Nuon-Dome / Jagfest coming to Ohio!

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:40 pm 0

hairy_pete wrote:atarihq.de have AvP (new, complete) for 100 euros, cartridge-only used for half as much.

Aha...well that kinda answers one nagging thought I had at the back of my mind: are the cartridges 'multi-lingual'? i.e. If I buy a cartridge from Germany or Spain or somewhere, will it run in English when it realises it's in an English Jag or do they only run in one language?

hairy_pete · Post by **hairy_pete** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:08 pm 0

The game hasn't been translated anyway. It's all in plain English, and it'll auto-adapt to NTSC and PAL jaguars.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:10 pm 0

hairy_pete wrote: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.

It woulda been nice if they'd had a couple of megs of RAM built into the CD unit, or even some better access routines...(the existing ones require you to find your own data, check it's not too misaligned, etc, all of which requires CPU time - if you ask for a direct address there's plenty of slop). And the RAM would mean you didn't have to lose any of your 2MB as a buffer. It's not a great system, but it suffices

Stone

tentaclesex · Post by **tentaclesex** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:11 pm 0

It just so happens that a friend of mine wants to visit her family in Canton, and hang out in the Cleveland area (I live in Connecticut). We're gonna stop at the Jagfest, yay!