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I 1CC'd EoSD on lunatic yesterday for fun after not playing any touhou since TD came out, gotta play once every while or else I will lose all of my skill.

>>8177890
I usually get better if I stop playing for few days. After break I get better results than before.

I cant get past Sakuyas stage on normal that's only when I manage to get past patchouli after dieing several times.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17223
This run is the distillation of every Mokou run I've ever done after the first time I beat her.

A stupid death during the stage, that doesn't really matter.

Then I get winged once, and proceed to repeat that performance on every single spellcard and noncard after that time. And that ending... good lord, really? All of my orz.

I stopped playing for around a month because of the influx of new games.
I couldn't get past stage 5 on normal PCB without using a continue.
Need to start grinding practice mode an hour a day until I can 1cc everything again.

Finally picked up Double Spoiler again and unlocked Hatate. The spellcards get really fun after the first half or so.

>>8178438
Spoilers he's the river

Trying to 1cc EoSD normal, can get past Patchouli fine without dying, as soon as I hit Stage 5 shit hits the fan. Practiced for so long and not seeing any improvements, also watched loads of replays. I'm using Reimu A.

Thinking of going onto something else to try to 1cc that though, any suggestions or should I stick with it?

>>8178494
Try dying a few times.

>>8178494

Try playing EoSD with a different shot type. Unless you really like Reimu A and don't want to 1cc the game with anyone else, then I suggest you switch. First time I switched from Reimu A to Marisa B I got an entire stage further than I used to be able to.

I am trying to counterstop the UFO. Character choice is Sanae B, Lunatic. So far not good, progress is slow. The decision to reduce 8 reds to 6 red UFOs may not be the best, but I am making more mistakes trying to get the extra 2 Red rather than Rainbow.

>>8178551
Wouldn't counterstopping be easier on Normal. No need for reds for insurance, supergrazing Ichirin is infinitely easier, etc.

>>8178568
Yes but I'd like to play on Lunatic. Normal and Hard have more safespots and tricks that I don't like to learn.

>>8178051
>I cant get past Sakuyas stage on normal.

I bet her "Misdirection" Spell card is trolling you. Just try to minimize your movement and you'll get a sudden urge facepalm quite hard.


And It seems I'll have to wait until the academic year finishes to start playing Toohoo again, but I got to Mamizou's last spell card by sheer luck the other day... or maybe it was the low frame-rate I got for playing in a shitty laptop.

;_;

penetration

>>8178551
Didn't he fix that score overflow bug? Or do I misunderstand?

>>8178568
Infinitely easier yet I still can't fuckin do it

>>8180969
He fixed it in that it doesn't crash anymore, but the game will still show broken negative numbers past 2^31, providing a solid counterstop goal. Amusingly enough, going past 2^32 will overflow the 4 bytes of the score display, looping back to 0 and counting up again. The game appears to internally represent the score with higher precision, however, and the score is saved correctly in the replay file.

Excuse to bump. If you've ever been curious to see what individual stage scoring in UFO looks like, it's something like this.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17233

I just cleared Youmu in SWR. The fight with Yukari was pretty tough, i had to use some dirty trick to beat her.

>general

Reported and reporting every single subsequent on-topic post.

Playing Mountain of Faith on normal. Sanae's spell card, Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split" keeps getting me. That's the one where you have a narrow space and rains those long lasers down at you.

I know I have to do VERY small movements in one direction and then switch to the other direction when I get too close to the side of the screen. But the switch always gets me, I can never seem to find an opening when I need one.

>>8183525
>I can never seem to find an opening when I need one.

You don't need to find a gap when you can make one.

Whichever direction you're streaming in, quickly jump in that direction to make a gap before you redirect.

>>8183525
Wow dude, is sanae farting underwater? Look at those nasty bubbles coming from under her skirt!

>>8183546
Wow thanks, I feel stupid now.

>>8183525

I've had troubles with that card as well, although it's usually because when I switch sides a wave of water hits me about three or four switches in.

Invisibump.

I can't beat Flandre. Any tips? Also, do you all play with the keyboard or a gamepad?

>>8183525
I'm the only one who finds Sanae last spellcard in normal disappointedly easy to capture?

>>8186673
try both. That's my advice.
I'm shit without my pad.

>>8186673
Touhou isn't analogue so I usually use my PS2 controller with its D-pad. Works pretty well, it's like a smaller, more convenient version of the keyboard controls.

Is there a mod that improves the AI of the characters in 12.3?

Seriously, all they do is block and do some random moves when I'm far away.

>>8186673
Practice more. Always try to dodge patterns in a way you find more convenient, don't try too hard to stick to something you saw on a video.

>>8186714
Just play with other people.

>BGM files stop working on all my games, leaving me with sound effects only

Has anyone else had this? I've had the games on my computer for quite some time and I don't really want to download again because my internet is shit.
Not only that but I seem to play considerably worse without the music

>>8179333
>And It seems I'll have to wait until the academic year finishes to start playing Toohoo again

I know that feeling so well... you feel like Touhou is going to go away, like it's going to be such a long time before you will get to be Reimu, Marisa, Sanae, Youmu or Sakuya's brother in arms...

I know, because this happened to me this week, now that I'm on college finals...

I easily beat Ayayaya/Nitori/Aki Sisters/Hina on MoF but goddamn Momiji, i can't get through her barrage without bombing i'm playing on normal so she doesn't even uses a spellcard.

Sanae was a easy this time but her gray thaumaturgy slapped my shit and ruined my change to 1CC, and Kanako-sama's Miracle of Otenshi made me use 2 continues and i never got to beat her

Now i know why i fap to Kanako-sama so much.

>>8186732
Believe it or not, this happened to me when I downloaded my first Touhou demo. So, I start the PCB demo, thinking "Eh, this is kinda fun, I'll search for a full game", then I find a full (and fully-working) EoSD download and by the time I reach China I'm like HOOOOOLY SHIT THAT MUSIC IS AWESOME

>>8186673
>I can't beat Flandre. Any tips?
Keep playing. If you feel like you're doing something wrong, post a replay and someone can give you specific tips.
>Also, do you all play with the keyboard or a gamepad?
Keyboard. Just about everybody I know that is any good at the games uses a keyboard or an arcade stick.

>>8186677
Her last spell is disappointingly easy to capture on all difficulties.

>>8186806
>i'm playing on normal so she doesn't even uses a spellcard.
Momiji doesn't have any spell cards until Double Spoiler.

Speaking of DS, why am I getting destroyed so hard at 2-6? It's one of the easiest cards in the game according to somebody I know, and yet here I am losing to this shit easy card over and over again.

Maybe shmups just aren't for me, I dunno. It's infinitely frustrating playing on normal and not doing too bad in the main series, and then I play DS and I end up getting my ass handed to me from Sunday.

>>8187846
>2-6
the first one to make me look up a youtube video and find out that you can set your finder to vertical by pressing X.

>>8186806
May as well just bomb, really. On stage 4 you almost spend as much time invincible as vincible.

>>8187846
StB and DS aren't all about dodging. It's more like each scene is a puzzle that you need to solve.

Chances are you are just doing something wrong. With 2-6, for an easy clear, you will need to be charging at all times. Take a picture right as the blue bullets finish spawning. You'll probably start falling behind by the last shot, but just try to keep up.

There are also a dozen videos on YouTube you could look up.

>Is there spellcard or boss that is causing troubles for you?
I'm stuck on 10 desires, keep losing to those two arrow-spammers on stage 5. Managed to get past them once, but only to be hit by a stray fairy.

Tojiko, the mid-boss, and Futo really are the worst of the new lolis. I like Tojiko's design, but her character and powers are fucking annoying. Same goes for Futo, but her design is shit.

Am I wrong or is Patchy's Bury in Lake impossible about half of the time?

Any advice with stage 5 and 6 of UFO?
I've been stuck on both for ages.

>>8188416
Depending on Patchouli's movement, it can be really really shitty. Not necessarily impossible, though.

>>8188473
Difficulty? Shot type? Survival? Scoring? Resource gathering? What do you need help with.

>>8188580
Normal, any shot type that don't make me a slug when bombing (Marisa's master spark for example), survival, I'm pretty sure my first clear of this will be a 1cc like SA, since I can't get past stage 6 with only 3 lives you get from using a continue.

>>8188598
Go into practice mode, play Stage 5, and post the replay. It's hard to give general advice without knowing what the problems actually are.

Also, I'd recommend SanaeB since her spread shot trivializes many of the stages.

Fighting games are also welcome?

>>8189076
Dude, I fucking love fighting games.

>>8189018
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17250
Stage 5 practice, there's a bit of slowdown on this one.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17251
This is the most far I got to, played on a old computer, and it has been two months ago.

Just 1cc'd IN with the border team on normal. Second normal 1cc ever. Feels good.

bump

>>8189262
>Stage 5 practice, there's a bit of slowdown on this one.
This seemed fine, really. There was some panic during Shou's noncards, but those curvy lasers can be scary. Just know that lasers are thin, so a small dodge is just as good as a big one. Don't panic or rush around unfocused.

>This is the most far I got to, played on a old computer, and it has been two months ago.
After I saw you get maximum lives in the middle of Stage 4, I was wondering how you could possibly mess this up. You were shaky during Murasa, especially during the survival card. Keep moving so you never get stuck, but don't rush and crash into slow bullets. Consistency is the key. Stage 5 wasn't perfect, but you still reached Stage 6 with a healthy amount of resources. Unfortunately, you fucked up the stage a lot and gathered almost no resources, only to die half way through Byakuren.

After watching these, I don't know how you haven't 1cc'd the game yet. You certainly have the skill to finish the game, but maybe you just lack the consistency or experience with the later stages.

>>8189863
I made a couple replays. Maybe they will help.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17253
A proposed route for Stage 5 that gains 3 lives. Feel free to ignore it since some of the things I do are risky, and your route in your replays is fine enough. However, I pacify Shou, so if there is anything about her you are unsure about, this replay will have a timeout of it.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17254
Similar to the other replay, but I think this will be much more useful to you. The proposed stage route does use a bomb, but you can potentially gain 5 bombs to make up for it. You can replace one or two of the green UFOs with red ones, but I wouldn't recommend more than that. The stage is organized for either scoring or bomb hoarding. Pick and choose what you feel comfortable with. Byakuren is pacified other than her two cards with damage-based difficulty, so maybe you'll learn something from that.

Feel free to ask any questions if there is something specific you need help with.

>>8189863
>>8189866
Wow that's a lot of advice, thanks.
I think then I should just practice stage 6, maybe I should just get a score.dat from someone else and train since the stage can't be unlocked unless you defeat Byakuren.

>>8189874
Maybe I'm just a purist, but I think you should credit feed and try your best to get through Byakuren on two (or three) lives instead of borrowing a score.dat from elsewhere.

But don't let me tell you what to do.

Since Reimu's default shot in PCB fires left-center-right in a "\|/" pattern, is it best to be slightly on the left or right of an enemy so that two lines hit her rather than one?

>>8189889
Technically.

It's better to be close enough that all 3 hit.

what does everyone play on? a game pad or just your keyboard or a stick? which is easier? i dont have a stick and keyboard seems to work fine so far. havent tried a game pad yet.

>>8190211
I think I speak for most people here when I say that I play with a keyboard.

I've tried playing with a PS3 controller once. It wasn't that bad, but I'm more comfortable with a keyboard.

So I just game over'd to Utsuho right after beating her last card. Is it okay to cry? ;_;

>>8190211
I use a ps3 madcatz TE.
Helped me quite a bit with those diagonals.

Ooh, The Artist is Present Anon. Would you happen to have any advice for my Mokou? Especially rings of death, if possible...

>>8190246
Are you talking about this replay?

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17223

If so, it desyncs for me on Mokou's first spell.

>Especially rings of death, if possible...
Pray.

>>8190508
Hmm, so it does. How strange.

I guess it wouldn't much matter if I tried to make another one, since they're all bad slightly differently. Oh well.

I've been trying to beat Anonymizer's High Score of IN easy modo on Border team. I've given it 3 tries now.

Failed all of them. Here's the latest.
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=17236

My monitor is 16:9 and I'm wondering how I can get EoSD fullscreen to be 4:3 with black bars on the side rather than stretched. Anyone know? Windowed mode is much too small.

>>8191399
Graphics card settings. Maintain aspect ratio.

>>8191436
Thank you very much, I got it working.