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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
6. Jet Set Willy: The Continuing Adventures
Author: Adam Britton
Year: 1985 (Special Edition 1998)
Language: English
Jet Set Willy: The Continuing Adventures is a 1985 game by Adam Britton. It was created using Paul Rhodes' JetSet Editor. In the mid-1990s, the game was recovered from the original tape and transferred to emulator format by Richard Hallas. It was released in November/December 1995 as part of the snapshot pack in Issue 3 of the Emulate! online magazine. The original edition of the game was not completable due to a critical bug, as discussed by Andrew Broad on his website.
In April 1998, Adam Britton released the Special Edition of the game, completable, with new rooms and some other improvements. However, an "official" bugfixed version of the original edition has never been released. It could be argued whether or not there is any need for it, as a completable Special Edition is available. Andrew Broad argues that he considers TCA and TCA-SE to be parallel variants, since TCA-SE removes "The Sky-Ladder" (42), and also because of the historical value of the original TCA. It could be added that there are some differences in gameplay, e.g. in the rooms "The Further Recesses" (49) and "Don't Fall Off!" (58), which make playing the original and the Special Edition a slightly different experience.
A bugfixed, original edition of Jet Set Willy: The Continuing Adventures in TAP and TZX format, prepared using the SNA snapshot from the Emulate! online magazine, converted to tape format in a way which aims to reflect the original loading process, is available for download below. Adam Britton kindly expressed his approval of this version in March 2022 (please see the Readme file for details).
Original edition
Number of edited rooms: 61
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 61
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 60
(It is not necessary to visit "Chamber Of The Dead!" [21].)
Number of items to collect: 240
Bugfix needed after original release? YES
Official bugfix released? NO
(The Special Edition is bug-fixed and expanded; Adam Britton has not released a bug-fixed version of the original edition though.)
Third-party bugfix released? YES
Spare lives at the start: 7
Completable without loss of life? NO
Lives which need to be sacrificed to complete the game: 1
(A life has to be sacrificed to collect the leftmost item in "The Miniature Sherwood Forest!" [17].)
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 8:23 am
Special Edition
Number of edited rooms: 64
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 64
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 63
(It is not necessary to visit "Don't Say I Didn't Warn You!" [21].)
Number of items to collect: 250
Bugfix needed after original release? NO
Spare lives at the start: 7
Completable without loss of life? YES
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 8:24 am
Download links
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Game files of the bug-free version of the original edition and of the Special Edition in TAP and TZX formats |
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Bugfixed version of the original edition in TAP and TZX formats, with a Readme and the original SNA file from the Emulate! magazine |
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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 recordings of both the original and the Special Edition of the game showing the best documented completion times without any unnecessary loss of life |
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RZX walkthrough of the Special Edition of the game showing a completion time inferior to the best documented performance |
Videos
A walkthrough of the original edition of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
A walkthrough of the Special Edition of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
Screenshot gallery |
The original edition
The Special Edition
