jetsetdanny Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 Thanks for the info, Andy. I've added the link to the game's JSW Central page (offline, for the time being). Will add it to Chronology as well. Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Sword Posted January 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner? The pictures are different enough that even the low res spoiler picture, is evidently the original Manic Miner. Can you spot all the changes? Edited January 31, 2022 by Norman Sword adding 2nd picture. jetsetdanny and Spider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 1. "40" between the main title 2. The car windscreen 'A Pillar' missing pixel fixed (as you know this was 'fixed' in the Software Projects release of the original whereas the Bug Byte version has it missing) 3. Blank 'Final Barrier' cavern area fully populated with background 4. Fixed piano key layout of black keys 5. Bright cyan/red for indication a key is playing (something I tend to do anyway on some of my releases) 6. Full key indication in cyan/red vs one attribute block I get the feeling I've missed one something ? 🙂 jetsetdanny and Norman Sword 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Sword Posted January 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) I basically redrew all the text. I started from scratch and drew all the text in a way that I would do. Then modified back some of the quirks from the original. Starting on MANIC The start of the Leading M is adjusted and cleaned up to a consitant 1 pixel wide The A has a narrower left side upright. The C has the upper flick removed On MINER The strange indent on the M was fixed. To me it looked wonky The Start curve on the M of Miner duplicates the start M on Manic The tail of the R duplicates the initial curl on the M's On STARRING The A and R are better kerned On MINER WILLY The L's in Miner Willy are made Narrower on PRESS ENTER TO START The E's all have a longer middle The N has its middle kink removed The A has the lower bar moved up a pixel The T and the A in START are better kerned Changed the keyboard layout and also changed the length of the black keys relative to the white portion below. Edited February 1, 2022 by Norman Sword IRF, jetsetdanny and Spider 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted February 1, 2022 Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 Wow 😮 A lot more changes than I thought! To be fair they are noticeable now you mention them. I guess I was looking for the 'obvious' ones. On 1/31/2022 at 2:15 PM, Norman Sword said: I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner? I'll contact Pavero over the next few days Norman, I'm almost sure he'll want to update the "map" to correctly reflect the changes. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 Your attention to detail on Manic 40 Miner's title screen is impressive, Norman Sword! 👍 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) On 1/31/2022 at 2:15 PM, Norman Sword said: I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner? I did not receive a reply to my enquiry about this to the map author (but I think that's partly my fault now, I've emailed today instead!) so I took a screenshot of the correct title screen, resized it and applied it to the "map" I posted earlier, which for reference can be found in this post I made no other changes to the image, save for 'whiting out' the playing keys from my screenshot before applying it to correct the incorrect one, and took the whole lot at maximum display size (1688x1336) EDIT... The map author has now updated the image on their site too. 🙂 Edited March 8, 2022 by Spider Updated information jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted November 7, 2022 Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 Thought I'd have a blast at this today (again) although a while back it was more the editing features. Played through the "traditional almost" caverns , until I got to 22 "Melting Iceberg" it gets rather tricky! I have an open .rzx for now. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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