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      using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

 

II. Jet Set Willy (JSW48)

B. Advanced modifications of the original Jet Set Willy

 

2. Jet Set Willy: The Nightmare Edition

Authors: Andy Ford, Daniel Gromann, Ian Rushforth and Stuart Brady

Publisher: JSWMM.co.uk Team

Year: 2016

Language: English

 

Jet Set Willy: The Nightmare Edition is an enhanced version of JSW, created on the principle of working within Willy's original mansion whilst maximising the difficulty of Matthew Smith's classic rooms. A few extra screens have also been added, in the main inspired by the mythology surrounding the game (e.g. the notion of a 'hidden' Room 47 or the rumour that if Willy hung around on the yacht for long enough he would sail away to a desert island!). All the unused graphics that were designed by Matthew Smith back in 1984, but which remained buried in the original JSW game engine (as documented in SkoolKid's disassembly), have been recycled and placed throughout the layout.

The game contains a substantial number of changes, including technical novelties such as different tunes in various areas of Willy's mansion, and a suitably nightmarish font style! Unlike in the original, the time limit is a serious factor.

The game is supposed to be both reassuringly familiar and, at the same time, fiendishly difficult - all within the 48K game engine.

 

Number of edited rooms: 65

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 65

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 65

Number of items to collect: 256

 

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 16

Completable without loss of life? YES

 

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 11:04 am

 

 

Download links

 

Homepage	The game's home page on JetSet Willy & Manic Miner Community
Official release	ZIP file with the two ZIPs of the official release (TAP and TZX versions)
Direct game download	Game file in TAP and TZX formats

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing
RZX Archive	RZX walkthrough of the game

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

 

Videos

A walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive YouTube channel (showing a completion time inferior to the best documented completion time)

 

 

A commentated walkthrough of the game by RuffledBricks

 

 

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