Running Virtual Jaguar 1.0.7

[Nitethorn]

Ok, I'm new to commandline emulators (aside from DosBox, which is very easy) and also new to GameEx. To be honest, the only reason I installed GameEx was an attempt to get VJ to work.

First off, I'm running vista (32-bit). When I double click the VJ.exe file, the mouse cursor blinks a few times and then that's it. It never loads. I saw in an old post at these forums to turn off UAC in Vista. I did that. Same problem. So I downloaded GameEx. When I try to run it in gameex, the screen goes black, glitches a few times, and then boots me back to gameex. (The game I'm trying to load is Alien VS Predator).

I found an old topic here at these forums that listed a config for use in GameEx for VJ 1.0.7. I tried that, it still doesn't work.

I downloaded Project Tempest v0.95, and it plays AvP, but the graphics are very glitchy, joypad support is all but non-existant for dual analogue stick gamepads, and when playing the predator, the two visions that are the clearest when invisible screw up the game resolution so that you can only see half the screen. Ugh.

I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, Intel Duo Core 2.0 ghz, 3 gb RAM, geforce 8600M GT (256 mb vram)

I want to be able to play this game desperately, and I'm pulling my hair out over here. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Just in case it might be helpful, I'll list here both the GameEx config AND the VJ config.

GameEx:

[Emulator_8]

Enabled=True

DumbyValue=

STARTPAGENAME=Atari Jaguar (Virtual Jaguar)

TITLETEXT=Atari Jaguar

StartPageLogo=Jaguar

ROMFilter=

RomsInFolders=False

RomPath=C:\Emulation\Atari Jaguar\virtualjaguar-1.0.7\roms

SnapPath=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

CartPath=

WorkingPath=C:\Emulation\Atari Jaguar\virtualjaguar-1.0.7

MapKeys=True

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=False

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=False

RemoveBrackets=False

ShowDesktop=False

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=vj.exe "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

configFile=

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

PCGame=

Database=[Console] Atari Jaguar

GamesIn7Zips=

VJ config:

#

# Virtual Jaguar configuration file

#

# Jaguar BIOS options: 1 - use, 0 - don't use

useJaguarBIOS = 1

# Jaguar ROM paths

JagBootROM = ./bios/jagboot.rom

CDBootROM = ./bios/jagcd.rom

EEPROMs = ./eeproms

ROMs = ./ROMs

# OpenGL options: 1 - use OpenGL rendering, 0 - use old style rendering

useOpenGL = 1

# OpenGL filtering type: 1 - blurry, 0 - sharp

glFilterType = 0

# Display options: 1 - fullscreen, 0 - windowed

fullscreen = 1

# NTSC/PAL options: 1 - NTSC, 0 - PAL

hardwareTypeNTSC = 1

# DSP options: 1 - use, 0 - don't use

DSPEnabled = 1

# If DSP enabled, set whether or not to use the pipelined core: 1 - use, 0 - don't use

usePipelinedDSP = 0

# Joystick options: 1 - use joystick, 0 - don't use

useJoystick = 0

# Joyport option: If joystick is enabled above, set the port (0 - 3) here

joyport = 0

# Jaguar joypad key assignments

# Note: It would be nicer to be able to have a single left side to store all this in...

# E.g. p1keys = 34, 32, 22, etc. instead of what we have here...

p1k_up = 273 # SDLK_UP

p1k_down = 274 # SDLK_DOWN

p1k_left = 276 # SDLK_LEFT

p1k_right = 275 # SDLK_RIGHT

p1k_c = 122 # SDLK_z

p1k_b = 120 # SDLK_x

p1k_a = 99 # SDLK_c

p1k_option = 39 # SDLK_QUOTE

p1k_pause = 13 # SDLK_RETURN

p1k_0 = 256 # SDLK_KP0

p1k_1 = 257 # SDLK_KP1

p1k_2 = 258 # SDLK_KP2

p1k_3 = 259 # SDLK_KP3

p1k_4 = 260 # SDLK_KP4

p1k_5 = 261 # SDLK_KP5

p1k_6 = 262 # SDLK_KP6

p1k_7 = 263 # SDLK_KP7

p1k_8 = 264 # SDLK_KP8

p1k_9 = 265 # SDLK_KP9

p1k_pound = 267 # SDLK_KP_DIVIDE

p1k_star = 268 # SDLK_KP_MULTIPLY

p2k_up = 273 # SDLK_UP

p2k_down = 274 # SDLK_DOWN

p2k_left = 276 # SDLK_LEFT

p2k_right = 275 # SDLK_RIGHT

p2k_c = 122 # SDLK_z

p2k_b = 120 # SDLK_x

p2k_a = 99 # SDLK_c

p2k_option = 39 # SDLK_QUOTE

p2k_pause = 13 # SDLK_RETURN

p2k_0 = 256 # SDLK_KP0

p2k_1 = 257 # SDLK_KP1

p2k_2 = 258 # SDLK_KP2

p2k_3 = 259 # SDLK_KP3

p2k_4 = 260 # SDLK_KP4

p2k_5 = 261 # SDLK_KP5

p2k_6 = 262 # SDLK_KP6

p2k_7 = 263 # SDLK_KP7

p2k_8 = 264 # SDLK_KP8

p2k_9 = 265 # SDLK_KP9

p2k_pound = 267 # SDLK_KP_DIVIDE

p2k_star = 268 # SDLK_KP_MULTIPLY

[Nologic]

Project Tempest is likely your best bet...now its my understanding that v0.94 supported gamepads so you may want to go hunting for an older build of it. However I'd just setup Xpadder to work with it.

Really I'd like you to keep in mind that the jaguar never was emulated very well...so having it setup is mainly just for show...nothing more.

In the 101 reasons thread I have some loaders written up for use with PT...which I would suggest giving a try to help out...but things will still suck.