Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Bash 27 Retrospective - April 20th 2025

Last weekend was light on oldie visits, but heavy on great gameplay and fun chatter! Between that weekend and the days getting ready, I spent an entire week probably doing nothing but sleeping, working, and JJ2, sometimes with overlap… so it’s taken me some time to recover, but what a great few days!

If you enjoyed the levels we played, please remember to write reviews so the level creators feel appreciated!

• Rivellon
• Outrun
• Necropolis
• Starling
• Jolly Battle Level
• Forsaken
• Castlevania
• Intergalactic Destination
• Green Beret
• Titan Armory
• Mini Commotion
• Mt. Gongga
• Astral Witchcraft
• A Titan, Ornery
• Anarchy
• Pumpkin Park
• Zeno
• The Silenced Cathedral
• Mausoleum
• Blood Libel
• Penelope
• Willowgrove Hollow
• Triton’s Trench
• The World Spear
• Heinous Heights
• Copper Web
• Personal Park
• Erosion
• Thunder Cliffs
• Spherical Coalesence
• Saline Shores (Evening)
• Nightfall in Swampland
• Indigo Falls
• Falkenstein: The New Order
• Starlight Canyon
• Midnight CTF
• Twilight River
• Starling
• Vector Zenith
• Yharguul, The Shadowed Wharf

What’s next? I know it’s been a while, but you should be able to expect some JJ2+ news soon… ;)

Finally, I recorded most of the bash—here’s day 2, day 3, and day 4, but twitch deleted all of day 1. Everyone else please feel welcome to drop your own recording links in the comments too.

BASH is TODAY - April 11th 2025

Anniversary Bash 27 is planned to begin today, between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM!

Download the packs here:

Battle | CTF | see the full list

The Bash will be hosted by PN Events, courtesy of ShakerNL.

See you soon!

Anniversary Bash is this weekend - April 9th 2025

It’s April 9th, and you know what that means… it’s the anniversary of Jazz Jackrabbit 2’s shareware release! 27 years ago today, people around the world first began blasting each other in Diamondus Warzone. Tune in this Friday for the Anniversary Bash weekend-long party, and look forward to the bash’s level packs being posted to J2O soon.

Holiday Hare 26 Released - April 1st 2025

A glitch in linear time has resulted in Holiday Hare 26 getting released twenty months early!

In this pack, instead of focusing on winter holidays, Jazz will go on a tour of holidays from all throughout the year. The first level, “Skull Issue,” will be inspired by Dia de los Muertos and feature Jazz reconnecting with familiar names who are no longer with us, such as Vigilante, Blobby, Zoe Cottontail, and jazzjackrabbit.net.

The next level will be named “GoldenEye 777” and seems likely to incorporate themes from St. Patrick’s Day and gambling, but because the pack is from the future, most of the levels can’t successfully be played because they rely on JJ2+ features that haven’t been released yet. A new class “jjVOXELMAP” looks especially interesting, as well as a new function “jjTilesFromChatGPT.”

Mechanically we can make a few inferences from the first level. Similarly to other Holiday Hare episodes, players will be tasked with collecting gems (or skulls), mainly because in the year 2026 everyone will work in emerald mines for a living anyway. The gift boxes will also return, but the April Fools Day level’s script suggests that most of the gift boxes will hit you with boxing gloves when opened.