So, hello, I'm Meowskivich. Crazy guy and all that. Been playing this game forever and a half, and am currently on my 271st or 272nd playthrough for getting all the library paths. So, I'm doing this route: Hero, Dark, Dark, Hero, Hero, Dark And I'm encountering the Egg Dealer as a result. Nothing special.

However... The egg dealer opened up.... with targeting itself with Missile Fever. This is, by far, the most exciting thing that has happened to me since, you know, I'm keen on completing these runs as fast as I can. I'm curious if anyone else has had this occur, and if so, if they know how to replicate it. After all, a free missile fever hit is freaking great.

Just PB'd him with 59:32 thanks to this.

Egg Dealer will attack itself with Missle Fever when you have 0 lives remaining. It's a handicap to help the player a bit since another death means game over, though it doesnt matter as much in this game since you just enter the fight again after a quick continue screen. This is used in IL attempts since the free hit helps speeds things up, but unless you died a bunch in your playthrough or run, it's faster to just take on the boss when you get to it.

Hm, alright. Thank you for explaining. Yeah, I was having a miserable time with the stage prior, though it's mostly my fault because I was testing jumps and spin dashes to see where all I could cut corners.