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

8. Jet Set Willy: Willy's Holiday

Author: Adam Britton

Year: 1985

Language: English

Jet Set Willy: Willy's Holiday 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 March/April 1996 as part of the snapshot pack in Issue 5 of the Emulate! online magazine.

The in-game music is "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Op.65 No.6" by Edvard Grieg, coded by Richard Hallas.

The game was not completable due to critical bugs, as discussed by Andrew Broad on his website. An "official" bugfixed version of the game has not been released so far.

A completable, bugfixed version of Jet Set Willy: Willy's Holiday, restoring the original guardians in "The Beach" (63), 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).

Number of edited rooms: 64

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 64

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 62

(It is not necessary to visit the rooms "Enterance To The Sewers" [28] or "Rail-Trap" [51].)

Number of items to collect: 255

Bugfix needed after original release? YES

Official bugfix released? NO

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: 8:22 am

Download links

Direct game download	Game file of the bugfixed version in TAP and TZX formats

JSW Central	Bugfixed version of the game in TAP and TZX formats, with a Readme and the original SNA file from the Emulate! magazine

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

JSW Central	RZX recording of the game showing the best documented completion time without any loss of life

RZX Archive	RZX walkthrough of the game showing a completion time inferior to the best documented performance and using a non-original, POKEd file with modifed guardians in "The Beach"