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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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| | | There's a color flash/strobe on level clear--don't really want to play with that.
Anyway, I found that in Speccy I had to load from my shortcut
C:\downloaded\Speccy\Speccy.exe -nosync roms\manimine.tzx
then, if I didn't have a save state (which it would autoload), I had to press F4, then hold F9 of PgUp to speed up tape loading...and sometimes it would successfully get to the title screen.
Had to set up keyboard mapping in DS4Windows (l=q, r=p, X,[]=space, Start=ENTER, L3=F7, R3=F6) and in Speccy, under Input menu, have ONLY "Automatic Fire" checked.
F5 in Speccy to get to cheats menu. Have to reenable cheats each time...or kinda not if it's loaded from quicksave, which is darned inconvenient. In that case, have to delete manimine.sta file in roms folder and re-run.
Enter toggles music. |
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| | | It's too bad about the stage end strobing because MM was I think the only Spectrum game I tried or looked at that had music playing during gameplay; even other games renowned for their music, like oh Monty on the Run or anyway one of those Monty Mole games I think, only have music on the title screen or something; and you don't really appreciate how much of a bummer it is not to have music during gameplay until you're just left in silence and told to go on and have fun. : P
MM's music DOES kind of do your head in after a bit. ^ _^ |
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