Any% Cases with beetles.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-Nrx1xEQ3nVmxHVCmWBaIWK_ZcITTOC/view?usp=sharing

This is a WIP doc that I used for my PB with beetles routed, and Blue snag nets as well(Although not all are linked to there respective cases)

Its similar to RSQ's Cases and even uses some of the same images.

For the beetle cases, the label refers to the color of the purple bag's beetles.

Any% Notes + Cases

Here are the cases for Fire Chasms and Bottomless Pits: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbz98w7ffot5xej/Cluefinders3cases.pdf?dl=0

The most important thing is to use your ESC key. It's the only way to skip most animation and cutscenes. Some of my older runs are probably better than my latest in terms of puzzle solving, etc., but they're way slower just because I didn't use ESC. Also, a note, when I say to "move in a direction" it means hit the green arrow pointing to that side of the screen (up, left, right, or down). Okay, here's the step by step:

- Name yourself, hit "Start Game". Timing starts now.

- Use all Level 1 difficulty

- ESC and then click "Skip" on the dialog box to skip the cutscene.

- Go to Goo Lagoon, skip every cutscene and animation

- Move to the right, this will take you to the spiders. Get their Beetle Bag, then map back to the starting area.

- Move down. You'll have to pick the right bug for this puzzle, I suggest doing it after only reading 2 clues and just hoping you're right.

- Move to the right. Skip everything, then move up. Remember to keep skipping animations + cutscenes! Solve the tree puzzle (you'll start to memorize them after a while), and then go left. 

- Get the blue Beetle Bag, then map back to the Pond Area.

- Head right, and solve the puzzle. Get the green Beetle Bag, then head right again.

- Go up to Goo Falls. I can't help much with this, just try solving the puzzles from top to bottom.

-Spam click on the arrow at the top of the screen when you've finished the puzzle, it'll skip the "lowering the stairs" animation.

-You can also spam click to bring up the skip option for the cutscenes between each level of the Falls. It can come up as soon as the face begins closing his eyes for the last time.

- Grab the key, wait for the cutscene to *begin*, then skip it. Spam clicking to skip the ending cutscene of either Goo Falls or Monkey Kingdom can softlock you.

- Head to Monkey Kingdom. Keep spamming that ESC key every time you find yourself not actionable!

- Move down, and solve the calendar puzzle to get gold Sneezeberries. Map back to the first area.

- Move right. For the place value puzzle, just make the  largest value you can, it'll usually be right.

- Skip the cutscene bullshit, then move down.

- Solve the blue puzzle, then move right again.

- Solve the red puzzle, go right.

- Skip the cutscene, go right.

- Solve the green puzzle, go right.

- Go up to the Chasms of Fire.

- Use the cases to solve the puzzles. Figure out which spot will solve the equation on his head, and hit that one last to prevent an unskippable animation.

- After the last tile on a level flips, hit ESC, then cross. The talking here is unskippable as far as I can tell. I think spam clicking as you cross helps to skip the in-between cutscenes.

- At the end, DON'T SPAM CLICK. Get the key, then wait for the cutscene to begin, then skip it with one click/ESC press. This is super easy to softlock, and spam clicking seems to make it more likely.

- Remember to keep skipping everything!

- Go with Fletcher, go right all through the trees, and solve the puzzles. Everything here is skippable, pretty much. Put the key in the gate.

- Go in the right door (although it doesn't really matter, that's just the way I go)

- Keep going through the tunnels, solving each puzzle. When you get to the area overlooking the pits, don't go down, continue onwards and keep solving. After you have one Snagnet of each colour, map back to that overlook area and head up to the bottomless pits.

- Click on your snagnets in the backpack, and they will snap automatically to the ground. If you click + drag, it's quite easy to leave the area by accident.

- Solve that stuff with the cases. Blue isn't included because it's relatively manageable to do it intuitively. Just remember for blue: (wear/where/ware) and (too/two/to) tend to go at the only three-way intersection.

- Every time you complete a level, spam move left. It will automatically skip the "animals crossing".

- After you spam move left on the gold level, click through the dialog box. You're done!

Challenge% Beetle routing.

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q-x55SNcGOOv2cuIlCpdmIulD3fQkzEs/view?usp=sharing


Google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yO8rQ3IoE-uiCg37k9Q-dAtv80FZ-CIJO2kP5udmkhI/edit?usp=sharing

This is a pdf with all beetle cases routed on challenge level. The way to use the pdf is to look at the first beetle you get, and find that section. Always do black path first, then gray, then brown(as some paths rely on the previous ones). 

There may be minor errors in this but none that should stop the general path -- you shouldn't follow the paths verbatim but instead use them as a general guide. If you find a path that doesn't work please tell me so I can update the guide.

Challenge% Cases

The answers for Challenge-level Rings of Fire are the same as other difficulties; the only difference is the questions. Bottomless Pits of Doom cases are different in challenge mode and can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bq6m4k43mqgf48b/Mathra_Challenge_Cases.pdf

Godspeed runners!

Configuring your computer to run this game

VIDEO GUIDE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IwXys-TnLQ
For the sake of this guide, you will need:
- A hard copy of The ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures or an ISO of the game
	>If you do have the hard copy, you will need to burn everything on the disc into an ISO using an image 			 
           burner, I recommend ImgBurn
- VMware Workstation 15 Player
- (if you don't already) a zip folder unloader, such as 7-Zip or WinRar
- Windows 98 Second Edition (VMWare): https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-98/98-second-edition

-----NOTICE-----
Using VMware will force all keys, global or not, to go into the simulation and not your desktop, so for live timing, I would use either LiveSplit Remote or reconfigure your timer to use a gamepad's button to split, pause, ect.

You will also need to enable VT-x, access of which depends on your computer
(tutorials here: https://2nwiki.2n.cz/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75202968#:~:text=ON%20the%20System.-,Press%20F2%20key%20at%20startup%20BIOS%20Setup.,changes%20and%20Reboot%20into%20Windows. )

1. After booting up VMware, click "Open a Virtual Machine" and open the "Windows 98" file you extracted using 7zip or WinRar
2. Give the OS time to load fully
3. Once on the home screen, go into the settings and put the ClueFinders ISO in the CD/DVD (IDE). The game is now playable!

You can use other Virtual Machines if you'd like and if you plan on running the other ClueFinder games or other old CD-ROM games, the same process should work.

Pal Speedrun Guide

Hello Everyone, Please see the below video about tricks, specifically for the PAL version of the speedrun. Some of the ideas may transfer to the US version, but for the most part these are the tricks I used in the WR which is played on the PAL version.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQbdGn7Asz7uBBE6G_kqYR1bhUEq7YWzI1clOHeDxJs/edit#heading=h.55tmi5i75v9u

If you are not sure what version you are running, you can see the intro to the video for some information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSLOp1Y8THc

Nome	Autore
Any% Cases with beetles.	AquaBaby 4 years ago
Any% Notes + Cases	RSQ 7 years ago
Challenge% Beetle routing.	AquaBaby 4 years ago
Challenge% Cases	RSQ 5 years ago
Configuring your computer to run this game	KindaDrake 2 years ago
Pal Speedrun Guide	AquaBaby 2 years ago