No trophy at 16:00

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.13 on 28 October 2026.

The high scores room gives a trophy for the best time: bronze, silver or gold. The bronze one is meant for a time of 16:00 or less, but the check that makes the trophy at all asks for less than 16:00, so a best time of exactly 16:00 leaves the trophy's place empty. One second faster, and the bronze trophy is there.

The only win recorded took 16:00. The player walks from the title screen into the scores door: the panel shows TIME: 16:00, and the stand for the time's trophy has nothing on it ^[1].

When the high scores room is made, it makes the time's trophy only for a best time above 0 and under 960 seconds, then picks its colour, starting with bronze for a time of 960 or less:

if (tTime > 0 and tTime < 960)
{
    trophy = instance_create(64, 64, oTrophy);
    if (tTime <= 960)
    {
        trophy.sprite_index = sBronzeTrophy;
    }

The two tests disagree at 960 exactly: the inner one would give it the bronze trophy, but the outer one never lets it get there ^[2]. The silver (720 or less) and gold (600 or less) tests after it agree with the outer one ^[3]. The time is stored in whole seconds: at the end of a won game, the clock is rounded down to the second before it's compared with the best time ^[4], so any win from 16:00.000 to 16:00.999 is a 960.

Win a game in 16:00, without a shortcut, as the best time recorded, and enter the high scores room. It happens in normal play, but rarely: the best time has to land on that second. The replay of the clip starts from a high scores table with one win at 16:00 and nothing else, and walks into the scores door: the room loads (frame 546) with a best time of 960 and makes no trophy at all ^[5]. With 959, the bronze trophy is made.

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[2], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the empty stand. No option turns it off.