Coupled with a tight deadline, id probably cut their losses and released it without in-game music rather than try and spend more time engineering a solution. The common culprit blamed for this was that the Jaguar’s DSP was already being used for math processing, so it didn’t have any cycles left for music playback. Unfortunately, the complete lack of music during gameplay was a glaring omission that took several points off of an otherwise fairly solid presentation. For example, the large number of buttons on the Jaguar controller allowed players to select weapons directly rather than having to cycle through them.

The Jaguar version of the classic shooter was developed by id Software themselves, and is generally considered one of the better console ports. is one of them, and he managed something many considered unthinkable: restoring in-game music to the Jaguar port of Doom.

While the rest of the world has by and large forgotten the Atari Jaguar, the generously marketed console still has a fan base, and even some dedicated hackers prodding away at it.