His most well-known games are the Flash-based game Meat Boy, and its sequel Super Meat Boy, which has been released for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4. McMillen is also known for the games Gish, Aether, The Binding of Isaac and Coil. Feature The Binding of Edmund McMillen. Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac creator talks blood, guts, genitals, Indie Game: The Movie, and why the Bible influenced his violent streak.
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Super Meat Boy is leaping onto Switch
There will be blood.
Super Meat Boy's long journey onto a Nintendo console ends next week
Quorn you believe it?
Super Meat Boy Wii U version due 'very, very soon'
Porkface.
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Paint the town red.
Looks like Super Meat Boy is headed to Wii U
Launches today for PS4, Vita via PlayStation Plus.
VideoVideo: Xbox One Backward Compatibility - How does it work?
Back to the Future.
Super Meat Boy is coming to PS4 and Vita this year
Will launch as a free PS Plus title.
Super Meat Boy devs troll dodgy-sounding movie producer
Team Meat records clueless scammer, hilarity ensues.
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Super Meat Boy / Mario Galaxy crossover is a great proof of concept
Demo reel taken to celebrate half of Team Meat's 30th birthday.
FeatureThe Binding of Edmund McMillen
Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac creator talks blood, guts, genitals, Indie Game: The Movie, and why the Bible influenced his violent streak. Also, poop.
The Binding of Isaac sold 700,000 copies
'Maybe its time to bring this thing to console ;)'
Indie Game: The Movie download date announced
Coming to iTunes, Steam next month.
Team Meat lays into 'abusive, manipulative' free-to-play devs
'It's a slap in the face to actual game design.'
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DIY developers discuss what it means to go solo, and whether the label really matters.
Super Meat Boy: The Game announced for iOS
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Xbox Live Arcade games Achievement limit to double
UPDATE: Microsoft confirms policy change.
Team Meat prototyping Super Meat Boy iOS concept
'If it sucks we won't release it.'
HBO options TV rights to Indie Game: The Movie
Meat Boy/Fez doc wins acclaim at Sundance fest.
Super Meat Boy sells over 1 million
'PLATINUM BABY.'
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Contracts, exclusivity and outsourced Avatar items.
Cheap Super Meat Boy Steam bundle includes Half-Life 2
10 great games for a vegetarian £17.89.
Sale, DLC for Super Meat Boy XBLA
Team Meat has 'patched things up' with Microsoft.
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Unaware Microsoft 'sat on its laurels'.
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Tells Team Meat to 'let it go already'.
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Team Meat starts 'ambitious' project
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Super Meat Boy level editor for Steam
'There won’t ever be a Super Meat Boy 2.'
Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition for the UK
Boxed PC version due this year.
Super Meat Boy PC gets 140 new levels
Plus, Steam price slashed by 50 per cent.
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Super Meat Boy 3DS in the works?
Team Meat planning handheld title.
Meat Boy dev attacks Microsoft support
'It totally f****** hurt my feelings.'
Free Super Meat Boy DLC released
Two new chapters available from XBLA.
Super Meat Boy tunes for Rock Band
Ludicrous difficulty confirmed.
New Super Meat Boy 360 levels incoming
Plus, PC level editor almost done.
Meaty Meat Boy extras in January
Fan levels! Super Meat World! Editor!
Super Meat Boy gets PC boxed edition
Gruesome artwork might turn you vegan.
Team Meat skewers PETA spoof
Steaks claim to Tofu Boy, admits spamming.
PETA serves up Super Tofu Boy
Team Meat's platformer goes veggie.
Free Super Meat Boy DLC goes live
Dare you enter The Sewers of Dross?
Team Meat 'can't EVER do a PS3 version'
Sony didn't express 'much interest'.
New Super Meat Boy levels incoming
Free DLC patches bugs too.
Super Meat Boy delayed for WiiWare
It's too big for Nintendo's system.
No Super Meat Boy 2 planned
Team Meat dreaming up something new.
Super Meat Boy save fix on the way
Coming soon, says developer.
Super Meat Boy gets early price drop
Grab choice XBLA cut for 800 Points.
Meat Boy dev: Games are too easy
Plus, explains free DLC move.
Free Super Meat Boy DLC revealed
Is a 'f**k you' to the system.
Hydrophobia, Super Meat Boy dated
XBLA release schedule revealed.
XBLA 'Game Feast' this October
Super Meat Boy leads the platter.
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Super Meat Boy coming to XBLA
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Evil indie platformer due this year.
WiiWare: Coming Soon
Putting the indie into Nintendo.
Super Meat Boy Achievement Isaac Asimov
Super Meat Boy on the way for WiiWare
It's a platformer from creator of Gish.
Note: Any strategy referring to Cube of Meat also works for Ball of Bandages and the other way around.
- 2With Afterbirth
- 3Without Afterbirth
- 3.1The Book of Revelations Strategy
With Afterbirth †[edit | edit source]
Afterbirth † introduced the Potato Peeler item. Each time this item is used, a Cube of Meat is created (at the cost of one red heart container), meaning that if this item is used 4 times you can get the achievement. This does not apply to the Ball of Bandages.
With Afterbirth[edit | edit source]
The achievement for creating a Super Meat Boy is much easier with Afterbirth, thanks to the Box of Friends, which Lilith conveniently starts with.
General Strategy[edit | edit source]
Start as Lilith and do not discard the Box of Friends. Play until you find a Cube of Meat or Ball of Bandages.
Then, find a way to use the Box 3 times without leaving the room. There are multiple ways to accomplish this:
- Find a room with two Batteries or use a 48 hour energy pill.
- Find a Jera rune. Then, find a Battery and use the rune to create a second battery. With a fully charged Box, a single use of the Rune is all you need.
- Do the Boss Rush. Each wave will give a charge, easily nabbing you the achievement.
- Use the Habit and/or the Sharp Plug to fully charge the box two more times.
- Get The Battery and double-charge the box. Then find a way to charge the box one more time (a battery, Habit, Sharp Plug, etc.).
- Get the Car Battery then either find a Battery, charge the Box with the Habit or Sharp Plug, or get a double-charge with The Battery.
- Get Restock then buy 2 Batteries from the Shop.
- Find a shop with a Restock Box, then bomb the box to re-roll all items while picking up and using all batteries.
Greed Mode is another easy way to accomplish this, since every wave generates a charge, and a Cube of Meat can be found for sale in the rerollable shops. A Ball of Bandages, however, is unlikely to be found in Greed Mode as it does not appear in any Greed Mode Item Pools.
Without Afterbirth[edit | edit source]
Without Afterbirth, the achievement for creating a Super Meat Boy and Super Bandage Girl is significantly more difficult to obtain without performing a specific strategy.
The Book of Revelations Strategy[edit | edit source]
The most straightforward method to unlock the Meat Boy is restarting the game until obtaining the Book of Revelations on the first level, which can be found in either a Treasure Room or Library. Using it on the current level will increase the chance of one Horseman to appear, based on the current chapter:
- Famine in first or second level of chapter 1.
- Pestilence in first or second level of chapter 2.
- War in first level of chapter 3. (Second level boss is always Mom).
- Death in first level of chapter 4. (Second level boss is always Mom's Heart or It Lives if unlocked).
Notes[edit | edit source]
- The harbingers mentioned above can be replaced by The Headless Horseman on any chapter. Additionally, Conquest may appear on Womb I / Utero I. These bosses are guaranteed to drop A Pony and the White Pony respectively. If you encounter either of these bosses, it means you will not obtain a Cube of Meat (or Ball of Bandages) for whatever chapter you are on, and you will not be able to obtain the achievement in your run.
- Harbingers cannot spawn in a Double Trouble boss room. If the current floor's boss room is a large room, the Book of Revelations cannot increase the chance of a Harbinger to spawn there. This also applies to the Mr. Fred fight in Womb I / Utero I
- It is recommended to start this run either as Isaac, to reroll the Library in case the Book of Revelations isn't found. Or as Cain, because he starts with a key so you can hold R and keep restarting the run until you see a locked door adjacent to your spawn and it is a Library.
The Blank Card Strategy[edit | edit source]
This method involves using the Blank Card item to create lots of batteries.
- Start as Azazel for ease of fighting to later floors and collecting enough money to buy Blank Card, or Isaac with The D6 unlocked
- Get the Blank Card and the Jera rune.
- Optionally also get the Starter Deck and the Perthro rune
- Find a battery pickup on the ground.
- Copy the battery using Blank Card until there are three, at which point Blank Card can produce any number of batteries.You can theoretically do this with 2 batteries, if you use Blank Card while picking up the battery, as it has a chance to be doubled.
- Find a golden chest with an item inside it,since any copy of a chest containing an item will also contains an item;However you can not open it since it can't be copied by Jera after opened, therefore the best strategy is to use batteries with the Judgement tarot card to produce a large number of chests.
- Get the Monster Manual using the D20 and/or the The D6, or simply by using Blank Card to copy golden chests again and again
- Optionally Get the Monster Manual using the Perthro rune.
- Use the Monster Manual over and over with the batteries created by the Blank Card.
The Sharp Plug / Pyromaniac Strategy[edit | edit source]
This method can take up to an hour of in-game time, but compared to the Book of Revelations method, should take significantly fewer runs and thus save a lot of time overall. This method can unlock both Super Meat Boy and Super Bandage Girl in the same run.
- Start as Isaac with The D6 unlocked.
- Get a Pyromaniac.
- Hold R to reset the floor until a Treasure Room is adjacent to the starting room. (Or, if it isn't, pick a door and enter the next room. Continue until you see enemies or find the Treasure Room. If you find enemies, reset.)
- If the item inside the Treasure Room is not Pyromaniac, re-roll it. If it still isn't Pyromaniac, reset.
- Get a Sharp Plug or a Habit from a shop.
- Make sure that you save enough keys so that you can get into every shop.
- Use all re-rolls on the shop.
- If you get Sharp Plug, do not get 9 Volt since it’ll render Sharp Plug useless.
- Get any bomb producing item/synergy. This includes Dr. Fetus, Epic Fetus, Kamikaze!, Anarchist Cookbook, IV Bag + Bogo Bombs + Burnt Penny trinket, etc.
- Use all re-rolls on the treasure room.
- If you have a Habit, make sure to leave at least one fire alive on the floor so that you can damage yourself.
- If you find a room with green Ipecac-shooting enemies, you can use it to obtain any number of re-rolls. Enter the room, allow the explosions to heal you and charge the D6 to full, then allow the explosions to open the exit.
- Note that Kamikaze! will not work with Sharp Plug unless you also have The Wafer, because Kamikaze! only heals for 1 heart, and Sharp Plug without the Wafer would take 2 hearts to charge an item. With the Wafer, however, Kamikaze! can heal you back up to full health.
- After this step is complete you will have infinite re-rolls.
- Get a Sharp Plug from a shop if you got a Habit in step 2. (The plug is much faster at recharging the manual in the next step.)
- Get a Monster Manual from a treasure room or library.
- If you can spare an item pedestal, and you have the Sharp Plug, it is highly recommended to obtain The Wafer, which will allow you to charge the D6 once per 1/2 heart instead of once per 2 hearts, effectively quadrupling your efficiency.
- Another way to speed up the progress is to add more item pedestals. If you find a Judgement tarot card, save it until you're ready to reroll for the Monster Manual, and then use it in the treasure room. If you can make it pay out with an item, you'll be able to reroll two items per charge.
- Use the manual over and over until you get a Super Meat Boy and/or Super Bandage Girl.
Note that if you find a Monster Manual before finishing the combo, you will have to finish the combo on that floor or reset the game. This is because finding the manual will take it out of the item pool for the remainder of the run. If you find it, you should try to find another activated item in a different room so you can put the Manual down in a safe place and continue rolling with that activated item inside the treasure room.
Sharp Plug / Wafer Strategy[edit | edit source]
- Start as Isaac with The D6 unlocked.
- Get The Wafer.
- Hold R to reset the floor until a Treasure Room is adjacent to the starting room.
- If the item inside the Treasure Room is not The Wafer, re-roll it. If it still isn't The Wafer, reset.
- Cancer also works as it provides The Wafer's effects after the first instance of damage during a room.
- Get a Sharp Plug from a shop.
- Make sure that you save enough keys so that you can get into every shop.
- Use all re-rolls on the shop.
- Other useful items here are Scapular, Habit.
- Do not get 9 Volt or Isaac's Heart, as they will ruin the sharp plug's ability.
- Complete the game with the Polaroid to go to the chest.
- In the chest, obtain everything else you need.
- Clear the chest and look for another pedestal on which you can place your health pickup.
- Roll the first room to get a health pickup like Yum Heart, Book of Revelations, or Satanic Bible
- Re-roll the pedestal(s) away from your health pickup for the Monster Manual
- Use the manual over and over until you get a Super Meat Boy and/or Super Bandage Girl.
D20 strategy[edit | edit source]
- Get The D20.
- Hold R to reset the floor until a Treasure Room is adjacent to the starting room.
- Continue playing until you find a 48 Hour Energy or Sharp Plug
- Obtain the Blank Card
- Leave 48 Hour Energy outside of the shop
- Bomb the donation machine 10+ times to get 35+ coins on the ground.
- Reroll coins with the D20
- Open any chests
- Take any 48 Hour Energy pills, Jera, and Perthro runes outside the shop
- Continue until you have a Blank Card
- Obtain the Monster Manual
- Use the Blank Card, Jera runes, Energy pills, and/or Sharp Plug with heart pickups to fill a Treasure Room or Library with items
- Use the Blank Card with the Perthro rune and other stuff to get the Monster Manual
- Use the manual over and over until you get a Super Meat Boy and/or Super Bandage Girl.
Maggy's Bow strategy[edit | edit source]
- Get Maggy's Bow.
- Hold R to reset the floor until a Treasure Room is adjacent to the starting room.
- Visit the shops for The Jar and the Sharp Plug.
- Avoid the 9 Volt and Isaac's Heart as they would ruin the Sharp Plug's effect.
- Bomb donation machines if you need money, or if you have The Jar, use a Blood Donation Machine or go to a Sacrifice Room
- Play until you find the Monster Manual.
- Use The Jar to fill the room with hearts
- Swap to the Monster Manual and with the Sharp Plug, keep using until you get a Super Meat Boy and/or Super Bandage Girl.
- Use the hearts around to regain the lost health from Sharp Plug.