Total Carnage – Atari Jaguar
Total Carnage is a game licensed to Carl Forhan of Songbird Productions for the Atari Jaguar. Think of Smash TV and then think of more blood and you've got Total Carnage 
This was released well after the Jaguar's commercial shelf life and I'm just glad people are still creating and producing games for it. This obviously isn't a title that can show what the Jaguar can do, but it's one to add to its library. The game is fairly difficult, in my opinion. This video was taken during my 2nd play session, so I had become a little better. The idea is the same as Smash TV, though, so you get the idea. The only thing that would make this game is some sort of a custom controller to make better use of the firing mechanics. If you are holding down the fire button and hit a different direction on the directional pad, you'll simply move in that direction -- NOT fire in the new direction. That makes it a little tricky. Someone could come up with a custom controller, though, because using the numpad you can actually fire in the different directions independent of what you're doing on the directional pad. You'd only need to map numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 & 9 to some sort of directional thumpad or something for your right hand and continue using a directional pad for movement with your left hand. I may give it a try one of these days -- try to mock something up. I bet it would GREATLY enhance gameplay for this game.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
Is there no music in this port?
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
they sure did change the sound effects alot. At least they didn’t dumb down the violence
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
This game in particular is still sold by Songbird Productions. Google ‘Total Carnage Jaguar” and you shouldn’t have any trouble finding this. It’s still available.
It’s an incomplete product because it was a dropped project. It was never intended to be released, so Songbird Productions legally obtained the code and made a releasable version of the game to be enjoyed by Jaguar fans.
Also, this game does take advantage of the Pro controller, and is only playable without hand cramps with it.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
Do you own a Jaguar? If so, were do you get all these rare games and betas?
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
reminds me of Ikari Warriors
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
why not? why sell a incomplete product?
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
looks like 1st gen Genesis
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
It’s basically a beta, but has been toyed and tinkered with so you could play through it.
I would guess some things would have been improved if the game had officially been released by the original developers.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
IS this some kind of homebrew title for the Jaguar? Do you play this through an emulator, or on the avtual console… I could swear the amiga version looket a LOT better…?
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
To be fair, this game isn’t a completely finished work.
It was modified to run and be somewhat complete, but it wasn’t “finished” by the original coding team.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
-Is it really too hard to put some music during gameplay for 64 -bit games console?
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
That actually looks a bit better than the Super Nintendo version.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
I realized that, too.
It’s sort of a pain to do, though.
My plan is to create a custom dual-joystick controller that will make it much easier to play.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
You can use the num-pad to fire in any direction
November 4th, 2011 - 07:40
When you fight against the bosses you have music, so one could clearly see that it´s not a technical problem, I think this is just because it´s hard to compose something new
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
Well, it was an incomplete game before Carl got to it. Maybe he’s not much of a music person.
In any case, yeah, it’s cool that it was able to be “finished” and released.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
no music? oh well, something new for the Jag is always welcome
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
Yeah, I really don’t know. I didn’t see any way to change it up.
I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that it wasn’t finished in the first place. Carl had to finish it up before release, but I really don’t know which parts he had to work on.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
Stop being cheap and buy the real thing.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
Is there no way to toggle between firing modes as you can in similar games, allowing you to sometimes firing in the same direction (regardless of which way you’re moving) and sometimes firing in the direction that you’re moving? If not, then I agree. I mean, even certain Sega Genesis games allowed you to do that, even with just the three-button controller, so it seems like a rather substantial oversight here.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
LOL, where did I say that?
Anyway, go buy the games if you want to play them. That’s how I do it and it’s not illegal that way.
November 4th, 2011 - 07:41
you said that there was a website that sold cds with all the roms for the jag