ZATEZALO-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Shane Z) (10/13/90)
Regarding Space Ace:.... its a REALLY neat game. The graphics are great. For anyone who hasn't seen it, the game originally came out on a laser disk 'game' in the video arcades. The animation is cartoon-like, and its NOT easy. I cannot get past the second scene. Question: is it possible to make a joystick that would use the GS's ADB port? It could end up in multiple joysticks being used for games like One on One and Task Force GS. Shane
wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William Shakespeare) (11/29/90)
I recently got Rastan GS, but I need to know how to put it on my hard drive, so it won't take so long to boot. Also, I've been thinking about getting Space Ace, but I'm curious about how they did the controls. On the arcade game, I seem to remember, there was a joystick and a couple of buttons. Do they use the joystick on the GS game? Or is it mouse driven? I hope not. Keyboard would be okay, I guess, if the keys are layed out okay (or can be redefined), but joystick would be best? Anyone can tell me? Guess I could go look at the package in the store. The little hardware requirements sticker probably would say if you need a joystick, but typing this note requires much less initiative. Anyhow, thanks, Bill Gulstad
dave@mystie.webo.dg.com (David Kopper) (12/01/90)
I bought Space Ace - I guess its time for a mini-review.
The plot behind Space Ace is that your sweetheart is kidnapped
by Borf. Your job is to rescue her from Borf's spaceship.
You have to avoid problems and shoot monsters to rescue her.
SA comes on 9 diskettes and the directions say that the game
can not be installed on your hard disk. I tried installing
it on my hard disk (simply creating a directory SA and copying
all of the files to the SA directory). The game seems to work
just fine (until I get to about scene 30 or so and then my copy
dies - they said its a problem with one of my diskettes and to
send the broken diskette back to them (I've just sent it back...
I'll post an update when I get my fixed version back... although
my hard disk is now in the shop, so this may take a while)).
I have not attempted to play this game from diskettes - you would
probably go insane swapping disks (more on this problem in a little).
The animation is fantasic! I've never seen such cartoon like
animation on a GS before! For an example of what can be done,
this program really shines! Also, the soundtrack is very good.
During gameplay there are a lot of digitized sounds and they
play together with the animation very well. (The animation
is a fixed sequence animation, which is probably drawn in fill
mode during each VBL).
The controls of your characters (Space and one other... - you are
two characters in this game, but only one is on the screen at a
time) are five keypad keys (up, down, left, right, fire ray gun)
and a pause key.
The way you play this game is to wait till the appropriate time
then hit the appropriate key to do something (like jump behind a
boulder or blast a monster). Some scenes require multiple actions
on your part (like moving a few times).
You start with three men and once you kill them off then you must
start at the beginning. There are no provisions for saving a game
in the GS version (the mac version does have a save option).
There are about 40 scenes (although I'm really not too sure of
that number) and each scene lasts about 20 seconds (on the average,
some are much shorter, not many are longer). When the scene is
played through then you continue to the next scene (a picture of
Space Ace is displayed while the next sceen is read from disk).
I played off of my hard disk and got through the first 30 scenes
within several hours (once I got the hang of the game). I suspect
that I could probably finish the game within a total of three hours.
WARNING: My system is not exactly a standard GS. I have a RamFAST,
TWGS and 4.25meg of memory. I have not attempted to play this game
at normal GS speeds or off the diskette!
Recommendations:
Buy it if you want to see the slickest animation/sound I've ever
seen on a GS!
Don't buy it if you don't want a game that will build your arms up
(Insert disk number N now...) or that will probably sit on the shelf
after the first couple of days of playing it.
Side note: This game is not copy protected!
Dave Kopper Internet: dave@mystie.webo.dg.com
or: dave%dgc.mceo.dg.com@relay.cs.net
Apple II Forever! GEnie: D.Koppertg.exc@pro-harvest.cts.com (Terry Guelfo) (12/03/90)
In-Reply-To: message from wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Space Ace uses the keyboard. It's a bit strange at first, but you get used to
it. The basic directions are mapped out on the GS keypad.
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>> I wanted to know how they implemented the controls in Space Ace GS....
Basically, in Space Ace GS, you use the numeric keypad. It's more of a
"reaction" game than an "action" game, but that was to be expected...
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I can not get past scene 29 in Space Ace (I have Kimberley and the platform is sinking into lava). None of the keys, up, down, left, right or fire, gets me off the platform. What's the solution anyone? UUCP: bkj386!pnet91!ericmcg INET: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com