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Message: 4138
Author: soa1000
Date: 28/04/2004
Subject: About Mark Woodmass' marginally faster edition of JSW/comment on JS
I was playing this yesterday while half-heartedly cataloging the
different editions of JSW1 that I own, and I encountered a weird bug
which I've never heard about before. Specifically, the ropes are
scrambled. Every time I go into a rope room, the dots aren't
following the usual pattern but instead are flying all around the
room, as if the rope has exploded. It's weird to watch, since Willy
can still climb up and down the rope (he may not be able to avoid it,
as the dots usually crash into parts of the scenery every second),
and as he does so he moves about the screen chaotically according to
which dot of the rope he should be clinging to
I'm surprised if this has never been mentioned before - I
redownloaded the game, so it's not just a bug in my copy
Also, I was just playing the most recent versions of JSW64 and I
noticed that on all but versions V and X, Willy has an odd quirk
whereby he can jump up into any solid block so long as it's directly
above him on his left side. If he jumps into the side of it, he'll
hit it. If he jumps up and there are blocks above him on the right,
he'll hit those, but blocks on the left he'll go through no problem
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