S-RANK PATRONS: Get your questions in for December Q&A at https://www.patreon.com/posts/s-rank-patrons-q-45110887 or see the pinned post on https://patreon.com/petedavison/posts
My OG Xbox arrived today. Unfortunately I didn't notice with the dispatch note that CEX were unable to ship an Advanced SCART cable with it, so at the moment it looks like ass on the big TV. Composite is not pretty; I've officially been spoiled by RGB. Still, I think I've managed to track down a suitable replacement from elsewhere — the only question now is whether or not it will arrive before Christmas chaos. I hope it does; I'm keen to play some stuff like Dead Or Alive 2 Ultimate and its ilk over the holidays.
At the same time, I happened to be online when a retailer indicated that they were putting the Jaguar GameDrive up for sale. This, if you're unfamiliar, is a cart that you can slap a microSD card in, load up with Jaguar ROMs and enjoy to your heart's content. With the price of Jaguar games seemingly rising quite a bit, this is the most practical way to enjoy the system right now — particularly since most of the games that were commercially released have been effectively "abandoned" and placed on archive.org, and modern homebrew stuff can easily be distributed as downloadable ROMs. The GameDrive itself is pricey, but it pays for itself when you look how much individual carts go for. There's even talk of supporting images of Jaguar CD games at some point.
So far as the Jaguar goes, I intend to use the GameDrive as a means of exploring the Jaguar's library, then anything I find myself particularly enjoying I'll look into acquiring an actual copy of. I will do a Jaguar series at some point; not sure how that's going to work right now, since the end of Atari A to Z Flashback is still a fair way off and I don't really want to add anything extra on top of what I'm doing right now. Perhaps either the 8-bit or ST series can take a break for a bit, since there's no real "end" to either of those — or perhaps I can do some sort of alternating or rotating schedule. We'll see. I haven't got the thing yet and I don't know how long it'll take to get here! I do have some spare microSD cards, though — I'm glad I kept them now!
Anyway. Fingers crossed all these fun times arrive in the next day or two, because it'd be nice to have a holiday filled with retro gaming goodness. I have time off from the day job from Thursday until the new year, so here's hoping they're here by then at least!
Discover more from I'm Not Doctor Who
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
