Space Ava 201 Newly Released Game

[grizzly]

Just watched retrorbg´s latest weekly news video and saw that Space Ava 201 is a new opensource game released for the TG16/supergrafx.
And it can utilize the supergrafx and the arcade card, or work without them.
Anyway looks really interesting.

https://nicole-express.itch.io/space-ava-201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM0KhAUrOhs&t=233s
https://www.retrorgb.com/space-ava-201- ... -card.html

[Alkadian]

That looks awesome, thanks for the heads up!

[Brettster]

Nice how do you enable the new SGX with CD mode on mister?
this game changes depending on the System card you choose and if there is a SuperGrafx connected too!

[grizzly]

From smokemonsters post on retrorgb.

To play the enhanced mode in MiSTer, add an empty file named sgx (with no extension) to the game’s folder to tell MiSTer to launch the CD in SuperGrafx mode (and enable the Arcade Card from the core’s menu).

Have not tried it yet my self, going to wait so i can play with it for 2-3 hours.

[dshadoff]

Nice how do you enable the new SGX with CD mode on mister?
this game changes depending on the System card you choose and if there is a SuperGrafx connected too!

In order to enable SGX mode on CD, you must be using the latest version of Main_MiSTer (released Oct 27).
You will also need to create a file named "sgx" inside the folder where the game is stored.

This functions in a similar way to the game-specific cd_bios overrides, but the "sgx" file is just a flag, so it doesn't matter what's in it (if anything).

[Brettster]

Thank you

[aberu]

So similar to how you do this with Pier Solar on Sega cd (where you put a cart.rom of the Pier Solar game in the same folder as the enhanced cd soundtrack for Sega CD's image, and load it in the Sega CD core). Cool!

[Alkadian]

From smokemonsters post on retrorgb.

To play the enhanced mode in MiSTer, add an empty file named sgx (with no extension) to the game’s folder to tell MiSTer to launch the CD in SuperGrafx mode (and enable the Arcade Card from the core’s menu).

Have not tried it yet my self, going to wait so i can play with it for 2-3 hours.

Thanks a lot for sharing these instructions. Creating an empty file did the trick indeed! Very nice game!

[grizzly]

Played around for a bit over an hour now but not really my kind of game, but is probably good for those that do like them.
The arcade card/SGX mode for CD games is really neat/cool tough.

[The Opponent]

It looks like there may be color reproduction issues with the SuperGrafx mode. The title screen doesn't show the silhouette from the developer's reference captures. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/TurboGr ... issues/124

[grizzly]

Full playthrough and interview with the creator Nicole from retroRGB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgIzGxmS-8c

I´m 20min in and pretty good.

[sbnr21]

From smokemonsters post on retrorgb.

To play the enhanced mode in MiSTer, add an empty file named sgx (with no extension) to the game’s folder to tell MiSTer to launch the CD in SuperGrafx mode (and enable the Arcade Card from the core’s menu).

Have not tried it yet my self, going to wait so i can play with it for 2-3 hours.

Thanks a lot for sharing these instructions. Creating an empty file did the trick indeed! Very nice game!

Dumb question, but how do you make an "empty" file?

I'm in the Space Ava 201 game folder, but when I right click my mouse, I only see options for:

Folder
Shortcut
MS Access Database
Bitmap Image
MS Word Doc
MS Power Point Presentation
MS Publisher Doc
Winrar archive
Text Doc
MS Excel Worksheet

Nothing about creating a new file.

Thx.

[grizzly]

It was a while ago but i´m almost sure i used FTP using winscp.
And then simply made a new txt file or something like that and then renamed the file name and extension to just sgx.

Or if that did not work i did made the sgx file the same way as the above in windows/explorer and used winscp to move it to the mister.

[sbnr21]

So use TEX DOC to create a new file and name it and the extension: "sgx" ?

[BajaFPGA]

Did you get it working?? This should be easy.

[sbnr21]

You have to use the WinSCP sfttp client and click on new on the top near the tool bar --> create object --> file --> name it sgx with no extension --> drop it in the Space Ava 201 folder.

It booted up the SUPER SPACE AVA 201 ARCADE with the red background.