Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Whee. BlurredD has done it once again.

1 sudnomaiD
An upside down version of Diamondus. With added waterfalls and some backround eyecandy. 2 sudnomaiD is basically the same, except the night version of Diamondus. Nothing really spectacular here or anything, and I doubt people would use these too often.

Diamond Dust 01
I really like this, the copperish ground looks so good in this tileset and has a nice, warm look, and the colors are nice and bright. The waterfalls are fairly easy to use (just animate them in the clockwise order that you see them in the tileset) and there is some backround eyecandy as well. More tiles could’ve been added, but its alright right now.

Diamond Dust 01 F
Basically an upside down version of Diamond Dust 01.

Diamond Dust 02
I really like this one, it gives Diamondus a nice darkish feel, and the waterfalls are there too so you can make nice, beautiful(sp?) landscapes with this set, as demostrated in Starlight falls II.

Diamond Dust 02 F
Upside down version of Diamond Dust 02. Whee.

Technical Requirements: Water looks pretty good in them (even in 8bit), Psych Pole works, Jungle Pole looks a bit weird but works, Carrotus Pole works, pinball 500 bumps work really nicely, Carrot bumps look O.k. in the diamond dust 01, but not so good in diamond dust 02, and the pinball pads work good. Snow looks strangely green in diamondus dust 01, but look pretty good in the 02 version.

Final rating:
Diamond Dust 01: 8.5
Diamond Dust 02: 9.2
Technical Requirements: 8
+0.5 for the upside down versions
=9.066666666666666666667 (or similar)
Rounded down to 9.

The conversions look really nice and are very well done, but next time more extra tiles could’ve been added. Most things like poles and pinball objects work, but some look a bit buggy. Otherwise this is an excellent peice of work, and a download reccomended. Keep it up! =P

eyecandie:100 procent
orginal:95 procent
item placement: because there are no save points i wnted to make that a 95 procent bud it is 100 procent cause the levels are short
enemy placement:perfect
music:9.9 case of the movies bud 100 procent whitout the movies ^
cause al things above | a one hunderd procent congrats!!!!

download recomdation:if jou dont download it jou are a fool! so in one word j-e-s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ehm, guys? Quit sucking up to him already! Don’t mind me, but I just think you’re overrating them just a little bit :D. Time for me to do something about it.

BlurrED has becoming famous his palette edits of offical JJ2 sets. First Castle (with added sky and rain) to Psych. This time he’s taken on Diamondus, everybody’s favourite tileset, because it is just so easy to use (and therefor overused to a golden crisp)! For this review, I’ll point out the differences and things added in each set. Ready? Here we go :P

1 sudnomaiD
Nothing more than Diamondus 1 spelled backwards. This is probably the weirdest thing ever done to a tileset: turning it upsidedown. As mentioned before, this has been done before (EvilMike if I’M not mistaking). Overall it just looks weird. There’s a downside to this however: the Diamondus Pole event virtually becomes useless here. Masking is ok.

2 sudnomaiD
Night version, enough said.

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Diamond Dust 01
The main attraction of the pack. BlurrED wasn’t kidding when he said the palette edit was pretty lazy: the most significant change is the blue ground turning to a copper color! The rest just changed shades or not at all (unlikely :P). Of course he put in some extra tiles (which you can find in the flipped sets as well): a waterfall, JJ1 style and sized down background walls. While that may look nice, there’s hardly any interaction possible with the rest of the tiles. At best you can use the downsized wall tiles in layer 4, but that’s it. You’d have to use layer 5 to 8 for the waterfalls and walls, which is a shame. The order of the water tiles is hard to figure out. Masking is fine tho, no problems.

Diamondus Dust 01F
Upsidedown version, similar to 1 sudnomaiD. Same palette, same extras, same story.

Diamondus Dust 02
I consider this the night version of Diamond Dust, here’s where more changes come looking. Everything’s pretty dark (with the exception of the gems in the ground, which makes a nice contrast). The ground is a very dark blue-grey, while the grass and leaves are a dirty greenish-brown. The rest turned to a darker shade of their original colors.

Diamondus Dust 02F
Just for the heck of it: upsidedown version of Diamond Dust 02.

Example levels
In a shamefull move, BlurrED modified Offical CTF levels (Diamondus Warzone flag bug fix, obvious choice). Thing is, the level is flipped for the flipped sets. Pretty weird experience.

BlurrED did make 2 example levels, but only the battle level, StarLight Falls, show what you really can do with the modifications. But why only Diamond Dust 02?

Verdict:
Pretty good conversions, but I doubt anyone would wanna use them, since Diamondus is so overused. Recommended for the conversion collector :P

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3

Here I am again, with the review of the second part. This time, rather than reviewing the pack as a whole, I will check the individual for problems and other things, since they may have .psm related problems.

- Song0.s3m (Diamondus): Nothing wrong with this song, sound just like the original.
- Song1.s3m (Sluggion): Same here, although one sample is still missing (0:53 – 1:01). One would expect it to be inplemented by now, but I guess only the JJ1 music engine can find and play it.
- Song2.s3m (Technoir): No problems. ‘nuff said :p
- Song3.s3m (Tubelectric): ditto
- Song4.s3m (Turtemple): ditto
- Song5.s3m (Nippius): ditto

Verdict:
They all sound just like the old .s3m files, and that’s where the problems lay. The only thing that makes them different is the built-in name instead of the auto-name. If you already have all JJ1 music files, this may not be worth your time unless the auto-name thing bothers you. If you don’t have them, they make good substitutes.

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3

sigh Do I have to do everything myself? :p Or I just have way too much free time on my hands…

To be honest, I have no words for this remix. For a first track it’s pretty impressive. It sounds pretty decent, it shows the tracker has potential. He didn’t go overboard trying to make it the best, instead he stayed level. The track has a steady tempo, like 1, 2, 1, 2. I’m not an expert on instruments, but they seem too … mellow for a tough bunny like Jazz. That’s forgivable for a first try, as long as he’s prepared to improve on it. The nicest thing is the added tune in the “silent” area (0:57 to 1:06), which is actually a part of the menu song, not made up. The melody is completely preservedOne thing bothered me tho: the very long file name. I had to shorten it because it screwed up the file selection window in my player. Names like “JJ-menurm” would have worked better.

Verdict:
A good remix, but it could use some minor improvements on the instruments and the steady tempo. But since it’s the tracker’s first try, it’s understandable he wanted to stay level, so I won’t hold points back for that. Recommended download, with the reservation of the long file name.

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3[This review has been edited by JelZe]

Another Letni remix, which actually suxx. Stupid, unsynthesized samples, short, everything offtuned. Sample choice is bad like everything other.

(+) You don’t must download it
(-) Samples
(-) Offtuned

If you are searching for way to comittee a suicide, here you go. In other cases, go away.

Hmm… Not bad, I think. I like the most, of the ending part of this track, which is really nice with those “crasing” and “machine” sound effects. It’s like a techno track with breaks, and a short melody. So, I like how you use this effects in this track, there are many good ideas, but I think, you need to change more in a track, to make a better remix. Just, don’t give up! =)

6 pointless Diamondus editions! the name is wrong. it should be 6 very good diamondus editions!

well that will probaly tell amolst everthing what i think about thos tileset´s but i still write a review!

graphichs 4 out of 4
I love the diamondus tilesets and thougt that that they were perfect but now i see you really can improve them with only some palette editions (diamondus dust). Great work Blurredd!

useability 2,8 out of 3
Cool new tiles, i love the waterfall!!

originality 2,5 out of 3
the flipped versions were so originally, so crasy! good thinking Blurredd

totally
4 + 2,8 + 2,5 = 9,2

Great tileset editions!![This review has been edited by Olsen][This review has been edited by Olsen]

Nice mix.

We have Letni Mix with new samples and beats, new voices. So.

Beat’s are okay; samples are really great, just this is reason to download. I think all samples are choosen very well, but some are badly synthesized…

Then, it’s a bit (no, not bit, but just for better sounding sentence…) repetitive. It has no ending, so it’s good for levels, and in levels it’s not so horrible, but it really could be shorter…

Added voices and effects always gives tempo to tunes, they are making it more alive, that’s nice.

(+) Samples
(+) Voices
(-) Repetitivity

Not a must have, I am not impressed like never before, but pretty decent mix, and if you have time, you should listen to this.

I would like to say that if you are trying to learn anything at all about Jazz2, this is a level you should stay away from. When the other people say there is no eye candy, they mean there is no eye candy. There is an incredibly small attempt at a layout, but it’s too small to count for anything. When I played this level, I wanted to shoot myself. It’s just not fun or good looking in any way whatsoever.

Remember, friends don’t let friends download “tutorial level for beginers”.

Ok, here comes my loooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg review:
Eye Candy: The eye candy is really good, nice work! You’re getting this!

Weapon placement: Many weapons, too many! That’s fun! Yeah, I love CTF levels with a lot of weapons!

Backround: Well, the texture backround rules, but it more happens in cave then outsite, so we can’t see it really much!

Diffuculy: Too easy, please have the flags longer ways to each others!

Layout: It’s great!

Springs: Many springs, that’s good!

Powerups: Yeah, there are some powerups! But they’re too few, some hidden somewhere! =D

Download recommand: Yes!!!

Host it to the Internet: Yes!!!!

Overall rating: 7.2

Have a nice day! ;D

~Bjarni Haraldur Sigfússon[This review has been edited by the real one Bjarni]

First, before I’ll begin this review to Cooba and Dx, the field “Submit review” is there for people which write reviews and not for a chat. We have the private message function for that. This will probably be the same as Violet or Trafton will tell you. =p

Now for the review, noone seemed to review this, so I’ll do now.

LVL DESGIN, EYECANDY AND…STUFF
The lvl design is nothing special, normal Treasure Hunt, but it feels good to see a Treasure Hunt level after so much time. :D
The problems start with eyecandy: The background layer which contains those mountains (layer 6) doesn’t work properly, the mountains fly in the air. The author mentioned that in the description so I won’t take points for that, but I will explain how to get it work. Dark Ryhorn, the mistake you did is that you set the Y-Speed to 1, the same speed as layer 4. I tried it out it should work with 0.0499878 (put the mountains above three lines of invisible blocks!). The sprite eyecandy is nothing big, you used layer 3 too less times. Layer 5 is used a bit, but not too much.

GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is ok, nothing special, but there isn’t a need to because Treasure Hunt lvls are very rare in last time. Sadly the level is a tad bit small. Alltough there are enough gems and ammo.

AMMO PLACEMENT AND OTHER WEAPONS STUFF
The ammo plcmnt is ok. It could maybe have some secrets.

OBSTACLES
Not many…

TILESETS
The author used the Diamondus Evening tileset by NOKA. I don’t agree with Cooba and Dx, this tileset isn’t too much overused. I like this set, it reminds me on the good old times…

USE OF TILESETS
The tileset use is good, it almost uses the most tiles of the set and there is a bunch of animations. Well done.

CONCLUSION
Well, it’s good to see a treasure hunt level in those days, but it seems to be nothing special. Sadly, I can’t give more than a five, but keep making levels! Wanna see more projects from you.

Bjarni : Until you’ll get it that something’s wrong with your JJ2 >p
Danyjel : This is from JJ1, you (/)
UF : Nice to see that files again.[This review has been edited by Cooba]

How many times should I say “Only .j2b works”?

Cooba: I know, but I’m not the only one with this problem![This review has been edited by the real one Bjarni]

Ah, music. Time to get nasty with a review. :P

First of, music is always welcome. Especially remixes, but that leads me to my main gripe: these aren’t really remixes. Just samples from one song slapped onto another song. No extra channels, no new rythms, just different samples. To top that off, it ain’t the first time somebody has done this.

Then again, this is one of the better attempts, so I guess that warrants a whole review from me.

Megairtemple – nothing spectacular here, the samples sound okay. It just could’ve been so much more. :\
Fanomondus – definitely the least best of the pack, most likely because of the snare being used as a tom and the use of a guitar for the main-melody.
Scrapivo – a real shame here, as using different samples kind of takes away the bombastic feeling of the original. This is were more channels and a few added melody-lines could’ve helped. The drums are nicely handled though.
Slugelectric – At first, okay. But then the use of the flutes… that kind of ruined it all. :D Shocking your audience is good in music, but this is just irritating.

In conclusion, good for a listen but nothing that’ll rock your socks. :\ Come on, I know you can do so much better than this! :D

mayby everbody like’s his tileset(S)

Yeah! Superjazz strikes back :P Well..
You have done great episode and eyecandy is very good. Go on same way
;P
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NOKA’s Diamondus is going to be overused like JJ2 one.

Hey

Its a nice remic pack.
you can hear the different between the
remix and the normal song.
Danyjel, because you dont play jj2
so much you cant hear the remix :P:P ( just kidding )
anyway a great remix pack.

download reccomed
use it: yes

here a 9.5

bye
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I don’t think its legal but im not sure…

quite nice music files. Im not gonna rate this though, since you didn’t make them.

~NiQ