DooM (Jag)

DooM for the Atari Jaguar.

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• Atari
• Jaguar

[prulcan]

What do you think for PS1 version? Wikipedia says that is PS1 version the best selling game after PC release. How accurate is that info i don´t have a clue, but is damn good and i like that creepy music. Only downside is that terrible password system.

[MN12BIRD]

@prulcan Yeah PS1 version is great. Arguably the best but it did come out after the Jag and 32X versions and of course has the CD-ROM storage at an advantage. The music is a debate. I like the fast paced heavy songs of the original PC version and don't much care for the slower creepier music on the CD-ROM versions like the Saturn, 3DO and PS1.

[joelcr250]

how about Doom 64 ? Thats probably pretty good eh, better than this probably

[MN12BIRD]

@joelcr250 No Doom 64 is a completely different game. Different weapons, levels, enemies and music. I don't even think it was made by ID software. It's not a bad game, it's just not really Doom. Also while better versions may have came later on the PS1 this was the very first version of Doom to be ported to ANY home console after the PC version.

[Snotnarok]

Watching this video again and having played the PC version recently, it looks like level 'details' are missing. The pillars in the stair room in the first level, which actually has a switch on it, and the hole in that pit area. That's very strange.

[MN12BIRD]

@Snotnarok Definitely the 32x version is similar too. There's a lot of details in different textures on walls that are missing. They use the same brown walls more often so it doesn't look as diverse.

[desertman123]

yep, but it has no music, so (as the AVGN said) put on some slayer and youre set

[Creamy360]

i have doom for the saturn. its a godawful version. the framerate is horrible

[prulcan]

Yeah that´s sucks that Jag don´t have music, but least you can change weapons with keypad. I don´t know if Jag Doom have save feature. I never play original Doom, but at flea market i found Ultimate Doom for PC. My PC is dead and i can´t test it. I have Doom on netbok that has mouse look like today shooters, made by Absolute Zero i think. Now i know that works on Win 7 with any problem and is even better than PS1 version and music is good too.

[Lumotaku]

@prulcan

mouse and keyboard rape a joypad

[prulcan]

Ah now i remember that enemy do fight each other in PS1 version.

[prulcan]

@Lumotaku Wrong.

[Lumotaku]

playing first person shooters on any console sucks.

[Alevamltd]

I think I know the reason for the jaguar's sound struggles.

The GPU was able to act as a CPU but a flaw in the MMU made it so a game like doom would have to use the DSP as a CPU instead. But since the DSP controls the audio, that meant that the music had to be left out in order for it to run smoothly.