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Jet Set Willy - The R. D. Foord Software editor version

Author/Publisher: R. D. Foord Software

Year: 1985

Bugfix: 2018

Language: English

 

The R. D. Foord Software variant of JSW from 1985 is a "3-room test" for their Jet Set Willy Room Designer. The new rooms are: "The staircase." (28), "The little room." (33) and "Top staircase." (34). Rooms 28 and 34 are early revisions of their counterparts in Dr. Jet Set Willy (1986).

This version surfaced on the internet thanks to Steve Brown, who acquired the R. D. Foord Software tapes, transferred them to emulator format and uploaded to TZX Vault in March 2005.

The game is impossible to complete, because of three of the four bugs which make the original JSW incompletable: the Earth cell in the Banyan Tree which makes it impossible to climb, the Fire cell in "Conservatory Roof" which prevents the collection of the rightmost item, and the faulty arrow in "The Attic" which corrupts the game (the fourth problem - the invisible, unreachable item in "First Landing" - does not affect the R. D. Foord Software version, as this room has been turned into "The staircase.", with the item there visible and possible to collect).

Once the game has been fixed by applying three of the four official Software Projects POKEs, it becomes bed-completable, i.e. Willy can reach the bed and start the toilet run after having collected all items. During the toilet run, however, he gets killed by the horizontal guardian in "Top staircase." repeatedly, so the game is not toilet-completable.

A special fixed, completable version of the game is offered on JSW Central. It has some additional code which allows Willy to complete the toilet run. The information about the game's completability presented below concerns this particular version.

 

Number of edited rooms: 60

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 60

Number of rooms which need to be visited to reach the game's ending: 59

("Entrance to Hades" [06] should be omitted as entering it results in a multiple-death scenario.)

Number of items to collect: 83

 

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 leftmost item in "Conservatory Roof" [43]).

 

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 8:01 am

 

 

Download links

 

jswcentralspecial

JSW Central

Fixed, completable game file in TAP and TZX formats plus the Readme

   

directdownload

Direct game download

Game files in TAP and TZX formats

   

wos

World of Spectrum

The game's page on WoS

   

spectrumcomputing

Spectrum Computing

The game's page on Spectrum Computing

 

 

speccymaps

Speccy Screenshot Maps

The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

   

rzxarchive

RZX Archive

RZX walkthrough of the game

 

 

Screenshot gallery

 

Loading screen

 

foord_load

 

New rooms

 

foord_28

 

foord_33

 

foord_34

 

The remaining screens look the same as in the original JSW.