Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Good music Labratkid! :-)

Good music! :D

I’ll very very highly recommend everybody to download this!The xylophone is really good idea, and the birds too, so these sounds really “let in to diamondus”! The swapping between JJ1-2 is um…. is cool! The ending is funny, but you can hear the background noise when Jazz says “Hey!” and a window(or what) crashes.
When the song ends(before the funny section) the music slowly fade, what is good. I’ll give a 10, but when I give a 10, I always get a rating removal. So, you get a 9.2!

I alredy said this, but…but why not again? ;)

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION: Y E S !
(hey, this rewiew is one of my longest rewiews! – 646 characters!)

Rock mixed with Xmas. Good idea! You used all the jingle bell tones. And more mixed up with some drums, snares! Now, when I writing this rewiew, it’s not christmas, but I got again Xmas mood!
Good Work! You get a 7.5.

DR: YES

[Review changed to quick review. For more information, see \Review Rules\. – Cooba]

This is a fantastic tileset. I’ll post a review tomorrow as I can’t get on the computer right now.

If any of you are wondering how I typed this, I did it with the Wii Remote. Stupid predictive text.

EDIT: Here it is.

This has got to be the BEST Industrius conversion I have ever seen!

TILESET: JJ1 INDUSTRIUS 2005

MAIN REVIEW

The first thing I see is that all the tiles & objects from the original Industrius are there, including the fast moving rockets and the fast moving platforms. The pink background is missing but I don’t think that really matters as I really like the Layer 8 Textured BG. I tested it out in a level and it looks GREAT! All the original adverts are there too including the Gravis Gamepad, Epic Pinball, One Must Fall and “Enjoy Epic.” These can be animated just like in JJ1. There is also some additional stuff including:
*Vines
*H & V-Poles
*Scenery Blocks – * & ! – I think it could have done with some other blocks including the Keyhole, blocks with a * with a number next to it and maybe blocks with the Weapons on them.
*Trigger Scenery – the lined block.
*New text signs as well as the original JJ1 signs.

Also included is an Evening version, where the only change is that everything has been given a shade of orange. I do think this version looks good but I’m not really too keen on it. I prefer the other version, this won’t affect the rating too much though.

Next, I will now talk about the layout and ease of use of this set.
The layout is SUPERB, tiles are very well organised and not jumbled up. The set is easy to use because you can easily find the tiles you want. Tiles can be animated easily.

Now for the masking, all the tiles are masked correctly, no jagged edges or any tile bugs like that.

EXAMPLE LEVEL (not counted towards rating)

Just a small battle level showing what is possible with this tileset. There are 2 other mini arenas you can choose from.

CONCLUSION

Now for the rating, I’m gonna give this a 9.0 as I love this tileset but there are still some things that could be added or improved such as more scenery blocks. Evening version is good but I don’t think I’d use it as much as the other version.

RATING: 9.0

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION?

YES!

RANK: A = SUPERB

This is an OK tileset.

EYECANDY: This tileset uses the graphics from the excellent Jill of the Jungle DOS game. It looks like the proper game but there isn’t a very good background to use in Layer 8. 7/10

LAYOUT: There are quite a lot of empty spaces in this set. Even though that is all of the Tiles from JOTJ, you could have used the spaces for a background. 6/10

MASKING: The tiles have been masked correctly. Automask was not used. Background tiles have not been masked which is good. 9/10

EASE OF USE: The tiles can be animated just like in the game. The set is easy to use. 8/10

TOTAL: 30/40 (7.5)

DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATION?

YES!

This is a perfect piece of christmas music. It has a nice rock element to it, and is good music to go in christmas levels. This is a very nice remix of holidaius.

YaY, Lark! And his best JJ remix!

Everything sounds so peacy, so happy, so free… I think I don’t have to mention super sample choice, lark-quality beat with fantastic transitions, cool harmonic background or Lark’s sense for a detail (the bird whistling is FANTASTIC, and the end couldn’t be better). True, Lark didn’t try to make some outstanding original melodies, but for now, it doesn’t mind ;) It could be a bit longer too… ;)

Everytime I listen to this tune, it makes me happy (which is great especially because I am not much in the rock). Again and again. I don’t know how Lark managed to do this, but it works. I can be in any deppression, this makes my smile like Lily Allen’s new hit.

I don’t have much to tell about this jewel, just… Download it. Now!

Darn, GO!

To Spaz18: Try ModPlug Player, it can be downloaded from www.modplug.com, it’s easy to use and it sounds very, very well.

it sounds all good to me…and i like the funny ending

FIRST GLANCE: Another remix by accomplished remixer and legendary member Lark. Wonderfully done.

DETAILS: The opening gives us leaves rustling in the wind and birds chirping. Soon, a guiter strums in a basic tune. The xylophone kicks in, sounding off the melody of Diamondus. This sounds like it belongs in Sims 2, either that or a band playing in Central Park. The song has a happy feeling to it, and you could get carried away from what you are doing to listening to this. Truly wonderful. Before you know it, the song ends, and… well, you’ll have to hear it. ;)

I give this an 8.5 out of 10, and a high Download Recommendation. You NEED this song in your WinAmp or XMPlay playlist.

NOTE: It takes a while to learn how to use ModPlug. 3 years later, I now make funk tunes.

Anyways, to the review:

Its basically the JJ1 version of Diamondus slapped together with the JJ2 version, mixed together and rearranged. It sounds much more nature-like with the sound effects and guitars and the rest of the samples sort of flow along with the feeling. I like how the song constantly changes key and changes the tune from JJ1 to JJ2 again and again.

However, the tune is just borrowed from the origional Diamondus songs. The song would sound better and interesting if the tune was changed so that it still sounded like Diamondus, but the tune would be a tiny bit different (Like Dr Eggman did with his Elettrotubo song). The same goes for the bass aswell.

GOOD POINTS:

More Nature-like version of Diamondus
Samples flow along with each other
Changes key

BAD POINTS:

Tune and bass same as Diamondus
The guitar samples and the bass sometimes clash (something I didn’t mention)

RATING: 7.9
RANK: 7 Good
DOWNLOAD?: Yes

OK, I tested this in Winamp and JJ2. It works in both of these! So this music could be used in a JJ2 level. I do like this music but I dunno how to rate music so I’ll just leave it as N/A.

[While the tune works in WinAmp and JJ2, it gets distorted while being played in those. To fully experience the song’s quality, do listen to it with Modplug Tracker like the author recommends. ~Cooba]

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use Modplug Tracker. Tried it once, just couldn’t understand it. I also tried Modplug Player but I just didn’t know how to use it.

LOL. I had no idea how to use JCS when I first got JJ2. I made a level once in about 1998 but the background was so bad coz I had nothing in Layer 8. Now I have got better at JCS as I submitted my first ever level pack to J2O.

Anyway, this level was quite bad but this was your first level ever and I don’t think we all knew how to use JCS in 1997, 98 or 99.

[Seeing as JJ2 was released in 1998, I indeed doubt anyone in the community knew how to use JCS in 1997. ~Cooba]

LOL. I couldn’t remember when JJ2 was released. But I still don’t think we all knew how to use JCS when JJ2 was released.

this wasn’t a sample change, i started the song over from scratch. but thanks for your input and all, and for reviewing. just wanted to mention that cuz people who make sample changes and say they made a remix need to just curl up and die. and i don’t wanna look like one of em.

Straight to review:

Nice synthish backround throughout. I like the drums that used the ‘distort’ effect at the begginning and end. This song would be great for a snow or maybe even a garden or cave level. Despite the samples having a few problems (i’ll mention later) all the samples fit together and don’t sound slightly out of tune.

However, the song feels a bit too much like castle because of the fact that the song is not re-arranged and that there is nothing different. Its feels like just a sample change with some extra-ish bits to mix with the song. The samples doing the main castle bits feel as if they need to be louder and to ‘yell-out’ more. The lead sample is one example.

GOOD POINTS:

Nice synthish backround
Drums at begginning
Nice ‘snow’ effect
Samples fit together

BAD POINTS:

Just a sample change
Quiet samples

RATING: 6.9 (Incredibly harsh rating since its 0.1 away from a DR and a better rank.)
RANK: 6 OK
DOWNLOAD: N/A

EXTRA NOTE: So why do I rate it 6.9.?Well, 6.9 is pretty good, but you wouldn’t get much feeling from the song because of the samples and there isn’t really anything new from the song.

White Manse:

Rating:
It is a good tune. White Manse is another Castle Remix. It is very clear that this tune is a remix from the classic JJ2-castle-tune.

But there are also problems with this tune: The lead sample is too quiet, too inexpressive… and not very medival…

Conclusion:
It is a fair Castle Remix, but not enough for a sufficient.

Rating: 4,8
Download recommendation: NO!

[Unsupported rating (4.8). It is not made clear why this deserves a low rating, besides one comment about the sample. I was convinced that this was indeed unsupported. (No, the trolling didn’t do that.) – FQuist]

Hmm… Quick review.

I like this song. Especially cool rock rhythm with nice transitions, it rocks. And almost everything other is ok too. Good bassline, peaceful background, clear, awesome samples… Nice. No new melodies, but I don’t miss them much… Thing I dislike about this tune is that lead sample is too quiet, too inexpressive…

But as I said, nice tune, download recommended.

(and you finally used that Warder instrument which I sent to you ;p)

A few things didn’t work but most did.

THat is a very good song. I like what u did with the endding too. Well done.

ya too short and too anoying. it isn’t hard it’s just fustrating. and were is the end boss?