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Message: 4186

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 07/05/2004

Subject: Re: About Mark Woodmass' marginally faster edition of JSW

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, soa1000
wrote:

> 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've added a patch to my homepage which fixes this by moving the
rope lookup table to 9F00h.

< http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/patches.html >

 

 

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