Clean up/Suggestions
6 years ago
Valhalla

So I guess I got mod overnight, first order of business is removing the current runs since the flash version of this game isn't accurate being 4x faster (when it comes to drops) than the original Jetpac and 2x faster than Jetpac retro from Jetpac Refuelled, it's also not an official release of the game and this isn't a flash game board, not to mention the sprites seem to act weird.

Here are the differences between the official versions of the game- (Fuel is timed dropping from the top of the screen until it fuels the rocket and the aliens are timed from the frame they enter one side of the screen and exit the other completely)

zx spectrum(tapes): Fuel drop time - 5.508s Alien movement time - 4.7s, bounces Ship up time - 8.916s

Atari ST: Fuel drop time - 6.2s Alien movement time - 4.68s, explodes on impact Player movement speed is faster than the other versions

Xbox One (Rare Replay): Fuel drop time - 5.974s Alien movement time - 5.607s, bounces Ship up time - 8.978

Jetpac Refuelled (Retro): Fuel drop time - 2.804s Alien movement time - 4.739s, explodes on impact Ship up time - 8.01s

DK64: Fuel drop time - 2.976s Alien movement time - 4.68s, explodes on impact

So from what we can see here with the speeds the boards are gonna be separated with the consoles/versions in their own subcategories. It'll go ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, XBOX ONE (Rare Replay), Jetpac Refuelled (Retro), and N64(DK64). Unfortunately Retro and DK64 can't be paired together under one subcategory because there's a 2 second difference on when enemies disappear after the ship goes up, other than that they're almost the same version of Jetpac. Timing of player movement speed was only mentioned for Atari ST because surprisingly the player movement is the same both walking and boosting across all the platforms except the Atari ST one.

If you have any suggestions about anything at all for the game or I messed up something drop them here in this thread

blueYOSHI likes this
Canada

I was thinking there could be a category like 4/8/12/16 rockets.

jigsaw_master likes this
United States

That would be really cool! First rocket is great and a lot of fun, but I really like the idea of longer categories that aren't as long as survival.

jag2791 likes this
Valhalla

yeah it'd be nice to not have such a short category into one that's ungodly long (which I am still debating to just remove survival due to it being really easy) how many rockets would be the preferred amount then 4/8/12/16 as jag said?

Canada

I guess 16 because when you get to 16 rockets I'm pretty sure it resets to the first rocket again so ya I think that would kinda be like an Any% category.

Valhalla

Also just realized I had been messing up verifications, it should probably be better stated in the category, but XBOX ONE (Rare Replay) is the original version released in the Rare Replay pack with Jetman and the fuel as the backdrop. Jetpac Refuelled (Retro) is the original version released on the Jetpac Refuelled Xbox Live Arcade game (also in the Rare Replay pack but a separate game) with the crazy wolf/jetman/robot/everything else backdrop. Not sure why I never added the actual Refuelled version of Jetpac.

jigsaw_master likes this
United States

I like the idea of 16 rocket.

jag2791 likes this
United States

A potential console option to add is the WiiU Virtual Console because DK64 was released on it, so there is also the DK64 Jetpac playable via the WiiU VC.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Tron_Javolta likes this
Valhalla

Comment about reformatting the board:

  1. Any% is going to be changed into 16 Rocket (or if anyone else has a better suggestion for the name, Any% nor 100% seem fitting due to their being no actual end to the game) while a new category 8 Rocket will be added along with it due to the way enemy and ship cycles are.

  2. Survival will be removed from the board. Avoiding enemies is far too simple in Jetpac and is a bit of a lazy category in general.

jigsaw_master likes this
United States

Perhaps "XBOX ONE (Rare Replay)" could be named "Rare Replay (Jetpac)" for consistency with "Jetpac Refuelled (Retro)." Also we could have the Atari ST one removed (at least for now) since it seems to be a different game from the other Jetpacs. (Note: The ZX Spectrum version was also released on VIC-20 and BBC Micro.)

EDIT: One last thing, can we make "Jetpac Refuelled (Retro)" be the default view for each of the categories since it has the most runs at the moment?

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Tron_Javolta likes this
Valhalla

May just change it to Rare Replay in that case since it'll already be known it's Jetpac so no parenthesis part needed, Atari ST will definitely get removed after some deeper digging I realized that it's an unofficial UK Atari ST release with 50 something levels. VIC-20 doesn't appear to be an option but looks like BBC Micro is so I can add that, would be interesting if anyone actually has a beeb or an old commodore to run on lol

United States

Should we rename "First Rocket" to "1 Rocket" for consistency? I know that beating any given stage is technically one rocket, but the other categories have the naming scheme of "# Rocket." Since the others start from the very first rocket, then "1 Rocket" implicitly would as well (of course the rules clarify this, anyway).