oh really? what happens to your xp? you should be able to level down as a possibility. I love that this game has many ester eggs and such, and the feeling of completing it for the first time was just as awesome for me. Oh yeah and I sort of do remember (post 48) my fights with the magic ball, which were pretty interesting.

not very sure, but juice increases your stats forever, and fast. Fruit takes a while to increase them plus you cannot use your healing items until it finishes its effects... sort of how juice is much easier on the stomach than raw fruit  because it digests faster (though this should have been technically and more realistically the other way around)

You should tab once, then type in your value or whatever, and then press enter I think. Or shift enter. its been long time and I forgot but that is sort of it.
oh right.

you have to just copy the chaosplay.exe into your main bk3 directory, and copy the file inside the data\maps folder to the corresponding data\maps directory also in the main bk3 folder. Ignore the rest of the files.

@127: Regarding the spirit sword, I did raise mine a bit once I got to the highest difficulty, but not an extreme amount. In my opinion, having a slightly higher level spirit sword isn't nearly as game breaking as something like shadow mode, which makes you completely invincible to all the creatures in the game. That being said, spirit sword isn't critical since there are other weapons in the game that are nearly as effective and without having to grind so much.

I wouldn't say enemies get smarter, they just have more health due to the higher level. I'm not sure why the UFO didn't work for you, that's odd.

If you drink the fruit juices, it saves you time, but it is also convenient since you don't have to finish the stage you're on to get your changes to save. The juices don't give you any more stats than the equivalent number of raw fruits would.

If you have to type in the quantity of an item in the shops, try pressing ctrl+enter. That works for me.

@128: The bug with the magical ball doesn't level you down. It just makes it impossible to level up, no matter how many things you kill. Normally, I could go into 5-3 and have a level within a few kills. I spent two or three minutes in there killing stuff to no avail. Once I restored my backup, everything was fine.

Well, I officially suck at BK3 as well. I have managed to make it to stage 9, but I can't seem to get passed the bombs and grab the needle laundher even with speed drinks. I also can't grab the sky machine gun, even with small boxes, and I can't seem to get the mysterious abacus and needles in the mine stage behind the door. I just get killed.On a positive note, the compact sonar is tremendously helpful, and I suggest making it available early if you can. Also, why not implement a buying and selling feature. That way, we can sell weapons or items we deem not necessary at certain points of the game. That way, we don't have to constantly fight to get coins.

Maybe don't worry about the abacus just yet. It can actually be a pretty tough fight. You do know about shields though, right? And how to use them? That'll help against the bullet rain the abacus can use.
And trust me, coin grinding is not bad at all eventually. It can be a bit slow and tedious in places though. The abacus, in fact, will help immensely there.

Okay, then here's a quick refresher.
When you go into a level, hit your s key. This will bring up your list of shields. Equip whichever one you want. You should hear it equip. Congrats. Now it's equipped.
To block an incoming attack, you have to be facing the direction the attack is coming from. So for instance, if you hear insects firing needles at you from the left, then make sure you're facing left. Got it? Good. Now hold your down arrow key, and you'll raise your shield up to block.
Now let's say you block a needle, and then let go of your shield, fire off a quick shot and kill that insect. But here comes another one from the right. Tap the right arrow key to spin around, and if it's already fired a needle, hit down arrow. If you don't turn around first, you're still going to be facing left, and the needle will hit you in the back.
Later you will find shields that can guard you from behind as well as in front, but for now, you have to be facing the direction you're being attacked from.
So when you're in the room with the abacus, and it's on your left shooting bullets from left to right, face left, make sure the shield is equipped, hold down-arrow to absorb shots, then when it stops, let go of your down arrow key and let rip.

As far as 9.2 and the needle launcher? This is an awesome, awesome weapon. If you take your speed drink at the right moment, you should literally be able to hold the left arrow key during that bomb section, then hammer enter as you get sorta close to the door so you grab the needle launcher. If you ever want to figure out where you are, and where stuff is in general, hit the d key.
Congrats on getting further, by the way. You got past 5.4, and that boss demon can be mean. You also successfully managed 7.2, which isn't super-dangerous but has some slightly tricky platforming. You also handled 7.4, a fairly nasty boss fight, though I don't know how you did that one if the abacus is giving you a tough time. Good job either way though.
Don't get discouraged in stages 11 and especially 12. they can be a mite tricky.

Well, I sorta cheated to get through some stages. I summoned some cats to help me out quite a bit. So, how do I get the abacus? Do I have to kill it to get it? Also, the guide said there are insects with needles in there I can fight to get needles to craft. How does that work?

Whether you find insects or an abacus or 5 is via some sort of mechanism I do not know about, apart from the dial having a little something to do with it. I do not know specific details, unfortunately.

For the needle launcher, I use the following method: Stand under the leftmost platform tile, where bombs don't fall yet. Then, hit f and imediately run to the right. Grab the Needle launcher and then the hook warmup time should be over and you can climb out of harms way.

I mean the laser sabre does work, you just jump slash, every time. Gonna take a while though... you're meant to come back in another couple stages, bare that in mind.

Uh...you should notice it. Try grinding some fights and see what happens. It's fairly self-evident with a little play actually. Glad to hear you finally killed it though.

You can’t yet I don’t think. You need to beat the game first then use the super UFO