Never Played the PC version. First time I played it was this version.
Controls are not "jerky" per se'. They are just inconsistant.
Sometimes I hold for 1 sec and I move 1 block, sometimes I hold for 1 sec and I move 2 blocks ect....
It is really hard to judge and make precise fast movements  when you are not 100% what is going to happen.

Chips Challenge is one of those games made for discrete key presses, not button holding.

yeah the controls are frustrating but it adds to the charm of the game i may not be good at the game but its been real fun hacking this game and making it more complete
its hard to believe it was all there

Any word on what is happening with this?

There was an auction for 3 LEs of the fixed ROM that just completed. The plan is to then move on to using that to fund the small RE release

I saw the LE release, just curious what the actual timeline and scope for the standard release is.
 

Loving this game!

So far this is a really nice port of the Window's game.

Obviously the color depth and pixel count is lower, but it is easily forgivable to be able to play it with a controller on the TV.

I think there needs to be a bit of a delay between d-pad inputs. I found myself running into obstacles way more often than the PC version. And some .nsf tracker composer ought to write a soundtrack for this. I know the original didn't have it, but it would add to the feel of the game. Add the rest of the PC levels for the perfect port! Its a great game!

Yeah the controls are pretty tricky at first. After a dozen levels or so I started to get used to how you had to handle them. That's not to say bad controls should be part of the game, but you should be able to make an adjustment to compensate.

Interesting that this was never officially released. I'm going to have to do a little sleuthing as to why. I'm sure someone has already posted about it so feel free to share!

Yeah, I don't know how much effort was required to make it functional for the release we've just seen, but it's astonishing that they'd have implemented all of the PC levels and never released the game.

 

Is the rom available somewhere or is everyone here playing testers?

I managed to snag one of the copies that were for sale a week or so ago.

The prototype never had all of the windows levels implemented; that was one of the more painsteaking things on our release. Getting all the levels working and the passwords for all the unadded levels wasn't very simple. That and fixing various game crashes like when the credits would roll.

What percentage of the levels were already complete?

Did adding the rest run into memory issues?

 

Lost Levels' write up on the prototype said it was 136 levels.
I'm not sure how much trouble Jeff ran into implementing the remaining levels but I do remember that getting the passwords working for all the levels seemed like a bigger deal. We had to get bunnyboys help to figure out how the level passwords functioned to figure out how to get all of those working.

They also mention this about the history of the game:
We're not sure what became of the NES version. What we do know is that Bullet-Proof announced it at Winter CES, January 1991, then exhibited it again at Summer CES in June, and then as far as we can tell, never mentioned it again. Interestingly, this build of the game is dated 5/8/1992, meaning that it was burned well after those demos. And, you may notice, Bullet-Proof does not appear in the ROM at all. Perhaps Bullet-Proof decided to pass, and this was a polished demo that was being passed around in the hopes of finding a new publisher? I contacted the NES version's programmer to ask, but haven't heard back. I'll update this should he ever reply