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Message: 6133

Author: Daniel

Date: 18/04/2007

Subject: Re: Completing the original JSW in less than 1 game-time hour

 

Okay, I have done it. I have proved that it is possible to
complete "Jet Set Willy" (with the official Software Projects POKEs
in place), with no unnecessary loss of life, in less than one game-
time hour, with a toilet-time of 7.59 am :-) .

I have also been able to bring the toilet-time down to 7.56 am by
sacrificing all of the spare lives. So if someone asks you how much
is one life worth in "JSW", you can answer truthfully: "30 seconds"
:-) .

The RZX files of both walkthroughs have just been uploaded to my
folder in the Files section of the Group.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, filsoft_2000 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.

Thanks, Phil :-) . I did use Rollback - a lot of times. Otherwise I
would have been an absolute, freaking genius :-).

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, filsoft_2000 wrote:

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.

That's exactly what I have just done :-).

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, filsoft_2000 wrote:

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)?

Before recording the walkthroughs I have just posted, I recorded
another one using this route. The result was a toilet-time of 8.03 am
(which could have been improved by 1 minute, possibly, with my later
improvements). The route is slightly less efficient, IMO, because
what you gain by not having to cross the bridge and the bottom of the
MegaTree going right, you lose having to cross the right-hand side of
the battlements going back to the Watch Tower, plus the bit crossing
the Orangery, etc.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, filsoft_2000 wrote:

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).

You may be right. I haven't tried this, actually, because I didn't
have your message in front of my eyes (or on my offline computer)
when I was recording the walkthroughs posted today.

Daniel

 

 

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