JSW Central - Resource Centre for ZX Spectrum games based on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

II. Jet Set Willy (JSW48)

A. New games using Matthew Smith's original Jet Set Willy game engine for the 48K Spectrum and its modifications

5. Join the Jet-Set!

Author: Richard G. Hallas

Publisher: Halsoft

Year: 1985 (reissued in 1997)

Language: English

Join the Jet-Set! was created by Richard Hallas back in 1985. It was released in October 1995 as part of the snapshot pack in Issue 2 of the Emulate! online magazine. An updated version was released in December 1997.

The player is offered to play with infinite lives when the game first loads. The player is also offered a choice of ten tunes (the chosen tune is POKEd into memory before the game starts and can only be changed by reloading the game and choosing a different tune).

Number of edited rooms: 64

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 63

(The room "How on earth did you get here ?!" [63] is accessible only using the Writetyper cheat and causes instant multiple death on entry.)

Number of items to collect: 255

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 7

(An Infinite Lives option can be chosen after the game has loaded).

Completable without loss of life? YES

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no loss of life: 8:30 am

Download links

Homepage	Richard Hallas's Join the Jet-Set! page

Original release	Richard Hallas's ZX Spectrum download page

Direct game download	Game file in TAP and TZX formats

World of Spectrum	The game's page on WoS

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing

Speccy Screenshot Maps	The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

RZX Archive	RZX walkthrough of the game