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Message: 6122

Author: filsoft_2000

Date: 13/04/2007

Subject: Re: Completing the original JSW

 

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, Daniel wrote:

My best recorded toilet-time for the original JSW is 8.01 am. I have
just uploaded an RZX file with that walkthrough to my folder [Daniel
Gromann] in the Files section of the Group.

I just watched it - most impressive! If you didn't use rollback, then
that is even more impressive.

A question which has nagged at me for a few months now - but which I
did not consider worth spending my precious JSW time on - is whether
it would be possible to improve that result so as to complete JSW
before 8.00 am, i.e. in under one game-time hour.

I think that it might just be possible with the route I took by
sacrificing 5 of the remaining lives in places whether it takes some
time to negotiate your way back after collecting an item.

I guess there should be two 'speed run' categories for the original
JSW: losing only the one life (as you did) and completing it and
losing as many lives as you like without the game being over.
Certainly, sacrificing a life in the Tool Shed to get the item would
speed things up a little.

The most significant improvements in the performance in any JSW game
are usually due to improving the route taken. The one I used seems to
be optimal to me, but perhaps I'm wrong?

Just a thought, but perhaps a teleport to the Off Licence could be
used to save a little time travelling there by foot (as it were)?

Time-perfect movements in relation with the guardians can also
improve the performance, but I don't see much room for significant
improvement in this case. Still, I may be wrong again.

One thing I did notice, was the you could have left the bottom
right-most item in the Wine Cellar last to collect, and perhaps
scraped a few seconds off (this is from memory, so I may be incorrect
in this assumption).

So is anyone able to complete the original JSW, without any
additional POKEs other than the four official Software Projects
POKEs, in less than one game-time hour? :-)

Were I to attempt this, I would say without losing any unnecessary
lives, one could at the very least get it down to 8:00am. Probably. :-)

 

 

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