Manic Miner: Deeper and Down

[The-Red-Bayron]

Hi Richard,

Glad that you enjoyed the game and stuck with it all the way through 👍

Hopefully there weren't any more typos 🤞 I have added the ones that you mentioned to the v 1.1 to do list.

Thanks for your offer with the music if you do have any success I will definitely add it to the game.

 All the best, B

[jetsetdanny]

Richard,

John Elliott described the music format used in the JSW128 game engine here. I believe it is exactly the same in the JSW64 game engine.

Furthermore, JSWED's manual is attached. It discusses using JSWED's Music Editor in section 7.11 (the original music player can be replaced by the one from SoundTracker, which is one of the options to modify the music).

jswed.pdf

[Richard Hallas]

13 hours ago, jetsetdanny said:

Richard,

John Elliott described the music format used in the JSW128 game engine here. I believe it is exactly the same in the JSW64 game engine.

Furthermore, JSWED's manual is attached. It discusses using JSWED's Music Editor in section 7.11 (the original music player can be replaced by the one from SoundTracker, which is one of the options to modify the music).

jswed.pdf 263.45 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks a lot, Danny, that'll save me some hunting. I'll look into this when I can. Life's a bit demanding at present, but if I can find a bit of free time I'll see what I can do.

[IRF]

The in-game music should change if you can find a way to activate the Cheat Mode but I don't think that has any effect on the title screen tune.

[The-Red-Bayron]

I thought that 150 downloads was impressive but now Deeper and Down has just made

  Downloads

Completely amazed that it is doing so well, thanks to everyone that has given it a go 

Just now working on improving the music.

All the best, B

[The-Red-Bayron]

Just to let you know 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.

All the Best,

Byron

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks for releasing v. 1.2, Byron! 👍

[monkeyx]

I think I might be able to implement these levels in a love2d/lua version of Manic Miner I am working on.

Could anyone possible share any level design or data for these extra levels.

Here are the levels I have for the first 20 levels in my game

https://github.com/monkeyx-net/ManicMiner-LOVE2D/blob/main/src/levels.lua

To give an idea of the data format that might help.

Thanks

[JianYang]

On 3/17/2026 at 10:26 PM, monkeyx said:

I think I might be able to implement these levels in a love2d/lua version of Manic Miner I am working on.

Could anyone possible share any level design or data for these extra levels.
 

Manic Miner Redux by @DigitalDuck has a really simple level format and uses pretty much the same level set (although at some points with different interpretations). It could certainly be a start: 

 

[The-Red-Bayron]

Hi This is a reply to the posts from monkeyx and JianYang please let me know what info you need as I have all the screen layouts and sprite designs for the game.

Sorry to be late in replying life has been getting in the way 

All the best,

B