Wow this was weird. I was bored so i pulled out a beta version of jj2 that i have and it was weird as crap. The files (the exe, dat, and level) files were way smaller. The loading screen was so cool!

I had never played this beta jj2 1.00g version i had gotten. Well I look closer into it and the animations aren't near as cool as 1.2x but that's to be expected on beta. Well I know an abandonware site where u can download this beta version (i don't think 1.00g is shareware but i can't verify that). Also there was no JCS and the level files were .lev which suprised me.

Even so i see no point in making j2l files into lev files at this rate because it seems to make no sense why you'd wanna downgrade your jj2 levels and probably make them more unstable/cutdown then the original j2l files.

Last, I ran the 1.23 patcher on this game and it didn't detect my jj2 even when i directed it to the right folder it wouldn't let me click OK to start patching. I just thought i might throw out there that this could help pave the way for some neat stuff in the future.

Also I now see why they want j2l files converted to lev files. Smaller sizes for downloads. I also realized that anybody can get this copy of jj2. Just thought i'd throw in what I discovered about it and see what you all have to say.