Jet Set Willie

That´s interesting to hear. Is Jet Set Willy 64 a stand-alone editor or is it implemented in JSWED2? Thank you in advance. 🙂I will try to make a certain thing by myself first, if it is possible with JSWED without coding in Hex Editor.

Could you please tell me some examples what kinds of "technical novelties" could be introduced using JSWED´s Hex editor? Thank you. 🙂I have started to "play" with JSWED, to learn things. I have at least a new title screen ready, it needs some final touches, though.

This might go too far, as these are Willy games anyway, but is there a downloadable editor, what allows this kind of things? IF certain_condition = TRUE THEN make certain_tile(s) appear/disappear/change_colour/flash/change_to_another_tile_type IF certain_condition = TRUE THEN make new_guardian appear : SET guardian_life_time = nn_seconds : SET guardian_movement = mm (normal horiz/vert, only once go normal horiz/vert then stay still or disappear, only one-way horiz/vert, only once go one-way horiz/vert then stay still or disappear, stay still, flash) IF certain_condition = TRUE THEN make certain_guardian(s) disappear/stay_still/flash_and_stay_still/flash_and_stay_still_nn_seconds_then_disappear Bad thing is if these options are over used, they can turn Willy game to "ordinary any other platform game". Good thing is if these options are used wisely and rarely, very interesting effects can be made to certain rooms. Strange actions in certain rooms aren´t exactly a new thing in Willy games, though, as Jet Set Willy has out-of-ordinary room already, Rescue Esmeralda. In Manic Miner Eugene goes mad when you collect the last object. Solar Power Generator is not ordinary room either. Appearing and disappearing tiles, or tiles changing to other type of tiles can cause interesting situations to rooms, like making possible to pass to certain direction or collect all objects, by adding new tiles for jumping upwards or block Willy´s path with a wall or floor or change floors to fire tiles. Many things could be done with these options. But perhaps not suitable for 48K memory limits? Does JSWED coder or any other editor coder read this forum regularly to see my question?

Thank you for your answers, Spider and JetSetDanny! Especially for Danny´s very detailed answer! 🙂I am ill at the moment, so I can´t concentrate much for answering, but wanted to write Thank You for you both! 🙂 I do appreciate your answers a lot! If I could be a coder, I´d probably do it Spider´s way, ie write my own editor to suit my needs. As I am not, I am happy to have such good thing like JSWED. I haven´t looked much about Spectrum scene in last years, so I became aware that there´s editor called JSWED just before I joined here, but I knew nothing about it, so I thought it´s better to ask first, as I didn´t know if there´s possibly more than one editor available and to learn about their good and bad things. At yesterday evening I managed to download JSWED, but I wasn´t in too healthy condition to try it a much, just to make a quick try to modify existing Jet Set Willy screen a bit to see how JSWED works and see at least something of what is possible to do with it. I have already noticed there´s a lot what can be done with it! 🙂 ✝️ Merry Christmas to you both, and everybody else here at JSWMM!! 🎄

I´d like to try to make a JSW room on a Spectrum. 😊Probably I will stick to Spectrum emulator instead, at least saveing and loading will go properly. I will admit that I don´t have enough time for this, really. 😑 But I have figured out, that it´s better to ask suggestions and try to make something when I might have little time. Otherwise I may never start this. 😞 I´d like to make many rooms, but thinking what is possible, I am aiming to make even just one playable JSW room. 🙂It´s better than nothing. Should I try JSWed or is there some Windows JSW editor? Considering my lack of time, editor should be easy to use. Is there character designer in any of the editors? I can stick to existing JSW characters, though. Thank you in advance for suggestions and helpful hints and warnings.

Fireball-Mario Willy won´t meet Angry Birds. 🙂 I think this is a great idea! I´d suggest that please don´t change anything from your idea yet, as the idea is great, just ask help for the level design, sure there will be some people who can help. 🙂 It´s also possible to make a version without platform shooting, that the other side of the platforms will start to dive, when you step too far. But also it should be possible (for fun!) to run back before platform dives too far (just like in slapstick movies!) and Willy´s weight will make the platform to rise again to it´s original balance. If the player will not run back to the opposite direction the platform will quickly collapse. I hope you understood what I was trying to describe. 🙂 I will try your pre-pre-pre-game later.

Btw, has anybody seriously thought to make 128K versions of those JSW games, keeping those old games as they are, just adding AY arrangements of those tunes from Craig´s game? One in-game tune per game. AY has just three channels and misses a lot of features, but still it can produce a nice echo sound, etc.. Those tunes are great and will need AY arrangements.

Thank you everybody! Thanks Danny for the Dosbox link! Z: prompt felt strange as I couldn´t change it but a quick look at manual and Craig´s game start working! It was great to play those games again! Also nice to watch DOS screen once again, even it´s not "real". Thank you! 🙂

Hi! 🙂 I used to play Andy Noble´s PC version, until I got Craig Rothwell´s update with all the JSW games and ´level select´ menu. I played that for a long time. 😊 I thought to refresh my memories by downloading Craig´s version, just to notice it won´t work on my 64bit Windows 11. 😟 Is there some patch available somewhere?