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And regarding collision detection - just want to check you're aware of this: On your sprites you can set 'Precise Per Frame' for pixel perfect collisions.

I like it! I like the speed it runs at. Feels really smooth. I'll try and give it a full play through at some point. I wonder if the Eugene's Lair strat is possible. 🙂 Check the spelling on 'Menagerie' though. 🙂 Great job!

I've still been tinkering with this project in my own time. The game now has the J2ME tileset available as an option for playing. It's been fun to add in tilemaps, foreground tiles, and other effects into the game. Here's a quick wander up to the Watch Tower. JSW SE Mobile Tiles Watchtower.mp4

Ultimately - do whatever it is that means you're having fun doing it. GM2 is great fun to play with. That's what I built Jet Set Willy Scrolling Edition in. Personally, I would recreate the originals to check the mechanics are all solid within your engine, then make new ones.

Just for fun I implemented the first six rooms of tiles from the mobile edition into JSW Scrolling Edition. I've also added some foreground tiles and used some shadow tiles as well. Not sure what's going on with the music at the moment. It's all phasey. It really is a nice tile set. Do we know who made that version? JSW SW Mobile Tiles Shadow Maps.mp4

Does anyone have a full resolution screenshot map of that mobile version?

I think you've done a great job. I was able to get through to 'The Warehouse' on a first run. Not bad seeing as I haven't played the game in a few years. I was even able to pull off the speedrun strat in 'Eugene's Lair' which I was particularly pleased worked. 🙂 If anything it's slightly more forgiving than the speccy version - definitely a few close calls with enemies which I think should have killed me but in all honesty, it's no bad thing. Great job!

@UncleWan Hi! I grew up with the MSX version of Jet Set Willy 2 - which used the same music as the Amstrad version. For the remake I arranged/composed 24 different variations on the music which cross-fade depending on which room you are in / what state the game is in. There are a few cheeky nods to other games / franchises in there for a bit of fun. That piece was originally composed by Steve Wetherill who worked on the CPC version. He kindly gave me his blessing to rearrange it and include it in the remake. There's no way to download it. I suppose I could make a longer edit of certain variations. Might be an interesting project in itself!

Hi! Glad you found us. Considering the limiations of scratch I think you've done an amazing job. Looking forward to trying it! Redux is definitely worth checking out - it's the best version of the game out there as far as I'm concerned.

@alexh You can also always ask questions around here. There are quite a few people who really know how JSW and MM work on the inside.

@Spider It was a decent version of HoH too! It was the one game we had for it!

https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/jet_set_willy/ There's a complete disassembly of the original online. It's all commented and pretty easy to find your way around assuming you know a little programming already?

Thank you for posting this @AukonDK. I appreciate it. It's a shame the licensing / ownership of Jet Set Willy is such a mess. Otherwise I'd happily release it to the public. Matthew Smith has seen a video of it though, and he liked it, so that's enough approval for me. 🙂

@Hamish Here you go. This goes through all the variations on the theme that I made. Some are a bit tenuously linked - it's mainly the harmonic base that stays consistent so the music can fade into each other. Some are a bit daft. Some I'm not sure entirely work. But I had fun making them.

I love the Steve Wetherill tune. I guess because it was the one I grew up with, but for me that is THE Jet Set Willy theme. All the music in my JSW Scrolling Edition remake is variations on that theme, and it changes style depending on which room you are in. I made a musical tour video of all the variations to send to Steve Wetherill to check he was OK with me playing with and arranging his composition. He's fine with it, thankfully. I'll post the video here if people are interested.