I absolutely loved the music in Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, and I ended up getting really attached to the soundtrack. I liked it so much that I decided to pick up a used copy of the original soundtrack CD.
I've had it for almost a week now, and I'm really happy to have it in my little collection. Definitely something I wanted to own physically! 🐆
Hi! I'm currently trying to preserve the unused “Predator Test Theme” from Alien vs. Predator on the Atari Jaguar in the best possible quality.
I previously restored the Rayman Atari Jaguar soundtrack, carefully recording the music from the game and editing the captures in Audacity. Now I'm working on something a little more complicated: an unused track from AvP that apparently can't normally be heard in the game.
The Predator Test Theme exists in older soundtrack rips as MP3/OGG, but I would like to reproduce it directly through the game and make a lossless WAV/FLAC capture, rather than simply converting the existing lossy files.
According to VGMPF, GatoVerde95 extracted the soundtrack using BigPEmu, Cheat Engine and HxD, with the ROM in what is described as a “sound test mode.”
I've been reverse-engineering the retail ROM using BigPEmu Developer Mode to figure out how this was done.
So far, I've identified the game's original FullSynth music loader at:
0x99B2
And these music headers/scores:
0x20918 → 0xAF46E4 — Title Theme
0x2046C → 0xAF5584 — Character Select
0x20610 → 0xAF12DC — You Win
I've successfully redirected the game's original music loader and reproduced these tracks, including “You Win.” I've also managed to capture BigPEmu's audio output directly to lossless PCM WAV.
What I haven't been able to find is where the Predator Test Theme is stored or how it was originally triggered.
I know about the documented AvP debug mode, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't contain a sound test. This makes me wonder whether the “sound test mode” mentioned for the original rip was actually created by modifying the ROM with HxD/Cheat Engine, rather than being a hidden mode accessible normally.
I'm looking for any information about:
how the Predator Test Theme was originally extracted;
the AvP sound/music test tools
ROM offsets or RAM addresses related to unused music;
an old modified sound-test ROM or patch
unused FullSynth data
AvP music source code
or anything about the method GatoVerde95 used for the original soundtrack rip.
I also have a copy of Extremist Pack #4 and I'm currently searching through its old Atari Jaguar development files, FullSynth/music tools and source code for anything that could help.
I've also contacted GatoVerde95 directly to ask if he remembers how he created the sound test, but I thought I'd ask here as well in case anyone in the Jaguar community knows something about it.
Ultimately, my goal is to make the game actually reproduce the unused Predator Test Theme through its original audio engine and preserve the result as a clean lossless WAV/FLAC recording.
If anyone has any information, old development files, source code, patches, offsets, or even just remembers how this was done, I'd really appreciate the help!
I found this shirt at a local thrift store during a half-off sale, and the “Jaguars” logo immediately looked strangely familiar.
(As creator of Captain A the System Warrior, I had a feeling I was right.)
After checking it on my phone, I realized it wasn’t just similar, it's literally the Atari Jaguar logo with an “s” added to the end.
I’ve tried searching for information about it, but I can’t find anything that explains what this shirt actually is. There’s no Atari branding anywhere on the shirt, which makes it even stranger.
And why add the “S” to “Jaguar” in the first place? Is this some kind of unofficial Fan-made Atari merchandise, a completely unrelated brand using the logo, a knockoff, or something else entirely?
Does anyone recognize this or know what I found?
This game is a blast! (no pun intended). There’s not much to it really as far as the story, but it’s obviously just meant to be a modernized version of the original and nothing else. It definitely succeeds in that area!
Defender 2000 is a good pick-up-and-play option when I don’t feel like playing some dialogue-heavy modern game (like Yakuza and similar games), or even a retro game like that (like PoliceNauts, for example, which I was just playing on Saturn with the help of subtitles -awesome game btw) lol I went off topic but this game is fun if you own a Jag, check it out! This might make it to my top 15 fave Jag games actually!