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{{Infobox console
 
{{Infobox console
|title = Sega Master System
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|title = Atari Jaguar
|logo = Sega-Master-System-Set.png
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|logo = Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.png
|image = Sega-Game-Gear-WB.png
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|developer = [[:Atari]]
|imagecaption = '''Top:''' Sega Master System.<br/>'''Bottom:''' Sega Game Gear.
 
|developer = [[:Sega]]
 
 
|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]
 
|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Third-generation video game consoles|Third generation]]
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|generation = [[:Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles|Fifth generation]]
|release = 1985
+
|release = 1993
 
|discontinued = 1996
 
|discontinued = 1996
|predecessor = [[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]]
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|predecessor = [[Atari 8-bit#Atari XEGS|Atari XEGS]]
|successor = [[Sega Genesis emulators|Genesis / Mega Drive]]
 
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
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The '''Atari Jaguar''' (AJ) was a fifth generation home video game console produced by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] on November 23, 1993 and sold for {{Inflation|USD|249.99|1993}}. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU and 2 custom RISC CPUs. It has 2MB of RAM. Despite the intense marketing efforts by Atari, the Jaguar is, in fact, a 32-bit console rather than 64-bit, as a whole; only one part of its two CPUs were 64-bit. The system's convoluted architecture didn't help matters either, which led most developers to just use the 68000 for gameplay logic. The console would prove to be the final home console release for Atari, before releasing plug-and-play versions of their older games. There was also a CD addon called the '''Atari Jaguar CD''' (AJ-CD).
The '''[[wikipedia:Master_System|Sega Master System]]''' (SMS) is an 8-bit console released by [[wikipedia:Sega|Sega]] on October 20, 1985 in Japan (as "Mark III". In all actuality Master System and Mark III differ a bit due to original Japanese release having more features, such as card functionality, and backwards compatibility with '''[[wikipedia:Sega SG-1000|SG-1000]]''', which Master System lacks) and in September of 1986 in the US. It was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|199.99|1986}}. It had a Zilog Z80A at 4 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 16KB of VRAM. It had a Yamaha YM2602B VDP GPU. It was designed to be a direct competitor to the [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Nintendo Entertainment System]], and was technically superior to it in some ways. The Sega Game Gear was released in April of 1991 and was a competitor for the Game Boy. It had a backlit screen, color, and a nice looking design. It retailed for {{Inflation|USD|149.99|1991}}. It had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.5 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 16KB VRAM.
 
 
 
There are a lot of hardware similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear (GG). Notably, SMS game cartridges can actually be played on the '''[[gametech:Sega Game Gear|Game Gear]]''' via an adapter. For this reason, most SMS emulators can also run GG games.
 
 
 
Internally the Master System extends Sega's older SG-1000 by adding more RAM and a single new video mode; since the SG-1000 was built from the same CPU, video and audio chips as the [[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]] many Master System emulators also run ColecoVision games.
 
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==
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! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
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! scope="col"|Latest version
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Sega Master System">SMS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|AJ-CD
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Game Gear">GG</abbr>
 
 
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
 
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="10"|PC / x86
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! colspan="8"|PC / x86
|-
 
|[[Genesis Plus GX]]<ref name="GPGXLibretro">Only available on PC and mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|{{GenPlusGXVer}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[MAME]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|High
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[http://emulicious.net/ Emulicious]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://emulicious.net/downloads/ {{EmuliciousVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|[[BizHawk]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|[[higan]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|High
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
 
|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/ph28jag-win64.zip 2.8.JAG]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/twombit/ TwoMbit]
 
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/twombit/files/ 1.0.5]
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|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 2.8.JAG]
|{{✓}}
+
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkver}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|Gearsystem
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem/releases {{GearsystemVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|High
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|MasterGear
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://fms.komkon.org/MG/ {{MasterGearVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|High
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[Pantheon]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|High
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Kega Fusion]]
+
|[[Virtual Jaguar]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]
+
|[https://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/ {{VirtualJaguarVer}}]<br />[http://virtualjaguar.kicks-ass.net/builds/ Unofficial builds]<br />[https://github.com/libretro/virtualjaguar-libretro Git] (libretro)
|{{}}
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|{{}} ||{{✓}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} <small><ref group=N name=active>''Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.</ref></small> ||{{}}
|{{✓}}
 
|{{}}
 
|Mid
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[[PicoDrive]]
+
|[[MAME]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/notaz/picodrive/releases {{PicoDriveVer}}]
+
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|{{✓}}
+
|{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|{{✗}}<ref name="PicoDrive">The Game Gear emulation doesn't work.</ref>
 
|{{✓}}
 
|Mid
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/ FreezeSMS]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/download.html 4.6]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|Low
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[MEKA]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|[https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases {{MEKAVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[http://0ldsk00l.ca/smsplus/ SMS Plus]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|[https://github.com/0ldsk00l/smsplus/releases git]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|?
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[http://bcz.asterope.fr/ Osmose]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
 
|[https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/osmose-emulator 1.4]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[HiSMS]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|0.01 beta
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[nemulator]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://nemulator.com/downloads.html {{NemulatorVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Essgee
+
|[http://pt.emuunlim.com/index.htm Project Tempest]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://github.com/xdanieldzd/Essgee/releases git]
+
|[http://pt.emuunlim.com/index.htm 0.95]
|{{}}
+
|{{~}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}}
|{{}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Genesis Plus GX]]<ref name="GPGXLibretro"></ref>
+
! colspan="8"|Mobile / ARM
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
 
|{{GenPlusGXVer}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|Very high
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|MasterGear
+
|[[Phoenix (emulator)|IrataJaguar]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[http://fms.komkon.org/MG/ {{MasterGearVer}}]
+
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/IrataJaguar_free_1.0.7.zip 1.0.7]
|{{✓}}
+
|{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|High
 
|?
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[PicoDrive]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
 
|[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]
 
|{{}}
 
|{{✗}}<ref name="PicoDrive"></ref>
 
|{{}}
 
|Mid
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|GearMasterPlayer
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|Virtual Jaguar
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/GearMasterPlayer_free_1.0.5.zip 1.0.5]
+
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.icculus.virtualjaguar 1.01][https://github.com/lubomyr/virtualjaguar/tree/java_ui git]
|{{}}
+
|{{}} ||{{✓}} ||{{}} ||{{}} ||{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
 
|{{}}
 
|?
 
|?
 
|{{}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="10"|Consoles
+
|[[MAME]]
|-
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}<ref name=libretro group=N>Only available as a libretro core.</ref>
|[[PicoDrive]]
+
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
+
|{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}<ref name="PicoDrive"></ref>
 
|{{✓}}
 
|Mid
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[Genesis Plus GX]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Wii}}
 
|[https://bitbucket.org/eke/genesis-plus-gx/downloads {{GenPlusGXVer}}]
 
|{{}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-masterboy-210-f28308.html MasterBoy]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
 
|2.10
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[Virtual Console]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|3DS}}
 
|N/A
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|?
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
 
|}
 
|}
 +
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===Comparisons===
 +
;[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]:A newer closed-source emulator. More compatible than Virtual Jaguar. About 95% of Jaguar titles are compatible (full list available on [http://www.arts-union.ru/node/66 website]). No support for CD games yet. The PC version of the emulator is currently only available in Russian, but an [http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/showthread.php?4160-Help-with-3DO-Phoenix-2-8 English patch] is available.
 +
;[[Virtual Jaguar]]:An open-source emulator based on the original by the same name. It has excellent accuracy and performance but behind Phoenix. Use the link given as "git" on this page and choose the most current version from there.
 +
;[[MAME]]:Preliminary support. Some games boot but the emulation is far from perfect.
 +
;Project Tempest:Was the first ever working Atari Jaguar emulator. It emulates some games, but most have issues. As its name suggests it was primarily made for Tempest 2000, with other games as secondary goals. Project Tempest is the first and only(?) Jaguar emulator that supports Jaguar CD games, but only two are compatible; Primal Rage and Baldies (the latter has sound distortion though). It is also the only emulator apart from Phoenix that can play Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. It has not been updated since 2004.
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;[[Phoenix (emulator)|IrataJaguar]]: The Phoenix emulation project is released as separate emulators for Android, this is the Jaguar version. Identical compatibility to PC version according to the author. Requires fast 64-bit CPU 2GHz+ or better for full speed.
 +
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== Resources ==
  
<references/>
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* [https://archive.org/details/AtariJaguar Full No-Intro romset 03-01-16]
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* [https://archive.org/details/atarijaguarmanuals Console Manuals: Atari Jaguar]
  
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[[Category:Home consoles]]
 
[[Category:Home consoles]]
[[Category:Sega consoles]]
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[[Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles]]
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[[Category:Atari consoles]]
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[[Category:Atari Jaguar emulators|*]]

Revision as of 15:30, 7 August 2021

Atari Jaguar
Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.png
Developer Atari
Type Home video game console
Generation Fifth generation
Release date 1993
Discontinued 1996
Predecessor Atari XEGS
Emulated

The Atari Jaguar (AJ) was a fifth generation home video game console produced by Atari on November 23, 1993 and sold for $249.99. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU and 2 custom RISC CPUs. It has 2MB of RAM. Despite the intense marketing efforts by Atari, the Jaguar is, in fact, a 32-bit console rather than 64-bit, as a whole; only one part of its two CPUs were 64-bit. The system's convoluted architecture didn't help matters either, which led most developers to just use the 68000 for gameplay logic. The console would prove to be the final home console release for Atari, before releasing plug-and-play versions of their older games. There was also a CD addon called the Atari Jaguar CD (AJ-CD).

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest version AJ-CD Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Phoenix Windows Linux macOS 2.8.JAG
Virtual Jaguar Windows Linux macOS 2.1.2
Unofficial builds
Git (libretro)
[N 1]
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 ~
Project Tempest Windows 0.95 ~
Mobile / ARM
IrataJaguar Android 1.0.7
Virtual Jaguar Android 1.01git
MAME Android iOS Linux Pandora [N 2] 0.264 ~
  1. Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.
  2. Only available as a libretro core.

Comparisons

Phoenix
A newer closed-source emulator. More compatible than Virtual Jaguar. About 95% of Jaguar titles are compatible (full list available on website). No support for CD games yet. The PC version of the emulator is currently only available in Russian, but an English patch is available.
Virtual Jaguar
An open-source emulator based on the original by the same name. It has excellent accuracy and performance but behind Phoenix. Use the link given as "git" on this page and choose the most current version from there.
MAME
Preliminary support. Some games boot but the emulation is far from perfect.
Project Tempest
Was the first ever working Atari Jaguar emulator. It emulates some games, but most have issues. As its name suggests it was primarily made for Tempest 2000, with other games as secondary goals. Project Tempest is the first and only(?) Jaguar emulator that supports Jaguar CD games, but only two are compatible; Primal Rage and Baldies (the latter has sound distortion though). It is also the only emulator apart from Phoenix that can play Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. It has not been updated since 2004.
IrataJaguar
The Phoenix emulation project is released as separate emulators for Android, this is the Jaguar version. Identical compatibility to PC version according to the author. Requires fast 64-bit CPU 2GHz+ or better for full speed.

Resources

Atari logo.png
Consoles: Atari 2600Atari 5200Atari 7800Atari XEGSAtari JaguarAtari VCS
Handhelds: Atari Lynx
Computers: Atari 8-bitAtari ST