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 and wouldn't fit on the cassette label!
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 as initially it started here.
Sam Coupé original Spectrum Conversion
You will need to collect all 256 keys to escape the caverns and get Willy home.
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.
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
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).
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 !
Credits:
This version was made using the JSWED v2.3.7 (JSW64) by John Elliott, and a big thanks to John for his support with some of the questions that I had about the game ending.
The loading Screen was adapted from the Sam Coupé original and edited in Multipaint from Tero Heikkinen.
And Finally:
A big thanks to “Spider” for suggesting doing this version to me as well as testing all the levels and the tips about the loader.
Also Daniel Gromann at JSW Central for testing all the levels and the advice about the gameplay. And answering my constant questions, many thanks.
This was another great learning experience putting the levels together and designing the new sprites, the JSW64 opens up a lot more possibilities within the level gameplay.
As before it tries to capture the spirit of the original levels but now within the limitations of the 128K Spectrum.
Thanks to everyone in the community for being so positive about the Lost Levels.
I hope that this continuation will be received as well and that you enjoy playing it
All the best,
B
DVDfever got a reaction from Spider in Manic Miner: Deeper and Down