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View File Jet-Set Willy PC
Jet-Set Willy, remade for MS-DOS/Windows/MacOS computers. created by Andy "loafjaw" Noble (code, graphics), Matthew "4-mat" Simmonds (music) and John Dow (testing, MacOS version)
gee, this was long overdue : p  this is a .7z file containing two .zip files and a .dmg file, complete and unmodified. this also includes the readme .txt files for each of them (which is a requirement for distribution) along with a .txt file containing the cheat code for the Windows version, and a .rar file containing all the music the game uses, organized and saved as individual .xm files
v0.991 - MS-DOS - the MS-DOS version. requires a PC running MS-DOS (or an OS compatible with MS-DOS executables), but an emulator for modern PCs (like DOSBox) will do. also, make sure to run the .exe with "-fs" to force the sound configuration and set the sound quality to "Very high" or the music will sound cheap and oily
v0.76 - Windows - functionally the same as the MS-DOS version but with some new options in the options menu (like the ability to set the scale of the game window and a little jukebox allowing you to cycle through all of the game's music + the music from the older versions of the game like the Atari XL and the Amstrad CPC) and a different cheat code, and it can be run natively on modern Windows PCs : p 
v0.62 - MacOS - ditto. not compatible with MacOS Catalina and later due to 32-bit executables not being supported
the screenshots above were taken with the Windows version of the game running on a 64-bit PC
unlike the file for Manic Miner PC there's no source code or graphics/sound effects. the data.dat file used in the Windows version can be opened with the Allegro grabber tool if you know the password it's encrypted with but out of respect for Andy i won't put it out there, sorry
 
 
Submitter Gyrominiac Submitted 12/01/2023 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

Thanks Gyro, I had 1.02 already, but was missing the original port and game builder 👍
 

View File Jet-Set Willy II PC
Jet-Set Willy II, remade for Windows computers. created by Dan Richardson (code, additional graphics), Andy "loafjaw" Noble (graphics) and Matthew "4-mat" Simmonds (music)
this is quite rare to come across on the internet if you don't know where to look (which is quite a shame as it's absolutely excellent), so i've decided to put it here. this is a .7z file containing three .zip files, once again complete and unmodified.
v1.02 - "Windows Edition" - this is the version you'll be playing. a lot of the graphics from Andy Noble's JSW remake are reused here, and all of the music from that remake is reused (including the 7 unused "spare" tracks + a new track)
v1.0 - "Original Port" - this is a 100% faithful port of the original ZX Spectrum version complete with the ZX Spectrum graphics and music. not much else to say
v1.0 - "Game Builder" - this is the level editor used to create all the levels used by this remake. to use it, put it in the directory of either version (the Windows Edition or the Original Port)
from the readme file of the Windows Edition:
from the readme file of the Original Port:
cheers!
Submitter Gyrominiac Submitted 12/02/2023 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

Thank you for this and the other file too. 🙂 Nice to see them in one convenient pack.

View File Jet-Set Willy II PC
Jet-Set Willy II, remade for Windows computers. created by Dan Richardson (code, additional graphics), Andy "loafjaw" Noble (graphics) and Matthew "4-mat" Simmonds (music)
this is quite rare to come across on the internet if you don't know where to look (which is quite a shame as it's absolutely excellent), so i've decided to put it here. this is a .7z file containing three .zip files, once again complete and unmodified.
v1.02 - "Windows Edition" - this is the version you'll be playing. a lot of the graphics from Andy Noble's JSW remake are reused here, and all of the music from that remake is reused (including the 7 unused "spare" tracks + a new track)
v1.0 - "Original Port" - this is a 100% faithful port of the original ZX Spectrum version complete with the ZX Spectrum graphics and music. not much else to say
v1.0 - "Game Builder" - this is the level editor used to create all the levels used by this remake. to use it, put it in the directory of either version (the Windows Edition or the Original Port)
from the readme file of the Windows Edition:
from the readme file of the Original Port:
cheers!
Submitter Gyrominiac Submitted 12/02/2023 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

that's the cheat code for manic miner PC, not JSW PC
i got the JSW PC cheat code from andy noble after i emailed him asking about it (same email where i asked about that weird PC version-mobile version mix), then i sent him a follow-up email asking about the code for the DOS version but he never responded (he might probably be busy with a whole lot of stuff)
(opening the executable in a text file didn't find anything by the way, i'm pretty sure it has to be completely dissassembled in order to find any sort of type-in cheat) 

that's the cheat code for manic miner PC, not JSW PC
i got the JSW PC cheat code from andy noble after i emailed him asking about it (same email where i asked about that weird PC version-mobile version mix), then i sent him a follow-up email asking about the code for the DOS version but he never responded (he might probably be busy with a whole lot of stuff)
(opening the executable in a text file didn't find anything by the way, i'm pretty sure it has to be completely dissassembled in order to find any sort of type-in cheat) 

the guardian sprites are weirdly nowhere to be found in the .jar file itself (and if they are they're probably compressed to hell), but that's okay since kemulator memory view helped me with ripping those
here's a sprite sheet i made like 2 or 3 days ago (they look gorgeous, don't they?)

the uploader of this video is andy noble (MM PC and JSW PC creator)
i emailed him about it a week ago and he responded with this:
"Yes, that's pretty much what that version was. I just used the graphics from the mobile version and used Matts music but rewrote the engine. It never got released as the guy who holds the copyright never returned any correspondence. Paul, who did the graphics, was happy for me to use them but didn't have the right to sign it off."
so, to clear things up;
the java mobile remake was made by numfum gmbh (the lovely graphics were drawn by paul vera-broadbent)
the JSW version shown in the linked video is a mix of the java version and the PC remake, created by andy noble (which went unreleased due to weird copyright crap, and i'm pretty sure the ending graphics shown in the video aren't in the java version)
anyway hi i've been lurking here for a bit and i just decided to join this site today, i'll post here again when i have cool stuff to show

for andy noble's jet-set willy pc (the windows re-release):
type 241360 under the stairs in the first landing and then exit the current game and go to the options screen from the main menu
you'll find two new options there (f9 for invulnerability and f10 for infinite lives)
this unfortunately does not work for the original MS-DOS release, so i might just have to open the game's executable file (which contains literally every piece of data that isn't the music) in a text editor and look around for a potential type-in cheat like a maniac

Thank you. I was aware of this (or very similar) it might exist on the forum somewhere by myself , as to why it did not make it into the topic I'm not sure, so its appreciated. I do recall the code only worked on the PC version not the MS-Dos variant. You're likely correct a bit of hunting should hopefully find something.

for andy noble's jet-set willy pc (the windows re-release):
type 241360 under the stairs in the first landing and then exit the current game and go to the options screen from the main menu
you'll find two new options there (f9 for invulnerability and f10 for infinite lives)
this unfortunately does not work for the original MS-DOS release, so i might just have to open the game's executable file (which contains literally every piece of data that isn't the music) in a text editor and look around for a potential type-in cheat like a maniac

i ripped the music from this version (the MS-DOS version, not the windows re-release) some few weeks ago
it turns out that JSW-DAT2.DAT is actually an .xm (extended module) file in disguise containing every single song in the game, which i then cut up into individual files (like 33 total songs including 7 unused ones and 2 from craig r.'s jsw remake which were uncut versions of 2 in-game songs) 
here:
JSW_PC.rar

i ripped the music from this version (the MS-DOS version, not the windows re-release) some few weeks ago
it turns out that JSW-DAT2.DAT is actually an .xm (extended module) file in disguise containing every single song in the game, which i then cut up into individual files (like 33 total songs including 7 unused ones and 2 from craig r.'s jsw remake which were uncut versions of 2 in-game songs) 
here:
JSW_PC.rar

ah, you're welcome. if nobody else uploads the file after a bit i'll upload it myself 

Thanks for this, Gyrominiac! It's nice to have these tunes 🙂 . I've just played them in the VLC media player 👍.

i ripped the music from this version (the MS-DOS version, not the windows re-release) some few weeks ago
it turns out that JSW-DAT2.DAT is actually an .xm (extended module) file in disguise containing every single song in the game, which i then cut up into individual files (like 33 total songs including 7 unused ones and 2 from craig r.'s jsw remake which were uncut versions of 2 in-game songs) 
here:
JSW_PC.rar

Thanks for this contribution, Gyrominiac! 👍
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to bump an old topic on this forum if I had some new input. I believe it's happened over the years, with good results. One of the beautiful aspects of MM/JSW is that people sometimes come back to it after many years (the most beautiful one for me is that some authors have taken up again and released their unfinished games literally decades after they were first created). So it's kind of natural for some topics to be revisited.
That's just my personal take on it 🙂 .

ah, you're welcome. if nobody else uploads the file after a bit i'll upload it myself 

since dan richardson's excellent remake of JSW II for windows (not the one for MS-DOS which is the first result that comes up when you search "dan richardson jet set willy") is ludicrously hard to find on the internet, i've decided to post the link to it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160418030331/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dan_richardson_uk/JSWII.html
enjoy!
(i was actually going to reply with this link to a topic by somebody who asked about this remake, but it was from 2018 and i didn't really want to bump a really old topic like that since it's frowned upon in other forums in general)

Thank you. 🙂
I suppose we could have the file here if needed too but I suspect its in a safe place for now.
 
Bumping ah yes, its a bit of a two-edged sword really as its useful to place something in a topic but on the other hand if the topic is ancient a few things might of changed or it might be missed.
 
My own (personal) view: I don't really mind the bump if its relevant. 🙂 Having said that I'd not want to merge this new post into it (thereby removing the new topic) , I'd only do things like that if we had say 3 or 4 topics about the exact same file/resource etc.
 

since dan richardson's excellent remake of JSW II for windows (not the one for MS-DOS which is the first result that comes up when you search "dan richardson jet set willy") is ludicrously hard to find on the internet, i've decided to post the link to it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160418030331/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dan_richardson_uk/JSWII.html
enjoy!
(i was actually going to reply with this link to a topic by somebody who asked about this remake, but it was from 2018 and i didn't really want to bump a really old topic like that since it's frowned upon in other forums in general)

i know i've been commenting on this thread a bit too much but i managed to rip most of the guardian/tile sprites from this version by mucking around with a winUAE savestate on maptapper
here (note: willy's sprites weirdly don't match up with his sprites that are used in-game but everything else is completely accurate, i hope)
P.S. are there any savestates of the sewer/space areas out there, i wonder? the savestate i ripped from was taken in the first area and thus doesn't have every single guardian in the game

oh, wow. what's that "something else", if you don't mind me asking?

the uploader of this video is andy noble (MM PC and JSW PC creator)
i emailed him about it a week ago and he responded with this:
"Yes, that's pretty much what that version was. I just used the graphics from the mobile version and used Matts music but rewrote the engine. It never got released as the guy who holds the copyright never returned any correspondence. Paul, who did the graphics, was happy for me to use them but didn't have the right to sign it off."
so, to clear things up;
the java mobile remake was made by numfum gmbh (the lovely graphics were drawn by paul vera-broadbent)
the JSW version shown in the linked video is a mix of the java version and the PC remake, created by andy noble (which went unreleased due to weird copyright crap, and i'm pretty sure the ending graphics shown in the video aren't in the java version)
anyway hi i've been lurking here for a bit and i just decided to join this site today, i'll post here again when i have cool stuff to show