I was looking to get back into any% and I noticed that the alien counter after each boss fight in the current WR by Adamspeedruns counts down in 4's? Does anyone know the reason for this?

Isn't that supposed to happen? I forget what I did to make that happen, but have you tried pressing different buttons / mashing because I feel like I did something like that but it was awhile back so I can't remember exactly!

I have tried spamming esc, space, enter, shift, ctrl, tab, doesn't seem like it does anything.

maybe there are different settings you can do in game, or using with that dgvoodoo program? I really have no idea then but I can assure you there is no trickery going on here, I'm just as confused as you are. Also, I use a controller btw. Maybe it is a controller only thing?

if you can, try to set up and use a controller and test that out with all the different buttons. If you can't, then when I can I will try to set up buzz again and hopefully figure it out myself!

I also use a controller, tried both controller and keyboard but can't get the same thing with the aliens. It's not a big deal either way, was just wondering if there was something that I was missing. Can't really be bothered to look more into this.

Have you tried holding (instead of mashing) different (singular, not combos) inputs down as well? Because I feel like I remember doing something like that. If you get on again, give that a try for sure. I will trying to get buzz up and running again myself sometime soon to try and figure it out myself, if you don't.

I'm sorry I'm no help, I just haven't ran this game in awhile, and when I did it was really short term so nothing really stuck with me very well.

The game might be built to reward players with a certain number of aliens for beating bosses mapquest driving directions, with the number 4 being a balance decision made by the creators.