/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Just started playing StellaVanity. I like it.

>>8601835
not bad.

I have obviously lost my ability to play STGs after being away so long when I died on the first boss of White Butterfly and second boss of Hellsinker when I have beaten these games before.

>>8601828
I've been playing that, too. I still don't know what it means when I'm hit, but it just dings instead of killing me.

>>8601889
It has an autobomb on lower difficulty levels.

I've been actually waiting for this (new) thread to come for a couple of days now. I hate intruding to post in already long threads...

I have started playing touhou games for the first time ever, like 3 or 4 days ago. I had no previous experience whatsoever with danmaku games, so I thought even easymodo was hard (go ahead and laugh)
After some training though, I have improved A LOT, however I still can't manage to beat the games without continuing, even in easy mode. Oh and now I've been training in normal mode too, but it's not like I've played the games that much...
Touhou は、ほんとにたのしいですね！

I've gotten touhous 6,7,8,9 and 10, but 8 and specially 9 had very weird gameplays, so I've stuck with mainly 6 and 7 for now...

pic related, why is sakuya so superior to the other touhous, gameplay-wise?

Feels great to be somewhat part of the community now... :3

I've been spying on all of your bootyasscheek johnson ultimatum supremacies, and I must say that all of them are absolutely goodyocious! I'm going to have to slurp them all directly off until there's no cheek left to lick...

I'm in the process of downloading IN, wish me luck, /jp/.

Anyone have tips for Tojiko's Thunder Arrow "Gagouji's Cyclone"? I can't seem to get the pattern down.

>>8601962
I believe in you, anon! You'll download that file for sure!

>>8601962
Downloading is the easy part. Extracting is where things get sketchy. Best of luck to you.

>>8601935
>Touhou は、ほんとにたのしいですね！

>>8602068
He doesn't stand a chance!

I'm curious, /jp/, where exactly do you look on the screen when you've got a barrage of faster,smaller bullets coming at you?
For example, Satori's "Border of Wave and Particle".
I find that I usually die on these cards because I get so panicky and dodge terribly.

>>8602102
I usually just stare at the middle of the screen, without focusing on one single point.
This may need some training, but for me it's essential in spellcards like these, because it moves too fast for my eyes to capture anything.
You should just try a bit (maybe on a lower difficulty) and see which method suits you best.

>>8602102

>>8602134
This. Play with your eyes closed.

>>8602102

Slightly above, high enough so I have enough time to react to what's coming next and dodge accordingly when the time is right.

>>8602102
My eyeesss!! Fuck this pic!
I just moving up following the bullets movement, it's fixed pattern not random.

Just came back to Touhou from a Cave binge. This time I will definitely 1CC PCB. The game says I've clocked 30 hours playing and a lot of that has been broken up, but this time I'll turn my autism on and keep playing until I get my 1CC.

>>8602102
Play Shoot the Bullet and practice that spellcard in the EX level a lot.

>>8602102
I had to test this. If I don't use the safespot: around the green line for Eternal Meek which has to be up there with the fastest patterns.

>>8602249
>Eternal Meek
Am I the only one that bombs every time on that card?

>>8602249
Where is the safespot? Do you sit inside where the bullets are spawning? That is a piece of shit spellcard and I would like it to disappear from my runs.

>>8602254
>>8602289
The hell? Eternal Meek was always a horribly easy spell for me. I don't even know what I do on it, I've just never failed it.

Also, why can't I beat 1cc IN with the Scarlet team? I fucking hate Remilia's focus.

>>8602289
Yeah, just to the upper right of Sakuya there's a hole in the bullet appearance. It's pretty small though.

>>8602289
It's inside her bullet spawning area, yes. It's to the right of Sakuya, so close you'll probably hit her a few times before you find the right spot.

Eternal Meek isn't really a hard card, it just requires to specific brain skill of mental danmaku projection of predicting in your head where each bullet is going to go and where your character is which not everybody has.

It's pretty much the ultimate test of dodging without looking at your character and only at bullets.

>>8602342
One of the biggest things about Eternal Meek is that it's Stage 6, and if I've got any bombs left I'm always like "fuck it, I'm not chancing this". That goes for all of Remilia's spell cards as well though, except for maybe if I get a lucky break on the Vampire Illusion.

>>8602102

That and DBDB are real pains in the ass.

I just micrododge as much as possible and bomb whenever I feel the thing is gunna tail-whip me and I'm too slow to find an opening.

Almost always end up using a bomb on those two spellcards, it's shameful...

Eternal meek isn't any trouble, all you have to do is look at the middle of the screen and not at all at your character. I think it's a really fun card, same as Border of Wave and Particle.

>>8602340
You can actually be anywhere on Sakuya's right. I find the most success staying around waist level, being any higher feels more dangerous (it's also slightly easier to do the transition from the nonspell to Meek if you aim low).

>>8602332
Shit, I don't know. Maybe I'm no good. I can't keep track of the fast ones and get between the slow ones in time. Those fat bullets with almost no boundary ruin me so bad on stage 6.

>>8602423
Apparently that's not all you have to do, cause it don't work for me.

>>8602453
Doing it wrong.

Anyone got a link for Hellsinker? I had some bookmarked but they were megaupload ;_;

DeathSmiles

http://depositfiles.com/files/yh3nfrpjs

Does anyone else prefer playing on smaller screens?

I feel like the entire screen is easier to see and the gaps aren't that hard to fit through.

>>8603444
completely the opposite here, the bigger the screen the better I play.

I've been practicing UFO on Normal for a few days. It's basically just:
Try to get UFO = die
Stay at the bottom of the screen = live
Try to capture Shou's spellcards = die
Bomb Shou = live

>>8603626
But Shou is so easy, all her attacks are static or multidirection few bullets, the only thing hard are her 2 last spells.
Murasa is much harder IMO.

>>8603659
> all her attacks are static or multidirection few bullets
welp, Murasa is this even moreso

speaking of Shou.... for fuck's sake, I just did a perfect replay of her Normal stage until I croaked once on that retarded final spell.
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=18967

I´m the guy that posted his first time at SA extra, I started UFO extra too today.
I don´t know if I got lucky or UO extra is really easy. here is the replay. I died tons of times with bombs, if not for that i could have beaten it.
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=18976

Bullet Soul

http://depositfiles.com/files/bo0v26usu

>>8604516
You are good!
On my first (and usually last) try of extra I usually barely make it to the midboss.

>>8604557
Thank you, I have only beaten PCB and MS extra, and watching my own replay I think I got lucky plenty of times.

Why is Marisa SO much harder than Reimu on IN stage 4?
Marisa could be a stage 6 boss and it'd still be hard...is it just me?

>>8602423

>all you have to do is look at the middle of the screen and not at all at your character

Are you talking about Lunatic?

>>8604615

I feel the same way. I'm guessing it's because her patterns are random and unusual for Touhou.

>>8604615
I thought Reimu was hard, having never faced Marisa before. Once I faced Marisa, I promptly proceeded to uninstall IN. Dodging walls of bullets is really hard. I'd have better luck dodging rain outside than clearing her.

>>8603659
You can call whatever you like easy but that doesn't help anyone

>>8604630
Wtf are you talking about? Marisa is pretty easy in IN, unlike Reimu.

>>8604647
I think Marisa has a few bullshit cards and a bunch of easy ones whereas Reimu is a pretty steady stage 4 boss difficulty.

>>8604647
Read the post above yours. And try to type properly, it pains to read comments like I'm on some IRC circlejerk.

>>8604647

It's like saying NBNM UFO is harder than NBNM EoSD.

EoSD has bullshit moments while the rest of the game is pretty easy, compared to UFO.

>>8603659
Murasa's bullets are just falling from the top so it's easier for me to dodge. Shou's bullets come from all directions and i have a problem with that.

>>8604615
For me, Reimu is harder because she keeps running left right. I find it hard to keep up with her and dodge the bullets at the same time. For Marisa, i just need to move a little to graze.

>>8604657
That's a really shitty example because you seem to be implying that a lot of the players here do NMNB whatever runs regularly.

>>8604666
No I didn't take it that way at least. If you play both games enough you can figure out how hard everything really is and imagine what it would take to do that. It's a good comparison.

>>8604666

That's not what I'm implying. I'm saying that your definition of hard isn't the same thing as another person's definition of hard. Like >>8604652 said, Marisa has comparatively bullshit spellcards while having easier non-spell patterns.

I recently picked up dragon blaze.

>>8604615
You're not the only one who thinks that. Marisa constantly rapes me in IN, but I don't really have much trouble with Reimu.

>>8604590
MS extra? That one is actually quite more difficult than any of the Windows ex bosses. If you did well, you should have little problem with em. Give them a few more tries.

>>8604759
Not who you're talking to, but MS seemed easier to clear than most of the windows extras to me. Maybe because the patterns are more straightforward. I don't know what the story would be after a bunch of hours of practice.

>>8602254
Well, Sakuya does seem pretty emphatic about wanting you to do that, so I don't want to disappoint her.
She gives you one back after you beat her anyways, as a common courtesy. We're all friends here.

>>8602396
DBDB is such ass. I don't have much of a problem with Border of Wave and Particle - not that I clear it every time, it just doesn't annoy me. But DBDB is just unfun.

>>8603127
I'll upload mine.

Speaking of HELLSINKER, anyone know if there are any plans on making some sort of translation for it? Or at least filling out the wiki a bit?

>>8604883
That's how I feel about DBDB. It's not any fun. Yukari's version is fun. Actually, Satori on the whole is a pretty shitty boss. Sorry, Satori. The Patchy and Suika versions are better, but...

>>8604861
Alice has a few patterns which distinguish her. I remember those thin lasers and her last "spell" really well. Even while the latter is static, it's still more terrifying than anything in the windows games.
At least she's no Evil Eye Sigma.

>>8604914
Yeah those two are definitely hard. I think the windows ones have some equally hard stuff, but shit I pretty much cleared and never touched them again so I don't know.

>>8604905
>The Patchy and Suika versions are better, but...

Speaking of which, is there any kind of trick for her patchy last card? It seems like a huge clusterfuck and I never capture it without feeling like I just got lucky.

>>8604914
>cheetos lasers

>>8604928
Philosopher's stone? Pretty much is a huge clusterfuck. I hate dodging many different kinds of bullets at once.

>>8604883
Uploaded HELLSINKER.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6m3438vkcxqpb

>>8604938
Fucking knife hitboxes.

>>8604943
Better than fuckin EoSD's with square hitboxes. The distance formula is not that expensive, ZUN!

Psyvariar the mix

http://depositfiles.com/files/owqo33xto

What is the safest way to approach the red bullets at the end of Imperishable Shooting?

>>8605519
The very last wave? I usually start at about 45 degrees to either side (so sort of in line with the corner) and dodge towards the corner one direction at a time.
Might not be the best option, but it seems to work fairly well, if I can get there.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the key to 1CC UFO is to collect green and red UFOs right? 2 greens and 1 red per level should do the trick, right?

>>8605849


That's the basic idea. It might be advantageous to grab rainbows in some sections to clear bullets and spawn multicolor tokens so you can then get greens or reds. Also, don't forget to actually use all the bombs you get. It's silly to amass resources and then throw them away because you're too overconfident.

>>8604942
Oops, replied thanked you in the wrong thread. Thanks again.

Toho is too hard.

Any tips for Hellsinker? How does scoring work?

>>8605867
I'm a little confused as to how exactly the UFOs work in UFO. What do the differently colors do?

>>8607888
Red gives you lives, green gives you bombs, blue gives you points, rainbow turns point items into power items and power items into point items.

>>8607888
Red ones give you a fragment of life if you destroy them and another one if you fill them.
Green ones give you a full Bomb if you fill them and a bomb fragment if you destroy them.
Blue ones give you a X8 score multiplier if you fill them, 4X if you hal fill them and 2X if you just destroy them without filling them.
Finally Rainbow UFOs transform all point blue tokens into power red tokens and viceversa. If you destroy them you get a colour changing UFO to collect, If you fill them you get another.
As for destroying an UFO you clear the screen, andThe moment you "summon" them they clear the area around them of bullets.

>>8606845
more like boring...

>>8607911
>>8606845

>>8607900
>>8607906
Thanks. So if you're just going for a cc it's best to collect red mostly?

>>8607970
Red and Greens. Really a bomb should count as a life for someone playing survival. Definitely a life is more useful, but it's quicker to get a full bomb then build up a full life.

bomb more

>>8607993
And when I say more useful I mean, will save your butt if you do something stupid and you don't have the time to bomb.

>>8607970
Mostly, green are useful too after you start figuring out where you need to bomb proactively.

There are certain situations where it can be useful to make rainbow UFOs, and others where you just make whatever you can for the screen clear, but if you're new to UFO you don't really want to be thinking about that just yet.

I did it /jp/! I finally beat EoSD on Normal on my last continue. I feel like a God right now, nothing can stop me.

>>8608067
I bet you beat it with the hitbox patch.

>>8608086
The texture and hitbox patch, yes.
So what? Every other 2hu game has a visible hitbox, playing without it is bullshit.

>>8608090
Good players don't even look at the hitbox.

>>8608097
Give me a break, it's hard enough as it is. Gotta take it easy.

>>8608105
You can probably beat the game without moving if you use all the continues.

>>8608113
I was just joking abut the continues, I actually managed to 1cc it somehow and didn't even bomb that much.

Anyway, now that Extra is unlocked after watching some replays of it I feel like I can do it.

>>8608139
Watching replays is cheating

>>8608151
Then I guess I'm a cheater.

But it turns out it's a lot harder than it looks on the replays. 3 bombs have to go on Patchy and I can't even get past Flan's first spell card.

>>8608151
Bullshit it is, there's nothing wrong with learning from the effort of others.

>>8608151

Mankind through history has learned through the efforts of others. Are you and others who went to school cheaters?

>>8608151
I've generally gone replayless for stuff I haven't seen before, but that's just my preference. Replays are perfectly legitimate.

>>8607970
Well it depends.
If you are good at never dying with bombs then go for greens since with 6 filled and destroyed UFOs they give you 8 bombs while with 6 Red UFOs you get 6 bombs (counting your life as a bomb too).
But never dying with bombs left can be sometimes hard, even more when what kills you was a stray bullet that you didn't notice.
So tl;dr if you are a somewhat good player go for greens, if you suck go for red.

>>8608151
I guess all of the top level players are cheaters then. No, there isn't any such thing as cheating in practice. People who label saved states or stage select as cheating are silly, you can improve ten times faster, both scoring wise and survival wise if you watch replays and use stage practice or save states.

The only time you can say somebody is cheating is when they record replays when they're using save states and slowdown, but try to pass it off as legit.

>>8609005

What about spell practice? It's practically game breaking in terms of STGs.

>>8609013
Spell practise is a resource that everyone has available to them, you don't gain an unfair advantage by using it so it's not cheating.

Abusing save states to practise the same card over and over in games that don't have spell practise, however, is cheating.

See the difference?

>>8609013
>What about spell practice? It's practically game breaking in terms of STGs.
You must be new to STGs. As long as your proper (scoring) runs are fair and square, nobody cares how you practiced.

>>8609005
>No, there isn't any such thing as cheating in practice
Watching replays is not practice. Spellcards are about knowing how a pattern works, if you watch the replay it's like already seeing the solution.

>>8609045
Let's think about CAVE games a little.

How do you think world record holders like GFA2-ISO or Dame-K.K. perfected their strats? Yes, by watching other skilled people play in arcades and discussing with them.

>>8609045
Even if you know how the pattern works, it's not that easy to preform.

>>8609045
It might not be practice, but it will certainly help out if you want to improve much quicker. People already have scoring paths made up for these games, it's silly to not copy them, and I don't think anybody will be able to come up with better paths without many years of practice. You can watch these paths, copy them, and once you get the skill, improve on them. Plus, you might be missing some extremely small, yet simple detail that you would never figure out without watching a superplay.

Watching people better than you play the game will give you a much better idea on how to play, and this goes for any genre, really.

>>8609045
Seeing the solution, really? I can watch replays all day long and I still won't be able to 1cc any but the easiest touhou games on lunatic because I'm just not good enough. You can watch someone else score but you still need to be good enough to do it yourself afterwards.

At a high level of play everyone watches replays, therefore you don't gain an unfair advantage by watching replays, therefore watching replays is not cheating.

You may want to figure everything out for yourself. That's fine. Just don't expect everyone else to agree with you.

>>8609076
oh god the rust...

>>8608990
>with 6 Red UFOs you get 6 bombs (counting your life as a bomb too).
Huh? It's 2 UFOs per life, so you get 3 full lives. Each life gives you two bombs. So if you count lives as bombs, then you get 9 bombs for 6 red UFOs.

>>8609028
As long as you don't do it in an actual run, you can do whatever you like during practice. There's really no reason to think otherwise.

>>8609202
Oh yeah, I counted wrong, though it gives you only 6 bombs, Dying clean the screen of bullest but you also lose 1 power and while you respawn half the screen already filled with bullets again.

Fuck yeah I beat Suwako!
This was my 10th try at MoF extra so I think is the extra i have cleared with less tries, and such I think is the easiest extra, though I must still try TD extra. Oh I got a somewhat good score too. Also it was my first time to see her 3 last spellcards.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=18992

Now I will continue with UFO and SA extras that I have tried less than 5 times.

>>8609278
>SA Extra

glhf

Esoterica "Nine Syllable Stabs" 87/119 ;_;

>save states

That's the first time I heard about this.
Share your secrets /jp/, can you use save states in EoSD?

>>8609386
You can use them with a program called hourglass.

http://code.google.com/p/hourglass-win32/

I never got it working myself, and stage practice was always good enough for me. I only ever used save states in MAME and for the PC-98 touhou games.

>>8609406
thanks, I'll try that

Watch superplay, Stage practice, Spell practice, Save state. Use it all to the limit, use drugs if need more concentration or high responsive boosts.

>>8609510
Deal with it.

Any tips to play as Shameimaru in hisoutensoku?

>>8609558
best tip:

you don't play as Shameimaru.

>>8609560
Are you from /v/? Who should I play with then?

>>8609565
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeM5i76VhPM

>>8609565
S: Sakuya, Remilia, Yuyuko
A+: Reisen, Iku
A: Aya
B+: Marisa, Patchouli, Tenshi, Alice, Yukari
B: Youmu, Suika, Reimu
C: Sanae, Cirno, China
D: Okuu, Komachi, Suwako

Sakuya or Yuyuko are both good choices.

Just kidding, use whoever the fuck you like. Most people playing Hisoutensoku are garbage at it, so just play however you please.

>>8609583
You should make a separate tier for Remi. She is broken as fuck.

>>8609583
>Just kidding, use whoever the fuck you like.
Truth.

>>8609560
Unfortunately, also the truth.

>>8609590
Sakuya and Remi both have been S tier since the IaMP days. It can't be helped, I guess.

I think Sakuya and Remi were once shit tier in one version of SWR, but I dunno.

I remember obliterating almost everyone with Reimu and Utsuho in the first version of SWR/Soku.

Then the nerf happened, or if it was a boost, then I got shitty at the game.

>>8609598
I remember when Aya was like a mini Utsuho, now she's like BBCS1 Rachel, all work no damage. ;_;

>>8609629
Utsuho was really bad in 1.03 I remember, she's better in 1.10, but still bad.

>>8609645
CPU Lunatic Aya still has those moments where she locks me and it's beyond annoying.

No Aya player that I've played with has ever been even as good as that.

>>8609652
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSid9qa058M Lunatic AI isn't all that bad.

The custom AIs are pretty terrible though, input reading and instantly reacting with a DP makes me very upset, it's like SF all over again.

I can't tell if you guys are trolling or is my version of Hisoutensoku broken because the AI even on Luntaic is dumb as shit.

>>8610116
You can seriously just stand in the corner and mash the C button and you will win. Actually, my preferred method of fighting the Lunatic AI is to choose Suika and kill them with 2A and 2A alone.

That warm, fuzzy feeling when someone else posts your video on /jp/.

pantsu

I appreciate all of these OSTs you're uploading Raiden autist, but isn't there a faster site you could use? Depositfile is insanely slow - it's taken me 3 hours to download 150mb of Mushihimesama's OST.

PCB Let's Play with English Commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YNZK8BNS4
PCB Lunatic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvpjSJtxzg0
PCB Extra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBIoymqhvQ
PCB Phantasm

So, I checked today and it turns out my PC-98 emulator is not working. It's called 'anxdiet' but i seem to recall having another older one which did used to work, but I have no idea what happened to it. Anyone care to link me to a functioning PC-98 emulator, planned to play LLS/MS but obviously that isn't happening.

>>8614746
Try out anex86, this one works fine with me.

>>8614773

That was the one I used to have, thank you very much. Couldn't remember the name.

>>8613441
My upload speed is total ass and on mediafire my files constantly keep getting corrupted so I dont really know..

>>8608090

lol hitbox patch

guys please add a hitbox patch to ketsui, because it's fucking bullshit without it!

I'm such a secondary. I'll get to meet Mokou...

I'm such a secondary.I'll never get to meet Mokou...

>>8616868
I'm sure you can reach her. Then she'll kill you, but isn't that okay?

>>8616907
i don't even care...i just want to see her.

>>8616868
Yeah, >>8616907 is right!
Even me (barely capable of normal 1cc) could reach almost every extra boss. Just bomb like there is no tomorrow.
Then you'll die, sure, but who cares?

But there is also another way... Dark way.
Pic quite related.

>>8614868
Could you repost the RF2 OST? I missed it in the last thread.

Also, Ketsui is a bitch. It's the one game where I fuck up so hard on the early stages.

Under Defeat is fucking hard. Harder than most of Cave's games...

just tried to beat Mokou with solo Sakuya, she's so awful...

>>8617035
Includes RF1,2

http://depositfiles.com/files/wzfdyflat

>>8617285
>http://depositfiles.com/files/wzfdyflat
such file doesnt exist

>>8617484
>>8617484
Strange... shows up for me

>>8616819
Only ura is hard, rest of the game is touhou easy.

>>8616868
IN is easy as fuck. Use border team and you'll win, seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XlB5VA5fM
I wonder if this works on higher difficulties too. But I doubt it.

what do you guys like the most about touhou?

>>8617607
post your ura scores pls

>>8617778
no fuck you bell

>ura

>>8617555
When you try to download it? It allows you select Normal or Gold downloading, after that it says it's been removed.

Sucks, cause I really like RF2's credits theme.

>>8618815
Well fuck

>Such file does not exist or it has been removed for infringement of copyrights.

Well il reupload it and password my shit pass will always be autist

i'm way too autistic for this game.

>>8621453
more like not autistic enough

I just broke my autistic record. It took me 934 photos to capture Byakuren's last card.

>>8621458
rofl exdee

>>8619089
Hi Raiden Autist. Can I know what are your more known nick? For example, 3 letter initials, sys11/cave-stg id, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mE3o_Kiw5Q=

Godlike

bump

>>8623256
It's pretty obvious who he is on shumps. Earn your detective badge, anon.

>>8627974
Well then who is he?

bump

Bump.
The last two threads have been very slow. Isn't anyone doing something?

>>8633137
I'm currently trying to do a perfect IN Extra, best so far has been 1 death at the last noncard.

>>8633137
Not really, been out whole weekend, now busy with college and tests. The only thing I´m playing is Touhoumon since it's the only one I can play for less than 1 hour.

Still playing Soku. I'd like to pretend that I am, at the very least, somewhat good with my chosen characters. I started out playing Reisen, and moved on to learning Patchy.

I think my lack of experience playing various opponents is crippling me, however, I'm just too intimidated to go fight random people. They might just dump all over my hopes and dreams.

>>8633137
I've been learning how to chain DDP since my survival skills are shit. Out of the three full runs I've done, I've hit the extend on 1-2 midboss once, and 1-3 midboss twice. It still doesn't matter since I end up bomb spamming the fuck out of 1-4, 1-5, and 1-6, but at least I'm kind of improving in some sense. I think looping it actually seems possible for me, given enough practice.

I'm not even going to bother playing Touhou until I 1-ALL DDP with all shot types

>>8633137
Nothing is going my way, so I don't have much to say. I got as far as Byakuren's last spell on a NBNUFO run two weeks ago, and I haven't even seen stage 6 since then. I'm taking a break from UFO. I decided to try to 1-ALL DOJ, and I've gotten as far the last pattern of the final boss. I should be able to beat it any second. I don't think that I like DOJ very much, but it's the only thing I'm able to play right now. I don't see myself taking it seriously in the future. I've also been having fun working on my personal project.

>>8633288
Hello, me.

This has been every single run for the past week or so as far as DOJ goes. It's kind of funny, back when I played DDP with B-S, the same exact thing happened there too. Then I switched to C-S and got my 1-ALL.

>>8633137
I've been playing Under Defeat HD. Nice and simple scoring, challenging difficulty, and an awesome soundtrack. Nice graphics too.

I'd also suck a cock for the New Order soundtrack.

>>8602102
For cards like BoWaP and Kanako's first card in MoF Extra, I don't even look at my character. Watching the bullets as they first fire gives you enough time to micrododge them before they get to you if you can know where you are without looking.


>>8602342
Pretty much like this

I just 1ccd my first ever touhou game..on normal, but still I'm really happy ;-;. Managed to finish with a life left too! But those sudden last words startled the fuck out of me.

>>8634749
What should I do next? Should I try beating it with each team? Bump up the difficulty? Capture spellcards? Play a different game? Now that the adrenaline has worn off I am confused.

Also how do last words trigger? I was only ever to get wriggles but on my winning run I also got Reisen's to trigger (And I past it my first time ever seeing it!!)

I need to start playing Blazing Star again. Friend of mine had it set up at a con for the weekend. Watching the noobs credit feed proved hilarious, especially on some of the latter stage bosses.

>>8634844
>What should I do next? Should I try beating it with each team? Bump up the difficulty? Capture spellcards? Play a different game? Now that the adrenaline has worn off I am confused.
You can do anything.
>Also how do last words trigger? I was only ever to get wriggles but on my winning run I also got Reisen's to trigger (And I past it my first time ever seeing it!!)
Each Last Word has a condition that you must meet to unlock it.
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Imperishable_Night/Spell_Cards/Last_Word

>>8634844

Boundary team.
I remember my first Touhou game. Imperishable Night...
Oh, so nostalgic. I wish I could go back and do it again!

>>8634749
extra stage on boundary team

>>8634844
Last words trigger if you have enough time items. If the counter is golden, then you'll get it after the boss.

As for what to do, try another game. Playing as many different patterns helps learning and keeping the game from going stale. After a few play throughs you should be able to recall the general make-up of the stages.

>>8634872
Sorry, meant last spell, not last word. I figured it was not bombing or dying to a character to trigger it. But I'm pretty sure I did both.

>>8634883
Ah, that makes sense, Ya I wasn't really concerned with time items after the first stage, focuses on not dying at getting points for extra lives, I musta just had a really good stage 5.

>>8634871
People still credit feed? What a scary world we live in these days.

I felt sick to my stomach when I used a continue in GFW for practice, since there is no stage select. Never again.

I feel defeated /jp/, is there an arcade emulator apart from MAME that can play Mushi Futari?

I got shmupmame 2.2, but I don't even know how to load the dam rom.

Do you guys ever use arcade sticks? Anytime I've seen one mentioned it always gets hate. I couldn't imagine playing on anything else.

>>8614509
What tracks play in the background?

>>8634895
I don't really give a shit about credit feeding, but dumping 15+ credits on a single boss, in co-op, is strangely amusing.

>>8634960
Played on a seimitsu. Made me with I never bothered buying a fucking X-Arcade unit.

>>8634941
Last I checked shmupmame dropped support for Cave's games.

>>8634994
Well shit, maybe next time I spot an anon playing Mushi he can tell me how to get it working, thanks anyway.

>>8635024
You need the slowpoke MAME build, which still has the SH3 crap in it. I'll take a look for the link, but check /vg/ shmup general, they're pretty helpful.

>>8635119
Oh wait.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ufhaa2oihj73i
Care of /vg/. Some games in the pack too though. If you don't want them try downloading the first part and extract with winrar, with "keep broken files" ticked.

>>8635119
No need, I- aw booty, too slow with my own pack.

>>8635128
Huh, does that really work? Interesting.

>>8635128
This last 5 minutes I've been thinking of a proper way to thank you, but nothing comes to mind, thanks.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=19117
Can someone tell me if this is the optimal route for a survival run on this spellcard (Imperishable Shooting).

>>8633202
> I'm just too intimidated to go fight random people. They might just dump all over my hopes and dreams.
And THAT is why I hate fighting games. Soku? IaMP? SWR? Get the hell out of here, give me my adonis.

>>8634960
All of the best players use arcade sticks, though they're obviously not required to get good scores.

>>8635436
But the only way to get better at fighting games is to get destroyed by the better players. You won't improve just playing against the AI all day, training mode and fighting better players is key to getting better in these games. Of course, if you've played other fighters before, you'll get better much faster.

And honestly, it makes me infinitely confused seeing somebody 2-ALL DOJWL, perfecting hibachi and all, but struggle with Hisoutensoku/SWR after hundreds of hours of consistent practice. I am a complete fucking retard and I was able to learn the fighters, but I cannot learn the shoot 'em ups, even after 80 or so hours of consistent practice, I still manage to die on the first few stages of Lunatic and even DOJWL.

>>8634974
You kind of reminded me of that Guwange "walkthrough" with all the credit feeding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_g4ATbJB2o

How the hell does he manage to GAME OVER on Stage 1? Also, seeing MushiFutari Ultra credit feeding is equally funny, hearing PARUMU every five seconds, very silly. Goowang.

>>8636502
Well let's say I just hate fighting games, ok? They are too hard for me (all this combos.... meh). Also every damn time I get defeated by another player, I have rage attack.
Which (almost) never happens in shmups (even in multiplayer ones like PoFV).

>>8636603
Embrace your rage and use it as fuel to surpass your rivals.

>>8636603
I have rage attacks when I play STGs and die before Stage 4, but that doesn't stop me from playing them. And combos in Hisoutensoku and IaMP both are pretty easy, Marisa consists of dustloops, and IaMP consists of A>B>C type stuff most of the time. Fighting games will make you feel like shit, even if you're really calm playing other games. But after losing millions of times, you kind of gain enlightenment, and you can't rage anymore. But yeah, combos are the least of your problems in fighters. You can get them down with maybe an hour of training mode.

I wonder if I'll ever reach the STG enlightenment.

A few days ago, I beat Ran for the first time. Could I have some suggestions for improvement?

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=19122

>>8634749
So I tried playing it again, this time with the EoSD team, and had to fight reimu at stage 4 this time.

Wow. Fuck that. I thought marisa was hard but reimu just flies around like a jerk...so mean.

>>8637128
>EoSD team
don't do it nigga. Unless you like a handicap.

>>8637136
whys that? All I noticed was it was kind hard to hit bosses with Remilia because her familiars don't follow you. Is there a link to each team's strengths and weaknesses? (Not their special skill or whatever)

Alice solo is the best way to play IN, just as how B-L is the best way to play DDP. You play a chopper in Catsuey as well, so you'll instantly do 10x better because Catsuey is the harder game.

>>8637149
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=181.0
Sort of.
Sakuya's shot is dogshit. Her bomb is mediocre.
Remilia is sort of decent...
Still, Team Reimu and Team Youmu dominate IN so hard it's not funny.
Team Marisa at least has Malice.
Thus, Team Sakuya has the short end. my2c

>>8637166
this is my fetish...

>>8633420
Where the helicopter Prussian girls at?

Not my upload in this case

http://www.fileserve.com/file/3nfdDFU

I promised to reupload RF1,2 OSTs awhile back

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7ek8dk76ilmh5hd
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6t21bytds601xzv
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8ib9nx6t6yvp2h5

>>8637551
Thanks, I'll still suck your cock dude.

>>8637166
Shame MAlice requires you to use Alice. Her shot type is too focused, and her bomb is awful.

>>8638026
true, that bomb is criminally bad.
Still...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0QBl6LCYM

>>8637166
Just tried the ghost team, here's how it went, my first team was the border team.

"Well ok, this isn't bad, I like youmus little ghost ball thing"
"holy fuck why are you so fast I ca---die on stage 1 to a random enemy"


I got used to it. Yuyukos shot is really nice, does decent damage and has a huge spread, I think youmus is better, and her bomb seemed much better. I fucked up on death bombs like 3 times though, losing lives full of bombs. Shit sucks.

>>8639950
disregarding her scoring potential, Youmu's shot is terrific for taking out slaves. Staying unfocused during bossfights might be difficult, but you can make many spells oh so easier.
And yeah, Yuyuko is pretty much rapetastic, especially during stages.

>>8636585
I love how it takes him 20 minutes to realize that there are other buttons on the controller and start using bombs and the shikigami.

>>8639950
Ghost team? Pffft, just use solo Youmu. You get much more time with the better halves that way - plus it's more fun, and better score.

>>8640329
>using phantom side during stages
gross

I totally forgot how you configure NEXT... and sort of battled MS Extra without focus. Even made it until the second to last spell with some extreme bullshit dodges.

>>8640440
what kind of ⑨ doesn't use Phantom side? Also, who are you quoting
http://en.touhouwiki.net/images/0/0f/Th8_ud238d.rpy

>>8633288
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-da4be-_B2k
It turned out that I got it just a little while after I posted that. It's a bad run, because I have no idea how to play this game. I would have liked to do a little better, and I did a few times in my previous runs, but it is still a clear. It took about 16 hours in total. It was the fourth time I reached the final boss.I can't chain at all.. I wonder how much the shot-type I was using ranks among the others.

>>8640552
>Ym & Yy
>6,083,367,990

>Youmu
>6,413,387,450☆

He still doesn't use Yuyuko during stages.

>>8640572
have you watched the replay? He sure does in 4 and 5. It makes sense, phantom side allows to blow up many slaves at once.

>>8640562
>I found out just in this run that the blinking bees means that you can uncover them with the laser shot.

>>8640575
Eh, the first stage. Even when he does it's probably only quite briefly.

>>8640579
>I found out just in this run that the blinking bees means that you can uncover them with the laser shot.
Whoops. That's what happens when typing stuff out while in a hurry to leave. It's true, they had me confused.

>>8640562
Oh goodness, you inspired me to go back and attempt to 1-ALL DOJBL again. I had completely given up because I wasn't able to chain the first stage, hence I would never get the first extend in 1-1. It would be my first CAVE 1cc yet, DDP doesn't count because I 1-cheesed it with C-S. The teleporting ships in 1-3 are so trivial when you're using C-S, it isn't even funny.

>>8636843

No one will comment/make suggestions on my run?

>>8640763
Ok
On the stage you do a lot of mistakes. For example, just before Chen you waste 2 bombs that are not necesary by any means, the 4 fairies barrage can be avoided just by standing in the middle and shooting, and the one that comes after that is just moving backwards but no as fast as you did, just slow.

During Chen you shouldn't need any bombs, All her spells and non spells are very easy.Blue Oni Red Oni is just streaming as you are doing but more slow. You should learn how to dodge Flying Bishamonten, it just consists of going through her close turn barrage so you don't get trapped.

After Chen the stage is very easy and you do a silly dead for moving too much, PCB extra / phantasm is one of the most sidestepping stages I have faced, you should only side step, faster or slower but only side step.

During Ran now I didn't saw many mistakes aside from:

- Charming Siege From All Sides, you should stand closer or you are going to get clipped.
-Princess Tenko -Illusion-, Just do diagonal upward dodge, diagonal downward dodge, diagonal downward dodge again, and repeat.

That makes it for the playthrough since it was your first time playing the other cards.
Now some other tips.

1 - This is the most important, stop using the 4 bomb option from the menu, turn it back to defaul or it´s not a 1CC/ legit clear, same goes for lives.
2 - Stream more, you hug the floor like 80% of the time and that takes a lot of movility out of you.
3 - Graze more, you will get more score which is always good and you will also get more lives.
4 - Get away from Sakuya A, she is easy to play, sure, but she is awful at scoring and also her bombs are crap.

/ constructive criticism.

>>8641828
>1 - This is the most important, stop using the 4 bomb option from the menu, turn it back to defaul or it´s not a 1CC/ legit clear, same goes for lives.
Having 4 bombs is a property of Sakuya. You can't change this in the options.
>3 - Graze more, you will get more score which is always good and you will also get more lives.
Graze does absolutely nothing for lives.

>>8641828
>1 - This is the most important, stop using the 4 bomb option from the menu, turn it back to defaul or it´s not a 1CC/ legit clear, same goes for lives.
Sakuya has 4 bombs by default
>3 - Graze more, you will get more score which is always good and you will also get more lives.
You get extends from collecting certain amount of point items in pcb. And on the games that give you extends based on your score you'll get them all in a 1cc survival run (for example in MoF you'll get all the extends even if you bomb literally every spellcard in the game).

So, I've been playing Story of Eastern Wonderland...

And, uhm, Marisa is way harder than Mima. Like how she rapes Reisen/Eirin/Kaguya's ass in IN.

Is that only me or can I point a pattern here?

>>8641855
Oh I thought it was 3 bombs for sakuya, my bad.
Those are general tips not only for PCB. Of course you wont get shit with graze aside from a huge cherry point value with graze in PCB, which acts as bombs anyway, but aside fro that graze is important.

>>8641897
you haven't seen shit, brat.

>>8641947
That fucking extra stage. I will never clear it.

>>8641967
I know that feeling. I also know the feeling of never getting to VIVIT in Samidare extra.

>>8641972
>>8641967
Not that bad. Remember, practice makes perfect!

>>8604615
I have more problems with Reimu because of this >>8604656

Also, I almost shouted "WOAH SHIT" when I saw Master Spark for the first time.

>>8642092

I DID shout when I first saw Master Spark. But I shouted "WOAH FUCK".

>>8641900

Graze isn't important for lives in any game. It helps in games where extends are score-based (except in MoF, which has no graze) but it's never necessary to go out of your way to get it. You'll easily hit every extend in those games unless you go out of your way to avoid getting points.

>>8641972
You must! If only because her theme is so aweesome.

>>8642092
I just saw her final spark or w/e for the first time.

I am now dead.

>>8642613

Why are you always up so late?

I have a problem, /jp/.

Whenever I'm playing touhou my gamepad disconnects from time to time for a couple seconds.

I use a PS2 pad with an usb adaptor and the program Xpadder.

Does this happen to you?

>>8601935
>Touhou は、ほんとにたのしいですね！

>>8645161
Rule #1 of Touhou: Don't use a pad.

>>8645226
Except touhou is intended to play with pads. Ask Zun.

>>8601935
>>8602072
>>8645193
Why is this being frowned upon?

>>8645249
Because Touhou isn't fun.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=19173
NDNB IN extra.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=19173

NDNB IN extra.

>>8645161
there shouldn't be a need to use xpadder for windows games?

>>8646351
I have trouble setting the keys in-game with the pad so I just map the keyboard keys to the pad.

Generals go on /vg/
Reported

>>8646465
Get a better USB adapter then.

>>>/v/131367532#131367532

Ｊａｐａｎ ｓｔｒｏｎｇ！ＵＳＡ ａ ｓｈｉｔ！

>>8647642
People high score TD?

>>8647677
People have a newer game to score?

>>8647681
There are much better STGs to score in. Playing any of the DonPachi games for score will keep you occupied far longer than TD.

And if you are shit at chaining, you might just have an aneurism on top of it all. I know I felt like bashing my face in with a brick after attempting to learn how to chain DOJWL.

>>8646340
Ooh! Oh! I wanna do dat! How I get good like dat?

>>8647713
Copy what he did.

This attack is a huge cunt.

Bump. How is your progress in the 2hus?

>>8648292
Just keep practicing it. Sooner or later you will develop a sense for the bullet directions. You need to look at a point in the center of the bullet chaos to see your ship and all the openings in the pattern.

>>8650755
Yeah, I know. The entire first loop except for 1-5 boss and 1-6 boss are super touhou-easy, just that last pattern and killing myself during 1-5 boss by trying to hug him during his nuke throwing is annoying as hell.

>>8650769
I like to think that this boss is a cruel joke by the developers. The pattern is designed to be extremely brutal, requiring the most twitch dodging until pachi, and he's positioned at a critical time; If you bomb him or die, you don't get the maximum bonus for an entire stage, because stage 1 doesn't have any bombs.

>>8650775
Indeed, I should probably use save states so I can actually have some practice with both the 1-5 and 1-6 boss. And so I can actually learn the second loop instead of bomb spamming my way through 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3. I actually think ura suicide bullets are even more of a cruel joke to be honest.

It also doesn't help that I've been really inconsistent recently, dying to absolutely trivial bullshit like the teleporting ships in 1-3, and 1-4 boss drill pattern. I died five times in a row to 1-3 ships before I got the run pictured above, and I dropped a shit load of chains before 1-3, which lead to even more restarting. Very frustrating having to see 1-1 constantly because of dumb mess ups.

>>8650892
I know how that feels. The bullet-cancelling part of stage 3 is the most difficult part of an otherwise simple stage. And it is so easy to screw up just by accidentally blowing up a gunship too early.

>>8650905
Yeah, it still isn't as annoying as learning how to chain later stages, but then forgetting how to chain earlier stages. That is by far the most frustrating thing in the pachi series, but I guess learning chains gives it lots of replay value.

Seeing 1-1 15 times in 30 minutes, so god damn sad.

>>8651156
If I'm guessing right, you kill the tank first and the popcorn second. I found it to be much safer to kill the popcorns first, laser the tank and then kit the upcoming bullet dispenser.
Just my opinion though.

Which team is the most powerful in IN? Is using continues as a mean of practicing acceptable?

I'm fed up being a dirty secondary so I'm trying to complete my first touhou game. Playing on normal difficulty, by the way.

>>8651284

I consider ReimuYukari team the best.

And why wouldn't using continues be acceptable? It's far better way than repeating the practise stage.

I always break under pressure. I got to Final B in imperishable night for like the 5th time, but this time I had a great run, had 5 lives and 3 bombs. But as I got closer and closer I missed deathbombs, tried to dodge when I should have just bombed, forgot simple patterns I practiced in spell capture, until I made it to the final spellcard with 2 lives left, and died when the boss was almost dead.

I'm starting to get sick of myself. Really upset.

>>8651333
pic related, literally pulled some hair out last time.

>>8651284
All the shots have their ups and downs. Continues are fine as long as you think they are right.
>>8651333
>>8651355
That's just one of the things about this game. When you get better at it, you will learn to deal with it. It will never completely go away, because you will always be doing something you aren't quite good enough to get just yet. I still have heart attacks when I get to Byakuren in some of my handicapped runs. That run in my picture took me months to get, now it is trivial. One day, getting that 1cc will be trivial to you. Just keep practicing. If you had a lot of resources, you will always at least know that you had a great chance at it. You know that you are close, which is much better than not being anywhere near the goal. If you keep trying, you are sure to get it right. Then it will all be worth it. If it's too hard at the moment, go and practice in another game. When you come back, you will be amazed at how you breeze through the patterns. You will eventually get good enough that you don't need to practice, and you already know everything.

>>8651222
You might just be right. I'll have to try it later when I'm feeling up to doing another run. Currently, my main goal is just to reach the end of the first loop with at least 50mil.

>>8651323
Continues can help you with learning later stages and whatnot, but I wouldn't use them in a game where rank is a huge part of gameplay.

>>8651333
I know how that feels, except it was in MoF and DOJBL. Every time I see Kanako and Queen bee or whathaveyou, I choke up on a million dicks and die multiple times in a row. Usually with bombs in stock. I've seriously yelled out, "NOOOO!" as loud as I possibly could multiple times in both games. It's made even worse by the fact that Kanako and Queen Bee the third are some of the easiest final bosses in their respective games. I don't get how I can consistently clear DDP's first loop, but still get wrecked in an easy game like MoF, maybe I'm underestimating it or something.

I have two (probably stupid) questions.

First: do you play windowed or full screen and second what is the difference between the blue pickup thingies and the other ones (I think their colors vary between games)

>>8651479
>I have two (probably stupid) questions.
Is that so? http://en.touhouwiki.net
>First: do you play windowed or full screen and second what is the difference between the blue pickup thingies and the other ones (I think their colors vary between games)
Since I got my CRT, I always played in fullscreen mode. When I was playing on my LCD, played windowed and used a program called Sizer to adjust the window. There are many pickup thingies in all of the games:

The red ones give you shot power. They give you +1 power in most games, but give +5 power in MoF/SA.

The blue items give you points. These are usually not relevant to gameplay, but they can help you get powerups in the earlier games. They also affect rank in EoSD/PCB.

There are also things like ufo tokens, green items, divine spirits, cherry items, time orbs, and other powerups which vary by their respective game. You can look all of that up in the wiki.

>>8651526
Why did you use windowed on a LCD monitor? Just curious

>>8651570
It wouldn't scale properly on my aspect ratio. The colors were skewed, and a large part of the screen was cut off. Maybe I could have found a way to fix it, but my CRT does it perfectly right now.

>>8651526
EoSD and PCB have rank?

First I've heard of it, but I spend most of my time on SA and FW.

>>8651621
>EoSD and PCB have rank?
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil/Gameplay#Rank
I'm not even sure how it works completely. I hardly play the newer games. PCB rank is supposed to be vestigial. I'm not sure if all the PC-98 games have rank.

>>8651526
Thank you. One more question. Is there any way to change the key config outside of the game? It doesn't seem to work in game and since I'm on a QWERTZ keyboard, some games don't realize that (PCB seems to do, EoSD and SA don't) and QWERTZ keyboards have a huge gap between X and Z.

>>8651756
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=219.0
I used this for when I wanted to play with a WASD layout. It should work for you. The only problem is that it seemed to increase the amount of times I got the key-freezing bug. I switched to a PS/2 adapter and I haven't gotten it a single time since then, though.

>>8651689
>This effect that rank has in this game is most prominent with boss attacks, where the bullet count difference between minimum and maximum rank can differ by a factor of 4 or more, and bullet movement speeds can double.

Holy shit.

That explains a lot.

>>8651784
Yup. I think that the manipulation of rank in EoSD is a game mechanic that many people fail to realize, and it makes the game harder for them. The same goes for other shooting games.

>>8651439
>Queen Bee
FIRE BEE, GET IT RIGHT, ASSHOLE

>>8651864
Sorry, I am a fucking retard, and I meant the 1-5 boss, not the TLB.

And it's cool, the more I play, the worse I do. Ramming bullets, dying with bombs in stock, bombing when I don't need to, dropping chains etc. I am surely the most inconsistent player in the world, one minute I'm getting one 1-ALL after another, the next, I'm game overing on piss easy shit.

>>8651911
People have their good and bad days. Sometimes it's best to just take a short break and process what you did wrong. Helps with memorizing the game long-term.

>>8651919
I'm thinking that being fatigued is probably part of the reason, which seems to naturally happen after my first good run, because every run after that becomes a huge case of restartitis.

>>8651689
>>8651621
I have seen this 2 exact posts posted plenty times before! even the fucking puntuaction is identical...
I'm fucking sure of it, tons of times...
Maybe I'm just delusional.

>>8651960
Archives are there for a reason.

>>8651993
Meh, I prefer to think I'm crazy rather than search the archive.

>>8652013
I hope you are, because the alternative is that I'm crazy.

I made the second post you quoted.

hey jp, i recently re downloaded a lot of the games but the links i found for SA don't work

do any of you know of one that is legitimate?

>>8654370
Try this: https://rapidshare.com/files/3475761806/Touhou_11_-_Subterranean_Animism.zip .

Does anyone have any advice for SA Stage 6? I continued about 20 times, but still didn't win. I always seem to die on Hell and Heaven Meltdown and Hell's Artificial Sun.

How are you supposed to dodge the `mist' of tiny white bullets in Hell's Artificial Sun? They seem too concentrated to dodge without bombing.

>>8654496

thank you so much, i truly appreciate it

would you happen to have a link for UFO as well?

the one i got for UFO works but its a bin+cue and i would prefer to not have to mount it to play

>>8654540
The site I use for these is http://moriyashrine.weebly.com/official-touhou-games.html . It has RapidShare links to all the official Touhou games, as well as some doujins.

Here's the one for UFO: https://rapidshare.com/files/3583861299/Touhou_12_-_Undefined_Fantastic_Object.zip

>>8654557

i already have the others, but thank you, this will assist me in helping others as well

unfortunately that link to UFO is no longer available so ill have to do some more lurking

>>8654531
What difficulty is this?

Utsuho is the easiest stage 6 boss in the series. Nothing Utsuho has should be too bad if you practice. Find a replay on the archive and practice it. Otherwise, use a bomb.

>>8654579
Really? I checked it just now and it's alright for me.

If it's still not working, I could upload it to Mediafire.

>>8654599

my bad, total idiot moment, can't download two things at once

again, thank you for the help

>>8654581
Byakuren is easier.

>>8654581
You know, I actually think that Yuyuko is the easiest Stage 6 boss. She's probably the only boss I haven't had to use a superplay for, which is a first for me.

Of course I didn't know any scoring techniques because I didn't watch the superplay, but it's to be expected for a first 1cc.

>>8654581
What, not Yuuka?

I've decided that I'm done being mediocre at schmups and I'm going to work on becoming decent.

I have SA and FW hard 1ccs under my belt, and I've 1ccd every other touhou game on normal and cleared all of the windows extra stages.

I don't have a lot of familiarity with non touhou schmups though, any advice for what I should try out?

>>8655930
Samidare
DoDonPachi
" Dai Ou Jou
Ketsui
ESPGaluda 2
Samidare
Crimzon Clover
Kamui
Samidare
Hellsinker
PatriotDark
Samidare

Should be a good start.

>>8655946
I guess I'm playing samidare first then, thanks.

>>8655954
Good call.

Also, if you haven't played Mystic Square much before, I'd recommend doing that too. Samidare has a lot of references to MS, both in the main game and, more blatantly, in the Extra.

>>8655958
I haven't played the pc98 games much because their visual style throws me off, but I'll spend some time on mystic square.

>>8655968
Well, it's certainly not a requirement for enjoying Samidare, not by a long shot. It's just kinda cool to see the similarities.

>>8655930
Under Defeat

>>8654579
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7005061

Sometimes I just don't understand myself.

>>8655930
Go play DoDonPachi. Playing STGs without playing DoDonPachi is like playing platformers, but not playing Mario.

And depending on how long it took you to 1cc GFW and SA on Hard, you should even be able to peek into 2-3 after a couple of weeks practice. That's how it went for me.

>>8656153
>>8657976
Cheers, I'll check under defeat and dodonpachi after I get some decent sleep.

Oh gosh, I don't know how to practice these games anymore. After being able to consistently 1-ALL DDP(and even looped it once!), I kind of lost all of my skill for every run after my personal best 40MIL run. I am infinitely agitated by this. Shit score, I know, but it's still an accomplishment for me.

Maybe I've just been playing too much and I'm burning myself out, I should go credit feed some beat 'em up games or go credit feed a bad shmup for a bit, one like Hotdog Storm. I guess it could be restartitis from dropping chains is starting to get to me, hum.

>>8658042
Hot Dog storm is only bad because there are no hotdogs.