Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
EDIT: Faster run - youtube.com/watch?v=1NXeOcuQw-k
For the rules for 100% I decided you should have to get every item you can get, and use up every item you can use up, except it's your choice whether you want to turn in the Bone Spoon or eat the cookies. I also decided to ban Walk Though Walls, since in the process of activating it you have to use a special case of Arbitrary Code Execution that just happens to be a lot easier to manipulate than other results, and if you allow ACE then in theory you could just reprogram the entire game to whatever you want. So that basically leaves the Infinite Shockwave Glitch as the only speedrun-useful glitch in this category, which I used to full effect in this run.
If you're wondering how the infinite shockwave glitch works, I use it against several of the bosses in this run, I'll explain it. If you're blinking from taking damage, using the shockwave won't damage Fester at all, but still deals massive damage to all on-screen enemies. Using the shockwave itself counts as taking damage, so you can just keep using it and using it. Because you need to be at maximum health to use the shockwave, however, I must first use a blue cookie so that getting hit doesn't reduce my health. So it's 1. heal to full health (white cookie), 2. become invincible (blue cookie), 3. get hit, 4. immediately start mashing the shockwave.
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I had a lot of trouble with one of the rooms late in Dungeon 7. I should have scoped that room out a bit better. A couple of minor issues besides, like almost going to the TME instead of Dungeon 3 for the 2nd run in a row, lol.
I wasn't sure how to route my heals around the Stone Gardens section (because the Romit boss fight can easily get off the rails) so perhaps I played it a bit too safe through that section. Speaking of Stone Gardens, I forgot to split as I left, so when I flash the splits at the end, that split is wrong.
EDIT: Faster run - youtube.com/watch?v=1NXeOcuQw-k
For the rules for 100% I decided you should have to get every item you can get, and use up every item you can use up, except it's your choice whether you want to turn in the Bone Spoon or eat the cookies. I also decided to ban Walk Though Walls, since in the process of activating it you have to use a special case of Arbitrary Code Execution that just happens to be a lot easier to manipulate than other results, and if you allow ACE then in theory you could just reprogram the entire game to whatever you want. So that basically leaves the Infinite Shockwave Glitch as the only speedrun-useful glitch in this category, which I used to full effect in this run.
If you're wondering how the infinite shockwave glitch works, I use it against several of the bosses in this run, I'll explain it. If you're blinking from taking damage, using the shockwave won't damage Fester at all, but still deals massive damage to all on-screen enemies. Using the shockwave itself counts as taking damage, so you can just keep using it and using it. Because you need to be at maximum health to use the shockwave, however, I must first use a blue cookie so that getting hit doesn't reduce my health. So it's 1. heal to full health (white cookie), 2. become invincible (blue cookie), 3. get hit, 4. immediately start mashing the shockwave.
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I had a lot of trouble with one of the rooms late in Dungeon 7. I should have scoped that room out a bit better. A couple of minor issues besides, like almost going to the TME instead of Dungeon 3 for the 2nd run in a row, lol.
I wasn't sure how to route my heals around the Stone Gardens section (because the Romit boss fight can easily get off the rails) so perhaps I played it a bit too safe through that section. Speaking of Stone Gardens, I forgot to split as I left, so when I flash the splits at the end, that split is wrong.
