Originally Posted by Treylina

Since when? (mind you, I don't know much about JJ1).

OpenJazz

We're not dead! Some personal things between Garnavis and I precluded us from uploading new episodes and getting together to record new ones. NO LONGER HOWEVER.

Behold, PART 3 OF THE CUSTOM LEVELS.

Stay tuned for the second part of the LP!

Mission Spaz: Foreseeable Future! About time that custom episode receives some love from outside of this community. It's a very inspiring set of levels, just a moment ago I played them on my Android tablet using DOSBox Turbo.

I wanted to roll this out a little later but Garnavis forgot to set this video as private so if you've been paying attention you already saw it.

Anyway, here's our surprise: a Let's Play of the famous Battery Check!

Everyone here already knows the story behind this game: it's a little freeware promotional game from the Netherlands that you could get from a battery collection machine if you handed in 15 empty batteries. It also features an early version of the Jazz 2 engine! Join us as we take a look at an obscure part of Jazz history and the Dutch recycling system. Also creepy dragons.

Nice!

As for why a large part of the community is Dutch, I doubt it's because of demoscene connections. Project 2 (International publisher) was Dutch and marketed the game heavily in its home country (mostly towards younger children, who'd have little knowledge of the demoscene), then dumped tons of copies in bargain bins when it was about to go bankrupt. Even now you might still find copies in toy stores.

(also "Laat je niet sucken" means "Don't get yourself sucked" )

You and Garnavis sound so much like those two guys it's not even funny.

Also, the cannons in Newspaz's Castle were my idea, so sorry about that

Awesome! A let's play of BC! That's a fun surprise episode =)

Rarely happen there would be leaked a Battery Check episode.

Hellooo, I cannot post threads in the forum so i tried just a post, hope this works. I have a forum and one section are older games, that i played and dont want to die, I want to add Jazz Jackrabbit 2 too, is there someone playing it now? If it is possible i can make 24/7 public server, but need some advices, abou the possibilities of jj2 server. Can it run dedicated? I havent found any bots or AI, to fill it when no players, is there something like multimod or amxx in half-life/cs? no answer from google about it too
PS: IRC channel seems to be dead too

www link: vBrute.co.nr

Hi, welcome to the forums. Plenty of people still play JJ2, which you can confirm by yourself by just starting the game, going online and seeing how many people are playing it! I'm not sure starting a forum about it would have much use, though, as there's a fairly well-accepted central forum already (you're on it right now) and also a more multiplayer-oriented forum at http://jazzjackrabbit.net. That seems plenty for a game this small.

As for dedicated servers, there's no such thing yet, but some people have run 24/7 servers before. Searching the forum for "dedicated" might still yield some useful information.

Currently the series are still alive or dead?

Dat scaler...
Anyway, according to Valve Time, we should have the next video in a couple of years.