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Message: 5955
Author: Visa-Valtteri Pimiä
Date: 10/11/2006
Subject: Re: "Willy's Flashback" / The Writetyper cheat
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel"
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No. The conveyor is supposed to be deadly, and thus I consider this
> While recording RZX walkthroughs of JSW games for the RZX Archive, I
> played Jet Visy's "Willy's Flashback" to completion. I found out that
> the game is bed-completable, but NOT toilet-completable, because
> during the toilet-run in "Security Monitor" (033) you get killed by
> the conveyor, which has the same colour attributes as Fire-cells and
> therefore behave as Fire.
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> So, first of all, a question to Jet Visy: Would you consider
> releasing a fixed edition of your game?
the true ending of the (rather mediocre) game.
> Secondly, I circumvented the problem (and recorded an alternative
I think it isn't cheating if the creator has specifically stated that
> ending of the walkthrough, downloadable from the RZX Archive - it's
> in the same ZIP file) by activating the Writetyper cheat just before
> finishing the game and then using it during the toilet-run.
> My question to the members of the JSW community is: Can this be
> considered a "rightful" way of completing a game? And in general, can
> using Writetyper (e.g. to collect items otherwise impossible to
> collect) be considered a "rightful" way of completing a game? My
> intuitive answer would be that it should be possible to complete any
> game /without/ using the cheat, but, on the other hand, it is hard-
> wired into the original game engine, so you could argue to the
> contrary.
toilet-complete equals the true ending.
> And a related question: is it possible to complete the original
Not really. Bugs are bugs, unintentional errors. Writetyping is
> JSW /without/ the official Software Projects POKEs BUT /using/ the
> Writetyper cheat?
cheating. I really can only see it in such a black and white way ;)
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