Jazz2Online news for August 2024
JJ2 Location bracket WINNER - August 18th 2024
Source: Polltab
It’s been a hard-fought few weeks, but we’ve come to a consensus!
The JJ2 manual describes Colon as “a spirited slosh through the sewers,” whereas Damn has Devan “open the gates of the inferno, unleashing demons, devil dogs and more to exterminate the rabbits of Carrotus for good.”
Colon is based on Pinocchio and Comix Zone. It features two unique enemies, some of JJ2’s most complicated, multiple level layout themes, and arguably two separate music tracks. JJ2’s official multiplayer levels are dominated by the easiest to use tilesets, but Colon manages to sneak in there for Capture2, “Colonius Wars.”
Damn seems to derive from The Lion King, though its epic background may be a Nick Stadler original. Appropriately for a final level, it features no original enemies but instead brings back favorites from the rest of the game. The music is thrilling, its lava tiles have found their way into many custom tilesets over the years, and of course it features the final confrontation with Devan Shell himself.
And the best location, by 11 votes to 8, is…
Colon!
That should be all for brackets for now. We already know the best JJA planet.
JJ2 location bracket FINALS - August 12th 2024
Source: Polltab
We’re three weeks into the Jazz 2 Locations bracket! Both the locations that benefited from random chance last time have been eliminated, as we lose:
- Psych
- Carrotus
These final locations remain:
- Damn
- Colon
You can vote on this last matchup right now, or any time in the next week.
JJ2 location bracket SEMIFINALS - August 4th 2024
Source: Polltab
We’re two weeks into the Jazz 2 Locations bracket! There were no lopsided contests here; instead, fully half the surviving locations were chosen at random after perfect ties in the votes, but one way or another, these 4 locations have been eliminated from the standings:
- Labrat
- Townhouse (randomly)
- Diamondus
- Hell/Inferno (randomly
These 8 locations remain:
- Damn
- Psych (randomly)
- Colon
- Carrotus (randomly)
The surviving 4 locations have been sorted into 2 semifinal matchups that you can vote on right now, or any time in the next week!
30 years of Jazz Jackrabbit - August 1st 2024
Source: Google Groups
Fasten your seatbelts for the ride of your life! JAZZ JACKRABBIT is coming towards you at light speed, and this little bunny carries a big gun. The evil turtle emperor Devan Shell has rabbitnapped the beloved princess Eva Earlong. Now he’s swiping all the goodies in the galaxy to support his plot of Galactic Rabbit Destruction! Lead the speedy Jazz on a wild treasure hunt spanning enormous areas jam-packed with major danger!
Jazz features ULTRA-FAST scrolling 256 color graphics, ROCKING Digital Audio with Surround Sound, and WHITE-HOT action from Epic MegaGames! Look out Sonic, this is one tough little bunny!
August 1st 1994 brought the world the shareware version of Jazz Jackrabbit: “Epic’s largest production ever, and it’s a very big, cool, high quality game.” It must be something special if we’re all still here, huh folks?
The Jazz Duelists’ Challenge is hosting a Jazz-1-themed event in a few hours, but don’t let that be the only way you engage with Jazz Jackrabbit today. :)
I’ll rehash the links from last time, though a few have changed:
Buy Jazz 1 from GOG (with lots of exclusive bug fixes to the original game)
Jazz Jackrabbit shareware
Holiday Hare 1994 Freeware
Holiday Hare 1995 Freeware
Jazz 1 emulated in your browser, including usermade levels
Open-Source remake of Jazz 1 for lots of platforms
Soundtrack
Speedrun videos
Most popular planets
Most of the sprites (and sounds )
Jazz 1 editing utilities: J1E, JJ1MOD, J1LES
Jazz 1 tilesets converted for use in Jazz 2
Jazz 1 shareware ported to Jazz 2
Jazz 1 shareware recreated from scratch using normal Jazz 2 tilesets
Unfinished, more extreme version of the same
Run Jazz 1 levels directly inside Jazz 2