MtM

Another MSX JSW map, this one is quite similar but highlights where the objects are. I noted no wording on the water tiles in Hades, however that might be the map makers decision unless slight variations exist...

I can´t help it, the Sinclair Research is one to blame. Or alcohol.
😄

Thank you for your feedback. 🙂 
Perhaps I should add a warning to my game´s front inlay, "Warning! One game player has reported illness when he played while being drunk. Please stop playing immediately if are drunk and feel any symptoms." 🤭
The backgrounds of Willy games seem to be "empty", not all of them, but some at least, the platforms and walls and items being the only visible things among the guardians, everything else being usually just empty black. I wanted to bring the missing "3D" there, all the missing things, like the mountains, the clouds, all the scenery "behind" the "nearest" platforms. Also, in some rooms you can walk "further" away from the tv screen and back, too.
 

Finally downloaded this and played it a bit. It is different! The graphics are certainly different looking too. Don't play it if you are drunk the colours will make you ill!
But thank you for it!

Just thought I would mention it here, saw it on the Spectrum Computing forums in case
anyone missed it. It's made with ADG so not a mod, a new game.
https://sloanysoft.itch.io/willie
 

wow that's so hard to have a account in this website! I have to use the VPN to cross the internet great wall so l can post what l want to say in here.
l first seen the game "jet set willy"about 3 years ago,l love the platform games like this so l want to learn it more.without Google(china banned Google!),the only l can use is Bing .but that's enough.
l often play jsw on the online emulator like "zx art"or"qaop".after a few months,the more versions l found.like java version or PC version by Andy Noble(very good),and z88 version(l can't believe that it can play on a so narrow screen!amazing),there are lot of versions that l can't type them here.
manic miner?good game .l even write a "Baidu Baike"(because China has not wikipedia,we use Baidu Baike as instead.)about the MM!
https://baike.baidu.com/item/疯狂矿工/1186578?fr=ge_ala
above is the Baike l wrote.at 2019.there are still some wrong in it,😂.
l said too many but l can't even create an account because l can't pass the security check😅,but it is not important.just want to say that l love MM and JSW.And l am happy to see that there is a forum!
thanks every much
(if l have some grammatical errors ，please dont care😂l only learn English when l was in senior high school)

Thank you Spider😊, I had a lot to say, but I ended up deleting them. The bottom line is: I think my difficulties are nothing compared to what I found here. It's nice to have like-minded people.

Hi UncleWan, welcome to the forum! 🙂 It's great that you've found this place, been able to overcome all the technical difficulties and can now post here.
I find it amazing that you like MM and JSW while you first saw JSW only about 3 years ago. This actually gives me hope that some people in the future, long after our time, will still like the Willy games, which of course will be to them like perhaps us reading ancient literature or something.
I've had a look at your Baidu page. Interestingly, when the page is translated automatically from Chinese to English, the game's name becomes "Crazy Miner". That's an interesting twist on the title 😉 .
So thanks again for joining the forum and we look forward to the (unexpected, to be honest, while positively exciting) feedback and input from China!

Over at Spectrum Computing:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=155579
Must admit I knew most but not all of these methods, although it was not something I had really thought about doing or trying.
It is interesting to see some variations however. Thought I'd share here. 🙂 

Just thought I would mention it here, saw it on the Spectrum Computing forums in case
anyone missed it. It's made with ADG so not a mod, a new game.
https://sloanysoft.itch.io/willie
 

Finally downloaded this and played it a bit. It is different! The graphics are certainly different looking too. Don't play it if you are drunk the colours will make you ill!
But thank you for it!

Finally downloaded this and played it a bit. It is different! The graphics are certainly different looking too. Don't play it if you are drunk the colours will make you ill!
But thank you for it!

One of Matthew's early games, the Spectrum version is readily available but this was not:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/09/monster-muncher/
An interesting read at least.

What a Wonderful World of Willie
View File Here is my JSWED48 game, What a Wonderful World of Willie. Using of the TZX file is suggested. 🙂
You can find the release related post from here.
 
 
Submitter Jet Set Willie Submitted 09/18/2024 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

@DigitalDuck A few years ago now I had a very very old memory of playing that game (when it was new!) at an arcade on holiday but moving back to recently I could not remember what it was called but the tune did stick in my head. I know there's two of them , the original and the 'new' , I actually have it on Mame and play it every few weeks. I'm still terrible at it! 🙂 Also its "another good Z80 CPU" game too.
 
 
 

Further to my post on page two here  , I decided for no real reason to change the scoring and add a bit more air, as well as compress the code to reduce it's loading size. There is a lot more scope to optimise this, it is starting to 'click' now properly with me.
For now , two identical versions with the increased bonus/air , one with a loading screen and one without.
Without screen$
MM_SP_Faster V3_EXTRA_BONUS_WITHOUT_SCR.tap
With screen$
MM_SP_Faster V3_EXTRA_BONUS_WITH_SCR.tap
The game code is identical in each of these two. For reasons of sanity I've named it 'V3' as the one in the linked post is V2
And a quick playthrough:
MM_SP_Faster V3_EXTRA_BONUS_WITH_SCR.rzx
.rzx recorded with Spectaculator, it should play back fine in most other emulators I expect.

Addendum - I wrote the cpc version of Jet Set Willy

The Title music is Moonlight Sonata and was writen by Beethoven in 1801. So slightly before Mr Wetheril came along.

The in game short tune is by Mr Wetheril.

Red, thank you for this version of MM, I really like it, the difficulty level is spot on! Excellent, I have been
playing it, just right for me!

Red, thank you for this version of MM, I really like it, the difficulty level is spot on! Excellent, I have been
playing it, just right for me!

Updates on the JSW Central YouTube channel since the last video I mentioned in this thread (effectively, what follows is a list of videos posted on the channel since the beginning of this year until now):
"Ma jolie"
"Ma jolite"
"Jet Set Willy: The Colossal Cave"
"Jet Set Willy 5: ZX Heroes"
"Manic Miner - Norman Sword's version"
"Winer Milly"
"AmAZiNG WiLLY" (v. 4)
"JSW64: Dragon Jet Set Willy"
"JSW64: Dragon Manic Miner"
"A Bulgarian Requiem"
"Manic Mixup"
"Jet Set II"
"Willy Comes Home"
"Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman" (standard version)
"Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman" (easy version)
"JSW: The Sun Is No Longer Producing Heat"
"WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE" (v. 3)
"Terry The Turtle" (Yellow - Normal)
"Terry The Turtle" (Cyan - Intermediate)
"Terry The Turtle" (Red - Hard)
"Terry The Turtle" (Vektor - Special Edition)
"Escape of the Snails"
 
Some comments:
The videos of "Ma jolie", "Ma jolite" and "Manic Mixup" were made from RZX walkthroughs I had recorded in the past (I hard worked really hard on them back then and didn't see room for improvement).
Similarly, the old recordings of "Terry The Turtle" (Cyan - Intermediate), "Terry The Turtle" (Red - Hard) and "Terry The Turtle" (Vektor - Special Edition) were used, because I considered them good enough - they could be improved, but since there is no clock in the game, there is no incentive to work on the improvement, either. As for "Terry The Turtle" (Yellow - Normal), a large part of it was re-recorded in order to showcase the collection of some items I had failed to collect in my initial walkthrough recorded back in February 2015.
 My walkthroughs of "AmAZiNG WiLLY" (v. 4), "WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE" (v. 3), "Jet Set Willy 5: ZX Heroes", "Willy Comes Home" and "Jet Set II" were presented publicly for the first time ever. I managed to complete:
v. 4 of "AmAZiNG WiLLY" at 8:49 am in-game time;
v. 3 of "WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE" at 8:53 am;
"Jet Set Willy 5: ZX Heroes" at 7:57 am (7:02 am via the Secret Passage);
"Jet Set II" at 7:56 am;
"Willy Comes Home" at 8:57 am.
I replayed and re-recorded the following games, achieving the following respective improvements:
"Jet Set Willy: The Colossal Cave" - completion time improved from 8:32 am to 8:19 am.
"Manic Miner - Norman Sword's version" - Bug-Byte version completion score improved from 38,873 pts. to 39,240 pts., Software Projects version completion score improved from 38,873 pts. to 39,250.
"Winer Milly" - completion score improved from 8800 pts. to 9550 pts.
"JSW64: Dragon Jet Set Willy" - completion time improved from 8:27 am to 8:18 am.
"JSW64: Dragon Manic Miner" - completion time improved from 7:44 am to 7:40 am.
"A Bulgarian Requiem" - completion time improved from 8:24 am to 8:18 am.
"Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman" (standard version) - completion score improved from 27,159 pts. to 31,144 pts.
"Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman" (easy version) - completion score improved from 30,703 pts. to 35,421 pts.
"Escape of the Snails" - completion time improved from 8:59 am to 8:47 am.
"JSW: The Sun Is No Longer Producing Heat" - the efficiency of my walkthrough has been improved, but it's difficult to quantitate it because there is no clock in the game.
All of the newly-recorded RZX files can be downloaded from the games' respective pages on JSW Central.

Paolo has let me know that he had launched a new retrogaming channel a few days ago. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/@ARetroGamesLook 
Among the videos he has created and posted there so far, there are:
 
A "Full Game Runplay" of "Manic Miner"
 
A "Full Game Runplay" of "Jet Set Willy"
 
The two "WILLY, 48k about a Legend" trailers mentioned in my previous post are also on that new channel. I have updated the links in my previous post and I will repeat them here, also adding a third trailer Paolo has created:
 
 
 
Enjoy! 🙂

i think releasing it entirely as freeware wouldn't be too troublesome, right? 

The Lost Levels just had 
Downloads !!
Thanks to everyone for giving it a go, I am amazed that it has gone so well 
All the best, B

The 128K version is done !! Been busy testing it and putting in the changes the were suggested.
This is the Game map for all 28 levels;

Be careful with the lever in "Not Central Cavern" and be quick (very quick) to avoid the laser beams in "The Meteor Storm" and the "The Final BBC Barrier"
Mostly the Gameplay is the same as the two 48K versions but with improvements to the sprites and level graphics, the Readme file in the zip file covers what has changed with a little more detail.
There are extra lives to start with as it is a double game.
Anyway enough rambling !!
Hope you enjoy playing the game.
All the best, B
 

View File Manic Miner: Deeper and Down
He's Back... In an all new old adventure!
This follows on from the Lost Levels and Lost Levels DS in that it is a conversion from another system in this case it is the Sam Coupé version.
After the first 20 levels that follow the original Manic Miner, there were another 20 called The Deeper Caverns then another 20 called Down, Down, Deeper and Down.
This gives the game its title Manic Miner: Deeper and Down as Manic Miner: The Deeper Caverns and Down, Down, Deeper and Down was a bit of a mouthful.
As before it tries to do this as close as the original game mechanic allows but this time using the JSW64 128K game engine as some features like trampolines and switches were impossible to replicate in the original game engine.
There is a demo version of The Deeper Caverns for the 48K which is included in the .zip file as initially it started here. The gameplay order, screens and sprites are slightly different but all levels are playable.
The Deeper Caverns
The Gameplay follows the order of these next 20 levels, level 20 The Final Frontier is used as a link into Down, Down, Deeper and Down so the top of this screen is slightly different to the original Sam Coupé version.
Here are the level screens in gameplay order.
01 The Hollow Chamber
02 The Office
03 Cheese-Plant
04 The Dodgy Mine Shaft
05 The Big Drop
06 Order Processing Department
07 The Rocky Outcrop
08 The Twilight Zone, Part I
09 Son of Kong Beast
10 Trainspotters' Paradise
11 Battle of the Bits
12 A Night on the Tiles
13 The Twilight Zone II
14 Dante's Inferno
15 The Freezer
16 Blue Stick-Waggling Bananas
17 Round The Bend
18 Teddy Bears' Picnic
19 The Clock Tower
20 The Final Frontier
Notes:
Some of the levels with Trampolines have been modified to prevent falling too far.
Kong falling from the platform has been changed for something else. Pull the switch and find out.
Levels with a lot of sprites, switches or items will be slower.
 
Down, Down, Deeper and Down
This follows on directly from The Deeper Caverns with an additional 20 levels.
There is an ending level (Up Up and Away) but it is not playable, like JSW the game just stops here (until the air runs out and then it loops).
Here are the level screens in gameplay order.
01 In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan ?
02 Bleugh
03 Wibble Flowerpot
04 Wibbly Wobbly
05 Caveman Willy
06 No Way Back ?
07 Bouncy-Bouncy
08 Son of Bride of Kong’s Revenge 2
09 The Haunted House
10 The Mouse Trap
11 The Bonus Round
12 Still No Way Back ?
13 The Pink People Eaters
14 April Showers
15 Bottom of the mine shaft
16 The Building Society
17 The Control Room
18 The Assembly Plant
19 The Computer Room
20 The end of Willy as we know it ?
21 Up Up and Away !
Notes:
The items in the The Bonus Round had to be reduced as it exceeded the limit for the overall game.
Because of this additional items have been added to other levels.
The Pokes for Infinite Lives, WRITETYPER and finishing the game without collecting all the items will work.
Follow the post here
 

 


Submitter The-Red-Bayron Submitted 06/06/2024 Category Manic Miner [Remakes]