[TAS] ZXS Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier by DigitalDuck in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2023-10-03
Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier is ostensibly the sequel to the ZX Spectrum platformer Jet Set Willy. In reality, it is an expanded version of Jet Set Willy that was backported from the Amstrad CPC port, which itself was expanded from the original. As before, Willy has woken up in his gigantic mansion, hungover and with no memory of the night before. He must now tidy up the mansion so the can have permission from his housekeeper Maria to go to bed.
Once again, DigitalDuck ( tasvideos.org/... ) cleans house in this run and goes to bed in record time, only collecting the minimum number of items necessary and dying multiple times in the process.

[@DT_Worlds_Strongest_Goth]

4:36

[@calystus9259]

The 5 minutes of ear bleed at the beginning was a nice touch.

[@Brown95P]

Man, my ears *_definitely_* enjoyed the first four minutes of this run!
🦻

[@1337Shockwav3]

Glad you enjoyed your warez.

[@landfillbaby]

quintessential british gaming
i don't understand some of the choices of which items to get or not get in this run though

[@Bovineprogrammer]

150 items are required to beat the game; some items (like those in Banyan Tree, Deserted Isle, and INCREDIBLE) take a really long time and don't have enough other items nearby to make the journey worth it. I also skipped the entire right side of the space section as it's one long dead end and only has a few items. From there it was just "which individual items take the longest to collect?" and cutting them until we get down until 150.

[@landfillbaby]

@@Bovineprogrammer nice work :)

[@rachelthefictionkin]

I like the sounds

[@deadsonic8907]

Leon Massey review

[@XanthinZarda]

A 27 minute Speccy game? Impressive.

[@hhhh82user]

such an intense mansion, geez

[@1.N.Decent]

No wonder it took so long to compile shaders

[@Koettnylle]

This game is brilliant

[@SpyroTheEternalNight]

am i missing something? why is there 4 and a half minutes of noise at the beginning?

[@atalbrecht]

Platforms like the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 have *REALLY* long loading times. Early 80s computers just didn't have much memory to work with

[@Bovineprogrammer]

@@atalbrecht It's not the amount of memory, it's the loading mechanism - most games came on tape, and sound is not the most efficient storage medium. Games that came on disk loaded much faster, with the caveat that they were much more expensive, and you were much more likely to have a spare tape player lying around your house than a spare disk drive (so you'd have to buy the drive too).

[@SpyroTheEternalNight]

i can understand the loading time. it was an early/experimental time for video games. but why all the noise then? was it needed to make the game work?

[@Bovineprogrammer]

@@SpyroTheEternalNight The noise is the data. The game is stored on a cassette tape.

[@s.hamedstriker5315]

@@Bovineprogrammer wow dude. you are both knowledgeable and fun!

[@BR0SK1X]

You know it's spooky when a NES game contains swearing