Dungeon Magic/Lightbringer - secret enemy

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

Heyo. Dungeon Magic is a pretty cool game. Today I decided to play it for a bit. I've played the game hundreds of times over the years.

I picked Ash, took the route that leads to the amazon room, and from there, got to the room with the lightning weapon chest surrounded by spikes.

And that's when I spotted something new. A tiny little 'enemy' was shuffling around the room at breakneck speeds. It almost looked like one of those puyo puyo beans. I popped a bomb figuring i couldn't hit the bugger normally, and it dropped some gems on hit. Didn't die though, just kept shuffling around.

Okay, I figured, and decided to replay my run, tracing my steps as closely as possible. I made it to the same room again...and the bugger wasn't there.

Couldn't find any info about it online, so before I delve deep, I figured one of the arcadeheads here surely has to know about the conditions for this guy spawning. Nothing like a good ol' gaming mystery eh.

Will update with pics if I see the guy again. Didn't take screenshots because I thought I'd find out how to spawn it immediately. I didn't

[BIL]

After seeing all the bizarre shit lurking within Cadash, this makes all too much sense Fraudy-kun (■｀w´■) PUYO BEAN-LIKE CREATURES, even!

That is pretty rad if nobody even seen that shit before

Sounds like something Randorama might know about, offhand!

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

Remembered to update this after a while. You can now see what the enemy looks like! The sprite gets re-used for mimics in later levels. It is the exact same enemy, without the shield. The way to trigger it remains undiscovered, however.

Puyo indeed!

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

Revival.

Got this thing to spawn again in a completely different room. I can also confirm it has nothing to do with character choice, unless choice defines which room ofc. It was Gren and it spawned much earlier.

[Sumez]

Are you playing on Mame?

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

No longer a cryptid, but the spawn methodology is as mysterious as ever.

https://youtu.be/YgHXJhSx2WI?t=115

Spoiler

credit: baf

[Sumez]

Do you know if that recording is based off a MAME playback?

Would be really cool to look into this with the debugger open to see what spawns it. I'd be happy to do it

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

I've no clue about the recording. If you check the comments, baf also notes it's not their video.

Ironically though, the screenshot was a separate thing and you might find your answer there since I was given a savestate for it, from 0.230.

[Sumez]

Awesome. I'll look into it if I'm ever at my home computer again