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King Slug
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Bug
Tally!
Let's make a tally of all the bugs in each Keen game and see which
has the most. Should prolly specify which version of each game that
the bugs happen in, too.
(I hope this thread doesn't dissolve
into a debate over the meaning of the term "bug".)
Ones that
I can think of:
Keen 4:
- Walking through a door in
mid-air to exit the level
- "Lose Gem When Save & Load" error
(from an earlier version)
- Looking up, standing on a
mirage-block = not falling down when it vanishes
- Spinning
Slug/Arachnut when you switch off a bridge that they're standing on
(Is it a bug, though?)
Keen 5:
- Goplat error
- Looking
up on a rotating platform, same effect as mirage-block bug in
K4
- You can die when you destroy the QED, yet still win the
game
Keen 6:
- Impossible Bullet
- "Save & Load"
bugs (when off screen, or on the eyeball in the Molly Room,
etc.)
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Garg
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Re: Bug
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Keen Dreams
- you can jump on those killing green grounds, if
you hold jumping button
Keen 5
- you can finish the level
if you have destroyed the machine (sorry, can't remember their
names) and something kills you after that
Keen 6
-
spinning blooglet when you switch off a bridge that they're standing
on 
- that odd bug with pipes near the Molly place
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KeenCommander
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Re: Bug
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Keen 6
You can carry gems from level to level
If you end the
game and restart, you keep any gems you were carrying.
Molly
Walks. Here's what Tom Hall said about it:
Quote:
Molly does NOT run around in the final level. If such a version
exists, it
was a hack. Might have been a bug patch, but I
forget.
Oh, and the Keen6 -
no-point walkthrough on my site doesn't work for Keen 6 1.4. They
fixed some of the clipping bugs.
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Re: Bug
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Keen Dreams: If you're as far right on a level as you can go (at
the edge) and you get killed, you finish the level.
I've
only tested this on the level where it first happened to me (Parsnip
Pass, I think), but it might occur on other levels too.
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Garg
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Re: Bug
Tally!
Have to try that one!
If I remember correct, this works on Keen 4-6.
First of
all, kill yourself (in the game ofcourse!). Then quickly save game.
Load game. The screen will follow dead Keen as down as possible. Let
Keen bounce once from the edge of level. Then save and load.
Continue this until you have finished the level.
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Re: Bug
Tally!
It works on any level as long as there's not a wall on the far
right side (like in Tuber's Castle).
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Re: Bug
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In Defense Tunnel Teln get the blue key and go to its door. Put the
key in just as the purple dude (forgot which one) starts pushing you
right. You stay in the insert key position and after you're pushed
up the ramp you'll float back in some strange way.
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Re: Bug
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Gotta try that one!
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Re: Bug
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In keen 4 and keen dreams, when you are behind an exit sign, hold
down, and press jump, you go into the ground a little
ways.
In keen 4, if you shoot a bounder right after it
bounces, it will bounce higher into the air than normal. in the
Perilous Pit, by the blue gem, if you kill the bounder and he lands
on the pole, you can stand on top of him, press down, and keen will
stay in one place but look like he is sliding down the pole.
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Re: Bug
Tally!
There's the whole mess of clipping errors and ending levels in
weird ways in Keen 6 that you can exploit with IB.
There's
also a number of places in Keen 6 where you can save that will make
the camera start near the bottom of the level and scroll up to where
you are when you load. In the last level of Keen 6 there are divider
tiles so when you save on the eyepole the game starts the camera
right above the top divider tile and scrolls up, which explains why
you can't see yourself. (Some other places where the scrolling
camera trick happens bug-free is next to the door next to the exit
in Bloogton Mfg., Incorporated and on the ledge next to the area
with lots of points and 3 dropping platforms in Bloogbase Mgt.
District).
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Keen 6
under the arches with diagonal red stripes, look down and
jump to go down a tile. This is useful in Guard Post 1 as keen will
fall through the floor to the lower level.
Get a new lease
on life in Guard Post 1 by doing this: Near the beginning of the
level, in the area above (past the the metal pillar, and just to the
left of the above mentioned arch, get killed by a blooguard, as you
fly up, exit and save the game. reload, and quickly press F10+N (no
clipping), then F10+G (just in case). If keen doesn't fly over the
pillar, the next time a blooguard hits the ground, keen will stand
up, alive and well! Now when keen walks behind walls, he will be
visible.
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Garg
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Re: Bug
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That sounds cool!
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Re: Bug
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In Keen 4 (and maybe also Keen 5 and 6), when you are near the
bottom of the level look down, save the game, load it - you will see
some "edge of map" blocks. It also works in situations like the one
in the screenshots
below...
Save the game...
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When
you load the game you'll see this:
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Garg
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Re: Bug
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Cool one Zorath! There are some places like that in Keens, but I
think there's many in Keen 6.
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HAHA
Save and load repetitively while dying, to finish the level? -
that's crazy, KeenRush! Gotta try it
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Well that only works if the exit is on the right side of the level.
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Re: HAHA
In Keen 5: You still can finish the game if the Shikadi mine blows
up you and the fuse. Not sure if this is a bug.
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Re: HAHA
If I remember correct that has worked in every level I have tried
it.. (Btw, now I'm talking to Xtraverse.)
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The Robo Red bug in Keen5,
In Defense Tunnel Teln you can
shoot Robo Red when he is at the edge,
and he will float in the
air, and start shaking forth and back
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Ah, I remember that bug! It's pretty cool!
Works on the other places too..
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Re: Bug
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I've got one!
Or maybe not... 
In Keen 3, there's a level that you can finish with ankh
time left, and it remains with you on the world map. You don't get
to start another level with it though...
oh well.
Oops.
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Re: Bug
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Heh.. Haven't noticed that one..
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Re: Bug
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Ever noticed the series of invisible poles along this slope in the
2nd level of Keen 5?
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Nope! Cool!
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There’s other invisible poles in Keen5 too, though it’s been a
while since I’ve played it (while looking for bugs) so I don’t know
where.
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I think it's under any slanted ground of a certain grade. It might
also be only on the green slants, I don't know...
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Have to search..
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