Digital Press wrote: NUON-Dome & JagFest @ CCAG: NUON-Dome and the JagFest will be making a stop at this years CCAG (near Cleveland, OH) and will be bringing along some choice gaming goodness. For the NUON: * Upcoming game Decaying Orbit from DragonShadow Industries * Prototype game Bust-A-Move 4 * Prototype game controller * Playable Tempest 3000, Iron Soldier 3 & other commercial games * Playable homebrew games like Breakout, BOMB, PacMan, Doom & more; for the JAGUAR: * Upcoming games Mad Bodies and MightyFrog by Force Design * Prototype games Brett Hull Hockey CD, Black Ice/White * Prototype hardware Jaguar Voice Modem, Controller and more * Networked BattleSphere, Doom and Aircars.
Finally something cool comes to Ohio! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!
Okay, maybe it's not all that exciting to some of you, but Ohio really sucks and just about anything is cooler than watching corn grow. I'd already been looking forward to this gathering, but now it really looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.
Hmm...this just reminded me of a topic that popped into my brain recently them promptly left me again before I had the chance to do anything about it.
I know the old Battlesphere carts where hideously expensive due to the limited runs they did of them but since the re-discovery of the Jag CD encryption codes have the Battlesphere people made any attempt to produce a CD version of it?
WiteWulf wrote:I know the old Battlesphere carts where hideously expensive due to the limited runs they did of them but since the re-discovery of the Jag CD encryption codes have the Battlesphere people made any attempt to produce a CD version of it?
No - there's lots of good reasons why they can't, but I usually fail to explain adequately, so I won't
Finally something cool comes to Ohio! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!
Okay, maybe it's not all that exciting to some of you, but Ohio really sucks and just about anything is cooler than watching corn grow. I'd already been looking forward to this gathering, but now it really looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.
I should never have left Los Angeles....
Hey - I hope you go to the show, because I will be there. Kevin Manne (host of NuonDome) is also going - we somewhat teamed up at the Philly Classic earlier this year. I'm bringing a few surprises, and Kev has an assload of prototype stuff for the Jag and Nuon.
You Ohio guys must really be starved - I'm getting a pretty good response about this event But it's awesome, I just kind of decided to do this on a whim and it's turning out pretty good. Glad to see so much enthusiasm.
There's a ton of stuff we can possibly do, it all depends on how much space CCAG wants to give us.
I do have a digital projector lined up. Look for larger-than-life VLM2, T3K, T2K, etc, etc. I just put together a CD full of Jaguar and NUON game music to run on the VLM at the show. Here's the CD label art I did for it:
GodMedia wrote:Funny thing is that even though the CCAG is looking like it's going to be really fun, it's being held in the fellowship hall of a presbyterian church.
Only in Ohio!
Ha yeah, tell me about it.
We'll all be praying at the Church of Minter though
Stone wrote:No - there's lots of good reasons why they can't, but I usually fail to explain adequately, so I won't
Well you've piqued my curiosity now so give it a whirl
It's my understanding that they'd have to basically re-write the entire game to get it working off of a CD. It's not a simple matter of putting the code onto a CD instead of a Cart.
That's my non-programmer perspective on it at least.
K3V wrote:That's my non-programmer perspective on it at least.
Very accurate It's easy to put most demos and homebrew stuff on a CD but if the game's already on a cart it turns into a whole world of hurt I'm surprised there's as many JagCD games as there are, to be honest
K3V wrote:That's my non-programmer perspective on it at least.
Very accurate It's easy to put most demos and homebrew stuff on a CD but if the game's already on a cart it turns into a whole world of hurt I'm surprised there's as many JagCD games as there are, to be honest
Stone
Right. The beauty in being cartridge-based is that /everything/ is /there/, all the time, since the cartridge ROM is direct random access memory located in the processor's address space. If your data are on external storage, you have to load and purge the stuff as needed - and you have to have the entire action make do with the system's RAM, including the stuff you'd normally use directly from cartridge ROM.
So some games, particularly those that really make the machine sweat, may not even be transferrable to CD at all.
But it's awesome, I just kind of decided to do this on a whim and it's turning out pretty good. Glad to see so much enthusiasm.
I'm surprised there's as many JagCD games as there are, to be honest 
