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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

52. AmAZiNG WiLLY

Author: Carl Paterson

Publisher: CnP Projectz

Year: 2022 (v. 2)

Reissued: 2023 (v. 3 and v. 4)

Language: English

AmAZiNG WiLLY is the first JSW game by Carl Paterson. He started working on it in 2018, using JSWED 2.3.7. His work on the project continued in the following years, and finally, after the completion of all room and sprite designs by Carl and some "postproduction" by Daniel Gromann, the game was released in October 2022 (v. 2; v. 1 was an unreleased development file). In January 2023, v. 3 was released with some additions and improvements, and in December 2023 v. 4 was released with some further enhancements.

Willy, spurred on by a "promise" from Maria, must tidy the different rooms collecting the various items before returning to "Master WiLLyZz BeDCHaMBeR" to receive his reward. Will he make it? Will Maria be there?

AmAZiNG WiLLY map layout reflects, with some exceptions, the layout of the original Jet Set Willy, but all of the rooms are completely redesigned. There are also new and modified guardian sprites. The game features custom-made loading and title screens, custom font and a specially-engineered toilet run. It also offers the player an exceptional amount of music, including a brand-new title-screen tune and (as of v. 4) a total of 16 in-game tunes, 15 of which are 128 bytes long (twice as long as the tune in the original JSW), and 13 of which have never been used in a JSW game before.

While the official release ZIP of version 4 also includes the older release files (of versions 2 and 3), players are strongly encouraged to play version 4 as the latest and most polished revision of AmAZiNG WiLLY.

Number of edited rooms: 59

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 59

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 57

("BoUnDaRy BeTWeeN TwO WorLDz 2o22" [06] and "GaMe OVeR - YoR TRaPPeD FooL...." [50] should be omitted as entering them results in a multiple-death scenario in case of the former and getting irremediably trapped in case of the latter.)

Number of items to collect: 256

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 loss of life: 8:49 am

Download links

Homepage	The game's home page on JSW Corner

Original release	The ZIP file of the original release of v. 4, including the game in TAP and TZX format, the Readme, info about the game's credits and also v. 2 and v.3 game files

Direct game download	Game file (v. 4) in TAP and TZX formats

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing

JSW Central	RZX walkthrough of the game showing the best documented completion time