Anyone else doing Any% (No Black Thunder Skip)
1 year ago
Minnesota, USA

I just submitted my Any% run attempt a little bit ago and was planning on doing a run without using the Black Thunder screen. Is anyone else doing this? I only see one attempt on the board... I was also thinking of doing something like an All Rooms, or High Score run, but see no category for those yet...

Texas, USA

Nothing against it, it's just a daunting task. I tried to on stream once- the problem is it's such a long and unforgiving game. I'd love to see it, but the score resets if you die and if you're not prepared, there are lots of traps that can softlock/end the run. Also just a random bug can end it.

All rooms is an interesting one- do you include the non-essential rooms, including the all-blue-beams-glitched room?

Edited by the author 1 year ago
Minnesota, USA

The highest score I've been able to get is 12784(although not trying to go fast...). The only rooms I entered without full health were the three rooms after Puzzle Room(The Pits, Torture Chamber, and Take 6). I can consistently get to the Jaws room without damage when I am just focusing on the game(not streaming). Jaws often takes me multiple tries, but Take 5 is right before it so I just heal and try again. I'll record a run at some point even if the category isn't made.

For the All Rooms run I was thinking it would be all the proper rooms(including Black Thunder, Starry Starry Night, Timeless Void, etc), but the glitch screen isn't one I think of as a real room(no non-glitch way to enter, no name, no points for getting there). The route I am planning to use for Any%(No Black Thunder Skip) still skips visiting a lot of rooms, so I thought a category that at least visits all the rooms would be nice too.

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Minnesota, USA

I tried doing the high score run, but messed up a little and only got 12731... Uploaded anyways at and submitted it to the leader board for Any%(No Black Thunder Skip) since it was faster than the existing first place run there. I'll do a faster run later without trying for score and hitting all the rooms.

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Texas, USA

What is your strategy for Air-Locked / Mission Control? I always get stuck there on long runs. Even if I get the frame-perfect-ish button jab, I can't get back to the ground in time and you only have one shot at it

Minnesota, USA

I jump to the left side and turn to the right so I don't stick, then after bobbing up and down and touching the top of that little area, Spidey flips upside down to be perfectly lined up 100% of the time to stick a web and pull down to get out. You can watch the video to see me doing it.

Texas, USA

lul I watched the video and still didn't understand. Might try a run of my own sometime today anyway. I don't think I ever made it onto that board

Minnesota, USA

I am going to stream myself going through the game and talking about it on Saturday at sometime at twitch.tv/coldiron1977 since a friend of mine was interested in the game. You can stop by too if you want to watch and talk about it too.

Minnesota, USA

Stream starting in about an hour. I just got done with a rough Any%(No Black Thunder Skip) run that I am getting ready to submit before starting the stream.

Texas, USA

https://www.twitch.tv/coldiron1977/clip/BumblingBoldChowderCopyThis-GCTMAG6d_miTzk8u I cannot figure out the key press combo to imitate this. How to crouch sideways midair and clip through that surface.

A keyboard input would be a nice addition to future streams :-) https://www.technipages.com/linux-mint-enable-on-screen-keyboard

EDIT: Okay- here's what I've got: UP + LEFT - to start jump UP + SPACE - shoot web up and face up ??? - clip into building

Edited by the author 1 year ago
Minnesota, USA

The input sequence that I use is as follows:

UP+LEFT - to start jump UP+LEFT+SPACE - to shoot first web putting Spidey into a ball RIGHT+SPACE - to straighten out sideways and shoot second web to clip

ie: start pressing: UP+LEFT --jump starts-- start pressing: SPACE --web shoots-- stop pressing: UP+LEFT start pressing: RIGHT --web shoots-- --Clipping should start--

hope this helps? I'll try to set up a split timer and keyboard thingy for my next stream.

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Texas, USA

Using the numpad changed everything.. From almost 0 success to about 50% I'll keep working on it

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Minnesota, USA

Yeah, using the numpad makes movement a LOT easier in the game. I tried it on my system and Spidey doesn't want to shoot web in any diagonal other than up-right if I use the non-numpad directional keys... I suspect space get ghosted on many keyboard by the directional keys... Ghosting keys is a very annoying problem for games especially on the cheaper keyboards.

Minnesota, USA

yo ill probably take you up on this! id be playing on amiga via mister tho. maybe we can find some cool shit! kind of sucks mister has no save state for amiga unfortunatley but whatever

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