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

 

12. Dr. Jet Set Willy

Author / publisher: R. D. Foord Software

Year: 1986

Language: English

 

Dr. Jet Set Willy was created by R. D. Foord Software back in 1986. It was not known to a wider public until March 2005, when it was published on TZX Vault.

Dr. Willy has landed his time machine on a space station. His time machine is broken and the player needs to help the Doctor to repair it by collecting all of the flashing items.

The original version of the game was incompletable due to a critical bug in "Rm 41" [41]. Andrew Broad analysed the problem and provided POKEs to fix it on his website. A bug-fixed version, prepared by applying these POKES, is available for download below.

 

Number of edited rooms: 21

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 21

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 21

Number of items to collect: 94

 

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? NO

Lives which need to be sacrificed to complete the game: 1

(A life has to be sacrificed to collect the middle item in "Rm20 "To Hell & Back"" [20]).

 

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 7:28 am

 

 

Download links

 

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Direct game download

Game files of both the original and bug-fixed versions in TAP and TZX formats

   

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World of Spectrum

The game's page on WoS

   

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Spectrum Computing

The game's page on Spectrum Computing

 

 

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Speccy Screenshot Maps

The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

   

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JSW Central

RZX walkthrough of the bug-fixed version of the game showing the best documented completion time

   

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RZX Archive

RZX walkthrough of the bug-fixed version of the game on the RZX Archive (showing a completion of the game which is inferior to the best publicly available recording)

 

 

Video

 

A walkthrough of the bug-fixed version of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel

 

 

Screenshot gallery

 

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