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Well done Danny on your hard work creating this major update to JSWCentral! I have a couple of queries: - In your post above, you mentioned six JSW variations by JODI, but then you listed either five variations (if you were referring to the game files which merit inclusion in the new subsection C of the list of JSW games), or eight variations (if you were including the three 'minor mods' in the total). So your reference to six variations should have said either five, ,or eight? - You've provided a link to the new main page of JSWCentral dedicated to the JONI project, but I can't see a way that one can navigate to access that page from anywhere within the website, without being given the Hyperlink as you have included here above? Should there be a link from the 'Authors about their games' page of the site? (Although I realise that it doesn't quite belong in there, as the generic article about the JODI project wasn't written by the authors themselves.)

Did you manage to beat your previous completion time for the WRITETYPER challenge, RB?

Of course I meant lamb chops, not shops! 🤪 Penguins have plumage as well, but they plummet too!

Or better still, modify the sprite in JSWED to make them Skylambs! (Full lambs as they're falling, crumbling into a lamb shop shape on contact with the platforms?)

Monty Python once did a sketch about flying sheep, "labouring under the misapprehension that they're birds". Featured the classic line: "Note how they do not so much fly, as plummet." Considering the obvious influence that Python had on Matthew Smith's work (e.g. the descending foot squashing Willy at the end of the game), it wouldn't have been unreasonable to assume that Skylambs might make an appearance...

Sorry, I didn't see that query as it went 'over the page' from your previous one. I haven't seen 'American Psycho', so I'm afraid I can't confirm what you say. I would hazard a guess that it could be a similar scenario, except that I don't imagine the line in 'American Psycho' is said with the same comedic flourish!

Sorry, it's a Birmingham (and surrounding area) accent.

Incidentally, prior to me writing that, I had tried to translate "I'll get my coat" into Latin, but it came up as "Et lorica meum", but when I checked how that translated back into English, it ended up as "The coat is". So I gave up on that. Oh, and for Danny's benefit (and anyone else who might not be familiar with it), "I'll get me coat" is the punchline of a regular character from the 1990's BBC comedy sketch show 'The Fast Show'. The character is in polite company (like a dinner party or something), after a few moments of everyone talking on a subject on which he is evidently out of his depth (like politics), he makes an inappropriate/irrelevant/childish/offensive gag - leading to stern silence from everyone else who just stare at him [if it was an American show you would see tumbleweed floating past at this point] - and then the character in question says, in a thick Brummie accent, "I'll get me coat".

By the same logic, a tricycle should have thirty wheels? And a vice-president should be twentieth in command, not second? 😜 ... I'll get me coat.

But looking at the structure of this and related words: tricenarian: tri=3 octogenarian: oct=8 'genarian' (interchangeable with 'cenarian') seems to relate to a 'generation' - which here is defined as a decade? So an octogenarian is in their eighth 'generation' - although actually they're in their ninth decade, now that I think about it! So that's my theory shot down in flames!! 😂 *** Anyway, v's and b's do seem to be interchangeable in many languages, so I still maintain that if the English language had evolved slightly differently, then we might be riding around on vicycles (which sounds painful!), or looking back wistfully on bicenarian dreams (which sound a bit kinky!) 😁

Conversely then, why don't we ride vicycles? 😂

I'm not sure why the word isn't bicenarian?

Considering that this project is dedicated to key workers during the pandemic - including doctors working with patients on ventilators - having an unlimited air supply is a nice touch. Gives them time off from worrying about such a thing. 🙂

It would actually have been an even more impressive performance if you had done that - making those precise, pixel-perfect and perfectly-timed jumps would be almost impossible with a fast-running emulator, I believe. I won't 'spoiler' it in advance, but if anyone is curious as to how RuffledBricks managed to complete the original Jet Set Willy in under 2.5 mins, with the machine running at normal speed and without using any POKES, then check out this link:

I was quite amused by your 'Complete Jet Set Willy in under two and a half minutes' Youtube video. At first glance of the name, I thought it might involve you playing the game in an emulator running at super-fast speed. 😂

Welcome to the jswmm forum, RuffledBricks! Wow, that's some great feedback! Thank you very much! "Labour of love" sums up our approach to the game very nicely! I enjoyed watching your Youtube walkthrough/commentary as well. 🙂 I think the point about the invisible stuff in the first few rooms is fair comment, particularly your thought that it might have put some 'casual' players off. I think we came to the conclusion ourselves, in hindsight, shortly after releasing the game. I recall that a friend of mine commented on Facebook that "I can't even complete The Bathroom!" - (presumably because he was trying to collect the second tap (top-right corner) directly - by crossing the succession of virtually invisible Fire cells - whereas accessing the item that way is blocked by a solid wall and you have to go into the alcove from the East Wall in order to access it). That direct route was intended as a 'red herring' to sharpen the mind at the start of the game, but perhaps some people quickly formed the conclusion that the game was virtually impossible, and consequently abandoned any attempts to complete the game without exploring much further (which would have been a shame). On the other hand, I must admit to a feeling of guilty pleasure after hearing of your first deadly experience with the invisible inverted cross. 😂 I like your novel phrase "Deathwarp", which seems to be an alternative name for the approach that we have tended to describe as "kamikaze-ing" an item. Your feedback has given me a nudge to make more of an effort to find some time to continue working on my longstanding project 'Willy's Recurring Nightmare'... the intention behind which is to ramp up the difficulty/nightmare level even more! 😁 By the way, if you haven't done so already. you could try out some of our other 'labours of love' that are available from the Downloads section here at jswmm! P.S. One thing I noticed whilst watching your Youtube video/commentary - I thought your pronunciation of 'Nightmare Luni' was a bit strange: "Nightmare Lunny", to rhyme with 'dunny'. As with the original JSW room, "Nomen Luni", the second word should surely be pronounced "Loony"? As evidenced by the presence of a 'lunar' guardian in the room, as well as the fact that the layout (the crashed plane) is a bit, er, 'loony'. Well, that's my interpretation anyway!

And conversely, the fact that a movement key is currently being pressed doesn't necessarily mean that Willy is moving in accordance with that key. e.g.: 1) If he is trying to walk through a solid wall; 2) If he drops vertically down onto a conveyor with the 'upstream' movement pressed, he the key counteracts the effect of the conveyor but he stays on the spot.

Nice tool. For me, it seems that it is the keys closest to the 'centre' of the keyboard that don't seem to work together. e.g. 3-4-5, D-F-G. X-C-V does work for me though, which would seem to break the pattern. 🤔

The Radetzky March always reminds me of Jet Set Mini. The fact that we used the (short) intro as the title screen tune, but it didn't sound quite right with a series of notes of the same pitch (with nothing to punctuate them), was what spurred me on to experiment with tweaking the title tune routine to allow for 'dead' [silent] notes - something that came in very useful in subsequent projects. 🙂 Have you heard the 'comically awful' MM title tune routine applied to the JSW title tune (A Moonlight Sonata)? If not, then check out the attached test files in this thread (where you can also hear The Blue Danube given the JSW title tune treatment):

Intriguing!

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Thanks Andy, I just tried it and it works a treat! 🤩

Conversely, looking at MtM's last post, he seems to have written it after only trying out v2.2.9. So once he installs v2.3.7, he'll probably find that the 'small display' problem isn't quite as bad as it currently seems. 😀

Thanks Norman! I suppose it is possible to notice that an item has been collected (when playing on mute) by the fact that the score will have incremented, but that presupposes that you paid keen attention to what the accrued score was before the item was collected. (Which isn't something the player is likely to be keeping a close eye on whilst simultaneously trying to dodge the numerous hazards!) Anyway, aside from the functional purpose of the border flash (to highlight an item being collected if you're playing on mute), it is a nice visual addition to the game. 🙂 I haven't encountered any problems using S-D-F to toggle the border flash off (nor A-S-D for the interrupts). However, I don't seem to be able to switch off the 'kicking up dust when landing' feature - i.e. the D-F-G key combination doesn't work for me. That's the reason I mentioned it - I was wondering if it works for anybody else? (It is possible that I am having emulator problems - in a similar way to how not all rooms in the original Jet Set Willy are always accessible via teleportation instigated by number key combos, depending on the emulator being used.) In any case, I have checked whether the underfoot dust has any effect on gameplay - such as causing a fatal pixel collision with guardians - and it doesn't, so as Norman says it is purely an aesthetic feature (and another neat one at that! 😉)

Norman, am I at liberty to divulge the other two similar keypress combinations, which have minor aesthetic effects during the game? I ask because I had difficulty getting one of them to work, and I wonder if others might encounter the same problem?