How to get Lily's Saga to work on SX-2 FPGA

Expert (90)

11-01-2023, 23:18

I'm trying to play the ROM of Lily's Saga from my SD card on my FPGA SX-2, I have all the dip switches on, so I should have 4MB of RAM. What could be the issue? The dots (lower case "o") run across the screen and a few more in the next row before loading, which I assume is due to the large size of the ROM loading. Then I get a green and then black screen that stays black as if not enough RAM. I change the dip switches around, but then I get "No suitable device found".

Thanks

By mcolom

Champion (316)

11-01-2023, 23:55

With srom it'll work if you specify the mapper type: srom lil.rom /R1

By Swami

Expert (90)

12-01-2023, 00:00

I'll try that. Also, with Diced, I get just the green screen, which stays green. But Ghostly Manor works. (256k vs 1MB ROM)

By Swami

Expert (90)

12-01-2023, 01:28

mcolom wrote:

With srom it'll work if you specify the mapper type: srom lil.rom /R1

I get "can't open rom file lillysag.rom".

Same thing with Diced

By ducasp

Paladin (680)

12-01-2023, 14:07

Using sofarun you can force it to mapper ascii 16 and it should work, but the clod stages will not work properly unless you've update it with ocm 3.9.1 repack (note the repack, plain 3.9.1 won't do)

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

12-01-2023, 22:26

Swami wrote:

mcolom wrote:

With srom it'll work if you specify the mapper type: srom lil.rom /R1

I get "can't open rom file lillysag.rom".

Same thing with Diced

I'm pretty sure that you got the file name wrong then

By Swami

Expert (90)

13-01-2023, 03:51

Manuel wrote:

Swami wrote:

mcolom wrote:

With srom it'll work if you specify the mapper type: srom lil.rom /R1

I get "can't open rom file lillysag.rom".

Same thing with Diced

I'm pretty sure that you got the file name wrong then

It's not lil.rom on my SD card. It is lillysag.rom -8 letters, the sofarun max without using zip

By sdsnatcher73

Prophet (3956)

13-01-2023, 05:25

You may have some corruption on your SD card, also the issue with SofaRun settings points to this. Best to recreate the sd card using the tools in the OCM distribution (create_sd.cmd).

By mcolom

Champion (316)

13-01-2023, 14:37

Swami wrote:

I get "can't open rom file lillysag.rom".
Same thing with Diced

Perhaps a silly question, but is the file in the current directory and srom in the PATH?
Otherwise, try to write the complete path. For example srom a:\games\lillysag.rom, or the location where you have it.

By Sebbeug

Champion (400)

13-01-2023, 17:42

Just tested on my SX2 :

- It works well too with Sofarun/sofarom (but select ASCII16 manually in rom settings)

- and mglunch/mglocm if you select ASCII16 in menu selection (press F to force ASCII16 mapper)

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

13-01-2023, 19:44

Swami wrote:

Manuel wrote:

Swami wrote:

mcolom wrote:

With srom it'll work if you specify the mapper type: srom lil.rom /R1

I get "can't open rom file lillysag.rom".

Same thing with Diced

I'm pretty sure that you got the file name wrong then

It's not lil.rom on my SD card. It is lillysag.rom -8 letters, the sofarun max without using zip

The 8.3 character filename limit is a limitation of MSX-DOS (or actually the FAT filesystem), not of sofarun.