A chinese who loves JSW

[UncleWan]

wow that's so hard to have a account in this website! I have to use the VPN to cross the internet great wall so l can post what l want to say in here.

l first seen the game "jet set willy"about 3 years ago,l love the platform games like this so l want to learn it more.without Google(china banned Google!),the only l can use is Bing .but that's enough.

l often play jsw on the online emulator like "zx art"or"qaop".after a few months,the more versions l found.like java version or PC version by Andy Noble(very good),and z88 version(l can't believe that it can play on a so narrow screen!amazing),there are lot of versions that l can't type them here.

manic miner?good game .l even write a "Baidu Baike"(because China has not wikipedia,we use Baidu Baike as instead.)about the MM!

https://baike.baidu.com/item/疯狂矿工/1186578?fr=ge_ala

above is the Baike l wrote.at 2019.there are still some wrong in it,😂.

l said too many but l can't even create an account because l can't pass the security check😅,but it is not important.just want to say that l love MM and JSW.And l am happy to see that there is a forum!

thanks every much

(if l have some grammatical errors ，please dont care😂l only learn English when l was in senior high school)

[Spider]

Hello and welcome.

I did see your message about difficulty registering, I'm sorry about that.

We don't have any "geographical / country" restrictions imposed here so I have to assume the issue (you solved yourself) was perhaps your service provider or similar. I can only think the captcha may of caused issues as it does use Google to get the actual image "puzzle" to solve.

I checked via a third party tool that the site is or should be visible from there too, testing from "Shanghai" and "Guangzhou" , both got a "OK" 🙂 

 

I was able to view your webpage and then via a translate tool read most of them too. 🙂 

[UncleWan]

1 hour ago, Spider said:

Hello and welcome.

I did see your message about difficulty registering, I'm sorry about that.

We don't have any "geographical / country" restrictions imposed here so I have to assume the issue (you solved yourself) was perhaps your service provider or similar. I can only think the captcha may of caused issues as it does use Google to get the actual image "puzzle" to solve.

I checked via a third party tool that the site is or should be visible from there too, testing from "Shanghai" and "Guangzhou" , both got a "OK" 🙂 

 

I was able to view your webpage and then via a translate tool read most of them too. 🙂 

• Thank you Spider😊, I had a lot to say, but I ended up deleting them. The bottom line is: I think my difficulties are nothing compared to what I found here. It's nice to have like-minded people.

[jetsetdanny]

Hi UncleWan, welcome to the forum! 🙂 It's great that you've found this place, been able to overcome all the technical difficulties and can now post here.

I find it amazing that you like MM and JSW while you first saw JSW only about 3 years ago. This actually gives me hope that some people in the future, long after our time, will still like the Willy games, which of course will be to them like perhaps us reading ancient literature or something.

I've had a look at your Baidu page. Interestingly, when the page is translated automatically from Chinese to English, the game's name becomes "Crazy Miner". That's an interesting twist on the title 😉 .

So thanks again for joining the forum and we look forward to the (unexpected, to be honest, while positively exciting) feedback and input from China!

[Jet Set Willie]

Hi,

I just noticed this topic. There are two asian JSW and MM versions. A japanese card (not cartridge) version of JSW, they had modified it a bit, moonlight sonata was probably ripped off and I think the ingame tune was different. The second one is Alligata´s MM clone Blagger, not sure if it was published as a card, cartridge or tape. These games are for MSX.

I don´t remember if there was a pirated JSW available in South-Korea by Zemina. Zemina was a company with their MSX clone/video game system.

Edited November 3 by Jet Set Willie

[Norman Sword]

I remember seeing the MSX bee card - It was played on an MSX by Alan Maton, just for me. The card was a pre release demonstration.

 

Edited November 3 by Norman Sword

[Jet Set Willie]

Thanks for sharing this interesting memory, Norman! 🙂 Where and when this happened?

[Spider]

A little investigation and (as I had no idea really what was meant by 'card') to my mind that was a cartridge.

I also noted (was mentioned about protection in another topic) JSW had a ten page long keycode inlay. I am assuming this was the tape version, given the 'difficulty' (not impossible, but expensive back then) of copying the hardware version.

[Jet Set Willie]

Yes, it´s a card sized cartridge, thus a card. 🙂 Also, you can´t use it as a normal cartridge on MSX, you need a Beecard adapter, too.

The Beecard JSW I downloaded long time ago had lots of lives, I don´t know if japanese publisher had modified it to turn the difficulty level more acceptable? Or perhaps somebody had modified the internet file?