TRG - Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Cut and Unused Content 

The perfect 2D game with the perfect soundtrack!

This is a nice video! Some notes: * You say the laser shield is fully functional, but it crashes the game in online multiplayer. Also it doesn't have any monitor sprites. * Based on the game's code, Max Weapon would have made players "berserk" for a period of three seconds, and Auto Fire turned an autofire mode on. Neither of these properties were coded to do anything once set (and there's no indication of what would have turned autofire off again), but at the least it doesn't look like Max Weapon was actually supposed to change your ammo amounts. Your guesses for Fast Feet and Extra Time do match what little code is associated with those events, though. * There's evidence in the code that they did try letting Jazz and Spaz climb ledges, using the sprites you mentioned, so it's likely that feature was deliberately removed. Others like diagonal shooting there's no indication for one way or the other; they may never have started coding them at all; we just don't know. * Diamsecr was presumably going to be a secret level in Diamondus, and uses the layout as the first level because they wanted to copy the parallax background layers and never got around to erasing the layout. But the cool part is that that copying happened so early on that it's the single EARLIEST level layout we have. In particular, it dates to before either trigger crates or animated warp events were coded. * The tilesets from the first game are notable for being _unfinished_ versions of those tilesets, therefore featuring unfinished graphics and unused ideas, particularly the colorful bricks in Marbelara, the alternate color scheme in Candion, and the fact that Exoticus and Lagunicus were originally the same planet. * The green rectangle sprites are used as the hitboxes for the various destructable block events. The pulsing circle was probably intended for the blast of TNT or RF missiles or something like that, but as far as I know isn't used in the final game. * There's certainly other stuff you didn't mention at all--the bee boy enemy, the butterfly enemy, the blue ghost enemy, the psych pole, the tuf boss's shell sprite, numerous unused tiles in individual tilesets, numerous unused sound effects, the fourth battle and race levels from the first beta, and so on--but I imagine you made an editorial decision to focus on the flashiest stuff.

Wow, this took me a while.

That is exactly the kind of tedious nerd shit I love about this channel.

I remember the laser shield being bugged in the editor, and the JJ1 tilesets being sadly unusable since they have the wrong background color for detecting masks.

Have you noticed, that sometimes the figure One is flying through the lower end of the screen ? This may be a leftover from a countdown (as it seems not to be related to a specific action). It is also possible that it should have indicated an extra live (maybe from gems) or is a debug output. It seems that 100 gems should give you an extra life at the end of the level, as they are counted, and the in-level counter stops at 100. I think the ledge climbing was abandoned, because it would be hard to do with the Jazz Jackrabbit collision detection. Commander Keen 4 (and the other Keen games or Bio Menace) use a directional vector-based approach, that makes it easy to see that you have a ledge or not. Jazz Jackrabbit (1 and 2) use a mask-based approach, that allows fine control over the clipping, but cannot handle advanced stuff.

The Time-Limit leaves another Trace: After the Time-limit has passed, the Digit '1' Flys on the Bottom of the screen for every Minute. Has anyone else noticed that ? I could only confirm, that it happens every Minute, and that the Time-Limit starts is a integer number of minutes when the level began (same second on the clock). Has noone else noticed that ?

Gotta point out at 00:21, there are hotkeys for copying and pasting events so you don't have to use the menu. CTRL E copies an event, SHIFT E pastes events, and E just opens the event dialog. I did NOT know this when I was young and was horrified to think they made all the maps that way, one event at a time.

thanks for uploading this. damn, why didnt they continue the game.... :/ :(

I think max weapon was supposed to set your current ammo to 99, while autofire, well, I think that initially, the pistol was supposed to shoot by spamming the button and this bonus allowed you to hold the button in order to make things easier. Seems that in final product, auto-fire function ended up implemented.

You know what we need? This game redone with the new unreal engine

Omg i didnt know about any of this stuff!! Really cool video!

Woah, interesting, I think a lot of the unused content would have been cool Good video!

When Epic Games will eventually run out of options to keep that lump of cancer Fortnite alive, someone needs to pitch them with a Jazz Jackrabbit 1 remake in the style of Freedom Planet, with Spaz and Lori playable.

excellent video.

Actually the option of turning into a bird was used in the demo version....

5:16 sounds like the henchman voice from spiderman 2000 ps1 game

Hey Cool! Nick Stadler interview! I've made that :-)

I like this video about jazz jackrabbit .

Thanks for a dose of nostalgia :)

Also, I tried putting Tweedle in one of my levels and he actually spawned, but he was invisible. 😐

Thanks for the video, sad that many stuff didn't make it

THank you for making this video, much appreciated!

Awesome video, man

It would of been cool if epic games added a time travel gimmick I feel it would of been perfect for jazz jackrabbit 2

The Bonus 3 music reminds me somewhat of the OMF2097 and later Tyrian 2000 soundtracks. Then again, both those and the Jazz Jackrabbit soundtrack were written by Alexander Brandon...

Thank you ThatRatGuy. Very cool!

This game is my life. 😇

Thanks for sharing I never new until now.The Jazz Jackrabbit series is underrated it deserves a remastered (Like Ducktales).Maybe later they pick up “Jazz Jackrabbit 3”that got canceled in 2013 now to be finished and published to modern console’s and pc.I even want to help out if there is a kickstarter project I would support with a donation.

I completed the Far Out half-level and released it on jazz2online as Far Out Finished.

Good video i remember exists a lot ot stuff they lefts in the final game..some things will be changed during the develepment in old versions like 1.00g

JJ & JJ2 ❤️

Nice video man. I am subscribing

just realized that in colonius there is not doors in the houses, their appear in the tileset but not in game, someone figured that out?

Awesome stuff, nice research!

Once, I was looking in the food list in the level editor when I came across a food item simply called " thing " . When I put it in a level, it didn't spawn anything like usual.

Nice video. I think the two first things are just cheat items made just for fun.

The medivo music also shows up in the alice levels in Jazz 2 demo

Do you like cut game content? Well, it turns out there's an entire wiki dedicated to it. Drop by, and contribute if you want! tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

10:38 anyone is recognizing those punches things ? i think i saw them in some games but hell i cant remember where...But i am 100% sure that i saw them somewhere

I had the beta version which didnt have the same number of boses or the boss soundtrack. But i did have that colonial ost and tnt boxes. No 3d bonus stages tho.

that intro is familiar, could you please tell me where it is from?

Nice video. Are you German-speaker by chance?

Where is the levelmaker in the game

Hey TRG. At 4:00, what exactly do you need to do to be able to edit levels within the JCS? I can't seem to figure it out, or maybe it doesn't work for my JCS version.

If they were to use Unreal engine 4 or 5 considering that they already showed it on PS 5. To make a remake of the first would be a bad idea. 1st there is the problem what kinda 2d platform will it be ? The classic 2D ? or a 2.5D ? 2nd is the terrible screen tearing. In both Jazz games, there was no screen tearing because the engine they used was made specific for 2D platformer. If anything they should make another engine that support 2D or 2.5D with out the need for vsync, and to have high quality sprites. And by high quality I mean also smooth animation, not those jerky animations most cgi cartoons have nowadays. I want the characters to feel overly animated with lots of expression and personality.

Jazz 3 as dead

do u know how to put own music in own level or picture ?

Wow....nice I didn't know this game had such secrets -) and I used to tinker with jazz editor too