Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is the long awaited sequel to the most popular DOS shareware platformer game of 1994! Play as Jazz or his little brother Spaz on the quest to rescue Eva Furlong!

With a fully featured level editor and third party editing utilities for this game, it is definitely one of the earliest moddable platform games for the PC.

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Although version 5.10's long development period meant that it underwent more prerelease testing than possibly any other JJ2+ update, it touched so many important components of the game that a number of oversights still slipped through to release. Most of those (we hope) are fixed here in 5.11. Running multiple game instances simultaneously, saving after playing multiple other levels, and clients not downloading the right files from online multiplayer servers are the highlights here. Other fixes include player physics interactions between Spaz's melee attack and certain slopes, horizontal vines and high speeds, and bullets and frozen enemies, as well as some new possibilities for loading external sound files.

Screenshot of a href=Asteroid Armada, a custom JJ2+ level


But because this is a fairly short changelog, it's also a good time to talk about our issues tracker. It's always the first place you should go to report bugs or to suggest new features. Ideas like the 800x450 widescreen resolution have originated from there. But we also have a lot of opportunities right now for people to test or volunteer for things:

  • We have a number of proposed changes to player physics. These are intended to make gameplay feel more logical, but have an inherent risk of confusing or alienating people used to the older, buggier code. Feedback from players both experienced and casual is important here... a couple fixes were already incorporated into 5.11, but others (like the one pictured below) are still up for discussion.

    One proposed physics fix.

  • Another public test build provides some different models for deciding whether bullets hit players in online servers, to see if any of those other models feel better when lag gets involved.
  • We're also soliciting feedback about the player physics details affected by the /quirks chat command, and whether they should be incorporated into a new multiplayer gamemode devoted to the parkour-like "test" maps that have been popular since JJ2's early days. If you use any of the /quirks settings outside of test maps, we'd love to hear from you.
  • JJ2+ has added a lot of new messages, settings, etc. over the years, and this doesn't give the best experience for people who want to play the game in a language other than English. We'd love to find volunteers who can translate JJ2+'s new strings, especially into languages that unpatched JJ2 is already translated into, like German and Italian and Afrikaans.
  • One very specific opinion/game design question: in Capture the Flag matches, would you like to know how much health your team's flag carrier has? If so, how should that be represented in the game's GUI?
  • Of course, we have an open call for volunteers to playtest private builds with upcoming features and fixes.
  • More testing opportunities coming very soon!
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.10 Release

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.10 Release

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus 3 comments

New bunch of patches and additions to Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Massive overhaul of online cooperative support and cooperative gameplay generally, improved enemy...

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.7 Release

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.7 Release

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New bunch of patches and additions to Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Multiplayer anti-hacking code has gotten some fixes, player physics have been patched to get...

Anniversary Bash 20

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Jazz 2's 20th anniversary is Monday! Join the party server all weekend long.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.6 Release

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus v5.6 Release

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus

New translations, better Xbox controller support, clickable links in chat, option to change your splash screen, starry skies at high resolutions, various...

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August 2023 Release (5.12)

August 2023 Release (5.12)

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus Patch

This is the latest version of JJ2+. Other players' positions in servers are shown more accurately, some improvements to bullets and slopes and smoke rings...

February 2023 Release (5.11)

February 2023 Release (5.11)

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus Patch

NOTE: This is an OUTDATED VERSION of JJ2+. Look elsewhere in this downloads section for the latest revision! Some fixes to player physics, some new sound...

December 2022 Release (5.10)

December 2022 Release (5.10)

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus Patch 2 comments

NOTE: This is an OUTDATED VERSION of JJ2+. Look elsewhere in this downloads section for the latest revision! Massive overhaul of online cooperative support...

May 2021 second Release (5.9)

May 2021 second Release (5.9)

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus Patch 1 comment

NOTE: This is an OUTDATED VERSION of JJ2+. Look elsewhere in this downloads section for the latest revision! Fixes a bug in Windows 8 and above that discouraged...

May 2021 Release (5.8)

May 2021 Release (5.8)

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Plus Patch

NOTE: This is an OUTDATED VERSION of JJ2+. Look elsewhere in this downloads section for the latest revision! Fixes to angelscript functions and online...

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Manual

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Manual

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This is the user manual to Jazz Jackrabbit 2 by Epic Games, Scanned into PDF format and was located on Archive.org, I don't take credit for this file...

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BNerd1
BNerd1

played this game at a friends home was very fun still is very fun

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Best game of all times.

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Still remember playing this game when I was a little kid :')

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Me too. :D

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Waddlesticks
Waddlesticks

Loved this game! Still have it on a floppy ;D
Oh and also a CD :DDD

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Laro24
Laro24

Guys, the Mod DB Top 100 is out. Please vote for the only JJ2 mod!

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STZoro
STZoro

Old game, but still rocks...

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DEAD_FiSH
DEAD_FiSH

I loved this game so much, and still I play it! Good times!

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