Englandsorry i didn't see this until now! but genuinely it's so funny to me that we're now having forum discussions about this silly game lmao
yeah a while ago i tried to figure out health recovery, it kind of looked as though it recovered every 7500 points but this wasn't consistent at all so i gave up on that theory and couldn't come up with a new one.
in one of the booklet things it says bonus levels are tied to secret missions such as colouring the whole level (too time consuming for any% and that's the only example listed unfortunately), and that collecting every item in a bonus level lets you skip 1 level so definitely something to practice for a blobby% run but not super helpful here.
(in other news, i finally added your latest run to my spreadsheet (yes i have serious issues) and the new best hypothetical time is 7:05.953.)
i have incurable blobby fever apparently. i'd also read about the debug menu somewhere so i did some looking around and got the amiga version running in an emulator (somehow it's even jankier than the DOS version, and the sprites in the intro cut scene are even more horrifying).
the debug menu is this:
i have no clue how to read any of it, but i'm guessing it's not as useful as what some games have. maybe i'm wrong though. also hopefully i'm not somehow doxxing myself lol
screaming crying throwing up how do you always beat me so fast!! ggs, blobby has clearly blessed you
hard agree though, the way this game makes decisions genuinely infuriates me. it's driven me to the point where i'm considering trying to contact the people in the credits to see if they remember any scraps of information about a random trolls/blobby cash-in from 30 years ago lmfao
