wraggster
December 22nd, 2011, 23:01
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There’s nothing wrong with portable NESs, Super Nintendos, N64, or even a portable Sega CD. What about a portable version the oft-maligned Atari Jaguar (http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=293), though? [Evil Nod] pulled it off, and it looks great.
The build is fairly standard for a portable console. A PS1 screen is used for the display, and a cut up and re-wired controller provides the input. From what we see on the build log (http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=316), moving the 104-pin cartridge slot onto ribbon cables was an exercise in patience. The case is absolutely phenomenal with a textured finish we would expect to see on an early 90s console. Of course, [Nod] kept the numeric keypad; there was space left over anyway.
We can’t rag on the Jaguar or [Nod]‘s build. It’s a great execution and there’s an impressive library of games that include Worms, Rayman, Doom, and Myst. Still, we wonder what the build would look like with the Jaguar CD-ROM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar_CD) attached.
http://hackaday.com/2011/12/22/handheld-jaguar-makes-32-or-64-bits-portable/
There’s nothing wrong with portable NESs, Super Nintendos, N64, or even a portable Sega CD. What about a portable version the oft-maligned Atari Jaguar (http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=293), though? [Evil Nod] pulled it off, and it looks great.
The build is fairly standard for a portable console. A PS1 screen is used for the display, and a cut up and re-wired controller provides the input. From what we see on the build log (http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=316), moving the 104-pin cartridge slot onto ribbon cables was an exercise in patience. The case is absolutely phenomenal with a textured finish we would expect to see on an early 90s console. Of course, [Nod] kept the numeric keypad; there was space left over anyway.
We can’t rag on the Jaguar or [Nod]‘s build. It’s a great execution and there’s an impressive library of games that include Worms, Rayman, Doom, and Myst. Still, we wonder what the build would look like with the Jaguar CD-ROM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar_CD) attached.
http://hackaday.com/2011/12/22/handheld-jaguar-makes-32-or-64-bits-portable/