the music into the game in motion it seems like a big shoe thrown into the machine! 32 bit RISC CPUs that drop textures to maintain framerate always perked up my eyebrow, as I was never a really big fan of the Playstation! The competition at the time did not do this type of stuff and rather halved the RAM of already existing Arcade titles (like the Saturn and the Dreamcast arcade ports) to bring the console versions out. More people bought the PS because of the Sony marketing machine. I was (and still am, to a degree) a 'made in the U.S.A' enthusiast when the Jag first came out, so I thought "Oh, loyalists will support this no matter what!"! If they had, then would Atari have signed on a ton more PC to Cartridge ports? I think so! Would we have ever seen a Square game on the system? Who knows?

"That armors too strong for blasters. Rouge group use harpoons and tow cables and go for the legs..except on the 2600, you can blow them down!!" I'll admit it's less frustrating then all of the more modern interps where you're actually required to fly in a tight circle around the legs a couple of times and then disconnect! That was a nostalgia game, too..

Uh.. My own custom Atari Jaguar Arcade machine I just built! It will be finished tomorrow and I will post the step-by-step pictures for everyone!!

River Raid, Pac-Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Battlezone, Defender..these were all games that my brother and I played a lot when we were younger.

I heard that it would have taken one chunk up on the RAM scale to have the music play at the same time as the graphics and this would cost more, so we got the musicless levels. I guess that is an easier blame then the "I'm too weak of a programmer to include the music!" one.. Other programmers complained of the difficulty in making software for the Jaguar, so it makes sense. Atari saying it needs to be left out to make more money makes sense too, though. Atari was one of the first to pi$$ off programmers by leaving out credit and eventually cutting them out all together (the reason for Activision!!). Just look at the most recent creation here on the forum, Pacman 8K, and you see what doubling the RAM could have possibly given people back in the day! I love Doom music, too. I would hate to think some programmer was like "Crap, I can't do the music, so I won't!". I saw recently an MP3 device that mixes the music with the game on a Jaguar inspired website, though!!

COLUP2=$44 COLUP3=$44 COLUP4=$44 ..there ya go.

I would have the background music in Doom. They looked pretty weak dropping such an awesome LOOKING game that PLAYS sooo great, but saying "Nah..it'll take a little too much ram (same excuse that old school Atari programmers had to deal with!).", and leaving out the in game music! I think it may have been to preserve the sellability of the PC game, which was still available at the time of the Jag release, and the RAM could just be the excuse!?! The game is so good that it's worth having without the background music, and I stop in between levels to listen to the Jags sound hardware play that awesome music right out of the chip set. I totally agree with you Stargunner, about the Double Dragon game, though. They really needed to go Super Double Dragon and use that graphics prowess that the Jaguar clearly has! Mayhaps that should be the first endeavor in Raptor programming I should attempt!! I would draw all the graphics from the ground up and keep the resolution up!

Here ya go.. I used two, but if you have a looong thick band then it works better. A little oil at the crossing makes the return smoother and less cumbersome. It works to a degree.. ..I got this idea from a joystick someone was selling on eBay some time ago. They said that the joystick didn't spring back anymore so they used rubber bands (I think it was a Tandy TRS-80 joystick with a broken bottom switch).

You place the rubber band under the joystick and pull some up on both sides. Then wrap the band around the stick on both sides. When you pull in one direction the rubber band will pull it back when you let go of it. I didn't say it was a good way, but it works!

Put a thick rubber band around the bottom and up around both sides of the joystick and it will return to center.. ..this is the ooooold schoool way to go about it..

Mushrooms? Here's how to make a JAMMADRIVE out of one..(with halt button and 14 MHz switch) ..and here's a direct link to click through a couple more pics of the process.. http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x323/Papa761203/1503986_502068886573226_1984801343_n.jpg clicking right will show the back and the kitty.. clicking left will show the end results and then the installation. We wired 6-button controllers directly into the Happ joysticks and buttons..

Emulation is like moving to a city and getting an expensive apartment so you can walk places and then buying a Lamborghini to drive to a VP one block away in a 20 mph zone to get free matches and one donut!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301525676396?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 ..there ya go.. They do Genesis pads and NES pads with BOTH buttons enabled for 7800 systems. They also do Colecovision pads!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/SEGA-Genesis-Mod-Controller-with-2-Buttons-for-use-on-The-Atari-7800-/301526350429?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46345efa5d

Looks like someone's been in that Princess Rescue binary!