STG gameplay thread. Touhou, other doujin shmups, Cave or other official companies, it's all good. Also, DeathSmiles iOS is coming out on the 7th, so that's fun.

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Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:23:01 2011 No.7576779 [Reply] [Original]

STG gameplay thread. Touhou, other doujin shmups, Cave or other official companies, it's all good.

Also, DeathSmiles iOS is coming out on the 7th, so that's fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:29:22 2011 No.7576791 Are there any recommended non doujin STGs for PC?

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 18:30:24 2011 No.7576794 File: 87 KB, 400x428, 1309905009355.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It will be mine. Someday, when I'm not a homeless, jobless loser, it will be mine.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 18:30:53 2011 No.7576795 >>7576791 Perhaps a better question to ask would be are there any non doujin STGs for PC. I'm not really aware of any, barring MAME or saying indie games aren't technically doujin for Jamestown.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:32:25 2011 No.7576801 Is deathSmiles a good game?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:33:56 2011 No.7576804 >>7576795 What can be played on MAME besides 1941?

>>	b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc Tue Jul 5 18:35:27 2011 No.7576809 File: 949 KB, 3072x2304, 1309905313787.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7576804 Lots. Someone from /jp/'s photo IIRC.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 18:36:35 2011 No.7576810
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>>7576804
Pretty much everything up to Ketsui and ESPGaluda and DOJ.
Here's an example, just a little sample, of most of the good shmups and also Tetris for some reason.

>>	Y10NRDY !kxh.1oTAkU Tue Jul 5 18:39:26 2011 No.7576815 File: 125 KB, 712x275, 1309905550836.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7576794 >13200 USD DAMN.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:39:56 2011 No.7576817 >>7576810 awesome, I had no idea these were all playable on MAME.

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:43:38 2011 No.7576823
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I've been devoting idle time to pacifying UFO Stage 4 on Lunatic to level up my dodging ability. Pic related, they're the main problem areas. If I do well on some, I'll mess up the other. Garbage near the end of the stage is too fast-paced for my eyes if a dense clump comes my way. Sinking Vortex is tough because it gets harder as you time it out, but not too bad. The problem is that ZUN has some silly way of clearing bullets after an attack that causes some bullets to linger and fill in the holes in the last noncard which is already tough. Finally, the second to last card likes to make things very inconvenient if two anchors land too close to each other.

One day.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 18:46:32 2011 No.7576830 >>7576817 Here's all of them if you want 'em. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=d2jszoio

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 18:50:57 2011 No.7576845 >>7576823 Man, just looking at that anchors screenshot makes me sieze up in terror. One of these days I'll actually get somewhere on UFO Hard...

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 18:51:57 2011 No.7576847 >>7576815 The longer you wait, the cheaper it gets. Of course, it won't be new at that point...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:52:57 2011 No.7576852 Thanks, too bad my internets hate megaupload and download at ~0.5 KBPS

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:53:26 2011 No.7576854 So, about how long should I play a shmup until I decide that it's not for me? Some people say first or second extend or something around those lines, but admittedly I'm not very proficient at these types of games and normally can't do that well.

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 18:55:26 2011 No.7576857 >>7576810 >Hotdog Storm I can't not try this.

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 18:56:56 2011 No.7576861 >>7576854 Couldn't say. I'm terrible at almost every shooter I've ever played, but I find the constant, insurmountable challenge to be as addicting as any drug.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 18:57:55 2011 No.7576865

>>7576854
Usually I give a game a full creditfeed playthrough while still trying to dodge everything and whatnot. If you can't fully creditfeed the game, then I'll maybe give it a try later if it's not clicking.

>>7576857
Ahaha, oh wow, I never noticed that before. Must've been because it was tucked away in the corner.
Lemme start that up and post a few screenshots, I'm sure it'll be amusing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:58:26 2011 No.7576866 >>7576861 I see. Some of them I play, I don't really care for how the game feels very much. Movement feels strange to me in some way so I don't really get hooked onto the challenge.

「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 19:03:01 2011 No.7576886

>>7576866
I sympathize. I never quite got behind Einhander.

I enjoy the fuck out of the Gradius series, But some people can't get behind it because if you aren't quick about upgrading your speed, you're fucked. Personally, I find the Gradius III&IV collection for PS2 unplayable because I hate the dualshock D pad. Feels super clunky, but I can play Gradius III on SNES just fine.

Cotton and Cotton 2 are difficult as fuck due to massive player hitbox and strange powerup system.... I find it frustrating, but I keep going back. Maybe I'm just an M for shmups.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:03:32 2011 No.7576884 File: 33 KB, 240x384, 1309906984965.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Significant lack of hot dogs so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:08:59 2011 No.7576894 >>7576886 Maybe I should find something else to control with? This strange control problem I'm having is mostly with very well regarded games like Dodonpachi and ESPGaluda.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:10:59 2011 No.7576901
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>>7576894
Hm, even with DoDonPachi? That doesn't sound right, DDP has beautiful control movement.

What exactly are you having problems with? The slightly-more-awkwardness of laser-or-shot instead of hold shift for focused movement?

Also, still no hot dogs. Weird.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:13:24 2011 No.7576908 If you want hotdogs, play Tyrian.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:14:56 2011 No.7576915 File: 196 KB, 850x1204, 1304909459866.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] don't mind me, just being the best shmup ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:14:56 2011 No.7576916 >>7576901 I feel sluggish for some reason. As if weights are attached to my ships. My turns feel slow and it seems to take a long time to reach certain things.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:16:24 2011 No.7576926 >>7576916 >My turns feel slow Input lag?

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:16:27 2011 No.7576928 >>7576916 Hm. Are you using shmupmame? Regular MAME has a few frames of input delay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:18:28 2011 No.7576935 >>7576928 Yeah, I am actually. I still feel that sluggish movement and it doesn't go away. I don't feel it in all of the games either, just a few.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:20:57 2011 No.7576944 just downloaded shmupmame, doesn't work for some reason. is it because i'm using win 7 64 bit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:22:27 2011 No.7576955 >>7576928 Shmupmame, also known as "that shitty version of mame that uses an ancient version which causes more problems than it fixes just so that we can eliminate the input lag that exists on the real arcade cabinets."

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:24:25 2011 No.7576963 >>7576944 Yeah, I forget what you have to do specifically but there is a fix for it. Something about access control.

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 19:24:25 2011 No.7576966 >>7576915 Brofist.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:34:58 2011 No.7577001 File: 23 KB, 240x384, 1309908865902.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No hot dogs at all. I don't understand.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:35:57 2011 No.7577004 >>7576884 What game is this?

>>	b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc Tue Jul 5 19:36:28 2011 No.7577005 I think Radiant Silvergun is coming out in...August? for XBLA.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 19:36:57 2011 No.7577009 >>7577004 Hotdog Storm. Dunno why it's named that.

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 19:37:28 2011 No.7577012 >>7577004 >Hotdog Storm Do try to keep up.

>>	b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc Tue Jul 5 20:16:00 2011 No.7577137 >>7577134 You don't know about how good Raptor is? out of jp etc

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Tue Jul 5 20:16:10 2011 No.7577134 File: 71 KB, 248x836, shmupsv2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Any other good PC shmups I'm missing? Maybe Tyrian, Soldner-X 2, Raptor, or Jets n Guns, but I dunno about those.

>>	「ロリあき」 Tue Jul 5 20:19:34 2011 No.7577145 >>7577134 >Raptor Fucking NOSTALGIABOMB'D Good times. Also, Sentimental Shooting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 20:20:33 2011 No.7577151 Recently picked up Diadra Empty. It's pretty nice.

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 20:46:39 2011 No.7577250
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Finally managed to 1cc this bastard of a game. It was really easy this time for some reason, even though it was really hard at first. Probably because it throws lives at you like crazy. I may have gotten 40 in the entire game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 21:58:53 2011 No.7577437 >>7577134 Jets n Guns is pretty good and it has an awesome soundtrack.

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 23:53:12 2011 No.7577818

>>7577250
I decided to do a playthrough of that game upon seeing your post as I had forgotten about it for some time.

Ended up getting to Reimu's final card and dying there. Didn't feel too pissed off though for some reason. This game sure is frantic at times. Also Marisa's spellcard where she has her familiars change through three shooting modes is a real suckerpunch on the third one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:05:26 2011 No.7577869 What are /jp/'s high scores in various games? Someone should make a high score repository for us.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:07:00 2011 No.7577876 >>7577818 Admittedly I forgot about it as well. That Marisa card does hurt though. I really want to get to Ultra difficulty though, it looks extremely fun and frustrating at the same time. Don't know how to unlock it though.

HEY EVERYONE!!! CHEAK THIS OUT! Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:13:06 2011 No.7577895
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Didn't you ever wish touhou was horrible and made by Europeans?
Well now that dream can come true...in...!

CALL OF THE UNDERWORLD (a freeware game)

http://site.scfworks.com/?page_id=89

Don't forget to leave them a nice comment!

Note: the craters ASSURES us that the coding and engine was MADE FROM SCRATCH and is NOT a total touhou rip-off IN ANYWAY. (this game was once on XBLA but the craters took it down when people called them out on their shit.)

"ENJOY"!!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:34:52 2011 No.7577951 >>7577895 >Freeware What the hell is the problem again? I agree the design is a ripoff, but at least he's not trying to make money off it (I hope).

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:35:56 2011 No.7577953
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>>7577895
I think it's hilarious to read about the obvious non-shmuppers & casual gamers whining about the difficulty on the comment section. "I couldn't beat the game on my first try, it sucks!". Almost makes me want to play it.
The devs could be a bit more honest about how much they were influences by Touhou shooters. A picture > thousand words:

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:40:01 2011 No.7577975 >>7577951 but the thing is... They DID try to make money on it once, but they quickly took it off XBLA when they got a little backlash..

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:41:18 2011 No.7577976 >>7577953 >>7577895 Oh that's just adorable. They namedrop Touhou basically first thing, anyway.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:42:22 2011 No.7577988

>>7577953
It almost looks like they were planning to do a full out touhou clone, and decided to change all the characters/story at the last minute. They made absolutely no effort to make it look different at all. Hell, even the bullets look the same, and they're simple shapes, you could easily make something with a different design in minutes in photoshop or even gimp.

I mean, the game barely needs any animation, and they have an artist anyways. Why could they not have made it look like a different interface?

I wonder if they even did any unique features whatsoever to set them apart.

>>7577975
Well, that's pretty sad, then.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:42:55 2011 No.7577984 >CommissarMega says: >July 5, 2011 at 5:13 pm >Pah, all of you complaining that this game is too >hard should play Touhou on Lunatic difficulty. >Now THAT is hard.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:43:22 2011 No.7577989

>>7577818 here.
Decided to try another playthough and this time got my 1cc.

This game is pretty damn easy when you abuse grazewhoring as it reduces the life you lose when you get hit. I ended the game with around 3.5 life left as well as 9.8k graze.

I'm curious on what stage 7 has.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:43:24 2011 No.7577992 looks better than touhou

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:48:23 2011 No.7578007 Hotdog storm sucks. There's no hotdogs and stage 1 is long as fuck.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 00:48:52 2011 No.7578008 >>7577953 >>7577895 Haha, that's almost as bad as that one iPhone app. Always amusing. And yeah, it's really really easy to change the look of things, and it's not like Touhou is the only bullet hell so it'd be more than legitimate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:50:22 2011 No.7578015 >>7577989 That's interesting. Anyways, the extra raped me, burned my arms off and threw me into a lake. I probably just need more practice though. Hopefully once I beat the extra, I can play Ultra mode and know what true challenge is.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:53:23 2011 No.7578034

>>7578008
I'm pretty sure people wouldn't have as many complaints if it didn't look exactly the same, have the same interface and have the same theme.

If somebody runs out of ideas, they could always put their shmup in space, without magic. That still works pretty well.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 00:56:21 2011 No.7578046 >>7578034 Yeah, that's what I meant. Just change the looks of the bullets and the general layout of the side panels and it'd be quite fine. But I guess it's too much to ask for a little creativity.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:01:59 2011 No.7578070
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Heh, I'm (slowly) working on a freeware game from scratch in C, still constructing the underlying code to handle different bullet/laser behaviors. Even with the early placeholder graphics, it's obvious that it's heavily inspired by Touhou. The mechanics and such will be very different, but I can't deny that Touhou has had heavy influence on it. I would love to make the bullet graphics stylistically different from the games I've played, taking only the parts about them I like. Maybe I've just gotten too used to it, but round, high contrast bullets with a simple colored edge for variety are the easiest for me to see, so it's what I plan on sticking with for the most part.

Hopefully I don't receive the wrath of hoards of internet secondaries for making a Touhou ripoff.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:01:59 2011 No.7578071 Are there any new interesting doujin shooters? Like in the last 2 years new and not updates of older ones.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:02:53 2011 No.7578080

>>7578015
I tried the extra just now. Yeah, that is rape. Managed to get to Satori's final spellcard with continues, but died there.

It throws out a lot of supergrazing opportunities.

Also is there a way to improve framerate when there's a fuckload of bullets on screen? Or is there some slow mode in the options I'm not realizing I'm using? Satori's nonspells were taking me to 20 FPS. I'd like to fight her fairly when I do try to beat her seriously.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Wed Jul 6 01:03:51 2011 No.7578085 >>7578071 crimzon clover, nicca. it's probably the best doujin shooter ever.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:04:21 2011 No.7578089

>>7578070
I kind of like the bullets in Tori-Tatsu and the sequel. They're quite distinct from any other game, and pretty easy to see too. Lemme whip up a screenshot real quick-like.

>>7578071
If you haven't heard of that game I just mentioned, give it and the sequel (still in development) a try, they're both pretty fun. And Crimzon Clover of course. Also maybe AuroraBlast if you can find it and like REALLY fast bullets. And maybe Jamestown if you're not too pedantic about the definition of doujin.
That's about all I know of.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:04:50 2011 No.7578093 >>7578070 >dragon dick why

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:05:49 2011 No.7578098 >>7576901 >The slightly-more-awkwardness of laser-or-shot This plus the lack of death-bombing has pretty much screwed me when playing non-Touhou shmups. I want to get into you Gigawing 2, but the lack of instant barrier annoys the hell out of me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:05:49 2011 No.7578099 >>7578080 I honestly don't know. This game makes me lag as well. So many bullets, so little time. I was lagging at certain parts against Kogasa in the extra.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:10:24 2011 No.7578128

>>7578093
I'm a furfag that happened to have a doodle sitting around that I could use to make a test pattern to make sure different parts of my code are working properly. Don't worry, there will be no penises in the final product that is slated to be complete in about 7 years from now at this rate.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:12:24 2011 No.7578139

>>7578098

I honestly don't mind either of those things. I got used to it somewhat in Fever SOS even though I still suck at it, but I really like the feel of that game. The clunkiness problem I have with some of the other games I've played doesn't exist in that one.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:13:53 2011 No.7578147

>>7578071
temperancelance.under.jp
They should be releasing L.U.X and ring^27 in august

>>7578089
>Aurora Blast
This game is too fucking easy, even for a beginner...
Good art direction though, imo
Heres the link
http://www.sk8tokyo.com/shmup/software/aurorablast.zip

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:17:53 2011 No.7578169 >>7578085 Yeah I've played it. It's been in development for a while but I guess not that long that it's not considered new. >>7578089 Never heard of any of those. I'll look them up. >>7578147 Thanks

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:19:54 2011 No.7578181
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>>7578046
I really need some ideas myself. I'm also working on my own shmup, obviously influenced by Touhou. I'm using spaceships (because I have a horrible imagination), and making my own shitty simple art for the characters and bullets. But at least it's mine.

It's really obvious to most people I'm trying to make a Touhou-like game, and I'm fine with that. I keep delaying work on it so I can think up gimmicks to keep it fresh each stage and at least somewhat different. Things like asteroids that break up into smaller pieces, bullets that deflect your bullets back at you, bumpers with huge hitboxes, magnetism, powerups, things like that.

I guess I just haven't played enough shmups yet to get good enough ideas. So I'm taking my time.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:20:23 2011 No.7578186 File: 127 KB, 640x480, 1309929648839.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Alright, here's one kind of the bullets that I like. >>7578147 Surprised someone else has heard of that. Is that the full game, or just a demo?

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:23:25 2011 No.7578196
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>>7578181
I've always been a fan of the shmups with bullet-eating mechanics, like Samidare or Kamui or to an extent RefleX and DDP DFK. Not really Ikaruga though for some reason.
I've been trying to come up with my own system of bulletshield for a while now, but can't quite decide on one that's unique.

Other kind of bullets here. There's similar but different ones in Tori-Tatsu 1.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:23:25 2011 No.7578198 >>7578186 Full game It's actually the FIRST shooter I ever played. Crazy right?

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:24:53 2011 No.7578204 >>7578198 Nice, I only ever had a demo. Thanks. Though, how in the world was it your first shmup? The only reason I ever heard about it was because I saw a screenshot on Pixiv, like with the ToriTatsus.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 01:31:55 2011 No.7578222

>>7578204
I found it first on that site, after following the link to that site on system11.
Saw it in the free section and the name sounded cool, loaded it up and fell in love with the way it looked.
Sure it doesn't look all that great, but you can tell NEO TRANSILVANIA really wanted the game to have a good atmosphere.
Also it made me fall in love with fast bullets, that was pretty good too.
I got into touhou months later after playing a ton of Patriot Dark and CAVE games on mame, touhou absolutely destroyed the mediocre skills i had built up because the pace was so damn different.
I couldn't even play Patriot Dark well anymore after playing touhou games.
I ignored the genre for a while but came back, now I can play both.
These days I'm starting to prefer a slower pace though. Been playing a lot of non-bullet hell shmups from the 80's/90's too.
Yes, that includes Darius.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 01:53:57 2011 No.7578286 >>7578222 Yeah, I definitely agree about the art style. It's very lightning-neon, in a pretty cool way. Any other games on that free doujin games list that you've tried and liked?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 02:10:32 2011 No.7578341 What do you guys think of Crimzon Clover?

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 02:12:33 2011 No.7578349
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>>7578341
It's so much fun. Especially the hypers, they're hands down the best hypers in any shmup I've played so far. ZUN would do very well to compare breaks to his trances in Ten Desires, and make a few changes.

Store is kinda grindy though, but what can ya do.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 02:15:30 2011 No.7578362

>>7578286
I'm assuming full games only

>Blue Wish Ressurection +
>Eden's Aegis
>Ring^27(isn't actually the full game, it only goes to stage 3 iirc)
>Patriot Dark
That's it.
Honestly I couldn't get most of them to run lol.
I sort of enjoyed
>Chibi Shooting
>XOP: Black

I didn't enjoy these and/or couldn't get them to run, but a lot of people seem to like them
>Cho Ren Sha 68k
>Radio Zonde
>Genetos
>Warning Forever

Also I'm interested in Aurora Blast's scoring system.
There's a bar on the lower left that fills up the closer you are to the enemy.
Also the items the enemies drop float towards the top of the screen, encouraging you to stay near the top of the screen.
Other than that I don't know anything about it.

Also Aurora Blast's soundtrack disappointed me.
It sounds really great when you're shooting things, but sounds absolutely terrible if you put it on an MP3 player.

>>7578341
The game is great, i just wish that store didn't exist.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Wed Jul 6 03:20:33 2011 No.7578626 File: 565 KB, 1000x1000, 1309936810380.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I can't navigate Nico well. Does anyone know if there are any videos on there of Death Smiles that score over 300m without entering Death Mode?

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 03:40:08 2011 No.7578723

>>7577869
>What are /jp/'s high scores in various games?
I have a small handful of semi-decent scores, but nothing really noteworthy outside of SA, UFO, and maybe PCB.

>Someone should make a high score repository for us.
That wouldn't really be hard, but anybody remotely interested in scoring would probably already use the scoreboard over at shrinemaiden or the one at the shmups forum.

I would be kind of interested to see the skill level that /jp/ is at, but I image most of the people that are still struggling with 1ccs would be reluctant to participate.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Wed Jul 6 04:27:12 2011 No.7578999
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>>7577869
Here are some of my scores:

Mushihime-sama Futari 1.5 Maniac: 513,145,522, Reco, Stage 5 (Boss)
Akai Katana Zetsu: 535,xxx,xxx, Type 1, Stage 7
Ketsui: 122,237,268, Type A, 1-ALL
Muchi Muchi Pork (1.01): 145,xxx,xxx, Rafute, 2-2
Dai Ou Jou Black Label: 73,xxx,xxx, B-S, 1-ALL
Death Smiles: 215,899,880, Follett, ALL (No EX)
Death Smiles 2: 495,894,916, Lei, ALL
---- DS2X mode: 6,423,403,599, Follett, ALL
Strania: The Stella Machina: 14,832,750, ALL

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Wed Jul 6 07:06:33 2011 No.7579590 That feel when your Xbox freezes when you're about to beat your old high score. I hope whoever designed the original 360 gets hit by a bus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 09:58:52 2011 No.7580113 shump bump

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 10:13:22 2011 No.7580145 Where would such a high score repository be located?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:19:20 2011 No.7580459 File: 199 KB, 614x504, 1309969197488.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7578089 >>7578147 >>7578186 >>7578198 >>7578222 >>7578362 >Aurora Blast Streaming: The Book: The Movie: The Game: The Anime: The Visual Novel: The Musical

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:31:23 2011 No.7580507 I decided to give SA Lunatic a try to get prepared for an SA Normal 1cc...Are you serious? I'm supposed to beat that someday? I don't want to play SA anymore now.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 12:33:23 2011 No.7580512 >>7580507 The first stage of SA lunatic is actually harder than stages 2-4 for some reason. The good thing about it is, you can memorize it pretty easily being the first stage and all, and once you do it's fairly doable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:41:53 2011 No.7580545 >>7580512 That's still way too much for me. Don't get me started on Satori's stolen butterflies. Bleh, I don't think SA is my game. It's the only one I do consistently terribly in nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:47:55 2011 No.7580552 >>7580507 SA is more skill-based than memorization-based, once you can sightread things with ease you'll be able to 1cc it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:47:55 2011 No.7580553 Are there any shmups on ps3? Besides galaga and asteroids rehash. I swear I saw a demo of one on japanese psn. There was a lot of cute characters and vocaloid music, but I completely forgot its name.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 12:50:25 2011 No.7580561 >>7580553 Gundemonium Collection is the main one I'm aware of, and there's probably a couple more too.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 12:50:56 2011 No.7580563 Oh yeah, and Hitogata Happa.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:52:55 2011 No.7580565

>>7580552

How long does that take then? It's really too tough for me. I don't think I'm getting better. I may have gotten worse since it's hard to get past stage 1 without losing a life on Normal nowadays. When I don't quit out of frustration I can make it to stage 5 or 6.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:55:25 2011 No.7580571 Hellsinker is really easy to play survival, but god help you if you play for score.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 13:04:26 2011 No.7580586

>>7580561
welp, nevermind, I just had to google for a minute.
there it is, 『まもるクンは呪われてしまった！～冥界活劇ワイド版～』
http://www.cyberfront.co.jp/title/mamorukun_ps3

but I will follow your advice

>>7580571
I wonder if they are going to make some games in the future. Their site is warding off gaijins.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 22:56:56 2011 No.7582492 >>7580565 >>7580507 Are you trying to make SA your first 1cc? I'd advise against it since SA has some maaaaad difficulty creep. Satori absolutely shuts me down, but I can do fairly well on PCB's Ex and Hard difficulties.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:01:28 2011 No.7582509

>>7582492

No, I've managed to 1cc some of the other games. I've already got down EoSD, PCB, IN B route, MoF and GFW as Normal 1ccs. UFO and SA are really close for me when it comes to difficulty. I still can't capture all of Kogasa's cards consistently actually. Maybe it's because I'm using Sanae A. I decided that I'd finish it with her though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:05:01 2011 No.7582521 I guess I can ask here... which of the Tpuhpu games would you guys say is the 'easiest'? I've only just started playing them, so i'm wondering if any one in particular would be best to start on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:06:00 2011 No.7582522 >>7582521 That would be Touhou, not tpuhpu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:09:57 2011 No.7582526 > Implying the tpuhpu project ain't superior to ZUN's opus

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:10:29 2011 No.7582527 >>7582509 Which card in specific? Her last one, A Forgotten Umbrella's Night Train, is the only one that gives me any sort of problems.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:13:29 2011 No.7582538 >>7582521 >so i'm wondering if any one in particular would be best to start on. Perfect Cherry Blossom on Easy or Normal. Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 23:14:03 2011 No.7582543 >>7582538 Normal is fine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:21:58 2011 No.7582567 >>7582538 >>7582543 Okay, thanks. I'll give it a shot. I'm pretty new to this kind of game in general, I guess I'll have to practice on easy for a while.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Wed Jul 6 23:24:59 2011 No.7582577 >>7582567 Just be sure to move up to normal as soon as you feel ready. It seems daunting at first, but you get better very quickly.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:24:59 2011 No.7582578

>>7582567
I recommend PCB not only because the mechanics are simple, but because the Easy is actually pretty tough later in the game. For me, the other games are so sparse that you don't properly learn to see the spaces between bullets instead of the bullets themselves.

You'll probably get discouraged if this is your first time, but keep trying. Also be sure to get the vpatch if you experience input latency. >>7581767

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:26:27 2011 No.7582587 >>7582577 >>7582578 Will do, thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:26:27 2011 No.7582590 >>7582527 Yeah, it's the train one. Her first one can still be tricky occasionally though because those big balls may come behind me and Sanae A isn't very good at hitting through barriers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:28:28 2011 No.7582599 >>7582538 I improved faster in IN than in PCB. Just sayin...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:29:58 2011 No.7582605 >>7582599 I'm reluctant to recommend IN because it can give you bad deathbomb habits.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:34:29 2011 No.7582617

>>7582590
Night Train used to give me hell until I realized that the biggest threat is from the aimed red bullet rings, and not the spams of teal charms. It's just a lot more vertical movement -- movement in general, actually -- that goes into that card than any other 2nd stage card in the franchise.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:35:00 2011 No.7582625

>>7582617

I've been moving vertically more, although for me it's the charms that are getting me rather than the red bullets. They always manage to scrape me, so I usually bomb that card without trying it nowadays, although I did capture it once. Don't know how.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:18:15 2011 No.7582774

>>7582625
There's a way you're supposed to move. You move in response to where the "trains" are coming from. If you get down next to where one is coming up from the bottom, all its crap will miss you, and so will most of the crap from the train on the other side.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:21:46 2011 No.7582785 >>7582774 I don't really know where they come from, I know it alternates sometimes, but I can't get it right. There must be a secret to how I did it those two times. It only happened with Marisa A though, and I have no idea how I did it.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:38:48 2011 No.7582868

>>7582590
>>7582617
>>7582625
>>7582774
>>7582785
At the start of the card, do some damage, move to the right. Wait for her to shoot the aimed red bullets, then move to the left. Wait for the red bullets, move to the right, etc. If you follow the movement, you'll pretty much never run into any of the blue amulets. While waiting for her to shoot the red bullets, you can go under her for a little bit for more damage if she's not directly above you.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=14634

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:41:18 2011 No.7582878 >>7582868 Thanks, I'll probably check it out sometime tomorrow when I actually feel like playing something.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:42:17 2011 No.7582881

>>7582785
When one comes down, you want to move to the opposite side, next to where the trains pass, at the bottom of the screen. I think the first one breaks this pattern, but after that it's all the same. I tried it again and it doesn't seem like you even need to move vertically, even though I always do.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:44:18 2011 No.7582892 >No Triggerheart Exelica I can't be the only one that played this.

>>	「ロリあき」 Thu Jul 7 00:46:21 2011 No.7582896 >>7582892 I enjoyed the hell out of it. On XBLA though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:48:50 2011 No.7582905 >>7582896 Awesome. I got it for the 360 too. Had a choice between that and Ikaruga. Kind of regretted it for a while but it was a nice purchase in the long run. Sad I will never play as the other triggerheart.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 00:50:20 2011 No.7582917 File: 394 KB, 320x480, 1310014258830.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oh yeah, Deathsmiles is out now by the way.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 00:53:25 2011 No.7582932 File: 406 KB, 480x320, 1310014436363.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Deathsmiles is out, and now my picture is rotated properly.

>>	「ロリあき」 Thu Jul 7 00:53:28 2011 No.7582924 >>7582905 I already had Ikaruga for GC, so there was no doubt for me. Ikaruga isn't as fun, it's more of a memorizer than I'dve liked. Having a hitbox basically a pixel wide was interesting though, and so was playing Bullet Eater.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:54:56 2011 No.7582937 Cool, downloading it now Its cheaper than the other cave games for some reason

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:58:23 2011 No.7582948

I started with EoSD. And I 1cced that first I believe. It seems to have given me a decent groundwork for touhou playing skills.

EoSD is very barebones compared to every other game in terms of mechanics. Not having an enemy indicator, visible hitbox, or scoring gimmick. It's fairly good for improving base danmakuing skills such as keeping an eye on the rest of the screen, learning to use your bombs before you die, as well as getting a natural feel for your hitbox.

For some reason I never ended up liking PCB. It's the touhou I like least honestly. I always feel off when playing it, but I use the vsync patch so I don't think it's input lag. Don't know what it is. I feel fine with every other touhou besides it for some reason.

Another thing I would also recommend the photography games. Shoot the Bullet is numbingly tough to new players, but it really felt like my skill improved when I had gotten through the whole thing. Don't let its difficulty discourage you.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:00:21 2011 No.7582963

>>7582948

I'm actually playing StB right now. It's pretty good between breaks of the main games actually. Sometimes I hit a wall, play some of the other games, then clear earlier cards I couldn't beat with ease. Then I get walled again. I'm currently stuck on mid level cards, although I'm starting to beat some earlier cards just to make it to later levels.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 01:01:22 2011 No.7582970 >>7582937 Half off for a week or so, then it'll go to full price.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:01:52 2011 No.7582967 >>7582948 And now I realize I'm late to a conversation that happened about 1 and a half hours ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:03:53 2011 No.7582976 >>7582963 Ah, which cards are you currently having trouble with?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:03:53 2011 No.7582979 This is a really stupid question, but is it normal to buy shmups or do you guys just download them?

>>	「ロリあき」 Thu Jul 7 01:04:21 2011 No.7582986 >>7582979 I buy console shmups. Otherwise, I just download.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:04:51 2011 No.7582983 >>7582967 These threads can sometimes keep a conversation for weeks, so I'm sure your input is still appreciated.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 01:05:21 2011 No.7582987 >>7582979 Eh, I downloaded Touhou games, but any shmups that are convenient for me to buy (i.e. not imported) I usually do. Unfortunately that pretty much just means Jamestown and Cave iOS ports.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 01:06:22 2011 No.7582994 File: 325 KB, 480x320, 1310015214971.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Last boss of the year every year

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:09:23 2011 No.7583012

>>7582976

For StB, it's levels 6-7, all of the scenes in them except for 6-4. For DS, there's too many cards, but I'm one away from making it to level 9. I don't play these very much though admittedly, I did beat one of the scenes by just grinding it out for about half an hour. I'll probably just get a good hour to play StB and DS to beat some cards I'm having trouble with sometime soon. My strategy in StB is to beat earlier cards to unlock later levels, while in DS I pretty much do two scenes to unlock the later levels.

>>7582979

Whichever one works for you I guess. I bought UFO and GFW myself, downloaded the games as well though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:11:21 2011 No.7583018 Guys, which touhou game most exciting? Which one make me sweat all over arcade stick?

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 01:12:55 2011 No.7583023 >>7583018 Most intense moments I had were PCB Hard trying to 1cc and capture 50% Reflowering, and IN Lunatic against Marisa where I managed to secure a 1cc for sure with how well I did.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:12:55 2011 No.7583024 >>7583018 SA and UFO are my personal favorites at the moment.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:24:55 2011 No.7583057

>>7583018
The most intense moments come from getting close to a goalmark. Doesn't matter which game. Being close to a 1cc, close to capturing a difficult card, or close to succeeding at some personal goal like a no bomb/no focus run makes your heart pound like nothing else especially if you little to no resources left.

Being on the final card in lunatic mode can make you hear your own heart when it's all over. It can also make your hands shake incredibly. It really sucks when your hands start shaking uncontrollably.

Shoot the Bullet and Double Spoiler can be like this on the 10 shot cards especially whether you're going for score or completion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:34:55 2011 No.7583094 Deathsmiles got some ugly prerendered grafx

>>	Zuliani !AkaneKe6Z6 Thu Jul 7 01:35:57 2011 No.7583103 Any tips for SA stage 5? I managed to 1cc PCB and MoF, but can't get even past the second spellcard of Orin, even though I understand it's mechanics.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:36:26 2011 No.7583107
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>>7583018
11, SA

The final boss throws MOTHERFUCKING STARS at you, not those pissant regular bullets with a star sticker slapped over them like Marisa has, we're talking about entire goddamn suns. Not to mention the most intense boss music that ZUN's ever done.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:37:27 2011 No.7583116 File: 1.62 MB, 1920x2400, 1310017077688.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7583103 Orin is almost universally regarded as having the most bullshit patterns that Zun has ever come up with.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:39:56 2011 No.7583121 >>7583107 I don't feel really impressed with Utsuho's boss battle. I mean it's kind of cool, but it didn't really blow me away. Is that just me?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:47:23 2011 No.7583158 >>7583116 Now there's an exaggeration.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 01:49:23 2011 No.7583166 >>7583103 With your free 30 day trial, you can make use of our patented NoDodge technology to get through SA Stage 5 with No Dodging Required!™ http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=14425 Just pay shipping and handling.

>>	Zuliani !AkaneKe6Z6 Thu Jul 7 01:56:53 2011 No.7583193 >>7583116 >>7583166 Hehe, thanks guys.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:07:23 2011 No.7583236

>>7583121
I have to agree with the anon you're quoting; the first time I fought Utsuho was definitely my most exhilarating Touhou experience so far. Even the klaxons - which I think I ordinarily would have thought were over the top and silly - were making me go nuts.

I will admit that I find some of her cards and non-spells pretty boring, although then there are ones like * Flare that just work perfectly with the general atmosphere for me.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:10:55 2011 No.7583246

>>7583236

I guess. She never really impressed me though. She kind of annoyed me, but that's about it. Then again, that's probably because I'm not a huge fan of SA overall. I don't know why, but I don't really care for it as much as some of the other games.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:14:27 2011 No.7583258
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As an avid Cave/Touhou-fag, I expected Jamestown to be a casual and laid-back yet mildly amusing shmup. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was not only a lot of fun, but the later stages on Judgement level, particularly that last fucking one, are just about as brutally unforgiving as the aforementioned series on their respective maximum difficulties (at least when playing solo). Don't be offput because it's a Western game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:19:00 2011 No.7583269 >>7583246 I think Uncontainable Nuclear Reaction and Peta Flare are some of the best cards in the series, but I guess overall Utsuho isn't very interesting since most of her other attacks are painfully easy on every difficulty.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:21:57 2011 No.7583279 >>7583269 I see. Maybe I'll fight her more, but I don't know. SA frustrates me, I don't tend to have as much fun with it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:31:59 2011 No.7583327 File: 201 KB, 640x480, 1310020309090.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7578186 >>7578196 >>7578089 What the heck are these shuriken things that I can't collide with or pick up?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:35:31 2011 No.7583340 >>7583258 Jamestown's format made it seem casual as hell at first but I was pleasantly surprised by a serious (and fun) game. And yeah I put clearing the gauntlet on Judgment difficulty in the "things I will never be able to do" file. But maybe.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 02:37:00 2011 No.7583347 >>7583327 Huh, are they not bullets? I never tried running into them. Maybe you just accidentally dodged them, the hitbox is hella small. >>7583340 They put extends into the gauntlet in a patch, thankfully.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:38:29 2011 No.7583352 I was also pleasantly surprised by Jamestown and the visuals are just great too. Just got Deathsmiles on iPhone. Already cleared it on 360 before but it's still fun. Will see how iPhone mode is later on.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:39:30 2011 No.7583354 Why can't I ever get used to lazers or glowing bullets in Touhou? Fucks with my eyes man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:41:01 2011 No.7583367 >>7583354 I'm still bad with those stupid needle lasers (MoF onward) after years. I'm better with the curvy ones. They have less of an evil tapered edge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:42:01 2011 No.7583371 >>7583347 I wasn't aware of that. Useful information indeed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:43:03 2011 No.7583373 >>7583367 Actually I'm bad with the pre-MoF kind too. Those are even worse because of the sprite stretching. I'm embarassingly bad at Keine's "slow ass lasers" spellcard thanks to those.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:46:33 2011 No.7583383

>>7583258
>Don't be offput because it's a Western game.

wait, what?

I mean, the first 'danmaku' I played were raptor and Overlord... with an actual joystick.

and aside from touhou, most asian ones look more like a simple variation of
bomb until you have no more bombs ->die->exploit next life immunity to damage
rinse and repeat.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 02:47:33 2011 No.7583387

>>7583258
Judgment mode is the highest difficulty right? It's hard, but it's hard in a "horribly designed piece of shit" kind of way. The 3rd and 4th difficulty are okay though.

It's too bad that there's only one ship worth using as well.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 02:48:33 2011 No.7583391 >>7583383 that strategy only works if you are terrible at games.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 02:48:33 2011 No.7583392 >>7583383 Well, if all you look at are TLB videos of Cave games, then yeah, they'll probably look like that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:53:34 2011 No.7583416 >>7583387 Did seem like they cranked up the bullets without thinking about it much.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:54:03 2011 No.7583422

>>7583387
Yeah, it's the highest. And yeah, it can be pretty unfair...but in all honestly, the other shmups mentioned here (especially some of the Cave games) can generate just as much "horribly designed" bullshit.

I wholeheartedly agree on the 'only one ship is useful' point too. That was one of my biggest qualms with the game. I can see the use of the Gunner type sometimes, but the last two weren't even remotely useful. Decent concepts, but the damage and poor implementation really ruined them.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 02:56:34 2011 No.7583427 >>7583422 Bomber wasn't even that great a concept. About the only interesting thing you can do with it is hold secondary fire and go all ATATATATATATA on enemies.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:56:34 2011 No.7583428

>>7583383
>bomb until you have no more bombs ->die->exploit next life immunity to damage
rinse and repeat.

our post gave me an odd feeling. I eventually realized what that feeling was, I was tempted to post a reaction image in order to insult you, but then I remembered that I was on /jp/ and that those are dumb.
Perhaps you havent guessed what the feeling was, so i'll spoil it; that feeling was the onset of nihilism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 02:57:21 2011 No.7583434 >>7583428 Who knew the void itself posted on /jp/.

>>	Zuliani !AkaneKe6Z6 Thu Jul 7 02:59:06 2011 No.7583445 What was the name of that shmup, you played with Ragnarok classes and you could level up ? Asking here, since there are a lot of shmup players.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:00:35 2011 No.7583451

>>7583427
I don't know, I think that it could have been decent if the standard fire was piercing and could be detonated on top of enemies (as opposed to the bullets disappearing on contact). They could have also made the secondary fire explosions bigger. They're seriously tiny.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 03:04:36 2011 No.7583467

>>7583422
The Gunner was the ship I was referring to actually, because that's the only way you can kill enemies on the opposite side of the 16:9 field before they either get away or cause you to break your chain. The Laser ship is also okay because it's basically ripped out of Dodonpachi, but it's crap for scoring because the play field is too big for it.

>>7583434
lol'd

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:05:06 2011 No.7583477

>>7583347
>Huh, are they not bullets? I never tried running into them.

It's not like I was trying to run into them on purpose or anything. They just kinda happened to end up in the same place as me.

They're fired out by certain things, but they seem to kinda float around the screen a while and with some testing, I can pretty much fly my ship all around and through them, although I can't get a screenshot because other bullets readily hit me when I go to press the button.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:16:11 2011 No.7583536

Have been playing EoSD as my first schmup on normal for a week or two now as much as I can. Have to say its starting to wear on me, what would be the easiest schmup to 1cc on Normal difficulty with what touhou? Just need a bit of a break, but its my days off and I'd like to use them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:28:40 2011 No.7583598 >>7583536 Most people say IN with border team. Either that or MoF with homing Reimu I'd guess. And maybe PCB with sakuyaA as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:30:11 2011 No.7583612 >>7583598 I'd vote for SakuyaA on PCB, easily. In fact, that's probably the easiest 1cc scenario for any difficulty.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:35:12 2011 No.7583629

>>7583598
>>7583612
I'd go with PCB too. IN is easier in general, but that Marisa/Reimu fight. Also isn't it possible to not win properly if you don't get enough time points or something? I never understood its system that well. MoF started that heavily penalizing you for dying thing.

PCB is great because you can get a billion lives like in the similar games, AND you can get extra free cherry point shields that can work like bullet clearing bombs/death bombs. If you use all your lives and bombs and shields properly, you should be able to clear it even making lots of errors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:36:41 2011 No.7583634 File: 355 KB, 641x479, 1310024197942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How many tries is a lot for a 1cc?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:38:42 2011 No.7583644 >>7583634 A bazillion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:39:11 2011 No.7583647 >>7583629 In Imperishable Night, it's impossible to get the too much time passed forced end unless you use continues.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:40:12 2011 No.7583654 >>7583644 Wonderful, I still have a few more to go then. I expect to break a bazillion in about a week.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:41:41 2011 No.7583657 So, where can I get Touhou 6 and above translated in one nice batch?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:42:12 2011 No.7583662 File: 23 KB, 240x240, 1310024567179.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] still trying to 1cc Kamui. the Touhou habit of throwing lives and bombs in heaps at me is really bad here, seeing as you get maybe 3-4 shield upgrades max...!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:45:42 2011 No.7583668 File: 346 KB, 640x960, 1310024713972.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7583634 Just wait until you start playing for score.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:46:41 2011 No.7583674 >>7583657 Find the most complete torrent you can, then fill in the rest. I suppost that I could make one but I don't know if it's needed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:48:12 2011 No.7583684 >>7583674 I guess I can do that. There was a complete touhou set of 08 or something. Why not.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:50:13 2011 No.7583689

Why is it in every shmup I ever play, I always automatically reset the game whenever I die once or accidentally use a bomb? I mean, it helps me out in some cases for perfect runs but holy shit. It's almost embedded into my mind where if I die I automatically press start, go down 2-3 spaces where it will usually say give up and try again, and press okay.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:52:12 2011 No.7583692

>>7583668

450m on the first spell card? I have beaten extra as every shot type except SanaeA. I don't know why it is so hard for me. Every other one I can pass without breaking a sweat. I could do score running on normal but for now this 1cc is my main goal.

I'm so terrible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:52:43 2011 No.7583691 >>7583689 That happens to me as well, not with bomb usage though. The couple of times I dealt with doing terribly at the start usually confirmed it'd be a terrible run and I just wasted my time for no reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:54:43 2011 No.7583697 File: 196 KB, 1000x707, 1310025254754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7583634 She keeps my rod busy if you know what I mean

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:00:14 2011 No.7583721 >>7583689 >>7583691 Stop this immediately, it's a bad habit. Some of my very best replays show me dieing on the first stage. Also, imagine if you were in an arcade, there goes like like 20 quarters lol.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 04:01:14 2011 No.7583723 >>7583689 I only restart if I die on stage 1, or 2 depending on the game. I almost ragequit during a lot of my best runs because of stupid deaths. Just play as far as you can go.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:02:14 2011 No.7583730 >>7583697 No kidding. If I get this run today, I'll cry myself into a coma. But I doubt that I will. Or maybe I'll do it anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:03:45 2011 No.7583732 >>7583721 All of my worst plays have me dying on the first stage. Dying for me is like a chain reaction. Once I start, I just can't stop. I can't afford to die at all. Bombing may be okay, but once I start dying, I start losing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:03:45 2011 No.7583733 >>7583629 >>7583612 >>7583598 Thanks for the input, sounds like I'll try SakuyaA with PCB.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:04:45 2011 No.7583739
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>>7583692
>450m on the first spell card?
It involves a lot of shenanigans, don't worry yourself too much about it.

>I'm so terrible.
You can't be that bad if you can beat all the Extras, which is probably above average by /jp/ standards. As you've probably noticed, UFO Hard is about as tough as the other games on Lunatic, so keep pushing. You can also try posting a replay to get some feedback or critique.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:08:14 2011 No.7583756

>>7583732
You're probably giving up. It's like a fighting game when you have a low health bar and the other guy is almost full. You think "im at a disadvantage" "im as good as dead" you have to stop thinking that way.
Your amount of health (in this case, lives) doesn't determine how well you do, it only determines how many mistakes you're allowed to make.
Never fold.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:10:15 2011 No.7583765 >>7583732 KEEP YOUR DIGNITY.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:11:14 2011 No.7583771

>>7583756

It's not that I don't keep going on. I've had unexpected 1ccs by not giving up. But dying so very early is just no good. It means I need to do even better later on, and usually I tend to play even riskier and end up dying because I absolutely needed to risk something in order to go on rather than having that nice extra opportunity that I would in an optimal run. It happens in a lot of other games as well.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:16:45 2011 No.7583788

>>7583756
>Your amount of health (in this case, lives) doesn't determine how well you do, it only determines how many mistakes you're allowed to make.
Unless you're scoring, in which most cases an accidental death would push your number of "mistakes you're allowed to make" into the negatives.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:18:15 2011 No.7583794

>>7583771
>Optimal
There's your problem. Not every run needs to be optimal. I've had plenty of fun hitting the game over screen on stage 2. Just keep practicing, consistency will come eventually.
Also I'll put it this way; you get what you deserve in these games. You need to suffer a bit. More than a bit perhaps.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:24:15 2011 No.7583812

>>7583794

I don't mind if it's close enough to optimal. I just don't want it to be making it to stage 6 one time, then stage 2 in another. That makes me angry, exasperated, no reason to keep playing for that day because obviously my next runs will be just as shitty if not more shitty. I don't care if it's at least somewhat close to my best, but doing so poorly is unacceptable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:44:23 2011 No.7583872 >>7583812 ...Well shit, I'm SURE it makes you angry when you think that you MUST become GREAT in the next 4 MINUTES

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 05:02:27 2011 No.7583932

>>7583872

It's not even that. Back when I started out, being able to not even beat stage one was okay to me. It's not doing poorly that I dislike, it's the fact that I'm not progressing, I've hit a wall and I'm slowly becoming worse even with practice. I don't need to be great, I just need to be getting better or at least need to stay at around the same level.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 05:26:35 2011 No.7583975 I've spent the last two hours trying to beat stage one. I almost beat Byakuren several times earlier today but now I'm stuck on stage one. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Why is this happening? This is so depressing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 05:52:25 2011 No.7584049 >>7584047 This picture gave me a stiffy.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 05:52:26 2011 No.7584047
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Spent the last couple days playing Death Smiles 2 X-mode, and I just got the All Clear EX with 8.471 billion. I didn't fight Bloody Jitterbug though; I don't know how to max my counters on each boss before powering up and killing them with the lock shot. Oh well, maybe next time.

This game's growing on me. I still think Death Smiles 1 is the better game, but they're pretty close in quality.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 06:04:27 2011 No.7584075 >>7583258 I'm disappointed that the developers of Jamestown didn't thank Irem in their credits. The last level is R-type meets danmaku... which is an ungodly terrifying combination.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 06:19:01 2011 No.7584105 File: 66 KB, 500x500, 1310033973514.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7582994 >Tyrannosatan Sounds like a name an EDGY, DARK middleschooler would come up with.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 08:56:59 2011 No.7584351

>>7583662
The good thing about it is you start with 15 misses anyways, plus if you use Thunder properly it's like you have infinite (though weaker) bombs. Kamui's pretty doable to 1cc.

>>7584105
Hey man, Tyrannosatan is an amazing name, I dunno what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 09:51:51 2011 No.7584434 >>7584105 I think...you jelly. >>7583932 Incorrect, you are progressing, it just isn't obvious. If you really aren't progressing, it's from you trying to do everything perfectly...even though you aren't perfect yet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 09:57:51 2011 No.7584441 I have good news /jp/; another trial of ring^-27 has been released. It still only goes to stage 3 though. http://temperancelance.under.jp/DL/ring%5E-27tri.zip http://temperancelance.under.jp/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 10:01:22 2011 No.7584446 >>7584351 >15 misses which are all wasted in a flash because your hitbox is fuckhuge and the enemy shots... I can't see them! most of the time I literally can't see anything in all these explosions and stuff.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 10:03:24 2011 No.7584450 File: 36 KB, 672x223, 1310047381188.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The decoration in Satori's palace is Okuu's silhouette.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 10:29:58 2011 No.7584497

>>7583975
That's what happens if you play too much. For me, the more I play, the more my brain tries to memorize the thing. Since my reflexes are a limited resource, eventually the memory dominates, and I'm trying to beat something based on what I think I should be doing rather than what's happening. And that's when I start dying to the same stage 1 enemies 5 times in a row.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Thu Jul 7 10:41:30 2011 No.7584521 Satan Claus > Tyrannosatan actually, not really

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:06:02 2011 No.7584727 >>7584434 It's happened before in many other games sadly. The rise, then the fall. And I can never reclaim that former glory, even if it wasn't so great. I don't know how to avoid this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:21:56 2011 No.7584745 >>7584727 Stop trying to do as well as you used to, just try to improve. It helps if you ignore whatever game/series/genre you're playing right now and play something else seriously. Don't go playing casual shit like mmo's though lol.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:30:54 2011 No.7584777 deathsmiles ipa seems to have already been hacked and released

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:33:26 2011 No.7584783 >>7584745 Thing is, I already do take massive break with these games. I don't play often. Having to improve from the very start is extremely discouraging. Perhaps another game of this type I haven't played would encourage me though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:36:24 2011 No.7584793 >>7584783 >I already do take massive break with these games. I don't play often. Sounds like you have bigger problems to worry about.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:36:55 2011 No.7584795

>>7583477
>>7583327
I figured out what was up with the shurikens: They seem to only kill you if you hover over them for an extended period of time. Also I've never been killed while shooting. Strange.

After playing Aurora for a while, Tori Tatsu became really really slow. Also much worse drawn (but a better game). It was so slow that I got bored until the enemies stopped being Raiden expies and started shooting touhou bullets while wiggling the screen.

Then I got sea sick.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:40:24 2011 No.7584810

>>7584793

I guess so. But I was slowly improving that way, and it was enough for me. About half an hour a day with a couple of breaks every once in a while is enough practice for me to get a little better. I can't handle playing these games for too long, I get too tense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:51:03 2011 No.7584849 Any tips on capturing Sakuya's final card in EoSD's stage 5? I always bomb through those on both normal and hard. I can sort of see some safe spots in normal, but I always end up getting trapped

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 13:04:07 2011 No.7584897 >>7584795 >so slow i got bored This happened to me too. I solved it by refusing to play more than one credit per week.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 13:26:03 2011 No.7584993 >>7584810 Same here. I love playing shooters but they tire me out pretty quickly so I only play for half an hour or maybe two at a time. I DO play almost very day though.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 13:41:35 2011 No.7585068

>>7584795
Well, yeah... I mean, after playing Aurora Blast about near everything will feel too slow. That's sorta how Aurora Blast is.

As for the art, I kinda like it. It's bad, but in a charming way. It's kinda like programmer art, but actually passable and almost well done, at least as far as programmer art goes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 13:51:04 2011 No.7585104 >>7585068 It really is kind of quaint, but the character portraits make me appreciate ZUN art.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Thu Jul 7 15:02:48 2011 No.7585344 The iPhone mode of Deathsmiles is disturbingly entertaining. RPGs and bullet hells shouldn't mix, why am I enjoying this... Well, probably because I'm a sucker for RPGs and bullet hells in the first place. But still.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 15:58:54 2011 No.7585625 >>7583246 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Du_n3E3EA I think Utsuho has one of the best final boss themes. I also like her in the fighting game. Video pseudo-related to both of those things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 16:03:35 2011 No.7585654 >>7585625 Her theme is great admittedly. I do like it. Don't like her in the fighting game though, because she moves so slowly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 17:52:06 2011 No.7586135 File: 216 KB, 640x480, 1310075557424.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7585654 I think she's fun to play as in her own special way.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 17:56:37 2011 No.7586152 >>7586135 Well, she's too slow for my tastes, but oh well, everyone has their favorites. I don't think we should be talking about the fighting game here though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:41:27 2011 No.7589898 Is it just me or do most people on /jp/ not bother playing 12.8? It just seems to me like no one talks about it at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:53:29 2011 No.7589936 >>7589898 It's one of my most played games in the series actually. Absolutely love the music, the challenge, everything about it. I'm currently stuck against Marisa though so I haven't been playing too much lately.

Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:55:59 2011 No.7589945
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>>7589898
I never really play it much because of FPS drops when freezing (see pic, not my replay by the way,) the fact that I don't like having to continuously smash 'Z' to shoot (as opposed to just holding it in the other games,) and I don't really care for the gimmicks too much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 12:08:36 2011 No.7589980 >>7589898 I play this like every day atleast once or twice.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Fri Jul 8 13:27:09 2011 No.7590238

This is probably a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have an .inp file of DoDonPachi that includes a run at Hibachi? It doesn't matter if you continued or not, I just need the opening sequence.

If not, I'll just keep trying to do it myself... somehow...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 16:13:01 2011 No.7590907 >>7589945 You hold C for constant shots in 12.8, Z is for freeze which shoots just before.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 16:30:31 2011 No.7590985 >>7576779 Deathsmiles yessssssssssssssssss. Hm, yeah. Always welcome a new shooter on the iOS. Surprisingly many released now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 17:14:11 2011 No.7591174 File: 177 KB, 850x1158, 1310159641148.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7589898 12.8 has THE most fun extra ever.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Fri Jul 8 18:23:54 2011 No.7591515 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-OLZmKZ_I WARNING

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 21:10:13 2011 No.7592545 http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=14655 I love my precious Marisa.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Fri Jul 8 21:26:18 2011 No.7592610 No Let's Play Danmaku thread today?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 22:53:17 2011 No.7593070 >>7591515 Hah, cute. >>7592545 >Stage 5 >All of your lives >Again Since you're playing with MarisaB now, can I assume you got the MarisaA 1cc?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 23:09:04 2011 No.7593162 >>7593070 Nope. Still trying.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 00:16:17 2011 No.7593450

Alright, should I:

Keep trying to loop DoDonPachi with C-S like I've been using for a while
Switch to A-L since I had a pretty good and entertaining run just now (ended rather amusingly bad since I'm not quite used to the hitbox though)
Try to 1cc a Touhou on Lunatic that I haven't yet (anything except for IN. UFO I'll do on Hard.)
Start on ESPGaluda
Grindan for Type Z in Crimzon Clover
Grindan for shiny stuff in Deathsmiles iPhone modo
Play Darius Gaiden

I honestly don't know which to do.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 00:18:51 2011 No.7593460 Thank god this thread is back.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 02:08:58 2011 No.7593856 File: 28 KB, 86x111, 1310191732450.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why is it that my favorite Touhou game also has to be the hardest?I wonder what lunatic is like.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 02:10:55 2011 No.7593864 >>7593856 Apparently it's unholy rape of unimaginable proportions. I wouldn't know though since I can only get to stage two. Alas, I'm not ready for it yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 02:12:24 2011 No.7593871 >>7593856 Is that UFO? I still can't pass Unzan with a decent amount of lives.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 02:40:54 2011 No.7593960 File: 1.06 MB, 1278x954, 1310193626959.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Well now is right. >>7593871 Yes that is ufo.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 04:18:58 2011 No.7594239 File: 597 KB, 640x1440, itslikethis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7593856 >I wonder what lunatic is like.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 04:47:12 2011 No.7594339 >>7594239 Looks like a fun challenge! Now I'm scared.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:04:48 2011 No.7594376 File: 186 KB, 640x480, 1310202256659.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7594339 Don't worry, it's a joke. Really, it's only like >>7576823, but it's still pretty rough.

Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:21:10 2011 No.7594422 [DELETED]

>>7594376
Full lives at Byakuren? I can only dream.

I've been at it for 11 hours now. I've played for twice that before but now my hands are starting to feel bad. I think that it's starting to affect my gameplay because I can't dodge for my life right now. I think that I'll rest for now and try again tommorow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:42:13 2011 No.7594484 File: 742 KB, 640x1915, 1310204572954.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] stage 5, typical UFO 1cc

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:50:42 2011 No.7594507 I realise this may be a stupid question, but what affects whether you get a 1up or Bomb frm Midboss Nue?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:56:13 2011 No.7594515 >>7594507 I think it's "capturing" this attack which yields you a life

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:56:42 2011 No.7594513 >>7594507 You get a 1up if you capture the pattern, a bomb otherwise. Nice spoiler, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 05:59:44 2011 No.7594521 >>7594507 If you die, she will give you a bomb. If you survive, you will get a life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUdAGHvcaQk I made a video.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 06:44:00 2011 No.7594601 Dammit, trying to play Deathsmiles on the iPhone is driving me nuts. My own thumb keeps killing me. I keep getting hit by stuff in my blindspot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 06:51:19 2011 No.7594617 >>7594601 That is exactly what happens to me when I play that one touhou game based on IN. iDevices are not good for this kind of stuff. Maybe it would be better on an ipad?

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Sat Jul 9 06:53:49 2011 No.7594619 File: 69 KB, 500x611, 1310208812580.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7593450 Galuda. I've been playing it a little bit lately as well in between Akai Katana and DS2.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 06:58:21 2011 No.7594634 How many touhou games have a vsync patch? I have one for 6, 7, 8, and 11 but I could never find the ones for 9, 11, or 12.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 06:58:21 2011 No.7594635 It is only hori shmups I have a problem with on iDevices. Although Fast Striker also has some issues with thumb/fingers getting in the way. I'm pretty happy with Deathsmiles on iPhone. I played the shit out of the console port but it is still fun.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 07:11:23 2011 No.7594664 >>7594634 My patch has: alcostg th_dnh 06 07 08 09 10 11 095 12 Would you like me to upload it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 07:13:54 2011 No.7594667 >>7594664 the vpatch apparently enables SHIFT-slowing during your replays. would be nice, yeah

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 07:14:23 2011 No.7594668 >>7594634 http://www.mediafire.com/?izzv1lmnamm Has vsync patch for all of the games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 07:16:25 2011 No.7594670 >>7594667 It does but I wish there was a way to re-wind or freeze.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 09:38:19 2011 No.7594968
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>>7594635
>>7594601
Yeah, I have almost zero problem with bullet thumbing in ESPGaluda II and Resurrection, the only place I can think of ever is that part in stage 5 where you've got to move between the top-and-bottom spinny laser platforms with the bullets coming up from the bottom, since pretty much all other bullets come from higher up on the screen and your thumb is lower. The slightly reduced screen size helps way more than you'd expect, I have a fair bit more problem with rRootage since the screen is fullsize.
The problem with horis is that bullets can come from either side, and the reduced screen size isn't nearly enough to fit your full thumb in. Maybe I should do like they suggest and just use a finger since it's a bit smaller.

>>7594667
Main thing for me is the control skipping, I hardly ever need to slow them.

>>7594617
Yeah, main problem with that is the screen size isn't smaller. You might give this a try and see if it's any better, that space for your thumb helps greatly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 09:45:50 2011 No.7594998 Man I can't even 1cc deathsmiles. A friend of mine says that's about as easy as it gets. I score a good 50M or so on the first 6 stages of arcade mode, then I go to the final level and end up losing all of my lives when I get nervous.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 09:46:50 2011 No.7595003 >>7594998 What ranks are you rolling? I find it's pretty doable if you do mostly 2s at the beginning and chill out with 1s towards the end. Sore'll suffer, but oh well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 09:48:50 2011 No.7595010 >>7595003 I do my first 4 stages at level 3 then do level 2 to avoid hell mode. I think I just need to grind out the final stage in training mode till I get it down.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Sat Jul 9 09:57:19 2011 No.7595032
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>>7594998
Some protips:

Rosa is the easiest to clear the game with. Follett is very good as well, but you need to use her option effectively, which can be difficult for beginners.

The tree boss in the forest has two safe spots (including one for his final attack - very useful), and you can easily avoid his apple attack by being at the bottom of the screen when he starts it, and flying to the top, or vice versa. The apples go under/over you and you don't have to dodge shit.

The dragon boss in the volcano also has a safespot on his final attack. Before he summons the wall of rocks, get next to his feet on the other side of them. You can just stand there and kill him without dodging anything.

Don't bomb Jitterbug. If you beat him without bombing, you get a cake that refills two bars of health. The lock-shot is very useful against him as well.

Don't go into the volcano stage unless you have 1000 counter. You can milk the rock spawns for tens of millions of points if you're playing on rank 3. You can also use the bomb+lock-shot technique to get an instant refill of your meter when exiting power up mode, but that's an advanced technique that will take practice to master. It works on most stages though and it's vital for scoring well.

A good route if you're playing purely for survival: B1 > C2 > C1 > A2 (rank 3) > A1 (rank 3) > B2 (rank 2). That way you'll get 4 health pick ups before going into the final stage. Just make sure you play at least two stages on rank 1 or 2 so you don't trigger suicide bullets.

Also, download replays.

>>	Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Sat Jul 9 09:58:19 2011 No.7595036 >>7595010 Oh, and if you're playing the iPhone game, I'm not sure if anything I just said can help because I don't know what they changed for it. I'm talking about the 360/arcade version.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 09:59:50 2011 No.7595040 >>7595036 Arcade version of iPhone mode is pretty much the same in terms of general staging. I'm not sure about the safe spots, but I think if anything they reduced bullet count a bit so they should still be there.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 11:14:57 2011 No.7595261 Oh god, I just got both extends in a single powerup sequence on C-2. This is ridiculous.

>>	Hibiki Takane !ponpOnMgkc Sat Jul 9 11:18:01 2011 No.7595275 I think I'm around place 500 in the deathsmiles 2x leaderboards. NO JEALOUSY.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Sat Jul 9 11:28:36 2011 No.7595308

>>7595275
Which mode? I think I'm in the top 30 for Arcade, but I don't really like playing that because it seems like Lei and Casper are the only characters worth using, and I don't like either of them.

X-mode is fun though. I'm going to try to get a 6+ billion clear with each character, and maybe go for 9-10b with Follett.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 12:20:11 2011 No.7595507 Getting a smartphone soon. Is the iPhone a good investment? The only reason I want it over a Droid is for Cave shmups, Higurashi and Kira Kira.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 13:27:47 2011 No.7595792

Aughhhh

So I was recording a Deathsmiles 1cc for Youtube like I did with that Resurrection 2-ALL, everything was peachy and I was actually scoring well enough to place into the top 4-5 easily... and then I died on the last 5% of Tyrannosatan. He didn't even have any health bar left.
Whyyyyyy

Hibiki Takane !ponpOnMgkc Sat Jul 9 13:43:20 2011 No.7595841

>>7595308
In 2X, can you change the mode? I thought the only way to get on the boards was to play under score attack and you can't change the game type there. Maybe I'm wrong.

>>7595507
If you want to do more things with the device there are other specs to look at, but if you want to play games then ios beats out android for sure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 13:45:49 2011 No.7595844 >>7595792 >Tyrannosatan Dude, what.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 13:49:50 2011 No.7595854 >>7595844 Yes. >>7582994 Also, what's the use of lock shot? I never bother with it.

Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA Sat Jul 9 14:36:57 2011 No.7596036

>>7595841
Arcade mode (and Arrange, I think) has score attack and leaderboards too. It doesn't have downloadable replays though.

>>7595854
Some enemies drop more crowns when you kill them with the lock-shot. The green eyes, vine snakes, and the large floating islands in the forest, for example. And it's good for enemies that move all over the place, like Jitterbug and Tyrannosatan.

And you can use to do recharges when exiting power up mode. An easy place to try this on are those vine snakes before the forest boss. Wait until your counter is fairly low (150 or so IIRC), hit the bomb and hold lock-shot. The screen will get filled with gold crowns and you'll be back up to 1000 instantly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 14:41:59 2011 No.7596052 >>7595844 Giant Superdiemntional skelton ridley final boss of the agme.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 20:22:24 2011 No.7597803 Has anyone tried playing the Deathsmiles online coop? Is it playable?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 20:41:00 2011 No.7597882 So I'm going to start playing Crimzon Clover more. Wow, I have no idea what I'm doing actually. Just spamming bombs and breaks on Original mode so far, I've only gotten to stage 3. Actually, I have no idea what's going on at all.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 20:57:32 2011 No.7597963

>>7597882
As long as you can see through the flurry of stars it's fairly straightforward. Standard shmuppan, double break when possible, don't get hit, etc. etc. And killing things with as many lock-ons as possible sets the temporary multiplier high.

It's really fun stuff. You might want to give Simple mode a run through, it's comparatively boring but nice to be able to unlock Type Z... when you can afford it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 20:59:31 2011 No.7597971 >>7597963 Yeah, I kept spamming the lock on thing as well. Difficulty really jumped up from stage 1 to 2 though. I get confused though, sometimes it's a bit tougher to see and sometimes I manage to accidentally dodge something I didn't expect to dodge.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 21:05:02 2011 No.7598009 >>7597963 You can turn down the alpha on the stars so that they're basically invisible.

Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sat Jul 9 21:08:02 2011 No.7598025
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>>7598009
What! Why would you ever do such a thing?

Crank 'em up to 255, aww yea.

Well okay I have it on 180. They don't really obstruct your vision when you get used to them though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 21:11:33 2011 No.7598037 >>7598009 It's not the stars that are the problem actually. I'd still have problems even if they weren't flying everywhere.

>>	proREMIRIAt Elite Force Commander !rSDMROXTB. Sat Jul 9 21:17:33 2011 No.7598069 File: 61 KB, 350x400, 1310260646431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] TL;DR starforce > everything else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 9 23:49:54 2011 No.7598718 PoFV netplay thread. >>7598438

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 10 00:04:33 2011 No.7598772 File: 27 KB, 590x230, Toshiyuki Takahashi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7598069

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sun Jul 10 02:33:11 2011 No.7599236 Hrm, anyone know why I can get two extends in VOLCANOOOO in the same powerup sequence with Rosa and Windia but not Casper? Tried it twice, ain't workin'.

>>	Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA Sun Jul 10 03:25:05 2011 No.7599395 >>7595032 Aww yea, got 2nd on the high scores with that stage order using Windia, and recorded it too. Thanks a bunch.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 10 04:10:04 2011 No.7599553 http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=14665 What did I do wrong? Can anyone give me advice? If I only had one or two extra lives, I know that I would have passed. I want to try again.

Anonymous Sun Jul 10 17:39:09 2011 No.7602085

>>7599553
>What did I do wrong?
The entirety of Stage 5. Go into practice mode and grind the shit out of it until you know a safe route through the stage and gain a little confidence against Nazrin and Shou.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=14676

A little replay to give you an idea of how to tackle the stage. You should only plan to bomb after Nazrin, if you want to simplify creating a red or green UFO, and the end stage garbage, since only SanaeB can reliably survive it on Hard and Lunatic.

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