Jazz2Online News

Jazz Twosday: JJ2+ v6.6h

Violet CLM — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:15:41 +0000

Version 6.6h of JJ2+ is now available!

For a while now, JJ2+ has packaged its various settings files—plus.ini, admin.ini, and LevelList.ini—inside plus_install.exe, which would add any settings you were missing but wouldn’t overwrite your existing settings in your existing .ini files. This model worked great for most people, but not for people stuck using Windows XP, and notably not for people who used GOG.com’s installers instead of ours.

That became a lot more important recently, as JJ2+ recently became available as a standalone “one-click” mod on GOG! To celebrate this and welcome new players, there is now an entire JJ2+ website listing all the numerous features and fixes by category, with lots of jazzy screenshots and other graphics, not to mention a startlingly popular trailer.

As a result, 6.6h generates those .ini files when you run JJ2+ instead, which is compatible with any way you obtain JJ2+.

It even generates a brand new file, PlayList.ini, which is used in a new Playlist feature. Many levels have good music… and some don’t. Sometimes the music repeats too quickly. Sometimes the levels cycle too often and it’s jarring to hear the music keep changing. And sometimes you want to listen to your module music collection but don’t have a convenient way to do that. For all those problems, JJ2+ gives you playlists, which are like a media player program that only cares about the music in your JJ2 folder.

Another new on-launch JJ2+ trick is editing the windows registry to more reliably support fullscreen. And in other news, the overtime scoring conditions from 6.5 have been revised, there are some miscellaneous fixes, and “The Secret Files” is no longer on the top of the episode list… that last one was previously available to GOG players, but now it’s available to everyone else too.

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Jazz Jackrabbit to be Sprite in Fortnite

Violet CLM — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:18:00 +0000

It’s been a little while since the Fortnite arcade machine, and now it’s time for Jazz’s biggest, squarest cameo yet:

Spotted in the trailer for a new Fortnite season, Jazz Jackrabbit appears as a “sprite,” which seems to be a kind of backpack that gives players some special ability. In this case, wearing Jazz as a backpack seems to give players a double jump, a nod to the most common move in Jazz Jackrabbit 2’s online multiplayer.

(The player is also seen wielding an “8-Bit Shotgun“, which resembles a Gravis Gamepad only by vague coincidence, but the gun and sprite seem to be unrelated.)

Jazz is prominently featured among other sprites in Epic Games’ promotional images, though it remains to be seen whether he will be a permanent feature of the game. The rest of the trailer seems to feature Duke Nukem in a large crossover with many other video game characters, including Sonic and Tails who are also being added as sprites.

Jazz can be seen blinking and doing other idle animations in the trailer, although making him rectangular brings to mind the square-headed Jazz from 2010’s iOS demo. But it does mean you can potentially buy a plush doll, complete with AI marketing copy, from one of many suspicious looking websites that clone and recolor PersonalityGiftShop.

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JDC 36 Logo Contest

PurpleJazz — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:24:00 +0000

The Jazz Duelist’s Challenge returns for its 36th season next Saturday (8 August).

With that in mind, we could sure use a brand new logo! Hence, we are running another contest.

Please refer to the JCF thread for further details.

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Two New Fangames Appear

Violet CLM — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:53:17 +0000

It’s fangame season in the community, with two new projects appearing just in the last week!

Jazz Jackrabbit for Sega Genesis is progressing rapidly and grappling with how to display JJ1’s levels and graphics with a console’s limited capabilities. It’s in vertical slice territory, with some form of everything—a menu, enemy collision, one enemy behavior, three sounds, and so on. It doesn’t appear to be based on OpenJazz at all.

Jazz Jackrabbit Rabbit’s Revenge is already complete, with four planets and a bunch of different weapons and enemies. It’s inspired by the original games (and reuses or edits a lot of sprites) but it’s not a remake like the other, it’s doing its own thing.

It’s been a good long while since 2018’s Bun & Gun. Be sure to check out these new games—you can download and play them both right now!—and reply to their JCF threads so that the creators can see your appreciation!

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JDC Season 35 to end Saturday, JDC 36 starts August 8th

cooba — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:43:11 +0000

Huh, the new season ends so soon? And there’s another season in just 3 weeks?

Well, there’s a few reasons for that.

Stay tuned for more JDC updates soon!

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Jazz Twosday: JJ2+ v6.6f

Violet CLM — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:04:00 +0000

Version 6.6f of JJ2+ is now available!

Do you like organizing your downloaded levels into separate folders? But you’d like those folders to still show up in the Home-Cooked Levels Episode? This update does exactly that, turning the episode into an entire filesystem that finds all the .j2l files in all the subfolders of your JJ2 folder.

This was one of our most requested features, and was looked over for a long time as one of our public test builds… though it’s complicated code, so there may still be some lingering issues, we’ll see!

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Jazz Twosday: JJ2+ v6.6e

Violet CLM — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Version 6.6e of JJ2+ is now available!

This update tries to make JJ2+‘s built-in server list more competitive with GIP scripts. Features like spectator mode are useful but can make it harder to know whether a server actually has anyone playing in it, especially dedicated servers with dedicated spectators.

6.6e introduces some new options to make this all much clearer. Here’s an example of a server with one real human player (Jazz), one bot, one spectator (a JJ1 Beholder), and room for one more client to join.

Don’t like this style? That’s okay, there are plenty of different styles to choose from using the F9 key. One way or another, if you want, it can be much easier to find the servers that have humans who can play JJ2 with you. Discussion here.

Want to know which humans are in a server? Or what level they’re playing? Hold down the Tab key for a fully detailed view of each server, inspired by this 2007 hoax from cooba.

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JDC Season 35 starts Sunday May 31

Violet CLM — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:35:00 +0000

JDC is back for another action-packed season! JDC Season 35 is due to kick off with the opening event on Sunday 31 May at 20:00 CEST, after which you may start duelling.

JDCE is also coming back for another round! You may also be interested in taking part in the Clashing Swords: Duel Level Contest for your chance to win additional JDC points and have your level up for inclusion in the mappool! Sign ups for JDCE will be announced shortly.

Besides the JDC website, there’s also a dedicated JDC Discord server where you can stay up to date with all of the latest JDC announcements as they happen.

And remember that you can earn a bonus +25 points for correctly identifying all the music in the current J2O poll!

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New Poll

Violet CLM — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:04:32 +0000

It’s time for a new poll here on Jazz 2 Online, in the bottom right corner of the front page! This poll includes lyrics from module music tracks you know and love from fanmade levels.

The first person to comment on this newspost with the (file)name of every module music in the poll will get a bonus 25 JDC points for the next season! When is the next season? Hmmm well… watch this space!

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End of the Bash

Violet CLM — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:57:54 +0000

All things must pass, and yesterday wrapped up four days of high-octane Jazzing action! One of the biggest parts of the Anniversary Bash is you, the players, and you came out and made everything great. I loved playing with you for five, six, ten hours a day. Another part is the game itself—28 years! Thank you, Epic (Mega)Games!—and a third part is the levels we play each year.

I’ve added links to most of the levels played in this year’s bash, sorted by how many reviews they have so far. If you had fun in a multiplayer map that was lovingly hand-crafted by another member of your community, why not type a few words to let them know? There’s no better way to show appreciation for a level, and give back to the community, than writing a review.

0 reviews
Officially Timeless
Mires
Castlevania
Bloody Bunny’s Lair
Vector Zenith
Winter Wish
Erosion
Rip Your Heart Out

1 review
Espresso City
Ocean Sailing Trip
The Cauldron (part of a pack)
Lockjaw (technically two but one isn’t helpful)
Dingle Dell
Pinball Duel 2k25
Willowgrove Hollow
Syri i Kalter
Wuwang Bang Bang (Domination version)
Yharguul, The Shadowed Wharf
Space Junkyard

2 reviews
A Cloudy Day
Mausoleum
Peculiar Purple Peak

3 reviews
Titan Armory
Zes
Dilapidation
Spyro’s City
Tainted Heaven (part of a pack)
Re-Purposed Offshore Platform
Orbital IV (all very short)
Dawn of Combat (part of a pack, all very short)

4 or more
Higher Fragging Rate
Intercity Grudge Match (part of a pack)
Frozen Throne (part of a pack)
Doomsday Darkdream (part of a pack)
Fort Oblivion (example level)
Astral Witchcraft
Chizra Observatory
Hall of the Mountain King

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