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using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
IV. Jet Set Willy 128 (JSW128)
Games using John Elliott's JSW128 game engine for the 128K Spectrum
6. Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre
Author: Fabián Álvarez López (Adban de Corcy)
Year: 2002
Language: English
Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre was Fabián Álvarez López (Adban de Corcy)'s third JSW game and the first one using the JSW128 game engine. It followed Willy's Afterlife and A Bulgarian Requiem. It was released in March 2002 and had, according to the author's own words, "all the elements" the players "loved and hated in 'Afterlife' and 'Requiem': colorful characters, odd story, and a gothic carnival that hides a dark secret".
The game uses Hacklevel 8 of the JSW128 game engine.
Fabián Álvarez López explained that he made Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre a 128K game so that he would be able "to include more graphics for guardians, not more rooms".
Daniel Gromann ported the game to 48K. The 48K Edition was released in March 2020.
The original 128K edition of the game was not fully completable because of a bug which prevented the transition to Game Mode 3 upon reaching what should be the completion of the game. A bugfixed, completable version was included in the 48K Edition ZIP file.
The information below refers to this bug-fixed, fully completable edition of the game.
Number of edited rooms: 61
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 61
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 61
Number of items to collect: 246
Bugfix needed after original release? YES
Third-party bugfix released? YES
Spare lives at the start: 7
Completable without loss of life? YES
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time with no loss of life: 7:55 am
Download links
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Game file in TAP and TZX formats |
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The game's page on WoS |
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The game's page on Spectrum Computing |
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The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps |
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RZX walkthrough of the game |
Videos
A walkthrough of the bugfixed version of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
A walkthrough of the bugfixed version of the game on the RZX Archive YouTube channel
Screenshot gallery |
