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Jaguar CD

Overview

Introduced in 1995 by Atari, the Jaguar CD was a console system. It is grouped with jaguar titles in EmulationStation.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Same base as the Jaguar with a Motorola 68000 at 13.295 MHz plus Tom/Jerry RISC processors handling graphics/audio.
  • Memory: Adds 1 MB cache RAM for CD data plus support for CD-ROM streaming in addition to the 2 MB system RAM.
  • Display: Tom GPU with 640×480 24-bit rendering and dedicated sprite/object layers identical to the base Jaguar.
  • Sound: Jerry DSP with added CD-ROM PCM streaming path and 16-bit stereo DACs for Redbook audio/CD-quality playback.

Supported ROM extensions

cue, cdi, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • bigpemu (bigpemu) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_BIGPEMU
  • virtualjaguar (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_VIRTUALJAGUAR | Incompatible extensions: zip, 7z

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml