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Versions and minor mods of the original Jet Set Willy
Jet Set Willy - The Softricks editor version
Authors: Mark Crawford and R. Kay
Publisher: Softricks
Year: 1984
Ready-to-play version release: 2018
Language: English
There are two sample rooms in Jet Set Willy Editor MkII by Softricks: "The Moat" (47) and "The Vault" (61). The Softricks game engine is different from standard JSW - it has a double-length Guardian Class Table (with consequent relocation of the Item Table and toilet sprite), a demo mode after the title-screen scrolly, and it shows the title screen each time you lose a life. John Elliott has analysed the Softricks engine for technical details of these changes and described them on his website. In the editor, there are also minimal changes in a couple of the original rooms.
The rooms "The Moat" and "The Vault" have been included in the games: Party Willy (by Andrew Broad, 2004; Special Edition 2007) and Jet Set Willy: The 2010 Megamix (and its first incarnation Jet Set Willy: The 2005 Megamix) (by Daniel Gromann and others, 2010 and 2005, respectively).
If JSW is saved from Jet Set Willy Editor MkII without any changes, the sample rooms are inaccessible without cheating, and so the player cannot enjoy them. Therefore, a special version of JSW is offered on JSW Central, which makes these two rooms accessible and, in fact, necessary to visit to complete the game, without introducing any changes (apart from a custom loading screen) beyond the minimum necessary to accomplish this goal and make the game completable. The information below concerns this particular version.
Number of edited rooms: 62
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 62
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 61
("Entrance to Hades" [06] should be omitted as entering it results in a multiple-death scenario.)
Number of items to collect: 85
Spare lives at the start: 7
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: 8:03 am
Download links
Ready-to-play, completable game file in TAP and TZX formats plus the Readme |
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Game files in TAP and TZX formats |
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The page of Jet Set Willy Editor Mk II on WoS (the editor can be downloaded in TZX and Z80 formats) |
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The page of Jet Set Willy Editor Mk II on Spectrum Computing (the editor can be downloaded in TZX and Z80 formats) |
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RZX walkthrough of the game |
Screenshot gallery |
New rooms
(with added items; there are no items in these rooms in the editor)
Rooms visibly modified in the editor in relation to the original
Room modified both in the editor (in the upper part) and in the ready-to-play version (at the lower right - to open a passage to one of the new rooms)
Room modified in the ready-to-play version to open a passage to one of the new rooms
Custom loading screen in the ready-to-play version
