The Invisible Man

[JianYang]

On 10/24/2025 at 3:14 AM, jetsetdanny said:

Thank you so much, Norman Sword! 👍

I would definitely like to record a variant of JSW with an invisible Willy. However, I'm not sure how to proceed now. Lee Prince's "The Invisible Man" is incompletable. You have provided the code that allows to achieve the idea that Lee came up with. With this, I'm tempted to try to fix Lee's version with your code and make it available to anyone who might be interested as "The Invisible Man" - Bugfixed Version, with all due credit given to you in the accompanying Readme file, on this variant's page on JSW Central, in the JSW Central YouTube video description and in any announcements I would make about it.

Would you be OK with this solution?

 

Beautiful idea and quite a challenge.

What's the problem here? Is there anything missing from Norman's code that makes it incompletable? I'm lacking the JSW skills to find out myself.

Is it a question of giving everyone the right credit? Or an appropriate name for this? How about "The Invisible Man 2 - A Norman Sword Hack inspired by a Lee Prince idea of Jet Set Willy by Matthew Smith"? Or something slightly less awkward?

[Jet Set Willie]

On 10/26/2025 at 11:28 AM, JianYang said:

Or something slightly less awkward?

Just leave "2" off. 🙂 

As it´s a hacked version of same game. 🙂 

[jetsetdanny]

On 10/26/2025 at 5:28 AM, JianYang said:

What's the problem here? Is there anything missing from Norman's code that makes it incompletable? I'm lacking the JSW skills to find out myself.

Is it a question of giving everyone the right credit? Or an appropriate name for this? How about "The Invisible Man 2 - A Norman Sword Hack inspired by a Lee Prince idea of Jet Set Willy by Matthew Smith"? Or something slightly less awkward?

I don't think there is any "problem" as such, it's just a question of someone producing a final file in a "release" form, I would say with a Readme with proper credits, etc.

I will be happy to prepare such a file when time permits. I haven't had time to do it so far, even though I have been spending most of my spare time on JSW - please have a look here and here for details. Adding some extra touches to Hervé "Willy in the Islands of Mystery (Part II: The Temple)" before its release is my top priority now, so side projects like this one will have to wait for their turn. 

When I am finally able to work on this (hopefully, early next year), I'm thinking of doing the following: inserting Norman Sword's code (from his file "INVISIBLE.TAP") into an official release of the original "Jet Set Willy" (with Software Projects POKEs added and the colour-code protection removed), adding a custom loading screen and possibly a custom title screen, and creating a Readme where the history of the project will be described and all due credit will be given. Oh, and I'm thinking of calling this variant either "Invisible Willy" or "Willy the Invisible" - I would be interested in hearing your opinion on these options for the title, especially how they sound to native English speakers 🙂 .

[JianYang]

I see.

4 hours ago, jetsetdanny said:

Oh, and I'm thinking of calling this variant either "Invisible Willy" or "Willy the Invisible" - I would be interested in hearing your opinion on these options for the title, especially how they sound to native English speakers 🙂 .

 

Both titles have something going for them. "Invisible Willy" makes it seem closer to the original, while "Willy the Invisible" acknowledges the connection while also being different.

Don't take my word for it. I'm a Mof so your English is probably much better than mine.