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using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
Versions and minor mods of the original Jet Set Willy
Jet Set Willy: As Manufacturer Intended
Author: Metalmickey
Year: 2017
Language: English
A version meant to eliminate, as far as possible, every known bug, anomaly and unintended quirk in the original JSW. The modifications are as 'invisible' as possible. If the original bugs had a visual impact, they were corrected without any unnecessary enhancements, since the idea was to make the game as close to as the author intended it to run as possible.
Another part of the project was to look into the issue of the 'missing' rooms. Four new rooms were created and placed in the 'corrupted memory area' where the original rooms would have been, in an effort to provide some sort of idea as to what it might have been like to play the game with all of the intended rooms in place. They are: "The Bunker" (47), "Special Branch" (61), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (62) and "The Treehouse" (63).
All of the modifications applied in the game in relation to the original JSW are described in the Readme included in the ZIP package of the original release.
The latest released version of the game is Revision 5. The ZIP with the game files includes also a subfolder with Jet Set Willy: Willy's Underground Passage.
Number of edited rooms: 64
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 64
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 63
("Entrance to Hades" [06] should be omitted as entering it results in a multiple-death scenario.)
Number of items to collect: 100
Completable without loss of life? YES
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 9:16 am
(The in-game clock is running at double speed in this game, so the above time corresponds to 8.08 am with the clock running at normal speed).
Download links
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The game's home page on JSW & MM Community (the page where the latest version was posted is here) |
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Original ZIP with the game file in TAP and TZX formats, the Readme, an RZX recording of the author's walkthrough and some extras |
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Game file in TAP and TZX formats |
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Screenshot gallery |
Loading screen - TAP file
Loading screen - TZX file
New rooms
Rooms with visible modifications in relation to the original
(in the rooms themselves or in the room names)
Victory screen
