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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
28. Willy vs The Vampire Lord
Author and publisher: Lee Tatlock (el_tatus)
Year: 2001
Special Edition (by Daniel Gromann): 2006
Language: English
Willy vs The Vampire Lord is the only gamma-released JSW game by Lee Tatlock (el_tatus). Its original 2001 release suffered from some critical bugs, which made the game incompletable. Those were discussed on the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group, in detail by Philip Bee in message 2315, and also mentioned by others in messages 2281, 2643 and 2979.
Daniel Gromann created a Special Edition of the game, with Lee Tatlock's approval, in 2006, eliminating all of the problems which made the game incompletable, making the game more player-friendly by eliminating most of the unfair infinite-death scenarios, modyfing the final sequence so that the player can see all of the rooms created by the original author and adding a modified title screen.
Original Edition
Number of edited rooms: 62
(Not all of them are accessible without cheating.)
Number of items to collect: 256
(However, only 242 of them can be collected without cheating.)
Bugfix needed after original release? YES
Spare lives at the start: 7
Completable? NO
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time: N/A
Special Edition
Number of edited rooms: 63
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 63
(5 rooms: "Dank Passage to the End" [06], "Next Adventure Cancelled GO BACK" [44], "Black Magic at Work!" [47], "Bloody Tomb of the Vampire Lord!" [49] and "Onwards! To Your Next Adventure!" [62], which are part of the final sequence, are only accessible during the toilet run.)
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 62
(It is not necessary to visit the room "In the Presence of The Almighty!" [63].)
Number of items to collect: 256
Bugfix needed after release? NO
Spare lives at the start: 7
Completable without loss of life? YES (bed-completable only)
(The game is not toilet-completable, because - by conscious design - during the toilet run Willy does not go to where the 'toilet' is, but ends up in "Family Sepulchre" [21].)
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time without loss of life: 8.09
Download links
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The game's home page on JSW Corner |
Special Edition ZIP file, including the Special Edition game file in TAP format, the Original Edition in SNA format, and the Readme files |
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Game files of both the Original and Special Editions 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 map of the Special Edition on Speccy Screenshot Maps |
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RZX walkthrough of the Special Edition of the game |
Video
A walkthrough of the Special Edition of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
A complete screenshot gallery will be presented on this page in the future.
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