In earlier versions of the game, you could simply hold the right arrow and drift straight through this section trivially. Previous community fixes we’d seen had simply put up barriers to block the bounce ceiling that made the section near-impassable, but we chose to err on the side of recreating the experience of playing this level as it was in earlier, more functional versions (versions 1.0, 1.1, and the European release of 1.2 more on this later), so Simon moved a few of the bounce ceilings up slightly, and enlarged the opening you’re supposed to go through. Simon was the one to fix Orbitus 2 (aka LEVEL1.005). Subjective “improvements” may be the subject of a later J2O upload. We have avoided the temptation to try to “improve” the game (for instance, we didn’t open up the scrapped secret area in Sluggion 2) this is entirely a patch devoted to fixing issues in playing the game. The goal with this patch was to restore broken functionality, and fix other unintentional bugs. Our initial goal was to fix just a few core issues in the (then) final released version of Jazz Jackrabbit the infamous Orbitus 2 choke point, and the broken airboard ditches. The majority of the work on this patch was carried out by myself (Love & Thunder), with help by Simon (aka SimonNaar, Jazz speedrunner), some input from various users on the Jazz Discord (primarily rsgdbfevx), and some pointers from Violet CLM (Jazz 2+ developer, all-round awesome person), who is the reason this patch happened and got sent to GOG at all. This upload will remain useful for anyone who owns the game on CD, but if you own the game on GOG, it will not be necessary to download this.
November 2021 edit: GOG has now published the update.
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