Tileset conversion, by >CelL<,
requires version 1.23
A remake of my old Medivo conversion. Its a lot bigger then the previous version, and includes all tiles and animations from the origenal planet. The rain animation that didn’t work well in the first version has been fixed, and several missing tiles were added, includding vines/hooks, tubes and a textured background. Included is a smallexample battle level.
 j1medivo.j2l |
Medivo | 1.56 kB |
 j1Medivo.j2t |
Jazz 1: Medivo | 55.88 kB |
 Medivo.s3m |
113.91 kB |
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WOW
This conversion, its as good as violets, if not better. It has all the necessary tiles, the lightning and the devan reflection work perfectly, the rain is so cool, and there is blocks, tubes and things like that included as well. AND THERE IS EVEN A TEXTURED BACKROUND. This is the best medivo conversion ive ever seen, although i am rating it .5 points higher than i should because i feel sorry for Cell and others when their conversions get underated. Here you go Cell, you deserve this.
The betatesters seens like they did not notice:
-The 500 bumb aren’t fixed
-There is small white spots at one of the animations of the flashing lamp.
-The tileset aren’t userfriendly in JCS.
So CelL won’t get a 10 from me thought, but I like it very well this time.
Download recommed.
At first glance, this conversion looks great. But it has quite a few bugs.
The colors are off. Yes, I looked in the original Medivo, and yes, the background bricks are Really pink. But the black isn’t black anymore. The rain changes color while animating. The lamp animation is messed up. The thing where yellow and red go by to the left and right is wrong, as you’re supposed to be able to see Jazz through it. CelL made the transparent parts black, it seems.
It’s also missing tiles. Yes, it has tons of tiles the previous Medivo conversions didn’t, mostly variants of the same few tiles (though admittedly a decent amount of them were in the original Medivo), but CelL should have looked at the rain more closely. Yes, he noticed it is in layer 4. However, it has more then one animation. It actually lands on the walls.
Also, it overwrites Ice Wolf’s conversion of Medivo. Now I have to remake all my levels (just one, fortunately, I think) that used it. Blah.
On the good side, this has tons of tiles, is far superior to the old versions, has a working (You can tell CelL is improving just from that) textured background, good tubes, H/V poles, blocks, MOST of the original tiles, and a large variety they are!
This is a very good conversion, but its more-then-fair-share of bugs prevents it from getting a higher rating.
At first glance, CelL’s conversion of Medivo is a complete dream come true. However, like many things, the longer you use it the less interesting and more annoying it becomes. It is not that this is a completely flawed tileset, but many flawed quirks make using this tileset range from inconveniencing to downright annoying at points. But first I’ll start out with the good. This is probably one of the better Medivo conversions out there. Jazz Jackrabbit 1 conversions are a dime a dozen these days, so it takes something to put tilesets apart from similar conversions. The general idea with conversions is that the author is supposed to stay out of the way of the tileset, and make the best and most true to the original conversion as possible. This conversion is certainally true to the original, but only at first glance. After in-depth use, you’ll notice some of the real annoyances of the tileset. However, this tileset commits one sin that ranks among the 10 Unexcusable Sins of Tileset Making – it overwrites another tileset. In this case, Ice Wolf’s older Jazz 1: Medivo conversion. This tileset is somewhat of a rarity, and it may take me a while to find it again. Until then, I have to take a bit away from the score for CelL thinking about this possibility first. The rain is another problem area. When animated, the rain changes colors ever so slightly. However, if you are in a level full of rain, this quickly becomes a small but exceedingly annoying quirk, and will tempt nearly every level maker to just drop the rain from his or her level completely. I expect conversions these days to have about ninety percent minimum of the tiles of the original, and while this tileset does make that criterea, it does not go all the way and include every single tile from the original. Another increadibly annoying problem was a white speck on the lamp. While it does not jump out and scream “CONVERSION BUG”, careful eyes will notice this and point it out. Parts of the original tileset that were transparent are now just black. A small oversight, but one that could turn off Jazz 1 fans that demand exact conversion of their beloved favorites. In short, this is an excellent conversion with small quirks that severely effect it’s use ability. If you don’t demand a completely perfect conversion of Medivo and you are just anxious to make a level with JJ1: Medivo, you can not go wrong with this tileset. Sure, some of the tileset are converted in such a way that they are almost rendered useless if you want to use them heavily, but a simple reupload could easily fix these problems. However, anyone who demands exact accuracy in their tilesets might want to wait for another, more improved, conversion to come along. If this tileset was to be reuploaded with the previously mentioned bugs fixed, I would be able to praise it. Until then, I give it a 7.7 and a somewhat reluctant download recommendation. Not bad, but it’s obvious that a closer look and more heavy betatesting could make this work feel a little less beta.
New JJ1 conversion of the concurrent converter CelL (Vs Violet). This is a medivo tileset, so it haves nice music, lava and the JJ1 arrows. There are ome bugs, but this is also better tha Ice Wolf’s first conversion. Please betatest this more, things like the white blob at the lamp really suck. It0s a download reccomendaion, but not too huge.
Moonblaze, are you goning crazy about that pinball objects? From the time of Disguise’s post about it on my JCS thread, you’re talking about it all the time!
And the coversion is quite well, but not perfect. I won’t repeat what others said about the bugs… I just agree with them.
Cool!!!
I LIKE IT BEST!
Great conversion download recommedation for sure!!
Medivo is probaly one of the darkest planets.
EYECANDY SEARCH: You have a choice of 2 backrounds, rain or skyline. You have extra rain if youi want to put it down. I couldn’t find any other eyecandy.
FEATURES: Sucker tubes made out of bricks, the JJ1 signs and some animation tiles.
COLOURS: Perfect!!!! Exactly the same as the origonal MEDIVO planet on JJ1.
Rating: 7.7
Download: It’s over 7.5, so yes.
Please make sure your tilesets do not overwrite older ones. This can cause problems which I don’t think I need to explain.
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