Pc Version

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks, Ligan, it's very interesting and important info for anyone who wishes to play / investigate Craig Rothwell's version seriously :).

[Ankheg]

On 2/24/2019 at 9:35 PM, Ligan said:

I remember a weird glitch from back when I played it on Windows XP. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the game or with my computer but, basically, after pressing C in the main menu the floor would crumble when you walked on it. If you were playing Manic Miner (or 7) you'd skip a bunch of levels when you fell through the floor. I used to think that was supposed to be the hint because the C in "Craig" is in parentheses at the bottom of the page, but the cheat page doesn't mention it ...

That's not really a bug... quoting from the game's text file:

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'C' lets you enter 'Madness' mode in which all the floors sink as
    you walk on them. Try it, see how many objects you can get!

So yeah, that's not a bug, that's a feature :P although personally it almost never seems to work for me, at least in v1.01a...

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks for this info, Ankheg, and welcome to the forum! 🙂 

[Gyrominiac]

On 9/1/2014 at 11:11 PM, dave_a_e said:

The PC version was created by Andy Noble and, from being all over the Internet in the early Noughties, there's precious little trace of it to be found now.

 

I wrote a review of it for the EUG magazine back in the day, which can be found here:

 

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/revs/pc_games/Jet_Set_Willy_PC_000.html

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

[jetsetdanny]

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

[Gyrominiac]

the ending in the remake is a little different from the original game

here's a video of it that i took myself (after countless quicksaves on the DOS version) (VLC messed up while converting the video from avi to mp4 so theres no audio 😕)

(also this is the very first time i've beaten JSW without cheats (if you count the built-in quicksave/quickload feature in the DOS version as not being a cheat), the wine cellar was probably the room i had the most deaths in) 

Edited June 29 by Gyrominiac