Current:
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Proposed:
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In 1999, when 1.24 came out, the TSF episode was a big deal! Nine huge new levels! Wow!

Nowadays, popular sentiment seems to be that the TSF episode just doesn't have the best official levels. Too much repetition, in particular. If you're a new player, you don't know that TSF is special, you just see that it's the top episode so you play it first, even though it's not as good and it has nothing to do with the story. TSF isn't an expansion pack anymore, it's just the default way that people encounter the game for the first time.

So what if we moved TSF down to where the other one-off official episodes are, Shareware Demo and HH98/CC99? Based on its position value inside secretf.j2e, instead of special code in Jazz2.exe that puts it at the top of the list and ignores its real position. Still playable (though beating it would return you to the main menu), but easier to skip over, and new players will start with Formerly a Prince as it does seem like they should.

This is not the most originalist argument--HH98, TSF, and CC99 all put their titular episodes at the top of the list--I'm just tired of this particular one.

Sounds intuitive to me. Approved from my behalf!