Kirby writes...

Hello Massassi! jEDIkIRBY here with important news from the Underground Resistance! We’re having our 1st Competition, and you can be part! You’ve just got to join the Resistance and presto, you can take place in any of the competitions we host! Tons of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 action awaits you! The rules are here and the UR chatroom to get signed up is at the mIRC Server: irc.holonet.org Channel: #UR. Talk to anyone with an @ in front of your name, then start gaming! Hope to see more and more members over the course of the week! Have fun!

Dust off your JK disc (some people might kill me for saying that =P) and check it out!

Hi! ID_Junkguy here, and I can't wait to tell you the news! You all remember that Rolling Game mod I released a while back, right? Some people had problems with it, however, and thus were not able to enjoy it fully. So now, I am working on a new project called Rolling Revolution, and it will feature a completely updated Rolling mod. It will offer new and high quality stereo songs to roll to, improved cogs, and more!

In addition, I am going to package with the mod every single Rolling level ever released, including original levels by me, MrRavenX, and The Mega-ZZTer. In addition, I invite EVERY LEVEL MAKER out there to create and submit their own Rolling levels to me so that I can include it in the final release of Rolling Revolution.

I have also created a Rolling Development Kit (RDK) for people planning on making Rolling levels. It includes a mod that is almost the same as the original Rolling mod, but has modified cogs and improved physics so that level makers can test their own Rolling levels accurately. Also, it is full of information for Rolling level makers to get started. This RDK is available at my site NOW, so check www.junkguy.tk to get it if you want to have your level released with Rolling Revolution. The deadline is not announced yet, but it will most likely be in one month.

Thank you guys for being so great. Without your support, I surely would not have made so many fun mods for the Jedi Knight community! Keep Rolling!

- ID_Junkguy

Check it out!

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Check it out!

Please be patient. Thank you.

JKPaint version 0.8 (737KB)
An editor for Jedi Knight BM, CMP, MAT, and SFT files.
[Download] (Temporarily down because of file server - check official site for mirror)

Major new features:
- SFT character editing.
- SFT internal palette support removed.
- Image zooming.
- Improved palette editing.
- Transparency color bug fixed.
- Help file.

[Official Site]
Send [UGG] email if you have any suggestions or bug reports.

Please, do not use levels@massassi.net to contact us! That address is for receiving files only.

Going through the e-mails in the account, I found an e-mail from the 17th reporting problems downloading levels. However, that address is only checked when our file posters are looking for files to post. E-mails to that address are not forwarded to the rest of the staff. They just sit there, and if they don't have a file to post, they maybe get read by one person, and maybe get deleted.

Also, if you have something to tell us, please try taking a minute to type coherent sentences, and have the decency to sign your name or screenname. E-mails like, "Y cant i down load levels" (that was the entire e-mail), or "wuts wrong with ur site???" are not helpful, and are actually annoying.

Perhaps if someone had reported the file server outage sooner, it could have been fixed sooner, possibly before the weekend. Unfortunately, the e-mails were sent to levels@, and didn't get seen. And, alas, I don't download files from the file server every day, so I don't always notice the problems as soon as they occur.

Well, thanks for your patience.

I found a great easter egg in the Jedi Academy demo, and I thought I'd share it with my fellow Massassians. When playing the Tatooine mission, go into clip mode (type devmap into the console, then noclip). Float outside the level and you should spot a big brown box. Once inside of it, you will find two speeder models, including Zam Wessel's speeder from Episode II.

Pretty cool! I'm guessing if it's in the demo, it's in the full release as well. Thanks for sending this in, Rogue36, and thanks to DoZeR for confirming!

When the Imperials gain access to the Ion Cannon control platform the doors will stay open for 10/15 seconds (near/far door), the doors will close after the old delay if a Rebel opens them.

botf_bepsin has been relit so hopefully it'll look a bit better

The Ion Cannon effect now gets reset properly

Rebels no longer get class points for opening their down door

If you're charging a weapon and you die, you'll release the charged shot

Detpacks/tripmines now explode with damage when the person who placed them died

Storm Trooper Blaster alt fire slightly less accurate

Bryar Pistol ROF is higher

Cazor writes:

Hey, this is Cazor, Team Leader of The Matrix: Unplugged for Jedi Academy. I just got the new site up, so everyone go check it out here.

As you can see we are in need of player modelers (who can skin also) and coders. Check the screenshots for the latest pics from the mod. I hope you like our progress so far! Thanks a lot.

Definitely check this one out.