Atari Jaguar Mini V2

Inspiration

There are a plethora of mini consoles available that recreate the nostalgia of gaming in their youth, however there are none available for the Atari Jaguar.

What it does

This runs Atari Jaguar games on a raspberry pi 4 inside of a 3d printed Atari Jaguar case

How we built it

Windows on raspberry pi was used to upload windows 11 to raspberry pi 4 to run BigPEmu, an atari jaguar emulator.

Challenges we ran into

The emulator that we wished to use was amd64 architecture, whereas the hardware we had was arm64, being inexperienced we did not understand the difference and tried to use various software such as QEMU on Ubuntu, WINE, and Crossover to try to bridge this gap. This did not work, so we installed windows 10, Windows 10 however discontinued arm64 support, so we installed Windows 11, which did not run well on the hardware.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It does work! It is an abomination and slow, but it does in fact work.

What we learned

We learned that different chip architectures present big problems in compatibility. We learned this through burning our hand on the proverbial stove.

What's next for Atari Jaguar Mini V2

Using better hardware that is amd64 based to run emulators more naturally.

Built With

• raspberry