It must have been released between the time I used and Amiga and when I used a PC as I have no fond memories of this. Reading through the thread shows many do so thank you GoG on their behalf and for the games that I do remember fondly.

Just my opinion but it would still be cool that GOG could still release these games as freebies every now and then. Makes seeking these games out and setting things up so the games are playable less of a hassle. Also a lot of people would still appreciate the very sweet gesture, even though you could set up the games yourself.

I mean after all, GOG sometimes does release freebies but it almost feels like that these times are gone and its a shame. One of the reasons I joined this site was because I wanted to replay Tyrian 2000 and BASS :D!

Sometimes they still do freebies, though just sometimes, which is to be expected, if they wanna keep themselves afloat :)

But of course, who would refuse a freebie from time to time :)

So am I correct in assuming that the JJ2+ installer is all you need? I downloaded all three installers, but they all seem to play the same game, except for the holiday one, which installed a separate shortcut, even though the holiday game is already in JJ2, but seems to have its own separate list of homebrew levels.

JJ2+ only had one epsiode and custom levels when I tried it. I used Jazz 1, Jazz 2 & Jazz 2 CC (Not sure if Jazz 2 has the same content that CC has already, but the menus are different in Jazz 2 & Jazz 2 CC (Xmasy.)

I didn't even deem it worthy a reply.

Thanks for clearing things up in your post, exactly my thoughts although I guess it may fall on deaf ears.

Well, if that´s the case, then we are talking about two different things:
If you´re talking about those small shout outs, those barks, I agree with you that appropriate place for them would be here, in general discussion and that it´s not a review.

What I had in mind when responding to BrandeX was a real review, where people will write a few meaningful sentences about the game.

But I stand by to what I wrote to Klumpen0815 - that judging old games with nowadays standards is way off.

Because it was these games, which either because they were successful (meant bought and played by many, though not always that had to be the case) or well known, helped shaped the nowadays standards - so dissing them for not adhering to changes made over time to these standards is nothing short of anachronism.

And you are absolutely right - some of them have aspects which are hard to get to or are as a whole outright obsolete.

But back to the reviews - Why a person who played a game 10 years ago couldn´t write a review about it and couldn´t say he had a good time? Does that make him a bad reviewer, just because he haven´t played that particular game last week?
I don´t think so. Majority of people, who bought these older titles have played them in the past (as a child/ when they were younger), and only minority will buy these games (those, which are young now) without ever having experience them in the first place (why would they, when there are so many newer games, with nicer graphics out there?).

Also (and I am reacting now to the to BrandeX´s post, which I reacted to in a first place - which is why we are having this conversation), I don´t like when people are using word "nostalgia" as a synonym with negative connotations, equal to somebody with purple tinted glasses - just because you had a good experience with a game in the past doesn´t mean you´re oblivious to its shortcomings - you would remember them, just as you remember the good parts. And I would expect you to mention them in a review. Nor does it mean you should be automatically disqualified writing about them.

There´s much higher chance that people who haven´t played them in the time when they were produced, will upbraid stuff which were common at that time, out of their own ignorance.

Hence, the Beethoven - twitter analogy.
And if you deem it awful, well - awful analogy for an awful argument.

And I do hope this will not fall on a deaf ears - I, for one, was reading closely :)

But that minority is the reason reviews exist. Reviews are to tell people what a game is like so they get an idea whether they'd be interested or not. It's not a porch for people to sit on and reminisce to each other about their childhoods.

Good point, but if they are reminiscing about what a good game it is, aren't they essentially reviewing it?

I agree with this one.

I have the same issue. I installed the game normally, then I activated the beta branch and selected jj2+. Only The Secret Files and Home Cooked levels appear. How can i solve it?

Today they hotfixed the episodes for jazz2. Auto-update should be enabled, but make sure to look at your settings. Thanks to GOG for the quick fix!

Thank you so much! Works fine now.