Moon Room

This page describes a secret.

It's the second of the three secret challenges behind the trophies of the high scores room, the ARCHERY CHALLENGE, and the reward for a fast win (Speedrunning basics). One room, built in the room editor: ledges on the left for the player, a Bow to pick up, and an open hall over a floor of Spikes, where three bat-shaped targets fly up and down. It's the only bonus room the player can finish alive: the challenge runs on a 60-second timer.

A best time of 600 seconds or less, 10:00 on the game's clock, puts a gold trophy second from the top of the high scores room's column of trophies, and a door to the Moon Room under it ^[1]. Only a win from level 1, without a shortcut, sets a time (Scoring). Climbing up beside it, the board reads MOON ROOM and the goal, SHOOT THE MOVING TARGETS WITH YOUR BOW AND ARROWS! ^[2]. It shows the goal for any win, though, however slow, while the door needs the 10:00 (The Moon Room's goal for any win) ^[3]. In the clip, with one win at 11:40, the board shows the goal beside a silver trophy with no door ^[4].

The room editor laid out the whole room, a screen wide: the entrance on the highest of the ledges at the left, the Bow beside it, Spikes along the hall's floor and a Spring Trap ^[5]. A carved crescent moon hangs on the back wall. As in every bonus room, the bricks around its edge can't be broken ^[6], the player has 8 hearts ^[7], and his bombs and ropes can't be used outside a level (Sun Room). The room gives him 100 arrows, and picking up its Bow adds the 6 a new Bow brings ^{[8] [9]}.

ARCHERY CHALLENGE BEGINS IN 3... counts down at the bottom of the screen, and as it ends three targets fly in from the top ^{[10] [11]}. They look like Bats, and each flies straight up and down, between 64 and 160 pixels from the top, as fast as it's worth:

From 100 steps in, the timer at the top counts down from 60, a second every 30 steps ^{[14] [15] [16]}. An arrow that hits a target scores its points, beside the target icon at the top, and the target bleeds and is gone; a new one flies in from above in its place ^{[17] [18]}. Landing on one scores it too, and bounces the player up, as a stomp does; any other touch costs him a heart and knocks him back, at most once every 30 steps ^[19]. In the clip, the player picks up the Bow, and from the countdown on looses an arrow every 2 seconds from the ledge: the nearest target falls to the first that hits, for a point, and to the next, 6 seconds later ^[20].

With 20 seconds or less left, each target that comes back is a UFO, worth 2 points more and flying 2 pixels a step faster, and one shot down crashes rather than bleeds ^{[21] [22]}. Every target also sways sideways as it flies below the top of its path, up to 32 pixels to the left, toward the player's ledges ^[23]. A shot target's replacement still comes in at its own place, but a stomped one's comes in where the target had swayed to: it isn't at the middle or far target's place, so it's worth what the nearest is, 3 as a UFO, and sways from there ^{[24] [25] [26]}.

When the timer runs out, the score is kept as the room's best in the high scores, up to 99; the targets vanish in puffs of smoke, and the entrance becomes a door back to the high scores room ^[27]. FINISHED! comes up, then 30 steps later YOU SET A NEW RECORD! if the score beat the room's best, or BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME..., and the music stops ^{[28] [29]}. The door leads out to the high scores room, in front of the Moon Room's door ^{[30] [31]}. A death before then ends the challenge at once, with the same score kept ^[32]. In the clip, the player downs a UFO every 2 seconds, 3 points each, until the timer runs out at 35 points; he walks off the ledge onto the new door and goes back to the high scores room ^{[33] [34]}.

• The room was a basketball game first. Its score is baskets, the icon beside it is sHoopsIcon, and its code still has the lines that made a basket and its rim, commented out ^[36]. The basketball itself is in the game, scoring 1 for a dunk, 2 for a shot and 3 off a wall, but nothing makes it ^{[37] [38]}.
• An older target is in the code as well, a bullseye that scores 1 to 5 by how near its middle an arrow hits and sways when 30 seconds are left. Nothing makes it, though the arrow's code still keeps arrows from flying through it ^{[39] [40] [41]}.