Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

YES THANK YOU VIOLET!!!!!!

I have been searching far and wide for a Candion set. Unfortunately, my computer needed reparing and I wasnt able to surf the internet for a few days. I am overjoyed because by far Candion is one of my favourite sets. I dont mind if that that there are a few bad points because a tileset cannot be perfect, especially if its a convewrsion. Usually, conversions dont strike this high, so I think we have found us a talented converter.

Edit: Craccoboy, im not saying your wrong, but rating conversions is healthy for yoy :)
Besides, Violet worked really hard (yeah right) to give us this conversion, and it took a lot of time and effort to make it just like a tileset or level[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Edit: For all u who dont believe me on this is a good conversion, more to say, so keep scrolling :P

Candion being one of my favourite planets, is not quite hard to remake. The author included the backround mountains, and the backround. Correct me if Im wrong, but I think it has all the required tiles, such as the candied ground, the lollypops etc. The animations are low, but thats not the authors’ fault, since candion has few animations. There are the usual needed tiles such as destruct scenery poles, eyecandy, ginger bread men ;P. Im sure this converison would come into use (it already did ;P) and i reccoment you to download it or miss out on a great conversion made by the great convertor, Violet CLM, good job.

[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

Big tileset, nice remake, good work, 7.5.


low/medium/high/very high
Useable: high
Colors: medium
Size: high
Animations: low
Very nice.

I apologize for the color bleaching on the lollipops, but not counting sprite colors and the textured background colors, any one palette can only have 124 (or was it 128.. forgot) colors. Candion originally had three hundred and something, so a few things are slightly bleached, but the lollipop’s about the only thing it’s noticable on. Still, if you think it’s that bad, I can try to make it look somewhat better.
And if the colors seem darker, it’s because that’s the way they were in JJ1..

@Taz
Disguise helped in that without him the whole thing would have taken much longer (using 16-bit, Palsuite and Terralogic). And yes, the colors are changed. None of the previous conversions actually used the JJ1 colors.[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]

There are quite a few Candion conversions, and I must say that I am not very fond of any of them. However, this tileset is certainally the best Candion conversion I’ve seen so far. Their is some color bleaching (the lollipops for instance) and the color seems darker, but it’s still a very good effort and definitely worth a download recommendation.

Violet, you really should make some more conversions. The ones I’ve seen so far are excellent, and I think you could do a great conversion pack.

This is definitely better than the version of Candion I did many many moons ago. The pallette has been fixed, the masks are much better and it added a lot of cool stuff that should have been there in the first place, such as the mountains in the background, those green blocks, the star and the proper sky.

It’s not perfect, though… certain tiles look “washed out” (such as the lollipops), while the colour seems much darker. I don’t care much for the destructable tiles… I think the destructable tiles from the official JJ2 tilesets work best with any tileset! The poles, new gingerbread faces and warp pipes are an imaginative nice touch, though…

All in all, quite a good effort. I’ve downloaded Violet’s other tileset conversions, and I personally think this isn’t the best of the lot. Still worth a download, and better than what I could have done.

Yet again, another perfect conversion from Violet, this time of Candion, HH95 planet 1

While we’ve seen many conversions of Candion (Dethman (QoB), Astronia (along with Exoticus) and other “automasked” versions) I must say this one’s the best. Not only does it have all the tiles, Violet added (again) Destruct scenery (not that good, looks like it’s made in Paint), vines, etc. I think the only thing missing is the kitchen sink ;)

This is worth an 8. Tell if I’m being too modest :)

- JelZe GoldRabbit

This tileset is, in fact, very hard on the eyes. However, it’s still a pretty good tileset. Eyecandy was good in the level I made, but people complained that the colors were hurting their eyes. Other than the migrane-inducing properties, this tileset turned out to be pretty good. It was fairly well-drawn and a very nice effort. If it’s a 6 you want, it’s 6.5 you get, along with a download recommendation.

This is a fairly average level, unfortunately. It uses the Mez04 tileset, which I am not very fond of. The springs quickly became annoying during play. Sorry, but no download recommendation.

Taz, please read the readme more carefully. You are able to close the server room by shooting the entrance after going into it. It’s very simple.

It’s just a great idea, but it’s a bit too lazy maked.

I think the server room is too easy to find, so you will have all the time irritating rookies there.
It are just nice little battle rooms, but each of them is the same. sleeps
And yesh, the eyecnady is very nice, so very nice idea with very nice levels and a very nice eyecandy.
So i give a very nice eight.

Newbie is sorry he hasn’t reviewed for a while, he has been gone! Anyway.

Great levels and gametype, that’s all I can say.[This review has been edited by Newbie]

Just for Gzou…does it appear in your JJ2 folder? After all, there’s a limit for how many levels you can have in Home Cooked.

I’ve played this level online, and I must say that I love the new gametype. The only bad part of it is, as you will figure out as you play, the people who go out last in the first round are very much disadvantaged to those who go out first. So, being the player who doesn’t go out is obviously best, but being the player who goes out first is better than the one who goes out second to last. The many options, which are reperesented using triggers, really add to the gameplay. Plus, if you are alone, the “spring ride” (the springs are placed so they bounce you around the level in loops if you stand still) is very fun. Making a long story short, this is an excellent level with a great new gametype that I hope to see more of. Download recommendation.

Wow! Great!!

Downlaod reccommandation: yes!

I must say that this is an amazing conversion of an outstanding JJ1 tileset. It may appear simplistic at first, but it’s very complex. It’s not hard to use, however. The hardest part is setting up the tons of animations. This is the best conversion I’ve seen to date. Download it. Now. ;)

This is the best conversion of a JJ1 tileset I’ve seen! Heck, while I was playing it, I almost forgot I was playing JJ2 and not JJ1!

I havent got the time for a long reivew, and the review I did before was biased, plus overated. These levels, though they are small and simple, are quite good. But even though there are lots of them, they still arent as good as some single levels such as Marshland of Evil and all those. They are still ok and you should see them, but they are very small and simple. Creative names though….[This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

awesome conversion but still only c|o|n|v|e|r|s|i|o|n
i’m giving points for amazing rip!?

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Who will make any level in J1 tileset???
[edit: extreme super good for ground force event][This review has been edited by Danyjel]

There are both horizontal and vertical poles, and all the animations in the tileset were in the original Nippius, causing it take forever to convert. (The slopes were also added, btw)

btw, JSZ. Both Fanolint and Holidaeus were made by various people. Also, Diamondus/Tubelectric/Medivo didn’t come with JJ2, unless you count the JJ2 versions. They were made by Toxic Bunny, Newspaz, and Ice Wolf/CelL.

Possibly the best conversion ever made of Jazz Jackrabbit 1 tileset. :)

Now, this tileset has every tile of planet Nippius (even the shredder in the secret level), and more. Appearantly Violet wasn’t satisfied with just basic tiles and added:
- animations (like Violet said, more than half is animated, barely noticable, though)
- sucker tubes
- vines
- destruct blocks (count-down too :))
- poles (Horizontal only, shame)
- hooks (the graphic should be a bit lower ;))

For the rest there’s nothing to say. Download, check out (the example level too).

o, btw next time include a Jazz 1 song in “Song*.s3m” format.

- JelZe GoldRabbit