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| | | Freely available from https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/manic-miner-bug-byte-software-ltd -- I'm using the "Original release" in the Speccy emulator. It's a single-screen platformer with 20 stages.
Author Matthew Smith made a sequel, Jet Set Willy, in which you platform through a house, and can move back and forth between the screens. It's pretty nuts and I got really confused. :L P
This top list is useful:
https://worldofspectrum.net/archive/top-100/
(worldofspectrum.net and spectrumcomputing.co.uk may still host games whose distribution isn't permitted--wosn links to delisted sccu files!) |
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| | | | For games lists, this is useful too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZvUWdAtA0 (Kim Justice top 100 ZX Spectrum games) -- from https://selectbutton.net/t/amiga-mini/11835/18 by meauxdal |
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| | | | Only keys needed seem to be Enter (to start), Space (Jump), P (Right), O (Left), A (Pause). In Speccy I'm also using F6 (Quicksave) and F7 (Quickload). Mapped all these to controller with Joy2Key. |
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| | | Download added: 00_stg3_speccy.jpg (94652 bytes)
"Speccy emulator screenshot on stage 3"
Seems like a pretty sweet hardcore platformer. Horrible music that worms into my brain. ^ D^ 20 stages of this is gonna take a heck of a lot of save scumming--and carefully too 'cause collapsing floors can cut off necessary back-tracks and leave you stranded if you do them wrong, and the depleting air meter means you can't even afford much time wasting! = oo Brutal! ; D
Hah and I just overwrote my quicksave wrong trying to take a screenshot. : P Gotta get used to backing the quicksave file up I guess; or I could use the ZEsarUX emulator (see entry 1737), which saves them as successive files, but that gets a bit messy–and its quickload is still mostly manual, and its pixel art menu is kind of a pain. |
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| | | | That meauxdal post was https://selectbutton.net/t/amiga-mini/11835/18 |
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| | | | There's a cheats (.pok) file for download from that worldofspectrum page where I got the game. Have to rename it to match the .tzx file, F5 after loading ROM, select "Manage cheats," select "Infinite Lives" (the 5th line--there are multiple lives lines : P), select Done. Have to reactivate each time load ROM. |
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