[File] Manic Miner: The Lost Levels

[The-Red-Bayron]

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Manic Miner: The Lost Levels

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After watching Manic Miner Ports by RetroGamerDiaries I wondered if it would be possible to convert these levels back into the original Spectrum format.

The levels are from the Oric-1, Dragon 32, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro and the Gameboy Advance releases and tries to replicate them as close as the original 48K game mechanic allows.

Here are the levels and the systems they came from.

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• Submitter
  The-Red-Bayron
• Submitted
  04/28/2024
• Category
  Manic Miner [Remakes]

 

[Spider]

Have just played it through, excellent as I found it not difficult for me.

I can't put the .rzx here*** but I can do a video if needed.

 

*** Only reason is I'd premodified the 'core' a little bit as an experiment before playing. Does -not- effect anything you did afaik.

[The-Red-Bayron]

Hi Spider, thanks so much for playing the game 👍 It is really appreciated. I would like to see the .rzx to see how you did all the levels.

All the best,

B

[Spider]

1 hour ago, The-Red-Bayron said:

Hi Spider, thanks so much for playing the game 👍 It is really appreciated. I would like to see the .rzx to see how you did all the levels.

All the best,

B

Hi.

Thank you again for the game! 🙂 

The AMS and BBC levels were appreciated, the last AMS one being quite hard and I'm thankful that in BBC Meteor Storm the 'gates' were not electric.

 

Oddly enough, I have (before I saw this message) just had a playthough again , this time (as I should of done first time) with your standard game as provided , so this one I -can- attach here:

I did not rush hugely so its not a massively efficient way and I merely looked at what was going on in the cavern, then took a 'best guess' , I did lose one life probably shown in the playback and had about 4 rollbacks in total.

Lost_Levels_Spider_1st_May_23.rzx

Recorded in Spectaculator, should play back in that and Spin/Fuse/Zero.

 

[Spider]

I see the topic here was updated to include the 'new' version too. Thank you.

[The-Red-Bayron]

Just wanted to say a big

 Thank You 

To everyone in the community as there has been over 250 downloads of the game.

I am amazed to have got more than 10 as it started as a "what if" idea with a bit of tinkering.

All the best,

B

[Spider]

Great stuff! 🙂 

[The-Red-Bayron]

Firstly an apology Version 1.1 128K was made but never uploaded! I have it, I have played it but never let it out !! Must be getting old??

Anyway it corrected the conveyor direction in "Not Central Cavern" with thanks to StanVanman for pointing this out, 

So there is a version 1.2 available, this is a bug fix for the final screen "Up Up and Away" you can now restart the Game by pressing Shift+Space.

Thanks to  Daniel (jetsetdanny) at JSW Central for letting me know how to do this.

When putting together the DS version I used some very low res screen grabs and screenshots of the gameplay. This was only for the "Lost Levels"

I now have a DS emulator and have found the original ROM file, if you complete the 20 levels it unlocks additional levels "WillyWood" and "Bonus Stages"

WillyWood is a films tribute with 10 levels;

“I’M A DRUNKARD” SAID RICK
BRIGHT LIGHT, BRIGHT LIGHT
HELLO GUYS, I’M MR PERKINS
WE DON’T NEED ROADS!
WE’VE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU!
HE SLIMED ME!!
BLONDES ARE SCARCE ROUND HERE
I’LL BE BACK
I HAD A HUNCH!
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO MADISON?

    

There are 20 Bonus Stages, so far 4 unlocked but 2 are duplicated of what has already be done in Deeper and Down.

 

So there could be another 15 to 20 additional lost levels, should be able to reproduce the layout and sprites but not the backgrounds.

I have contacted the website that has published the game asking for permission to port it to the Spectrum.

If anyone in the community knows more about this game or who to contact please let me know. 

All the Best,

Byron

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks for releasing v. 1.2, Byron! 👍

[Jet Set Willie]

👍👍👍👍

There is surely some "ratt" lurking in that Blagger room!