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Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple
jetsetdanny replied to Hervé AST's topic in Remakes
I finished "The Temple" for the first time a few days ago. It was a great pleasure to play, and actually quite an emotional experience for me after waiting for it for 18 years 😊. It is certainly worth the wait, though! I like the game a lot. It features Hervé's numerous signature themes that I like so much: mysteries, references to space and the planets, the UFOs, ancient civilizations, exotic animals and movies. And, of course, there is Yeti, as there is one in every game of Hervé's... well, there's even more than one, but I will not reveal the exact details of this 🙂 . "The Temple" has a lot of nice graphics, some interesting challenges (that would be VERY frustrating if I wasn't using Rollback when playing), and also some well-known sprites from Hervé's previous games that have now become classics. So, all in all, I am pretty sure you will enjoy exploring it and gathering the 256 items 🙂 . But before you do, I would like - with Hervé's kind permission and encouragement - to add some freshly-coded music to it. It will take me a while (with my spare time being severely limited and my other JSW-related activities running in parallel), so please bear with me. Thanks again, Hervé, for letting me carry out the first playtest of "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part II: The Temple)"! 👍It was a true privilege and a great pleasure 😊. -
Thanks for this, Richard - it's very interesting! 👍
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It's great that you are working on two new games, Willie! It will be a pleasure to play them when the time comes for it 🙂 .
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Welcome to the forum, Mike! 🙂 And thank you for this information - it's very interesting! 👍
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Willie, Thank you for your feedback! I'm very glad you like the text on JSW Central 🙂 . I have modified it according to your suggestions. Please have another look at the game's page (refresh it should it not show any changes) and let me know if everything sounds good now. In fact, one thing I had to correct was about the game completability. Contrary to what I stated before, the game is not item-completable (that's according to a definition once coined by Andrew Broad), because you cannot collect all items. It's not a problem, of course, it's just a matter of the description being accurate or not. I tried to make this clear on the website. Thank you for reminding me about this aspect of the game! 🙂
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Willie, you are referring to one of the game files that Igor posted here. These are unfinished projects that I assume will have all kinds of problems. It would be nice if Igor finished and gamma-released them as completed projects one day... 🙂
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Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple
jetsetdanny replied to Hervé AST's topic in Remakes
Hello Hervé and All, I am really excited - and, in fact, moved - to see "The Temple" in my mailbox, indeed the sequel awaited for 18 years... What a great and emotional moment! 😊 I will start playing the game very soon, initially without a 'playtest mindframe', but rather to enjoy. Not right now, and this is because of real-life circumstances. I am struggling with a heavy workload, and the day after tomorrow I will be travelling for work, which means I will have to finish up various things at the office tomorrow and then get ready for the trip. However, during the trip (which will take me a week), I will have my personal laptop with me and I will be sure to find some leisure moments to enjoy Part II of "Willy in the Islands of Mystery" 🙂 . I will get back to you all soon with my first impressions 🙂 . Daniel -
Thank you, Francisco! Perhaps it'll be best if I credit you both by your real name and your nickname, so it will be "Francisco Urzúa (lemmylemming)".
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[File] What a Wonderful World of Willie
jetsetdanny replied to Jet Set Willie's topic in Download Discussions
I have (finally) added "What a Wonderful World of Willie" to the list of JSW48 games on JSW Central (it's game No. 57 in the JSW48 category!) and I have created its individual page. Please let me know if you have any observations or suggestions regarding the text there 🙂 . -
I have (finally) added "What a Wonderful World of Willie" to the list of JSW48 games on JSW Central (it's game No. 57 in the JSW48 category!) and I have created its individual page. Please let me know if you have any observations or suggestions regarding the text there 🙂 .
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Thank you for this file, lemmylemming! 👍I look forward very much to playing it and adding it to one of the lists of games on JSW Central very soon! 🙂 When I add your game on JSW Central, how should I credit you - as "lemmylemming" or perhaps your real name (if so, what is it?), or both, or something else still? Please advise.
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Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple
jetsetdanny replied to Hervé AST's topic in Remakes
Thanks for all the info, Hervé! It's great that your creativity is in full swing! 😁Your project No. 8 sounds really intriguing 🙂. Yes, I think that'll be a good idea, to separate it from "Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple". Hervé, the title screen of "The Temple" looks great 😊. The only thing is that the "t" in "temple" looks to be in lower case. I would kindly suggest that you capitalise it, to stick to the capitalisation rules for titles. So it would look like this: In fact, the first part of the game is listed on JSW Central as "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part 1: Exploration)". I can't remember off the top of my head, but I assume this exact spelling of the name was discussed in the old Yahoo! Group. However, I can see that you used the Roman numeral for the second part ("Part II") and that indeed a Roman numeral was also used on the title screen of the first part ("Part I"), while an Arabic one was used in its scrolling message ("Part 1"). Which is your preference for the listing of the title of the game on JSW Central? I could change the current "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part 1: Exploration)" to "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part I: Exploration)" and then the second part will be listed as "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part II: The Temple)". Personally, I think it actually looks better with Roman numerals ("I", "II") than with the Arabic ones ("1", "2"), but it's up to you to decide. Please let me know 🙂 . Have a great week! -
Glad to hear that, UncleWan! Happy JSWEDiting! 😊
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Happy JSWEDiting, Igor! 🙂
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Well done, Igor! 😁 Did you try porting JSWED version 2.3.7 as well, by any chance? Even though John Elliott describes it on his website as "the latest Unstable Version", it is really THE version to use, IMPO, unless you like/are used to 2.2.9 so much that you want to stick to it. 2.3.7 is at least as stable as 2.2.9, in my experience. In fact, now that I've looked it up, I can see that v. 2.3.7 was released on 7th April 2015. So a month from now it will be 10 years since its release. High time to change the description, John, if you happen to read these words! 😉
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Thanks for this find, AukonDK - very interesting! 👍
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I've never gifted a game to any romantic partner. But I have a wife of many years who puts up with me spending time on JSW day after day and evening after evening. That's SO valuable! I could create a game for her, but I don't think she would want to see any more of JSW than she already does! 🤣
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Thanks for sharing these graphics, Igor! 👍
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Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple
jetsetdanny replied to Hervé AST's topic in Remakes
Bonjour Hervé, c’est une excellente nouvelle que Willy in the Islands of Mystery / Part 2 : The Temple soit terminé et prêt pour les tests de jeu ! Je serai ravi de le tester. En fait, j’ai hâte ! 😁 C’est aussi une excellente nouvelle que tu aies commencé à travailler sur un nouveau jeu. Pourrais-tu révéler sur quel projet de la liste que tu avais présentée auparavant tu travailles ? And now the same in English so that everyone can read it without having to resort to electronic translation: Hello, Hervé, it's great news that "Willy in the Islands of Mystery / Part 2 : The Temple" is finished and ready for playtesting! I will be happy to do it. In fact, I can't wait! 😁 It is also great news that you have started working on a new game. Could you reveal which project from the list you previously presented you are working on? -
UncleWan, I believe JSWED will NOT open TZX files (it will open it in Hex Editor, but you will not be able to edit the game using the GUI). Open a TAP file instead, or a SNA or Z80 file. Please note also that when you use an unmodified file of the original "Jet Set Willy", every time you will want to open the game you have just edited, you will get the colour code challenge. If you want to get rid of this, go to JSWED's Hex Editor and modify the value of the address 86B0 to C3, the value of the address 86B1 to CA, and the value of the address 86B2 to 87. Please let us know if everything works well for you 🙂 .
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Oh, yes, UMM definitely drew a lot of attention and much discussion! And quite deservedly so 🙂 . Wow! If you would like to elaborate on it (e.g. what the "right type" means), it would be a great subject for the Chat section 😉 . Oh yes, it was greatly appreciated even by people who are not normally JSW fans. It's a great game! And not so small, well, it's certainly not a minigame. I definitely hope you will! 🙂
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Willy in the Islands of Mystery : part II : The Temple
jetsetdanny replied to Hervé AST's topic in Remakes
Thank you, Hervé! I consider it an honour and a serious responsibility at the same time. I will do my best to check everything thoroughly, and I'm looking forward to it very much indeed! 🙂 -
Hi Igor, it was a great pleasure working on your Frosya games - thank YOU for approving of my creation of bug-fixed editions of "Frosya the Cat" and "Frosya the Cat - Lite Version" ("Jet Cat Frosya" didn't need any fixing, because it was fully completable; still, it was a pleasure to play and RZX record it 🙂 ).
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Welcome to the forum, Igor! I hope you have come here to stay 🙂.
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AMA: Igor Makovsky (Frosya the Cat, Zx Heroes and Ultimate Manic Miner)
jetsetdanny replied to igormakovsky's topic in Chat
Thanks for posting the photos, Igor! Frosya was a beautiful cat, indeed! 🙂 I hope the nostalgia will make you create more JSW games. Since there's no JSWED for Mac at the moment, you could get a cheap PC - it could really be an old, obsolete machine, JSWED doesn't require modern parameters - and use it just to design new games 🙂 .