What was the point of the Jaguar CD? It has some enhancement but they were still small. and it released in 1995, against the Playstation and the Saturn What were they thinking?The regular Jaguar already was a bit of a failure, but this had no reasons to existdid it even get ANY good games?
>>12127241CDs are cheaper to produce than cartridges.
>>12127241It was planned from the start. Jaguar had all the components needed for a CD system but a decoder. The CD unit only has a single decoder chip, unlike Sega CD which contained RAM chips and a second M6800 for the controller. It was cheap as shit, and Jaguar was definitely planned with a built in CD driver. However the cost of a CD drive in 1993 was prohibitively expensive.
>>12127241It was a emergency effort to stay relevant.Today it's a love able oddity but in its era a kind of flop. Carmack's Doom port is one of the few titles lending it relevance.
>>12127241Dont like none of these work anymore?
>>12127241The point was to be the only 64-bit console in history that supported CDs.
>>12127241it was already in the can from a development timeline. they really lost nothing by going ahead with it.
>>12127241Its what the 64DD should've been, just a cd-drive for more storage so the add-on is as cheap as possible.
>>12129843a cd drive was released for the n64, unofficially, called "doctor v64", and could load n64 games from CD or over computer connection. many n64 developers bought one as it was cheaper than buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware like silicon graphics machines and sony unix workstations.
>>12128384Saying the Jaguar was 64 bit is like saying piracy is the same thing as stealing a game from a store
It's objectively shit but the VLM is a fantastic music visualizer.
