The Moon Room's goal for any win

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.11 on 28 October 2026.

The high scores room has a column of trophies, and climbing up beside them shows a panel for each secret room: its goal if it's unlocked, LOCKED. if not. The Moon Room's panel tests the best time against 600,000, a number of milliseconds, but the time is kept in seconds. So after any win the panel shows the Moon Room's goal, while its door needs a win in 10:00 or less.

With one win timed at 11:40, the high scores room has the time's silver trophy but no Moon Room door. The player climbs the ledges beside the trophies: the Changing Room and the Stars Room read LOCKED., but beside the trophy the Moon Room's goal shows as if it were unlocked ^[1].

When a game ends, scrUpdateHighscores turns the clock's milliseconds into seconds before it keeps the best time:

// convert time from 1000/sec to sec to prevent overflow
global.time = floor(global.time / 1000);

The high scores room reads it back as tTime, in seconds, and makes the Moon Room's door only for 600 or less ^{[2] [3]}. But the panel's limit is kept in milliseconds, moonGold = 600000 ^[4], and it's what the draw event tests while the player is at the Moon Room's height:

else if (oPlayer1.y < 80+16)
{
    draw_set_color(c_yellow);
    draw_text(168, 96, "MOON ROOM");
    draw_set_color(c_white);
    if (tTime > 0 and tTime <= moonGold)
    {

Any win under 600,000 seconds, nearly a week on the clock, passes, and the panel shows SHOOT THE MOVING TARGETS WITH YOUR BOW AND ARROWS! rather than LOCKED. The Sun Room's limit, sunGold, is in dollars and the Stars Room's, starsGold, in kills, and both match their doors ^{[5] [6]}.

Win a game slower than 10:00, without a shortcut, so that it's the best time, then go into the high scores room and climb the ledges beside the trophies to the time's trophy. Most players' first wins are slower than that. The replay starts with one win at 11:40: the room has the silver trophy and no Moon Room door. The player climbs the trophy column ledge by ledge, past the Changing Room's and the Stars Room's LOCKED. panels, and beside the trophy the Moon Room's goal shows ^[7].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[6], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the panel's text. No option turns it off.