Retro the unreleased Atari Jaguar VR Headset is finally emulatable, over 28 years later.

[Krvavi Abadas]

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for those unaware of the significance, the peripheral is utterly notorious for having a high failure rate. frequently refusing to read disks and displaying a red screen of death.

there's a few notable exclusives on it alongside the pre-requisite Myst and Dragon's Lair ports every CD-based console of the time had, such as Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods and World Tour Racing. it also got a few homebrew applications made despite the aforementioned technical issues.

the emulator itself is built off the one (he's even listed as "Jaguar Master" in the credits) used in the excellent Atari 50 collection, so i recommend picking it up if you want another way to support the dev.
there's even emulation for Audio CDs included, allowing you to pipe any music file into the Jaguar's Virtual Light Machine (created by legendary programmer Jeff Minter) visualiser.

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

This is actually pretty fascinating. I only have vague memories of the Atari Jaguar CD existing, and I've always been kind of curious.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

interesting stream that goes into further detail on how it was made.

one big detail i noticed that he's actively working on adding support for the unreleased Jaguar VR peripheral.

a few prototypes still exist, but he's looking for someone to give (or at least let him burrow) one to ensure it's fully accurate.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

this is an even bigger deal than the CD support, considering the headset was never commercially released.
only one game, which was released despite the hardware (it was basically used in an optional mode) not making it out there. actually is compatible with it. but it's still a huge deal to see it working properly.