christ! i knew you guys would break my balls as soon as i posted that mis-spelling!

Agreed!

Back on topic!




Here's what i unpacked this morning:

Present to me (from me : )

There was also a shrinkwrapped ICD AirCars in there. Am about to sample the goods now.

$300

not a bad price compared to what they usually go for buddy!

Yeah and put it this way: that's the lowest amount i have ever payed for any of my Battlesphere's.

That shrinkwrapped ICD AirCars was even less (same seller). Got it for only $70 (and was the only bidder)! SS4U must have been pulling his hair out at missing both of those auctions!

I WAS PULLING MY HAIR OUT YOU LUCKY BASTARD! ,great snag for both networkable games!

Thanks Buddy!

Trouble is the number of jaguar owners is miniscule the rarity of finding owners with Battlesphere even more remote , its biggest asset is virtually worthless except possibly at conventions once a year......

oneday all that is gonna change buddy.......im sure.

Thats why i have multiple Jaguars, multiple S/CatBox's, multiple Battlesphere games, and most importantly, multiple friends!

Did anyone else notice this Battlesphere thread has just surpassed 1000 posts?

Congratulations to Buddies for being number 1000!

That's cuz BattleSphere™ Rules!

is there any hope that battlesphere will ever see another release run? years ago i assumed this game would never be finished and released, and just stopped checking for updates on wes powell's site. huge mistake. i can't justify buying a single game for $400 that i've never even played.

And you won't found BattleSphere™ on any M$ systems!

Are they that dumb that they would NEVER realize that this is a hot property? Not even one day?

I'm sure if you were serious about, say, XBLA, they'd happily talk to you.

Are you sure? I think Oppressor has been down that road to no avail.

Bill Gates won't know a good game if it hit him in the face!

thats cause he has more important things to do,such as trying to buy yahoo! and Battlesphere™Rules!

Will he shut down the Yahoo Groups? I'm hoping so because it's a shame that the Atari Group fell into the hands of the one who turned it into a commercial for his own crap.

Hey Gorf, thanks for the backup on that other forum where I can't respond.

Funny how the douchebags come out of the woodwork every time I try and do something for charity. Let's see these guys do anything positive. Why do they even bother?

Seriously, if I donate a game to charity, what reason do they have to say anything? If the roles were reversed they would be the next incarnation of SS4U.

Anyhow, tell the guy who asked that I don't claim any tax deductions on these things so the generous recipient can.

I'm not up to date on everyone's projects - what game was Opressor pushing?

They were talking to me about Cool Herders quite happily till I went DS.

are you the one that has the BattleSphere auction up? and the one that closed last week for charity as well? kudos to you. it's refreshing to see someone being so generous. i was outbid a couple hundred back! maybe the next one...

I think it's Battlesphere that he was going for.

You're a bad Bird. A bad, BAD Bird! How dare you auction away your games for charity that you spent years of hard work at?! Don't you know you owe everyone who demands Battlesphere a copy at bargain prices?! How do you sleep at night???

I do it once a year with a couple carts. Thanks for the kind words. I'm just keeping our promise to turn over all BattlsSphere Profits to charity according to the deal we made to get the Jaguar made into an "open" system.

It's a good feeling to help others, so it was worth it.

Maybe you'll win on another day? Thanks for bidding.

I heard something about someone whining over on another forum but I guess the moderators deleted the topic he was complaining in. Seems like some people have their priorities mixed up.

I'm sure this has been asked before....
but why hasn't this been released on CD if it was so expensive/hard to find the chips to release on a cart?

Multi-Jag BS networking, running unencrypted programs(bypassing encryption) and and some other features wouldn't work with a CD version, not to mention.... piracy. You should read this whole thread and/or search BattleSphere in the JS2 main forum and the Jaguar section on Atariage - some interesting stuff.

Welcome to Jaguar Sector II!

So is this game ever going to be available (on any platform) again, or should I foreget about it?

The answer lies within your question

Seriously, though, I doubt it's going to happen.

I´m so glad I have my BSG already

Battlesphere™ is AWESOME!!!!! and its only on the Jaguar!

I got lucky and was part of the original run Any one ever find all the defcon codes? I get the feeling we have only scratched the surface of Battlesphere.

CD games have to load into the RAM inside the Jaguar to run, as the CD drive has no code RAM added for the Jag to use. BattleSphere™ uses so much internal RAM for graphics and sound processing buffers that there's not any room left over to store the program code if it were loaded from CD.

its also worth noting there were not cd bypass carts just laying around when battlesphere was being made. The scene has gotten extremely more friendly to jaggy game developers.

4play went to extreme measures to get this cart usuable on normal jaguars. Anyone remember the room full of jaguars Tbird had so the cart could be encrypted? It was pretty impressive, nice to have a normal cart instead of the hardware work around that is in the songbird releases.

and Scatologic also kicks ass!

Recently got my hands on Battlesphere Gold.

Unfortunately the manual was missing

Does anyone know if there is a download / scan of the manual online?

Thanks

Scott

Hmm, no, I don't think there is one anywhere.
I hope you didn't pay the "Battlesphere Gold in COMPLETE condition" price if you didn't even get the manual.
Maybe you could ask Thunderbird if there's anything he could do to help you out.
I know there are enough people who have it who could do some scans, but it shouldn't be done without the blessing of the scatalogic team.

Did you get the two CDs that came with BattleSphere Gold? The "Demo CD" & the "JUGS CD?" If so, have a looksy at the directories on the JUGS CD - There is a full color manual on there, which is better than the black & white one that comes with BS.

If you don't have the JUGS CD, then we must wait for Thunderbird to reply here and see what he could do for you. If it's OK somebody could just email you the manual file off the JUGS CD probably.

Thanks for the info guys. I did get the 2 cd's that came with it. I will be checking out the JUGS CD shortly. Only thing missing from the game was the manual. Guy I bought it from stated he did not think there was one when he got it. I got it from a friend of a friend. I don't know if it is proper to say how much I spent for it, being relatively new here I don't know the proper etiquette of the board yet. Price did start with a 2.

Again thanks for the info.

Scott

It's all good. I got mine for a discount price of $250.
Unless you're embarrassed to say how much you got it for, no one minds hehe. But if it starts with a 2 and has 2 more digits after, it's probably still a pretty good deal even without the manual.

I paid 200 for it. I am happy even though it did not have the manual. I am glad there was a pdf of the manual on the JUGS CD. It makes it easier to figure out the game.

Again thanks for the help/info.

Scott

$200... that is a steal these days. Congratulations! Your friend truly is a friend

Just got a copy of Battlesphere Gold. Woohoo.

Congrats, buddy! *Seething with jealousy*