Lordsnek: Added a little mention of emulated versions. I feel like my wording is getting clunky but cest la vie or whatever it's a small wiki read by nobody edit it if you want

2026-02-13T22:35:42Z

Added a little mention of emulated versions. I feel like my wording is getting clunky but cest la vie or whatever it's a small wiki read by nobody edit it if you want

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	== Glitches ==		== Glitches ==
	When flying berries flap up and down, they don't follow a perfect cycle due to rounding errors and problems with [[PICO-8\|pico-8]]'s implementation of sin(). Over a very long time, these errors can accumulate and make the berry drift slowly upward. Since the berry's y position is an integer, it will underflow to a positive (lower) y position if the berry drifts any higher than y=-32768.		When flying berries flap up and down, they don't follow a perfect cycle due to rounding errors and problems with [[PICO-8\|pico-8]]'s implementation of sin(). Over a very long time, these errors can accumulate and make the berry drift slowly upward. Since the berry's y position is an integer, it will underflow to a positive (lower) y position if the berry drifts any higher than y=-32768. While flying berries also drift slightly in emuulated versions of the game, the drift is much slower, and eventually stops happening altogether; as a result, this is usually considered a PICO-8 only glitch.


	This slow drift takes a ''very'' long time; it takes 9 years for the berry to underflow. If you can't dash to make it rise back quickly, it takes another 9 years for the flying berry to drift back up into the main map. This glitch is used mainly in minimalist challenge runs, like getting the berry in 700m without jumping. It is also the primary technique in [[longleste]], a challenge to make the longest beatable level.		This slow drift takes a ''very'' long time; it takes 9 years for the berry to underflow. If you can't dash to make it rise back quickly, it takes another 9 years for the flying berry to drift back up into the main map. This glitch is used mainly in minimalist challenge runs, like getting the berry in 700m without jumping. It is also the primary technique in [[longleste]], a challenge to make the longest beatable level.

Lordsnek: Created the page, with a glitches section where I describe flying berry drift

2026-02-13T22:33:36Z

Created the page, with a glitches section where I describe flying berry drift

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[[File:Flying Berry.png|thumb|A flying berry in 400m of Celeste Classic]]
Flying strawberries, also called winged berries, are a collectible that first appeared in [[Celeste Classic]]. They are similar to [[Strawberry|non-flying strawberries]], but they have wings and fly upward once the player dashes.

== Original Code ==
fly_fruit={

tile=28,

if_not_fruit=true,

init=function(this)

this.start=this.y

this.fly=false

this.step=0.5

this.solids=false

this.sfx_delay=8

end,

update=function(this)

--fly away

if this.fly then

if this.sfx_delay>0 then

this.sfx_delay-=1

if this.sfx_delay<=0 then

sfx_timer=20

sfx(14)

end

end

this.spd.y=appr(this.spd.y,-3.5,0.25)

if this.y<-16 then

destroy_object(this)

end

-- wait

else

if has_dashed then

this.fly=true

end

this.step+=0.05

this.spd.y=sin(this.step)*0.5

end

-- collect

local hit=this.collide(player,0,0)

if hit~=nil then

hit.djump=max_djump

sfx_timer=20

sfx(13)

got_fruit[1+level_index()] = true

init_object(lifeup,this.x,this.y)

destroy_object(this)

end

end,

draw=function(this)

local off=0

if not this.fly then

local dir=sin(this.step)

if dir<0 then

off=1+max(0,sign(this.y-this.start))

end

else

off=(off+0.25)%3

end

spr(45+off,this.x-6,this.y-2,1,1,true,false)

spr(this.spr,this.x,this.y)

spr(45+off,this.x+6,this.y-2)

end

}

== Glitches ==
When flying berries flap up and down, they don't follow a perfect cycle due to rounding errors and problems with [[PICO-8|pico-8]]'s implementation of sin(). Over a very long time, these errors can accumulate and make the berry drift slowly upward. Since the berry's y position is an integer, it will underflow to a positive (lower) y position if the berry drifts any higher than y=-32768.

This slow drift takes a ''very'' long time; it takes 9 years for the berry to underflow. If you can't dash to make it rise back quickly, it takes another 9 years for the flying berry to drift back up into the main map. This glitch is used mainly in minimalist challenge runs, like getting the berry in 700m without jumping. It is also the primary technique in [[longleste]], a challenge to make the longest beatable level.

Flying strawberries - Revision history

Lordsnek: Added a little mention of emulated versions. I feel like my wording is getting clunky but cest la vie or whatever it's a small wiki read by nobody edit it if you want

Lordsnek: Created the page, with a glitches section where I describe flying berry drift