STG/Touhou

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Old thread mysteriously died >>11208805

[ponies !ct9.WEF5kA No.]

"Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die." -- Message from Ralph Steadman to Hunter Thompson

[Anonymous No.]

Is this the guitar hero thread?

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>>11246619
It didn't "mysteriously die", the retard janitor deleted it for whatever reason.

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>>11246625
A mysterious reason?

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>>11246629
The reason is him being retarded, but that's not really much of a mystery since everyone knows that by now.

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Somebody else tried to make a thread, but it was without a Touhou image so that's why it got deleted I'm guessing.

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>>11246625
Every time people say "mysteriously died," that's exactly what they mean, you retard.

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>>11246641

wow

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>>11246641
lol is that guy for real

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>>11246625
To kill /jp/ from his few historic threads. vntl threads will be next, mark my words.

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>>11246641
As I said before, /jp/ is not your scoreboard. Fuck off faggot. Discussion is obviously fine though.

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>>11247078
kakkoi~! how do i become super cool like you anon-sama!?

[Anonymous No.]

sugoi sugoi

[Anonymous No.]

Lessons learned from this thread: Don't start drama. Take it to /q/. At least then the place will have a legitimate thread about /jp/.

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>>11247397
There isn't any lesson to be learned. Threads survive short derails literally all the time. /q/ is shit.

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>>11247397
/q/ is filled with people that know nothing about the boards on the website, and the sticky says it is NOT a second report button.

[Anonymous No.]

Hello konishiga /jap/anese
My girlfriend kicked me out the house last month so I have been feeling really depressed and picked up this game. After two weeks I was finally able to beat the game on normal mode, I have been trying lunatic these last 5 days but I always die to the last boss, is there any hints? My friend said thatbombs are for faggots :( so I never use them, but that part is very complicated should I use them?

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>>11247433
That kimochii desuga when you get depressed after starting 2hu a few days ago and you can't 1cc Lunatic because you always die at the last boss.

Don't listen to your friend, he's a faggot. Get a few vanilla Lunatic 1ccs first and then go for LNB runs.

[Anonymous No.]

>Looking through threads
>See that OP's image
>Playing as Utsuho

W-what game? P-please...

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>>11247473
Mystical Power Plant. It's a Touhou fangame made in danmakufu. Has some pretty weird difficulty curves here and there, but it's pretty fun. The creator of it must have been playing SDOJ at the time of making it, since you can unlock different routes that disable the spellcard system entirely. Hell, it even gives the bosses the same exact lifebars from SDOJ.

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>>11247473
en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mystical_Power_Plant

I searched this up, just for you.

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>>11247495
>>11247500
Thanks!

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If you didn't get the message from last thread, this doesn't belong on /jp/ anymore. Take it to /vg/ or /vr/.

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>>11247653
Then why is the thread still up.

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>>11247768
#rekt #swag #yolo

[Anonymous No.]

UFO is shit

[Anonymous No.]

Does rank exist at all in IN?

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>>11249459
That may be, but it's still the hardest Touhou game.

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>>11249459
Nue and Murasa are cool.

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>>11249550
No.

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>>11249459
Scoring in UFO leaves me feeling as though I've tried to play a CAVE game for score. A feeling of despair and suffering always comes before I can ever finish a run, my finger nearly instinctively goes over to ESC and then R the moment I know the run has gone in the shitter. It doesn't matter that I NMNB'd up to Stage 6, because my score was going to be shit in the end because of one or two fatal mistakes in the last two levels. A dropped chain or a wrongly timed UFO is the absolute worst, these frame perfect techniques that I spent months practicing never work in the runs that I finally consider to be my final runs.

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>>11249459
TD > UFO
:V

[Anonymous No.]

I thought I was getting good but then I started to die on Stage 3 again. Great!

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>>11251373
I thought I was geting good too, but then I took a bullet to the knee.

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>>11246619
Wow that game is difficult. Died on normal against the stage 2 boss on my first try. I should have used the bombs.
Well, that just shows how much those games are about memorization.

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so, I have a question regarding directional input using joy2key or xpadder.

One of my controllers uses PoV hats, let's call it the "pov controller". So it must use one of these programs in order to assign the arrow keys and shift/z/x/ctrl to the pov hats in order to operate coherently. That's fine, and I do well with it, but what I'm wondering is:

if I use a controller which is already recognized by the game and already has directional inputs without the need of xpadder/joy2key, if I assign arrow keys, etc. using these programs to the controller, what happens? Does it override the controller's inputs, use both at once, or ignore one or the other?

Mostly asking because I'd imagine using keyboard keys is more precise than using a gamepad's directional input, and I'm not sure if it's subconsciously hitting me or what but I feel like I'm playing better with pov controller than my other pad which is automatically detected. It's weird because this pov controller is new and stiff as hell, and I've been using the saturn controller beforehand which I should typically be doing better with. Though it does require a USB converter, so I'm thinking that's causing lag.

I would test this myself but I don't know how. Please help.

[Anonymous No.]

I bought a microsoft Xbox wired controller just for touhou. It's nice. I've used other sorts of controllers in the past, but this one didn't require any sort of program to depend on.

I've actually never played an Xbox before, so I kept thinking X was Cross, and B was Square. It takes some getting used to.

[Chii !Chiiiil8Do No.]

>>11246619
What touhou is this?

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>>11250828
Please don't misuse colon vee onegai.

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>>11251850
It`s Tenmu the great Tengu from Mystical Power Plant.
it is a fanmade touhou game.
the plot is about the flying Tree of life invade Gensokyo, this is the cause of Moriya Shrine Conspiracy.

If the stage 6 boss is defeated, Moriya Shrine Conspiracy is now over

[Anonymous No.]

Is Ikaruga good even if you're not a superplayer?

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>>11247078
As much as I dont agree with scorefagging, it's still central to STGs and STGs are otaku culture.

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>>11247495
>weird difficulty curves

Some of the cards are downright bullshit.

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>>11252327
It's easier than most STG's if you are asking about the difficulty.

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>>11252508
People say that about most STGs.

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Dammit, I hate UFO so much, especially Byakuren (and her last spellcard). Just now, I managed to reach St 6 with 5 extra lives and still failed (Normal, Survival, SanaeB). I can't even just finish last stage to practice it for 1cc. This game is the only one of main windows touhou games (well, except of PoFV which I'm not planning to play) which I didn't 1cc yet. Even worse, I don't have much motivation for it (for example, I liked SA a lot so even if it was hard, I didn't mind to practice it to achieve 1cc), I can't find anything good for me (well, the only thing I liked are Murasa's and Nue's themes).
I checked some amount of replays but can't find any useful tips for Byakuren's last spellcard. Can anyone help with some tips if they exist?

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>>11253608
>I don't have much motivation for it
Then don't play it. Nobody is forcing you to play it.

UFO Stage 6 gets pretty much trivialized by Sanae B if you grab all the resources in the stage and just bomb everything. Not to mention that her last spellcard is static, and fairly easy to dodge in the first place, just stay under her as much as you can and the spell ends pretty fast.

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>>11253608
For Byakuren's last spell on normal, stay slightly above the bottom-middle of the screen, and try not too move too high or low throughout.
Each wave is aimed in a way, so if you move up and around the screen too much you can end up getting screwed over by a clusterfuck.
If you die or have to bomb during it, don't move up to shotgun her because it'll just fuck up the aiming components of the spell and you'll probably get killed by a weird pattern when you go back down (either way, she's immune for ages when you bomb).
Since it's all aimed somehow, it's (in theory) possible to learn and cap it 100% of the time, you'll probably want to use the boss rush patch to practice it.

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>>11253608
It's okay. UFO is a game that requires Gus levels of masochism to be able to play it for more than two hours at a time, just take a break from it between runs. UFO and DOJ are the games that made me self-loathing enough to grind a single stage for hours at a time, would not recommend playing to that point.

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>>11253608

It's aimed. If you want consistency, you can memorize a path, as long as you use the same shot-type and have the same power. Otherwise, just basic "don't hit the bullets" strats apply. I don't want to be that guy, but come on, It's just normal mode.

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>>11253693
Wow. What an asshole.

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>>11253608
Honestly, if you're dying on Normal, you just need to play more and observe why you died. You should not be dying on Normal.

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>>11253693
>>11253732
Please, normal is difficult for beginners.

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>>11253771

What kind of advice did he expect. Either you memorize a way around the pattern or you simply have enough skills to sight read it. There's no in between here, there is no simple trick.

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>>11253947
You can just stream it on lunatic, not sure if this also works on the difficulties, or if it is even aimed on the other difficulties.

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I don't like latest Touhous.

If I die in the middle of the stage, in TH08 you can continue from that point, complete level and then practice it till perfection. In recent it changed so now I have to redo whole stage.

In TH08 it's really easy to get max power. In later - much harder. Which means that if I die, I will not have as much DPS as if I would if I hadn't died. Less DPS = more chances to die.

Fuck dat.

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>>11253988

Please fuck off back to the hellhole that spawned you. Probably something like LoL or fighting games judging by your attempts at being "analytical" despite being an unholy fucking retard.

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>>11254004
edgy

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>>11253988
You... shouldn't be using continues in the first place. Survival is a trivial subject once you gain an overall feel for the genre anyway, just go play something harder than Touhou and come back to it until you gain an understanding of the genre.

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>>11253988

>DPS

Go back to your AAA titles.

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>>11253988
>DPS

>>>/v/

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>>11253988
Gotta maximize that DPS in Touhou

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>>11254156
>>11254164
>>11254213
Epic. Just epic.

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>>11254213
Marisa op highest dps zun pls nerf

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The fucks a DPS?

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>>11254249
How can you be this ignorant in 2013?

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>>11253641
The only reason why I still try to do it is because "come one, only one game and you did all of them". If I had two or more unfinished games, I'd definitely stopped.

>>11253656
Thanks, I'll try it.
About boss rush - I can't practice her until I manage to defeat her, can I?

>>11253693
Hm, if it's true (well, at least two guys already told that) then it worth to try to memorize some parts of it. Thanks.

>>11253732
I die a lot because of power/point item rain, it makes it quite complicated and exhausting just to reach bosses (and bosses are difficult too). Sometimes it's almost impossible to catch ufos to get rid of that rain so I could see bullets.

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>>11254257
For the boss rush, you have to have beaten her stage on the difficulty with the shottype, you could try to get someone's score.dat though (I think that should work).

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>>11254275
Just as I thought.
I'll try to find that file.

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>>11252326
It also has Hatate in full adorable mode.

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>>11253771
It really isn't. This isn't 2008. The standard difficulty is now Lunatic or Hard if you're below average.

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Reached Byakuren with 7 extra lives, died many times at such stupid moments, and failed at last spell when only 1 cm of healthbar was left... She hates me, I'm sure.
Noticed that if I bomb during last spellcard and stay where I am (~ at 1/3 of bottom screen under her), amulets usually forms rings in such way that it's almost impossible to pass them through after entering and leaving side rings.

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God dammit, the phone rings nonstop the day I finally gather enough courage to do full runs. Maybe another day.

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>>11255902
With 7 extra lives you should be able to bomb every single spell and nonspell of bakuro and bomb through the last spell altogether. What are you doing?

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>>11255997
Actually I'm surprised by that too. It's just bad luck, I guess.
Just in case if someone wants to take a look (and give some advice or laugh) - #29603 on gensokyo replays. I'm so close to finish it but always panicking at last spell (I managed to clear it only once for now, in boss rush practice).

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>>11256117
It's usually better to go for the green UFOs in stage6, unless you only need one summon for a full life.

What I would do on the last spell, and what works really well on lunatic for me at least: Just stay almost complete at the bottom of the screen under her, and try to have as little horizontal movement as possible so the pattern doesn't get to crazy. You can dodge most of the waves just by moving up and down again. If you stay as high up as you do things come from the sides and it's just weird to dodge.

You could also try to avoid dying with bombs in stock so many times during the fight!

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>>11256192
Yeah, I thought the same that I should go for bombs in stage 6 and just use them at any attack I'm bad.
Most of my deaths with bombs in stock were unexpected for me, and I don't have good reaction to use them when I accidentally get a bullet.
I'll give a try to stay at the bottom (though previous tries were terrible). I was trying to follow >>11253656 advice (it was somehow useful but I need more practice to utilize it better).

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>>11256192
Yeah, I thought the same that I should go for bombs in stage 6 and just use them at any attack I'm bad.
Most of my deaths with bombs in stock were unexpected for me, and I don't have good reaction to use them when I accidentally get a bullet.
I'll give a try to stay at the bottom (though previous tries were terrible). I was trying to follow >>11253656 advice (it was somehow useful but I need more practice to utilize it better) though now I have a feeling that I got it in a wrong way.

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I've been trying to find a bullethell where the game is musically based, like the bullets pulse/travel by the music.

I've tried combining search terms like rhythm, shmup, bullethell, etc but I cant find any games like that.

Anyone heard of something like that?

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>>11251800
I've been using the same thing since I first started playing.

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>>11256630
Symphony?
That's the only one I can think of.

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>>11256630
make it /jp/

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>>11256699
Looks more like galaga/rhythm

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>>11256714
Sorry, I didn't think that was what you had in mind but I didn't want to not say it in case I was right.

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>>11256724
Dont worry about it man you tried your best, I appreciate your effort.

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>>11256630
The closest I can think of to that is Audiosurf except it's more like dodging cars.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>11256630
Ah, damn, I know one that's exactly like what you're looking for, but I don't remember the name and it's on the computer that's in storage right now. I'll try to find it again.

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>>11256630
That happens to a small degree in a lot of games.

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>>11256825
pls strm

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>11256630
>>11256825
Ah! It's Zillion Beatz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWDnb0HYhA

>>11256844
I would but the computer that can actually run games and stream at the same time is also the one that is in storage

[Anonymous No.]

I know how much you guys hate people asking for advice, but I'll ask anyways - what's the trick to this spellcard? It's the only attack up until Reisen that I don't consistently capture. I seem to be able to dodge for a while and then I just lose it every time.

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>>11255453
No, what?
Don't push your standards onto me.

[Anonymous No.]

They said my skill would increase if I played other STGs for awhile. They were wrong! I'm still shit at Touhou even though I can clear the first loop of Ketsui.

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>>11258419
If 'they' utilize ':V' it's a good idea to ignore them.

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>>11258450
Only one of them.

I just don't understand why I'm not getting any better at all the STGs. A single one can be memorized through, but I fall flat on any new game that I play. All that hard practice I've went through would surely help me with Touhou, especially on a lowly difficulty like Hard, but it's not! ;_;

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>>11258092
>I know how much you guys hate people asking for advice

Since when? I was under the impression we only hate people who post their easy 1cc's where they bomb every spellcard and expect us to pat them on the head.

>what's the trick to this spellcard?
It's a combination of streaming, misdirection and proper timing, so basically (dare I say it?) shump fundamentals.

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>>11258639
Shmup fundamentals only work if you're Mexican.

Why do the Mexicans like DonPachi so much anyway? They're really fuckin' hardcore about it.

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Just tried playing again after a long time (not counting my quick run of the DDC demo when it came out) and I failed my UFO run on Byakuren's first card... on easy. It was all kinds of horrible, I was nervous as usual, and I died a lot of stupid deaths, but I was laughing the entire way because of how stupid it was. On the upside, I didn't die a single time trying to get UFOs or on Shou's lasers (although I died to her cros-- I mean bar because loleasy).
Also, wow I had forgotten how bad (or weak, I suppose) MarisaB was.
Thank you, blog.

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>>11258639

Maybe I'm just overreacting slightly. I've seen some screencaps and have some experience with being harassed in these threads.

Anyways! I definitely have the pattern down, it just seems like Reimu takes no damage because I spend all my time unfocused and therefore the familiars take most of the hits, leading to a really long and tedious spellcard. I'd upload a quick replay, but the archive doesn't seem to be responding at the moment.

[Anonymous No.]

Where did all the scoreplayers in these threads go?

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>>11258993
I would love to play for score, but I just don't think I'm good enough for it.

Sorry for being bad.

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>>11258993
I tried really hard in DOJ, but no run ever makes it past 1-3. And very rarely does it go beyond 1-2. It wasn't very enjoyable to me, and finishing runs was pretty hard knowing that I could have ended 1-1 with an extend.

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>>11258993
They don't feel obligated to post about their scores, or something.

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>>11259042
Doj 1-1 is actually pretty doable to chain through. If you try to a few times, it'll happen.

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>>11256865
That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for thank you

[Anonymous No.]

Why are people in the STG community so prone to confuse being humble with false modesty? I haven't seen this anywhere else yet.

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>>11259512
I usually chain up until a little before the two ships at the end, and that's after months of playing the game. I just go on because I know it won't matter much once I reach 1-3, dropping that midboss chain every single time. I don't even remember how to get through 1-4 and 1-5, so once I do learn how to do the earlier levels I'll just be improvising my way through the rest of the game.

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>>11259701
"I'm so bad at this game, arrrgh why...! I'll never be good! ;_;"

And then he goes on to get the PCB Extra WR. Yep. Really bad player.

[Anonymous No.]

At last, I did it! I did this ****ing UFO on Normal, I survived that last spellcard and I cleared the game! I hope next touhou games won't be so much broken in terms of difficulty.
Now I have 6-13 1cc'd on Normal (except of spinoffs and PoFV which I consider as spinoff too, no offense). So I have some time to joy about it during next two weeks until DDC comes though I don't expect to have problems with it (Spell Practice makes my life easier).
Anyway, thanks for advices (especially for Byakuren's last spellcard).

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>>11259716
``:V''

[Anonymous No.]

Hello /jp/, /v/ here, I would like to ask why you like touhou so much?
There is no anime or something else besides games right?

Just curious, since there are so many eastern games I never see on your board.

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>>11259762
>>>/v/

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>>11259762
You're asking in the wrong thread, "STG/Touhou" consists mostly of your fellow /v/-kuns. Also touhou games are shit. Everyone just loves youkai as the little girls with fancy hats.

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>>11259762
>There is no anime or something else besides games right?

nice b8 m8

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>>11259762
>>>/v/
>>11259774
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't visit /v/ and the Touhou games are the best shmups ever.

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>>11259757
That's the emoticon I made when I said

"I'll never be able to 2-ALL DOJBL, shit is way too hard."

One month later, heh... :V

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>>11259768
>>11259786
did you learn that on /a/ ?

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>>11259807
Are you an idiot?

[Anonymous No.]

How many of you play with a gamepad?
I never considered it before

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>>11259826
do you honestly thing that was worth a post ?

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>>11259831
Are you French?

[Chii !Chiiiil8Do No.]

>>11252326
>>11254356
know where i can find a download?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259831
u wanna fukn fight, nigguh? i fukn reck yo ass, nigguh

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259841
http://th-jss.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

~Secretive blog~

It's a free game. It's also kind of hard.

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>>11259841
Google, anon-san.

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>>11259762
You better start a different thread for this.
But generally speaking, it's the charm of a mythical place detached from reality, like how later europeans fantasized about greek mythology and drew inspiration from it.
And yes,, the games are good, the characters pretty distinctive, it has great music, and lots of fanart (if that's your thing).

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>>11259830
I've tried using an Xbox 360 controller. It's not too bad in terms of general movement, but sometimes it feels a little strange. It works in most games absolutely fine with no setup, but for some reason IN doesn't like it and left/right will sometimes stick for no reason.

[Anonymous No.]

Personally, I use a Saturn pad. It's smooth and it gets the job done, but it's definitely far easier to do small movements on keyboard.

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>>11259942
>>11259981
I just tried it with my controller, I don't think this is do-able for me without a lot of practice.

Its really hard pulling off that twitch-based movement on a gamepad.

[Anonymous No.]

Triangle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11260150
wr? gj dude

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259830
I use a PS3 controller and Xpadder to assign the arrow keys to the Dpad, and I don't really find any major issues with this, I don't feel any input lag and it handles stuff like microtapping fairly well

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>>11260279
3rd place, WR is much better. Not going to complain whatsoever though.

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>>11259830
I sometimes use a PS2 controller. I'm not to good with it, but that's mostly because what's shit is me, not the method of input.

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>>11259852
It's not that hard (mostly been playing hard so I'm not sure about lunatic, though I think it's mostly the same shit with more/faster bullets rather than new bullets like between normal and hard). It does have plenty of bullshit that is guaranteed to kill you on your first run though.

[Anonymous No.]

extra modes are SHIT. gay disco faggot stages. Zun what the FUCK

[Anonymous No.]

Starting out Touhou with playing 12.8 because fuck you I want to start at 12.8 and I got to the last boss expecting it to be some superchick with a pattern I can easily freeze. NOFUCKYOU it's just the last three bosses I beat but at all the same time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11260870

They fuse into one big super fairy, the TLB , if you no miss/no bomb the game.

[Anonymous No.]

It's a pain having to relearn everything.

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>>11260818

[Anonymous No.]

Are you using any tools to train your 2hus? If yes, which tools are you using?
I'm currently thinking about training some GFW since i never played it before and it doesn't look like practise modo exists.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11261865
Date me!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11261865
Windows XP + Hourglass-r81

I wish I didn't have to switch to XP every time I wanted to use it though. It has some strange issues, but it's great for practicing tough sections of a level or making fun TAS replays with ReimuC.

A lot of the time I'm too lazy to go over to XP, so I just play regularly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11261944
It's way too easy to TAS on touhou. Can't take replays from people who don't stream seriously. It's amazing to what length people go to deceive others for attention, just look at that vixynyan fellow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11262001
It is, and hourglass just makes it much more easier. It's silly to TAS a game for the purpose of making others think you're a good player, but luckily, it's very obvious that they're cheating most of the time. If you have 360 Futari, you can watch VixyNyan's replay there. Some of the parts are just hilarious to watch because of how obviously cheated it is, zipping through a dense bullet pattern while going at full speed.

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

This TAS made me laugh all throughout the second loop. Who needs laser? It doesn't even try, he just makes perfect horizontal lines while slightly tapping up or down to avoid the bullet walls.

[Anonymous No.]

>but luckily, it's very obvious that they're cheating most of the time.
Don't let your guard drop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11261273
W-Why.

[Anonymous No.]

Deleting the score of IN and actually unlocking everything yourself is oddly satisfying.

[Anonymous No.]

I think I've hit my skill cap, here's my records.

EoSD
>stage 6 Normal, stage 4 Hard
PCB
>Normal 1cc, stage 4 Hard
IN
>Hard 1cc, stage 6 Lunatic
MoF
>stage 6 Hard, stage 4 Lunatic
SA
>stage 4 Normal
UFO
>stage 4 Normal
10D
>stage 6 Normal

I've beaten IN's Extra countless times and MoF's three times, I've come close to beating PCB's too.

Are there any ways to get better other than just playing them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267036
>Are there any ways to get better other than just playing them?
Watch replays. Pay attention to your mistakes and why you made them.

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>>11267036
How can you 1cc IN on hard but not TD on normal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259830
I use an arcade stick. Tried a gamepad but it didn't work for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267353
TD has a smaller amount of lives and bombs available, and on top of that they dont autocollect or at least fall towards you, making collecting them during the stage portion a large risk.

That's my excuse anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267036 here
Just made it to stage 5 on both SA and UFOI used shot types I've never used before, almost beat Shou, but SA stage 5 just fucking tore me a new asshole

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267511
With proper spirit collection, the game throws bombs at you. Every two bombs you more or less get a full trance gauge (assuming bombs were used on top of bosses). Although you can get a bit above max lives with a flawless route, the game gives enough bombs to skip a ton of stuff.
>>11267669
Memo. Midboss can be a jerk however.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267669
Watch a superplay for Orin and stage practice her a lot. She has a lot of stupid tricks you wouldn't know about otherwise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11258993
I've tried to practice supergraze on Ichirin on UFO. Kinda get anxious and make mistakes easily though.
Stage 6 I've recently got right the UFO route and timings. Getting through the part before the boss without dying is a bit of an asspain though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259831
>"-worth a post"

get a load of this guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11270504
Sage your post you fucking newfag retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11253988
I know that feel.
However the biggest offender, SA, has a boss rush patch so that really helps
also play harder shmups

[Anonymous No.]

>>11255453
so cool and edgy and awesome.
I have LMNMNBs on 3 games, but everyone dies mate. perfection needs practice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11267036
You didn't hit skill cap
what good players sometimes won't tell you is that there's a point in Touhou where just playing the game becomes very inefficient.
The most efficient is to balance practice with watching replays and learning routes and spellcards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11270709
I got LNMNB on all of the Touhou games and I never get hit.
Also, I'm perfect and I never practiced.

Your move.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20904717

[Anonymous No.]

>>11270738
Are you a MaZe?

[Anonymous No.]

I tried to score again after not trying for a month, forgot how much it hurts to ram a bullet multiple times in a row after dropping a chain. Jesus fuck, I'm actually tearing up. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

I got nervous and died at the worst possible moment to die.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11270581
bump

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272367
Feelio when getting nervous having a good run up to Stage 4, NMNB, die five times with bombs in stock in the span of 30 seconds.

I hate my nerves.

[Anonymous No.]

I forgot how big of bullies Western players are. Now I remember why I never wanted anything to do with the competitive scene, but I've improved too much to go back to a casual level of play now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272631
Ok, sure thing, Riz.

[Anonymous No.]

Forgive me. UFO just outright crashes on a dual monitor setup. SA has the same issue. EoSD, PCB, and MoF have no issues being 4:3 on one monitor.

What am I supposed to do? (besides disabling one monitor)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272751
I have the same problem. Starting in windowed then maximizing to fullscreen always works for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272702
LEL, yeah right, Riz would never show his face on /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272702
>Riz

Top kok dude, you know he's scarred for life because of the bullies and /jp/'s lewdness. He was sick and tired of you nerds calling his why-foo a slut.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm sick /jp/, what's a good STG I can take it easy with? My eyes are all watery, my nose is stuffed, and my throat feels like it's on fire. Of course I would get sick on the week I actually decide to begin scoring again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272631
None of the good Western players are bullies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272857
That's a big fucking lie and you know it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272857
They're all bullies!

[Anonymous No.]

What's the gimmick in TH14? I haven't tried the demo and I'm probably going to wait for the actual release before playing it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11273673
PoCing gives you resources.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11272866
What counts as bullying?

[Anonymous No.]

I need help

I've been playing PCB lately, and I finally 1cc'd it in normal, yet the extra stage is still way too hard for me!

Is there anything I can do besides practicing it over and over?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
Watch replays. Ask for advice with specific parts you have trouble with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11273695
how does that work exactly?

PoCing a certain amount of score/power gives you a life/bomb piece? Completely random?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274105
a lot gives you a life piece enough gives you a bomb piece. I think the overall total of items you've collected above the poc can make life pieces appear even without collecting 99999 at once.

[Anonymous No.]

Does 14 trial have a vsync patch yet? I dunno why I never get a stable 60fps on touhou games without it. With it it's always stable. I have a very highend computer too so it's not specs related. Puzzles me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274105
You get a score bonus every time you collect at least 20 items at once and a bigger bonus every 10 items until you reach a 2.0x bonus.
PoCing 20-59 items gives you a bomb piece. PoCing 60+ gives you a life piece. You get a life piece every 5 bonuses.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
Extra stages are usually more about learning the patterns than actually being good at dodging. Ran is a good example of this. Watching replays will probably be more useful than practicing aimlessly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
Watch replays, see why you died. Learn the patterns

Practice makes perfect!

[Anonymous No.]

I just cleared hard mode for the first time. I want to attempt Lunatic modo next. Should I try it with same game or switch games?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11275197
Same game

[Anonymous No.]

>>11273673
The characters' weapons act strangely and have unique shot types. In addition to grazing, point value is influenced by cancelling out bullets.

[Anonymous No.]

Couldn't get past all of Aya's spells in MoF normal, except Illusionary Dominance and Wind God hidden in leaves for a few times. Otherwise, that stage is ok. Any advice on her spells?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278143
bomb

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278145
What about Mountain of Faith in Normal? Are there any tricks for that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278143
Stop dying, pmp(this means practice makes perfect.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278185
I have practiced that stage about 10 times, still only a bit of progress. I could only manage to not lose any lifes until Cork Possesion

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278153
>Blockade Sign "Mountain God Procession"
Avoid the bullet intersections and make sure you have enough space. Takes a fair bit of getting used to.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278194
Feels stupid to type the spell name wrong. Every time I try to move sideways, I'll get hit by the blue projectiles, even when unfocused. The best I can do is to reach halfway of the spell without bombing of losing any of my health.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11278188
You're going to need to practice it a lot more than 10 times to get it down perfectly. Try doing a couple of no bomb runs of the game, you probably won't make it very far, but it'll teach you to dodge a lot more than just bombing through everything.

Once you finish up with NB runs, think about where you died on a previous run and use bombs there instead. You get a fuckload of bombs in MoF anyway, so don't be afraid to abuse them if you want to get the 1cc. MoF and TD Hard are the only ones I've ever 1cced and the only Hards I'll probably ever 1cc due to lack of skill.

[Anonymous No.]

My mountain of faith won't run in fullscreen.
I've tried administrator an Japanese app locale but nothing.
It works in windowed I just can't deal with that.

[Anonymous No.]

Any advice or tricks for Yoshika? Specifically her first and last cards. I either time them out or bomb them right now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11280964
She regains health if she collects blue spirits.

That should be enough information.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11280964
The first and last cards you should just time out, especially the last one. You lose one life and bomb piece if you time out the first one, nothing for the last one.

[Anonymous No.]

Noob question: keyboard or game pad?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281112
Preference, most people play on a keyboard, but I know some successful players that use a gamepad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281112

Stick

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281128
>>11281151
I was thinking of getting a controller that looks like those playstation dual shock things with the sticks as well as pad. I'm playing on a laptop and making stupid mistakes. Thank guys.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281220
you're making the mistakes because you are bad, the controller won't help.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281368
I'm pretty awful, just wondering if something is better than crappy flat keys, but I guess not 8C

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
don't play extra

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281112
I play on pad but I'm shit and can't do anything right.

This run was hilariously bad. Dropped my chain on 1-1, dropped my chain on 1-2, forgot how to chain 1-3, missed the 1-UP on 1-3, nearly died pointblanking the 1-3 boss, dropped the easiest stage long chain in the game, the 1-4 chain. I would have just continued the run, but why bother? Missing the 1-UP was making my F3 finger getting ready for a reset, but dropping that chain just sealed it.

When I play again today, my goal is making it past Stage 4.Will it happen? Probably not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11282530
Ganbatte, anon-kun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281497
Usually controllers are more comfortable and better for quickly building smooth control over your movements. Keyboards are shit for this and feel awkward and uncomfortable, but if you manage to get notable achievements with a keyboard, you deserve a pat on the back. Regardless, you will get used to either over a [long] period of time as long as you keep using one. If you're just starting out, choose one early on and stick with it. Don't bother hopping back and forth between methods of input when you're already used to one unless you want to experiment/have the time or nothing better to do.

[Anonymous No.]

so i've gone back to EoSD after playing some of the newer games. I still havn't 1cc'd it and im thinking about installing the patch that would allow me to see my character hitbox. Would that be considered unacceptable or is it alright?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11283401
Unacceptable. You should know where your hitbox is if you play enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11283426
yea... i know its just such a shit storm on the screen that i cant just use my perifrial vision like i can with the other games

[Anonymous No.]

>>11282741
Thanks, started playing at 3PM, still haven't made it past 1-4. ;_; At least I'm not missing the 1-3 1UP anymore, but that dropped chain is completely unacceptable. I fucked up the same as I did last night, dropped the chain because I overshot and missed the bee.

I guess I shouldn't be restarting so much, but it's so upsetting knowing how easy that chain is. It feels like DDP would have been the best option to start my scoring adventure, to more or less ease myself into the world of scoring, but it's a lot tougher than I thought it would be.

[Anonymous No.]

Ahh, it's a terrible feeling when somebody can clear a game in half the time you can, especially when it's your favorite game. Even worse when they score better than you so I can't say that I still haven't cleared because I'm scoring. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287060
It all comes down to how much time they've put into the genre as a whole. When new arcade games come out, the veterans who have played for tens of thousands of hours are the ones at the top because they have the best shmup fundamentals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11283487
1-4 is easy? I could never make it work even with replays. Then again my only achievement is 1-2 with contingent bee collecting so you're probably much better than I am.

[Anonymous No.]

So I just heard they actually turned Hibachi into a little girl in the latest DoDonPachi.

What the god damned fuck? Can anything not be a girl in a shooter these days?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287163
That's true, I've noticed that playing more arcade games helps with my overall skill. Playing IIDX has made me a lot quicker and focused when it comes to STGs, and it's made my fingers a lot faster playing when Tetris as well. I still can't sightread a game completely, the Raiden series comes to mind because the bullets are too fast for my mind to comprehend. I need to memorize where the fast bullets are coming from so I can react to it in time.

>>11287248
I've heard it's pretty easy, but I don't really see how so. I've been playing it for a really long time and for survival, so the only chain I can really do consistently is the 1-1 and part the 1-2 chain. I usually drop it before the bullet cancel garage thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287259
I remember the location tests of SDOJ, the ship would scream whenever you died.

Now the ship only screams when you're on your last life. It's a solid game, and the fact that you can play with an absolutely retarded AI that never bombs or lasers makes it even better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287259

She's the only thing that's a little girl in the game, not like you'd ever reach her though lmao

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287299
#rekt #swag

[Anonymous No.]

Oh my God, the music in RFJ is hilarious if you save state too much. Now I know why they aren't supported, guess I'll just have to play with my own music for practice play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11287259
>Can anything not be a girl in a shooter these days?
Hibachi = leader of bees
leader of bees = queen bee
queen = female
....
This really shouldn't have taken you 18 years.

[Anonymous No.]

Do people set the life points to max in the setting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11289715
No, unless they want to have shitty scores and get laughed at.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11289742
I'm not aiming for scores and just want to finish the game, but I don't want to be considered pleb, either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11289782
Well, you would be.

Changing the lives isn't a true 1cc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11289782
Difficulty is balanced around the default number of lives and bombs, or so I like to believe. Do whatever you see fit, people will continue to judge either way.

[Anonymous No.]

Stay cozy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11289782
People in the STG thread will consider you a pleb no matter what you do. These people are tremendous faggots and you should ignore them.

That said, you can use the bonus lives to unlock all the stages for practice, and then focus on getting a "real" clear with the default settings.

[名無し No.]

something is really wrong with hitboxes on this spellcard
I know they're supposed to be bigger, but it feels as if your whole sprite was a hitbox

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296106
Because this is what the hitboxes really look like.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296106
Because this is what the hitboxes really look like.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296106
Yeah, worst survival in a touhou game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11294648
That's wrong. I only consider you a pleb if you don't play for score.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11259762
It's like harry potter, but instead of little drugged degenerates and cliche villains, it is filled with waifus

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
Just watch replays and play play play play play
I managed to beat Ran in 100~ tries
Can't get past stage 4 normal with 3 continues.

Most of Ran's cards are memorizable

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296162
I play for score, but only because I suck at most difficulties and can't play for survival.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296441
You can clear extra but you can't even 1cc Normal? What.

>>11296456
How is that possible? Scoring should be something that comes naturally with survival. You can't preform really difficult and risky techniques until you know what you're doing with the game. Somebody who rams bullets and can barely survive isn't going to be playing for score.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296491
You just try to get higher than your previous score.

[Anonymous No.]

DDC is the first game i 1cc Normal in the first try. I lost 4 lives to the flip screen and big hitbox spellcards. The rest of the game is easy. Extra is not hard either, i can manage to 1cc it in a few tries. Though i used SakuyaA and abused the bombing-collecting mechanic to get extra lives.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296729
it's not any harder with any other shot

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296456
I know that feel bro.

>>11296729
Wow. How long have you played touhou for? You seem like a professional.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296729
Anybody can easily beat Lunatic with bomb abuse (see that one nicovideo upload). The hard part is actually dodging stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

Is it me or is DDC spellcard 94 extremely hard with some shot types, ex. Marisa A?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11296729
>>11297217
yeah, it's even more broken than mof when it comes to bombs.
the patters are really hard and a nmnb will take quite some time.

[Anonymous No.]

My torrent for DDC that I got from here is taking FOREVER:

http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=462484

Is there a faster one?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11297217
>Anybody can easily beat Lunatic with bomb abuse (see that one nicovideo upload).
Nope.

[Anonymous No.]

any 2hu-speedrunners here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11274097
memorize the shit out of the stage, PCB extra is one of the easiest stages to perfect, chen can be a dick and ran has few difficult cards, but you should be able to not use any resources on the stage itself

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281112
>>11281220
buy a good keyboard, you'll thank yourself later

[Anonymous No.]

>>11281220
>>11281112
>>11298224
Shitty keyboard < pad < shitty arcade stick < good keyboard = good arcade stick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11297488
There's one in speedrunning general on /vg/

[Anonymous No.]

The flipping mechanic is annoying as hell in DDC stage 5, god.

I won't even subject myself to this game, just like I didn't subject myself to UFO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298301
What is the difference between a good and shitty keyboard?

[Prinny the Anon !1FKLvD00D. No.]

I just watched a run of DDC

I really liked the boss battles, specially the extra with all the drumming

I found that... thing... that Reimu throws while focused kinda annoying though

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Comman(...) !rSDMROXTB. No.]

>>11298397
Comfort, no ghosting, material quality, etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298503
How do any of those make a difference when it comes to Touhou?

[Anonymous No.]

I've never been all that good at the 2hus
I've only been able to beat every game on normal and only 1 extra.

But DDC stage five...

I don't think I can beat this one.

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Comman(...) !rSDMROXTB. No.]

>>11298562
Some shitty keyboards do not respond correctly when certain keys are pressed simultaneously.

Per example, some keyboards won't register your down-left input while shooting focused, in others you won't be able to bomb if you don't release Z first, etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplained.mspx


And I shouldn't have to explain you how comfort affects your performance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298590
I am in the same boat as you, except I haven't beat any extra stages. I am pleasantly surprised how difficult this game is on normal difficulty. Reminds me of getting past Youmu on PCB, just on steroids.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298601
My keyboard cost me something like £5 and I've never had any issue with ghosting at all. I dread to think how bad a keyboard must be to suffer from those problems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298590
I was so happy that Kagerou was slightly nerfed and then Stage 4 in my face. I lost all my continues in Stage 5, though.

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Comman(...) !rSDMROXTB. No.]

>>11298725
It's not that much about cheapness, it's about design.

There are keyboards that just aren't designed to be able to detect that many simultaneous key presses. Like there are other "GAMUR" keyboards that make sure you can "wasd" properly. (That doesn't mean it's not still shit)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298758
Yeah, exactly.
Unless we're talking about mechanical keyboards, the price doesn't really correlate to quality.
It's really a matter or preference, some people can tolerate laptop keyboards, but I find them all the most horrible devices you can type or play games on.
I use a mechanical keyboard but some people swear by their membrane keyboards because they're so used to them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11298468
It's Reimu smacking youkai with her gohei.
What's not to like?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11299237
I prefer the classic forward needle shot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11299257
That's what I do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11299246
Then play ReimuB. There's something for everyone!

Except for shitty Sanae fans.

[Anonymous No.]

MGF, Streaming my first Playthrough of Double Dealing Character.

twitch./mgfanatic

[Anonymous No.]

What is a man? A miserable pile of bombs.

Less score than a failed attempt as well. At least I can go to bed now.

[Anonymous No.]

Worst fucking patch ever.

Aero option doesn't even work

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301417
I thought this was only happening to me, thank god

[Anonymous No.]

So, what's the point of those weapons in DDC? it's just A and B like PCB or they change something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301581

You face a different boss in Stage 4.

[Anonymous No.]

So, is the possibility to turn off the gimmick of the new stage 5 boss hinted somewhere by ZUN in the manual or something or is it a bug?

[Anonymous No.]

What is the japanese opinion of this new DDC game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301590

The screen flipping is not a bug. Is not even that hard to get used to it too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301611
I know it's not a bug, but the fact that you can completly negate the screenflip and turn everything back to normal by switching to your desktop seems like one

[Anonymous No.]

how about a patch that makes the game good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301616

Oh, my bad.

[Anonymous No.]

Stage 5 gimmick is unbearably shitty, I wish it could be disabled.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301644
It can, which makes it even more shitty.

>>11301616

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301616
One thing I noticed is that with Sakuya A there is no delay between every round of knifes if you release focus before all knifes launch

[Anonymous No.]

I switched my controller for touhou. It works fine but subterrarian won't recognize the new on just the old.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301648
Dropped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301644
It's fun, I wish it comes back in future games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301853
Even if it would work properly, it's lame and uncreative.
Orin and Shou had much better gimmicks

[Anonymous No.]

Is there any trick to Shinmyoumaru's needle spell? Dear fuck that is really hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11302093
No, even the Normal version is harder than most spell cards in Lunatic from other Touhou games.
I recommend bombing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11301859
shous faggotfucking lasers can go back to fuckinghtemselves in their own fucking ass fucking faggot tiger

[Anonymous No.]

does anyone know how to hack exes? I have a great idea..

basically the idea is to make touhou more like CAVE, first change I want to do is do away with difficulty modes and extras.. it's only got a 'start game' and when you press it:

first loop: play the whole game on normal difficultiy
then right away when you beat that, carrying on your lives and bombs
second loop!: LUNATIC MODE!
and..
True Last BOSS: Extra mode.

Very excited about this perfect idea

[Anonymous No.]

fuck Marissa, this is how i imagine her looking everytime restart on her in Imperishable night

[Anonymous No.]

Oh wow, that stage 5 gimmick. Thanks for reminding me I'm sinking hours into glorified flash games, ZUN boyo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11302799
someones buttmad

[Anonymous No.]

Heh. ZUN is really out of ideas. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.]

I haven't even played the new Touhou game yet because I'm too busy getting flustered with DDP. I can chain up to the first building tank in 1-4 now, it's almost like I'm improving, something that I thought would never happen in a million years.

It's still garbage, but I don't care at this point, it's improvement and I'm happy enough. I'm setting my goals very low at this point, but I want to be able to finish the first loop with at least 80M points by the end of the year. 80M is a measly shit tier scrub score, but I feel like I should be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I feel like I should break and play the new game, but I know I'll disappoint myself by not even being able to 1cc Normal on my first try.

[Anonymous No.]

what is the best emulator for podd on linux?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11297217
could you show me thelink please

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303090
windows in a VM

[Anonymous No.]

Is bowlhead's survival even possible with Sakuya's fatass hitbox?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303290
Yes, it is memo with every character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303385
I won't believe it until I see a replay of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303412
I'll upload it to mediafire or something if you'd like.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303644
Please do

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303654
http://www.mediafire.com/download/c09yt2kry6a4qly/th14_06.rpy

Replays folder should be in whatever username\AppData\Roaming\ShanghaiAlice\th14.

[Anonymous No.]

How long does it take to become 'good' at Touhou? Despite my best efforts, I can barely make it even halfway through EoSD; actually clearing it seems so far off as to be literally unimaginable. What kind of progress is reasonable?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303697
If you don't have natural talent it will take you a very long time to get good. I've been playing for two years and still hardly make any progress in lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303667
I don't seem to have that folder...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303697
Depends on your definition of "good." I want to say LNB/Scoring "good" takes hundreds of hours minimum, but you are welcome to disagree with that.

Simply clearing the games comes down to how well you can conserve resources in the first half, followed by efficient usage of said resources in the second half. Most games give more bombs than there are spellcards, so it is completely viable to learn the stages (if applicable, like PCB) then bomb everything else. Games like UFO, TD, and DDC will however require you to form a resource-gathering route to some extent.

>>11303721
Make a folder in that directory then, it should still work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303721
(you need to have atleast 1 replay first)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303746
If I try to create the folder it tells me there's already one called that, but I don't see anything and nothing comes up on a search either. Is it hidden or something? Sorry for being retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303756
The folder will be created automatically the first time you select "replays" within the game regardless.
>>11303760
In your Windows Explorer (AKA any folder), press alt, then go to tools -> folder options. Click the "view" tab in the new window that appears, and check off "Show hidden files, folders, and drives." I'm quite sure the directory where the replays are saved isn't hidden however. Could be my fault for assuming you're running Windows 7 too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303788
Thanks for the replay, but I still can't do it. I'm dying at 5 seconds left every single time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303826
The slower you stream, the more room you have for error. It is by no means a pixel-perfect card.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11303839
I managed to do it at last just now. The trick I was missing was to redirect the knives very slightly in the other direction before the next wave. I'm pretty sure it's impossible without that, or at least you have to be absolutely perfect.

I was looking at the normal and hard versions to see if there was something I was missing, but that technique isn't necessary there.

[Anonymous No.]

YEEESSSS

Finally cleared DDC's Extra Stage. I mean, the game only came out yesterday, but no individual parts of the Extra Stage are particularly hard, so I feel ashamed to have taken so long. Also, it was a rather humiliating ending, as I got hit right before the Spell Card ended, so all the bullets were cleared before victory. I had no lives or bombs left. Still though, I fucking won, so now I'm going to move on to trying to get a 1CC on Hard.

I must say, though, her last Spell Card was surprisingly easy. I arrived at her last Spell Card with no extra lives and 3 bombs, and I didn't expect to defeat her on my first time seeing it. Neato.

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>>11303981
I can't even 1cc it on normal atm ;-;.

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Whoa, I never realized how depressing and soul crushing it is to be utter shit at supposed easy games. Thanks, Raiden Fighters Jet. I don't think I'll ever see the real battle phase stages, playing it for a few hours really reminded me of how shit I truly am.

I'll just go back DDP, at least that's an easy game I can play somewhat competently, though I'd like to get better at RFJ because it's fun as HELL and I thought it'd be a decent side game. Does it even have any extends? I had a ton of bombs when I died each time, really the only reason I could see it being considered an easy game, but even then it sure as hell didn't seem very easy to me.

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>Ikeda: Bombs were added as an emergency feature, but… even with a full bomb stock and 0 lives, a real man won’t even have his finger anywhere near the B button.

Are there real men on /jp/?

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>>11304197
I play with a steering wheel and mapped my bombs to one of the peddles.

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>>11304197
Probably not seeing as /jp/ are little girls.

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I just beat the extra stage of touhou 14 but my replay is completely out of sync at the boss... is there a way to fix this?

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>>11304197
CAVE games: bomb button is unmapped because I hate myself and I hate my score being fucked over.
Anything else: Bomb button right next to shot so I can call myself a fucking retard for bombing and then ram the nearest bullet.

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>>11304316
By out of sync, anon means the replay now shows he runs into bullets when he had beat the boss normally, almost as if the replay randomized the bullets and caused an error in re-creating it correctly.

Extra stage can't load an earlier replay either since it's just the one stage.

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Holy fuck guys I did it!
I finally did it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?v2hrl0kpvhoe868

DDC Reimu B Lunatic 1cc.

Jesus Christ that was a hard one.

Somehow I managed to gather up 7 lives at the end of stage 3, then I ended with 6 or so at the end of stage 4. After that, I bombed almost everything, but a victory is a victory even if it is devoid of elegance.

So, the main survival strategy here is gather a ton of resources in the first 3 stages and then bomb everything.

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;_;

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>>11304112
That game doesn't have any extends. A single death in the simulation stages and failing to get the any of the score requirements means you're fucked.

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>>11303238
windows can't run podd

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that fellatio when you master spellcards in spellpractice and still end up bombing them during your 1cc

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>>11305506
I had expected that, the game usually tells whether or not it has extends before you even start the game. Thanks for confirming it, not sure how I'm supposed to score aside from building up the medals and getting the miclus, with some graze milking.

I'm just not feeling how this game can be an easy clear, nor how "100M is trivial with about 10 hours of practice." The only game I've taken seriously is DDP up to this point but my shmup fundamentals skill, whatever that might mean, isn't increasing. Difficulty is subjective, but when a ton of people say that you should be seeing real battle phase 1 on your first few tries, shit hurts.

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>>11306032
I'm sorry I can't help you much. I've been playing casually for over a year and made it to Level 15 just twice. Then I get to Level 20 and gameover there, if I don't feel like playing anymore.
> score aside from building up the medals
You know about the golden medals right?

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DDC replays are starting to be uploaded on replays.gensokyo.org (tagged as TD, though) if anyone cares.

Still waiting warmly on a normal NMNB so I can figure out some of these stupid spellcards...

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>>11307603
http://score.royalflare.net/th14

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>>11307603
I'll try, although I'll probably die to one of Seija's gimmicks.

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After barely 1CCing DDC on normal I went back to TD and easily got a run with only one random death. Why is DDC so hard? Not that I mind...
I wonder what I should try next. Maybe TD on hard? I'd like to try DDC on hard but I probably have no chance.
Also, why is it called Double Dealing Character?

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>>11307729
Yep, died to Seija's 2nd.

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Anyone else focuses so much on the screen that forgets to wink? At the middle of Stage 3 Im rubbing one eye an looking through the other

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>>11307599
Ah, it's okay. You mean the golden medals from RF1 and 2 that pop up? I've gotten them a few times after a shit run that made it to Level 20. I managed to get a big medal in Level 05 once and that was the run it happened on, but I'm still not sure how to trigger them.

I can never NMNB the Level 15 boss, I always drop a bomb on him because he mixes up his patterns or I nearly get sniped by a ship off the side and panic.

It's semi consistent for me to stream to the right after his first pattern, it kills the sniper tanks off and keeps his second pattern away from me. Every so often he shoots out his first pattern really fast and that causes me to die or panic bomb. I've gotten much more consistent at doing 01 and 05 properly though, but getting to the middle point of 15 with no miss and no bomb makes me play very silly. I hit a stray bullet in each credit I played last night, and even rammed the ships that came in from the sides that you're supposed to quick shot.

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Anyone want to help a scrub beat normal? I can not for the life of me clear stage 4 without atleast dieing 2-4 times.. I can go from stage 1 to 3 without using any bombs or dieing. I come into stage 4 generally at 4 or 5 lives. By the time i get to stage 5 i have about 1 life left and not enough bombs to get passed the boss.

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Any word from ZUN on how the game crashes in the second spell of stage 4 boss for A shot types?

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Is it safe to say that sanae has been finally dethroned from being the easiest stage 5 boss?

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Is there a Vsync patch for DDC or is it not necessary?

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>>11309013
A/B? Need help on what exactly?

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>>11309628
Sanae was never easy for me because I'm a pad pleb and making micro taps without the d-pad sticking for a micro second is really tough. I assume you're talking about Lunatic.

I should getting around to modding that shitstick I bought some years ago. It seems like stick and KB players are a million times better at everything. Kind of like how I'm still stuck at sub-50 in 40 lines Tetris after a year, but a friend who uses keyboard and the :V(I swear this thing gives crazy talent.) emoticon was able to get sub-30 in a month with no prior puzzle game experience. Sticks feel so much nicer to play on anyway, the clicky sound and feeling just feel so right when you're playing an arcade game.

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>>11309823
its obviously not necessary, it hasn't been since mountain of faith