jetsetdanny Posted March 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Thanks, Andy, that's very helpful! 👍 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted March 20, 2022 Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 20 hours ago, jetsetdanny said: Thanks, Andy, that's very helpful! 👍 You're welcome. 🙂 One thing that occurred to me shortly after I'd left my PC, was to check the actual music data itself, as its in iirc three files. If you look at the "grace.tun" for these two files (I also looked at my archive of them and its the same) you'll see this file is full of effectively blank data, a repeating pattern of #00 #FF , similar to how the S.P version of Manic Miner filled the 'dead space' actually. I took a look at another two different JSW128 files and they had actual 'data' of some description in this file, so its fair to say the 'tune' was purposely cut out. The odd click may well because it may still try to read that pattern and occasionally its enough to cause it to make some noise assuming the code is trying to control the AY chip directly not via ROM routines. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted March 20, 2022 Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) To confirm the above, this is from the grace.tun file for both a standard game and (identical or almost in both your files) from the ones you attached: The difference is clear 😄 , You can see the right hand one is virtually 'dead' whereas the left one contains data, in repeating (sort of) patterns. To further satisfy my curiosity, I replaced grace.tun in both the files you supplied to check. I can confirm that the tune playing code is correctly there, my previous comment about it being AWOL I guess (without checking) was it likely performs a call to the routine as its "AY" rather than "Beeper". Attaching the 'test' files, but as I put I've replaced the 'blanked' out file with the original and the tune plays as expected in-game: TEST_FILE_where's woody_test.tap TEST_FILE_STRANGEL.tap 🙂 Edited March 20, 2022 by Spider Tidied image attachment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted March 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 Thanks, Andy, I appreciate your spending time on this and the additional info! 🙂 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted April 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 Updates on the JSW Central YouTube channel since the last video I mentioned in this thread: Manic Jet Set Willy Jet Set Emily: Baby on the Go Original Edition Jet Set Emily: Baby on the Go Special Edition Jet Set Emily: Baby on the Go Final Edition Jet Set Willy 16K Willy and the Dodecahedron Jet-Set Willy Ivy where's woody? Willy Takes a Trip MANIC-minor The recordings of "Manic Jet Set Willy" and "MANIC-minor" are very recent (because the games are relatively new), as is the recording of "Jet Set Willy 16K" (because I only completed it for the first time recently). The remaining videos were made from my RZX walkthroughs which I recorded a long time ago. They seemed good enough to be used for the YouTube channel. If I re-recorded these games now, I would do some things differently (like turning while jumping vertically up if a turn is required, instead of jumping up and then turning to face in the other direction), but I decided that these details, which may affect the aesthetic side of the recordings a little bit, were not "serious enough" to warrant a re-recording of these games, which would require a significant investment of time and energy (which I can use better for other MM/JSW-related activities). Spider and MtM 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtM Posted April 8, 2022 Report Share Posted April 8, 2022 You're dedication is commendable Danny! One day you will have your reward in JSW heaven 😉 Spider and jetsetdanny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted April 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 Thank you, MtM! I am looking forward to it, but in the meantime I hope to still be able to do some MM- and JSW-related things here on Matthew Smith's Earth 😁. Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted September 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 Updates on the JSW Central YouTube channel since the last video I mentioned in this thread: JSW Stupid Holy Shit!!! The Perils of Willy – Bog Roll Edition Willy on a Transatlantic Cruise Henry's Hoard (1985 version) Henry's Hoard (1986 version) Henry's Hoard (1989 version) Bizarre! Pip The Pipistrelle Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia SE The videos of "JSW Stupid", "Holy Shit!!!", "Willy on a Transatlantic Cruise", the three versions of "Henry's Hoard", "Bizarre!" and "Pip The Pipistrelle" have been made from my old RZX recordings, which have been available for download from JSW Central for years now. The video of the Bog Roll Edition of "The Perils of Willy" was made (back in April) from a (then) brand-new RZX recording (a bugfixed, completable version of this edition was only released by Allan Turvey in December 2021). The video of the Special Edition of "Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia" was made from a newly-made RZX recording, which can now (since half an hour ago!) be downloaded from JSW Central. I managed to improve my score by 163 points (from 25,373 pts. to 25,536 pts.). This probably means I did quite a good job recording it back in 2015, as the improvement has been minimal. Incidentally, the scores quoted above are scores upon reaching the equivalent of the swordfish sign in the final room. In this game (as well as in Andrew Broad's "Manic Miner 4"), the air counter keeps resetting itself after the player has completed the final cavern, causing a constant increase in the score and making it impossible to re-enter the first cavern. Therefore, the score upon reaching the equivalent of the swordfish sign is the only final score that can be reasonably quoted. These two games are the reason why on JSW Central there are two best scores given for each MM game. Most of the games can be compared using the score upon the first re-entry into the first cavern. These two games do not have that score, therefore the only value they can be compared against (the score upon reaching the equivalent of the swordfish sign) is also given for all of the other MM games (which otherwise would not need to have two ending scores mentioned). Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtM Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Incroyable! Bravo! jetsetdanny and Spider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted November 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 Updates on the JSW Central YouTube channel since the last video I mentioned in this thread: "Miles Mad Mission" "Willy the Hacker" "ZX81 Manic Miner" "Utility Cubicles" "Jet Set Willy X" "STRANGEL" "Jet Set Willy: The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!" "Jet Set Willy: The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!! Special Edition" The videos of "STRANGEL" and "Jet Set Willy X" and were made from RZX walkthroughs I recorded a long time ago, in September 2008 and May 2013, respectively. The videos of "Miles Mad Mission", "Willy the Hacker" and "ZX81 Manic Miner" were made from RZX recordings I made recently, as I had not played these games to completion before. I managed to complete "Miles Mad Mission" at 8:25 am, "Willy the Hacker" at 9973769 (please see this thread for more info), and "ZX81 Manic Miner" with 21,911 points upon the first re-entry into the first cavern, all of these results being significant improvements over other publicly available completions of these games. For the other three videos, I replayed and re-recorded them in order to improve my own earlier performances. I brought down my completion time of "Utility Cubicles" from 8:40 am to 8:31 am, of "Jet Set Willy: The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!" from 8:16 am to 8:13 am, and of the Special Edition of "Jet Set Willy: The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!" from 8:33 am to 8:25 am. All of the newly-recorded RZX files can be downloaded from the games' respective JSW Central pages. Spider and MtM 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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