Jazz Jackrabbit - using OpenJazz SDL port?

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:07 pm

http://treacle.hewwo.com/jazz/oj/

A lovely group of dedicated Jazz Jackrabbit fans have begun re-writing the entire Jazz Jackrabbit 1 engine to be Windows-native, and above all, Open Source. Not only that, but OpenJazz uses SDL, too, making for easy porting between platforms.

I think the Dreamcast could handle OpenJazz no sweat and would be a great addition to it's library. OpenJazz is, however, still in development, and not 100% perfect, but the project is still active and currently playable, as long as you are willing to tolerate a few bugs.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:12 am

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:36 am

That was fast! Or have you been working on it in secret? Looks real good anyway. I really like the Jazz-games. Brings back many fond memories...

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:21 pm

saw the post yesterday so I decided to give it a shot

I cant seem to get sound working but everything else seems to be working as well as the windows port. Ill try to release something soon

Troy(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

Maximo2703 · Post by **Maximo2703** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:23 pm

that is awesome. i was just discussing with a friend how good jazz the jackrabbit was it would be sweet to have a console verison

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:02 am

ok finally got libmodplug updated so that it works with OpenJazz, so now the psm mods are playing, remember this port is based on unfished code

but its still a lot of fun.

Ill try to release soon.

Troy

Maximo2703 · Post by **Maximo2703** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:09 am

can't wait. Now when you say unfinished code you mean an unfinished game such as missing levels ,and features. Or, unfinished as not all the bugs are out ,and such.

TheSiggler · Post by **TheSiggler** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:11 am

Hah, this is cool..

I used to play Jazz a lot ages ago..

Maximo2703 · Post by **Maximo2703** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:19 am

i played the GBA one which was pretty awesome. This would be something DC fans would really need on the system. Right up there with Giana's Return

c99koder · Post by **c99koder** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:25 pm

I remember playing Jazz Jackrabbit on a 386 back in the day

Looking forward to playing it again on the DC.

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:50 am

Maximo2703 wrote:can't wait. Now when you say unfinished code you mean an unfinished game such as missing levels ,and features. Or, unfinished as not all the bugs are out ,and such.

All the levels are done. This runs off the original Jazz Jackrabbit data files. (which is pretty much abandonware by now, dunno what DCemu's policy is on abandonware, though) But the engine itself is still kind of buggy because - rather than having the source to port from, these guys are re-writing the entire game engine from scratch. (As the original Jazz Jackrabbit is a DOS game and has quite a bit of trouble running on newer Windows hardware)

My understanding is the game is completely playable, and you can even beat it, but not everything is perfect. There are still bugs and things that need to be fixed and tweaked. I honestly haven't tried it yet because I have to dig out my Jazz Jackrabbit install, wherever I put it.

Nice to see it was as incredibly easy to port as I had hoped.

Maximo2703 · Post by **Maximo2703** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:55 pm

So i take it when its done we'll need to do a quake style thing with getting it on DC meaning we'd have to have the original Jazz files on the disc along with the DC verison?

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:12 pm

Maximo2703 · Post by **Maximo2703** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:24 pm

grr that sux considering i dont have that game on my PC. And, i never got into Quake DC because of it

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 am

Well, reading up on the DCemu legalities topic, folks don't seem to like Abandonware Sites around these parts, so I can't exactly tell you where to get it. The game is almost 13 years old by now, but rules are rules.

Failing a good old fashioned Google Search, DOSgames has the Shareware version, which is the entire first episode (around nine levels total, plus a boss).

MetaFox · Post by **MetaFox** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:21 am

BlazeHedgehog wrote:Well, reading up on the DCemu legalities topic, folks don't seem to like Abandonware Sites around these parts, so I can't exactly tell you where to get it. The game is almost 13 years old by now, but rules are rules.

There's no reason to illegally download it. The full version CD is easy to find:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dl ... jackrabbit

Segata Sanshiro · Post by **Segata Sanshiro** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:04 am

I have only played jazz 2, how is 1 compared to it?

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:02 pm

http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/OpenJazz.shtml

burn scrambled bin, and dos jazz jackrabbit files to root of cd, Iv only partially tested the shareware files so hopefully works with others.

Troy(GPF)

Jazz Jackrabbit - using OpenJazz SDL port?

Jazz Jackrabbit - using OpenJazz SDL port?

Coming soon to a dreamcast near you !!!